Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-11
WILL BE NO WAR.
The English People Recognize the Danger
of BluGing Inc Kaiser.

London, January 10.-NO influential
person n England believes there is any
danger Of war with Germany n tle near
future. Authentic ady,ces from Ber-
I'm are unanimous ,hat no influential
person there believes Circumstances Will
arise IN the near future TO provoke war
with England. But there IS no intelli-
gent person in England who does not re-
cogniza that the Kaiser IS prepared to
provoke war IN case Of further aggres-
siCns by England n South Africa, and
that indeed he IS in the temper to quar-
rel with England on almost any valid
occasion offered him.
There seems, however, no probability
Of immediate rupture, because the Eng
l.sh government, much against its will
has been forced by circumstances, to
take action n South Africa which re-
moves every shadow Of opportunity for
complaint by Germany or any other ma
ton. Other circumstances may arise
next month or next year which will give
the Kaiser his coveted chance, but there
is no apparent prospect Of these circum-
stances just now.
The interest and Importance of It all
for Americans. however, is greac IN spite
Of the pra.Seworuhy efforts Of the London
Chronicle and the other Liberal news
papers. aided BY a committee under the
Craftsmanship Of Sir John Lubbock, q
L;beral-Unionist member of Parliament,
for securing arbitration in the Venezue-
Ian question. Up to the publication Of
the ka.ser's telegram, Lord Salisbury
k-fr- in, n So dn+ d n
ton to follow out the logical consequent
ces OF his letters to Sir Julian Paunce-
foee. and very probably to go further N
fOuting our rights to assert active inter-
ference in affairs between the South AM
er;can republics ana tle European pow
ers. But while the premier Is a s.ngu-
larly self-absorbed and Op!nionated man
he is an English patriot, and will be
elastic upon comparatively immater-
ial point. while firm as adamanJ in a
direction Of real importance to his coun-
try. England's real or fanc-ed title to
some hundreds of thousands of square
miles in Venezuela will be waived il the
suzeranity Of Great Britain in the new
empire in South Africa is at stake.
The cynical tone Of the Times editor
jail this mOrning-,he thUnderer being
obviously inspired from DCwnig street
since the beginning Of the controversy
is not altogether hopeful Of a wiling
change in the premier's former policy,
but 1t shows change and that itself is
hopeful.
A Dispatch from Berlin says that Pres
idenc Kruger appealed by the cable SIM
ultaneously to Germany and to the Unit
ed States at the tine CT the first news o.
Jameson's raid. His message to the
President Of the United States asked for
the moral support Of the great American
republic against what he regarded as
a British plot to subvert the .ndepend-
ence Of the South American Republic
Phe next day after the alleged dispatch
Of this message to President Cleveland,
Ambassador Bayard called at the foreign
office here. possibly TO make representa-
tions Of Lord Salisbury upon the basis
CT President Kruger's appeal.
The impression IS universal in we'll
informed circles here. that the invasion
of the Transyaal was indeed, a plot Of
Cecil Rhodes. with the ultimate object Of
the establishment of a general South Al
rcan Republic, and that It failed either
| because Rhodes'S ability has been over
estimated. or because his reported col
! lapse at a critical moment is true.