Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-08
HIS TOWERING AMBITION.
A Ruler With Courage and Ability
to Back His Purpose.
COMMERCIAL AIMS OF GERMANY.
Mercantile Enterprise to Support the
Military Service,
HOW TIE WORLDS PEACE is MENACED.

some Of his most interesting observations
were narrated to a reporter for The DIS
PATCH during his visit to this city last
week. General Negley's attention was
principally attracted by the military and
commercial energy of Germany. which, in
his judgment, threatens the peace and pros
perity of not only the other nations Of
Europe, but of the United States as well.
The eI-Congressman said:
"The German rivalry for commercial su-
premacy of the world is policy of far-see-
ing craftsmanship. Under the rule of the
Emperor and Bismarck Germany has be-
come q great military camp. 1t is being
made more so as every month passes by. Its
great standing army is modified ard con-
stantly ready for action. 1t may almost be
said that it is in line of battle. The prob
lem for the German rulers has been how
this great military array is to be supported,
The solution is being found in the field of
foreign commerce. The fruits of mercantile
enterprise abroad are made available to
support the military power at home. The
patriotic spirit of unity which is aroused by
national schemes of colonization and COM
mercial influence in foreign lands is the
surest preventive of dissension at home
These, take it, are the motives which have
prompted Wilhelm and Bismarck to strain
every nerve in the extension of commercial
supremacy.
JEALoUSLY CONTEMPLATED.
'The present spirit of the German Gov
ernment has attracted the thoughtful at
tention and aroused the apprehensions of
the politicians of England and France. In
the latter country, particularly, the great
est uneasiness is felt. In Paris l talked
with a number of the deputies, and found
that they look upon the young Emperor as
an exceedingly dangerous man for the peace
of Etrope.
THAT young man is generally underesti-
mated in this country. He is not the vain
and superficial monarch whom many believe
him to be. 1t is true that he is proud. He
has great pride of race, and am satisfied,
from what have seen and heard of him,
that he has set the career of the Great Fred
erick before him as his model. He is am
bilious to make for himself a name in his
tory, to leave his impress on European poll
tics and European geography, and he has
the courage, the brain and the resources to
support his ambition.
''It was nv good fortune to see the Young
Emperor during his visit last summer to
England. Those foreign trips of his were
not mere junkets for pleasure and the pro-
motion of international good feeling. They
had deeper and more portentous meaning.
The young Emperor desires to know foreign
Governments, to see their generals, their
armies, their navies, their defenses and
their weapons of war. You can guess why
be is securing this knowledge In the
event of war you will see Wilhelm at the
head Of his own armies in the field. He
will be his own commander-in-chief, as was |
his great ancestor, Frederick.
"At the grand review of the British army |
at Sandringham obtained place within a |
few feet Of the German Emperor. l pushed |
in among the dignitaries Nobody stopped |
me. suppose they thought was
SOME ECCENTRIC AMERICAN.
81 devoted my opportunity to a close |
study of the Emperor and his staff. i tell |
you there is fight in every one of them. The |
Emperor is man of great force of character, |
l noted his restless movements, his keen OBJ |
servation of everything going on around |
him, his evident intention to learn all the |
secrets Of the British military service. He |
asked many questions and desired to under |
stand everything connected with the drills, |
the infantry arms and the artillery. 1 saw /
military leaders of England, and l was sat
isfed that ne was the best strategist among
them. That is the high opinion have
formed of his purpose, his courage and his
ability.
A REVOLUTION IN WEAPONS.
"The marvellous development in recent
years Of the destructive power of fire arms
has revolutionized the art of war. In Paris
! had the privilege of firing mitrailleuse
at the rate of 600 shots second, turning it
at the same time at three anlge Such a
weapon will NOV down men by the hun
dreds. No infantry regiment can stand be-
fore it 1t is operate by electricity, and the
shots are fired by the pulsations of your
thumb on a button. Military men have
been nonplussed as to how they can cope
with such weapons of death on the field of
battle. All the Generals of Europe have
been unable to answer that question. The
young Emperor of Germany is the first to
offer q solution. He proposes to equip a
great cavalry service, the men to be armed
with long lances, who shall dash forward
in open order, and hurl them
selves upon a line or a flank. Against such
a force no solid square of infantry could
stand with fixed bayonets and it would
evade, to q great extent, the destructive
power of modern artillery. This instance
only serves to illustrate my position, that
the young Emperor possesses the most sct-
i've and fertile military mind of our time.
GERMAEY's AGGREssIoNs.
Germany means to push her military and
supremacy without much defer
ence to the right or wrong of actions.
Ihink Bismarck knew from the first that he
was wrong in that Samoan affair, but he
wonld have gone forward persistentlv had he
not been met by the united protests OF Eng
and and the United States. The German |
ipirit of aggression deserves the attention of
Jur statesmen in the fullest measure. We
,annot foster our merchant marine without
coming into frequent contact with this new
commercial power"
In connection with the Pan-American In I
Congress General Neglev said
BY the exercise of a careful fostering pol-
ey Germany has built up an immense re- !
iprocal trade with the republics and prin-
ipalIties of South America, and Bismarck
an hardly look with equanimity upon the ,
PRACTICAL fruition of Secretary Rlaine's ,
reat scheme to checkmate Germany's dom
nation of trade relations with South Amer
ca, as implied in the visit of representa- !
ives of those countries to the United !
tates. 1t is foregone conclusion that the !
howing made by the United States OF her
will direct millions of money ,
nnually from the European market. Best I;
T all, there is plan which nonplusses the
European diplomats and commercial princes.
is competition unlocked for and for l
Thich no provision has been made For
Eermany and Spain to sell wares at loss
} retain the South American market would t
OF be winning policy. Hence it is that IL
iurope ponders Blaine's opening address to
ne International Congress and fails to ex- Y
act any promise from the situation. The n