very many years, whether under Liberal admit tration, has been so repugnant to the British nation the agreement to nin honda with Germany in cocr-! cing Venezuela, We had nothing to gain and a possibility of loss by entering into this temporary Ever since the hostil+ attitude of the German Admiral towards Admi: Dewey in Manila Bay roused a feeling of distrust of Germany in the United States, while Captain Chichester's hearty support of the American Admiral increased the friendly feelings! of the States towards England, it has been an object of those who control the foreign relations of the German Empire to foment ill-fiding between the United States and England, but fortunately with little or no sueees:
Germany wanted to embroil us with the United States, she was said to have invented a likely plan in get ting us to go in with her in Venezuelan business. The " Specta-for" says: "Ifir is obviously to the advantage of Germany to muke an alliance with us for joint action in Venezuela, it is equally obvious that we lose greatly by the bar In the first, plaice, Venezuels is less, not more, likely to prove reasonable if our claims are tied to those of Germany for Germany, rightly or wrongly, has contrived to create a feeling of intense distrust asd suspicion throaghous Spanich South America. She is. fi-st of all, believed to be determine: get hold of som" pic America for herself; and next, political methods are considered violent, arbitrary, and insulting. In South America no claim is bettered by being endorsed by Germany. The United States again, which is bound to be an important factor in the bustness, is rendered infinitely less able to reason owing to the j of our case indissolubly to that of Germany. The Americans really do believe that we want to support, not to impair, the Monroe doctrine. As to Germany's protestations to a simi-Jar effect. most Americans are ex-sceptical. Very possibly they do the Germans wrong in this respect, but the fact reniains that German action in the waters of the Caribbean S.a is specially calculated to set American nerves on edge. So strong, indeed, is American prejudice in this respect, that it has even been asserted thit it was Germany who induerd Denmark to abandon the sale of her West Indian Islands to the United Stites. We do not, of course, want to pamper American sensitiveness in this or any other! ting. On November 8th the German respect: but. is it, wise for us to incur! Feapewe, ssepenied by the German, any share of American s 4 sador, Count Metternich, ich, goes to goes ae' rezarile the: all jer Ministers. On November and there meets Mr. Bal-Germiny towards the Movros doc the Ministers tine 2" ave, but the Secretary State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Lans-as down to meet the Emperor. that journal 11th, Lord Lansdowne re-and on that very day strange: ch to Mr. Buchanan in ie thes matter the in effect. that Britain and which i had ae ned to take joint the om tmp and that the two of all the London what was, in fact, one with the "Sp of alliance ax regards article we reprinte! th of Veneznela,—i.r., we bound vex not to make any settlement with he tunity of Led Lan it Republic. We bound ere come promising to sup; ws. that is, not to recede from the claims to the bitter of joint coercion unless Germany certaining wha alo receded. Thus only three days after y's chim: the Kaiser landed se had been led into were, How Li definite alliance with Germany as relity for the fo rds coercion of Venezucla,—an th Britain sits the Germans can prolong shawn by hi aire, since we cannot escape action it invol¥es nay likes to assert that was right to fi ave not been met, or that the bondiok bjerts with which joint. action has been saying hin Ken remain untulfited. ory to see a Britizh Gove bird is the British fighting in support of the said a recent philo-bondholders. mit may spread the net It will remembered that when {it and it will walk right the Kaiser we womber ud Kipting's poem "The other pap s1y8 the "Specta-warned December, what ome to gt something he ave bron growling out of owe Govern Hvonghont the week whenever and of the Governmen the met together, the independent the eovertrailway cartages, journals, wer: most indigo at the {in dnb smoking-rooms, and most of tion, Ib is infunous, they Jor ocean stamens" "This may be but however much Englishmen comes ov from have been irritated by the tone ud German Press during the Bee aulite him cannes bell that they his. birthday, 1 frame ppr the Billingsgate that his Kipling employs in this poem: and to_acense him political fit ts new to us te find sober journals abject in his v ies extremely neat Though the greater part of the Press joined with us in warning the nation that the German Emperor entangle us in som could later on by 1 mere vulgar abuse og "lin the line The Goth neies Hun." The worst Kipling's poem is that, inten-not, it puts the saddle on We remember sol leading author-Pies in Tendon the worst effect of assured that there was nothing behind the visit, and that no attempt was being made to get. hold of or control our diplomacy. Yet, astonishing as it sounds, on jan the very day on whicl we were asctired Germ: that there was nothing at all in the news-j happy d paper talk about German attempts to! [ly 1'w obtain an ince. Lord Lansdowne pei hes ing one of the zi t hances with a foreign Power. that this alliance was not ed with the matter about hazarded a guess—i.r., an agreement to the position of Germany in the Pet H Gulf—but. this does not alter the fa is proved by the Venezuelan papers lished on Tuesday. that the immed result of the Emperor's it diverted the sh public from the Jameson Raid to the feom which the e way Kipl ly sprang the
diverted the indi Kaiser was not ud get Evgmaid with bim in pit was perfectly natural 4 that he who are is, for accepting tanglement. in a German alliance. A the flew: but the effect glance at the time-table of recent events will show that we are in no way exaggera- Kepling's perm undoubtedly is to
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