The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-19
GERMANYS EMPEROR BILL
He May Not Be the Fool Some
May Think.
THE NAVY HIS PET PROJECT
The Desire to Get His Bill Through the Reich
stag May Account For His An
tics at Kel.

New York, Dec. 1S.-The Evening Posts
London cablegram today says: The terrific
go.ngs ON at Kiel over Prince Henry's de-
parture for China have been the all-ab-
sorbing topic with English this week. Dis
may, says the German organ in Vienna,
viii penetrate to John Bulls marrow as he
reads it. As matter of fact, John Bulls
first impulse has been to split his side
with laughter over farcal melodrama,
such as no coming Christmas pantomine
can hope to rival.
When the kaiser talks of Stalking my
own brother" and calls> ION heaven to
witness how the German Michael has firm
~, planted on Chinese soil the shield EN-
blazoned with the German eagle in order
to afford protection once for all to him
who applies for it, the Englishman rudely
laughs. He recalls that the German
Michael is the midest hammered of man.
the idol of his English grandmama, who
is taking what even half seasoned sailor
would regard a pleasure cruise, with
one seven thousand ton, twenty three-year-
old battleship and four thousand ton
cruiser in order to secure a coaling station
which practically has already been ceded
over, while no one dreams of single shot
being fred When the Same mild hammered
young man apostrophes his own brother
most serene emperor, most powerful lord,
king and master, forever hoch. hochi
hoch!' and eulogizes the Gospel of your
majesty's hallowed person." but still John
Bull seriously asks himself whether these
young people have not altogether lost their
wits
To closer students of European affairs,
however, there seems much method in his
madness. The average Englishman who is
laughing today probably will be puzzling
his brain next week as to whether the Ger
man craze for naval power is not a thing
to be reckoned with. 1t may have been
more than mere joke, when in talking
to Count Itchy, the emperor said: You
should visit China; by the time you get
there you will find Prince Henry emperor
of China" Why should not the emperor
found second India for Germany in China
as a means of imperial ACKNOWLEDGMENT and
of. averting the social revolution threatened
at home?
The Saturday Review dilates on this cir
cumstance, and is quite ready to accredit
the German emperor as the advanced ex-
ponent of civilization and shrewd in seiz-
ms oii lliS jest popuidteu anu Qulelt5l part
of the Chinese empire.
Kiao Chou and the Hinterland, which the
Germans are annexing, is as large as
Wales and double as populous. 1t promises
enormous revenues and of being the step
ping place for the acquisition of the Cen
trail division of China. These possibilities
will come home to John Bull when he has
done his laughing. Anticipating that time
and taking advantage of mind bordering
frenzy to which German trade rivalry has
reduced no small section of the British
people, the Naval league, whose one desire
is for increased naval ornaments. yester
day sent round to London editors a docu-
ment marked private and confidential"
begging them to awaken the people to the
peril of the deadly enemy, silently, stead
lily and stealthily preparing to strike Eng
land down"
In the end they will succeed, for so soon
as the German emperor gets his naval vote
through the reichstag, and that seems the
most obvious purpose of these I<iel tactics,
so surely will the croy go up for a proper
tionate increase of the British navy.