Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-23
GERMANY HAPPY.
She Has Long Looked With Gov
etous Eyes on HeligOland.
What Bismarck Bent Every Energy to
Accomplish, a Woman He ScOffed
At Brings to Pass.
Spain and Italy Preparing to Celebrate the
Centenary of the Discovery of
America by Columbus.
The Helfgoland Cession.

/ special 10 the OaLeVUe
| LONDON, June 22.-The proposed ces-
sion of HeIigoland to Germany is the
| most recent and significant evidence OF
| England IS growing friendship toward the
court of Berlin. The cession is not an act
of justice or restitution, for the group
known as HelIgoland is not German in any
sense, save geographical contlguity. The
| elder inhabitants are of Tristan ancestry
and in language and blood are akin to
| the Dutch of Holland. The isla nds were
taken, not from Germany, but from
! Denmark, in the year of 1907, which
witnessed the crumbling of the old
empire and the grinding of Prus-
STA between the upper and neither
millstones of Russia and France.
| Unlike many of England's territorial &C
| QUESTIONS the seizure of Religoland was
at the time justified, for, otherwise,
it would have become an outlying station
| of France; but, although confirmed to
| Great Britain by the peace of 1914, the
| British have never regarded Heligoland
| as permanent addition to the empire.
| No large sums have been ex-
| pended on Notifications and the expendi-
| lures for maintaining port have
not much exceeded f12O0 year, and yet
| the main islet might have been
! MADE A MALTA,
| although not Gibraltar. In the event
| OF d war with Germany Heligolaud
would be magnificent naval rendez-
vous, commanding German trade in
the North sea and forming
a station from which British
war vessels could operate with effect
against the important commercial cities
| of the empire; but England has no ap-
| prehension of any war with Germany,
| and even in such an altogether improb-
| able event no island of the sea, however
we'll fortified, could be expected to hold
out for any length of time against the
British navy. Germany will undoubt-
! eddy fortify Heligoland in a manner as
| formidable as the situation will allow.
1t is a noteworthy fact that the cession
| of Heligoland is really the cap-sheaf in
| the unitication of Germany. Regarding
| Heligoland from its geographical stand
| point as German soil, it was Prince Bis
marck IS ambition to add this little atom
of territory to the empire which he
created. Its possession by England, al
| though not originally seized from Ger
many, was ranking thorn in the side of
| the German nation, like Gibraltar to
| and such as Calais was for centuries to
| France. The floating of the British flag
| on this lone outpost in the sea has been
perpetual reminder to the world of
! PRUsSIA'S GREATEST HUMILIATION,
| and its surrender is the crown of Prussia 8
| triumph. dispatch from Berlin says
| that the Dowager Empress Frederioka
| was at the bottom of the cession of
| Heligolsnd to Germany, and that her
| imperial highness had two objects in
| view in bringing it about. The first was
to elevate her son. the Emperor William,
| to a foremost position in the eyes
of the diplomatic world, and the
| second was the further humi-
| liation of her fallen foe,
Bismarck. Every diplomat and poll
| ticisn of note in Europe was aware of the
! fact that during the whole political Ca
reer of the eX-chancellor, one of the OBJ
| iects to which ne most steadily aimed was
the possession of Heligoland by Germany.
Every art practicsd By the diplomat,
Bismarck brought into play to compel
or cajole England to give up Heligolaud
to Germany. He once said that German
| unity would not be complete without the
possession of Heligoland. Now the iron
chancellor has scarcely been relegated to
the retirement of private life when
A NOBLE WOMAN
at which he seoffed during the troubled
period of her imperial husband g fatal
illness, suddenly comes to the front and
proves to the world that she was en-
| dowed with political and diplo-
matte attachments, to which the late
Emperor Frederick frequently alluded.
1t is no secret that Bismarck ire
against the Dowager Empress Frederioka
was in great part caused by the fact that
her husband repeatedly sought her coun-
sells in dealing with state affairs.
Her son, the Emperor Will
late fathers place than Heligoland,
Bismarck S long sought prize, drops into
the young emperor's lap with "God
bless you, - for noble son of British
mother. The cession of Helig-
GLAND is looked at by France with
jealous and unfriendly eye, for il seems
like closer relations between her herei-
itary enemy and her recent foe; one he
great military, the other the great naval
power of Europe.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
The relations between England
and France are every day becom-
ing more embittered. Not content
with the aggressive assertion of the
French treaty rights on the coast of
Newfoundland. the French are making
themselves obnoxious in Channel Islands.
The French fishermen are at liberty to
sell their catches in the island
of Jersey, but il the Jerseymen attempt
to sell theirs in France, their fish
is confiscated and they are liable to i'm
prisonment. The French fleet is gather
ing in strength on the coasts of New
foundland and st. Pierre Island, Eng
land, and ready to pay any amount of
money that may be awarded by arbftra-
ton IS an equivalent for the surrender
of treaty rights, but there is
strong feeling in Great Britain that
France is displaying an incorporating
temper and is rather disposed TO quar-
rel, rather than not.
The Standard says, ga friendly So
luton will have to be discovered by the
two nations or an unfriendly one will be
forced on them. In true interest OF our
nsighbors, therefore, as well as of our