New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-12
some hope for them, even II they are paying
pensions and levyng tariff on British goods
A MODERN CARTHAGEP

II is the German Emperor who ls'respohsip'e
for the phrase and who is credited win aihpr
ton for executing the plan. As lau ne was
never tired Of specializing on what wou'u ~"
come of Carthage If Pickelhaube ana hea
Rreeches should march together-what wouiu
become of England. that Is to say, II Ierihah!
and France should unite against her. AS II iiiah
and an Emperor he is, apparently, deVo'he Ills
hest energies TO the formation OF such league
Indeed. OF universal alliance-whlch shhh
crush Great Britain and partition her EMPIRE
making him. of course King Of the United King
dom in his grandmother's place, to when dignity
no considers himself, rather than the Prince OF
Wales. the lawful heir as the oldest son OF the
Oueen's oldest child To the workings OF TINS
ambition are to be attributed his amazing exhibit
lions of foreign policy in China and Japan, In
South Africa, and in Turkey and Greece; his
persistent antagonism to Great Britain and 10
every British interest. and his desperate zeal for
enormous naval expansion. Carthage delenda
est appears to be the Alpha ana omega OF HIS
schemes and his desires
The most obvious answer to it all Is that
Pckelhaube and Red Brooches will not march
together The one might be willing so to do.
The other is not willing. and will not be- neither
n tangible and an insnrmountable one, expressed
in two words Alsace-Lorraine. Not while the
lost provinces remain unredeemed not while
the Terrible Year remains unavenged, Will the
French people join hands with those whom they
regard as their Oppressors and despoilers. Ihey
may feel some irritation toward Great Britain
on account of Egypt; but even that they Rno"
they owe to Germany, for 1t was solely through
Ean
from going into Egypt on equal terms with Great
Britain. But Strasburg Is nearer than oairo,
nearer and dearer: and, as it is nearer in equal
ratio Is their desire to redeem II stronger anu
their enmity toward its despoiler more implaca-
bIe The German Emperor may send wrea'hs
70 the funeral of the victims Of the Paris fire,
and may accept for use in his army marches
written by French musicians But not by such
devices will France be wooed to forget Alsace-
Lorraine; certainly not to give for Germany
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT the army and navy she mas
created for Germany's punishment. There Will
be no Franco-German alliance against Great
Britain Yet without 1t Carthage is secure NO
other European combination could give GREAT
Britain one uneasy moment
But even were universal coalition made, lis
success would be most doubtful vastly great
or man than THIS German emperor 'rieu IL oiiNo'
and he died at st. Helena. Proportionately, his
chance was much better than any now could
be: England was weaker, the Continent stronger.
For n war for the destruction OF the modern
Carthage would not he merely war against
a Government or State. 1t would he a war
against a race. 1t would involve not merely the
conquest Of Great Britain but the Individual
conquest Of every British colony throughout the
world of the three millions in Australia and
the three-quarters OF million in New-Zealand,
and the FIVE millions in Canada and the million
elsewhere in North America. and the two mill
Ions I'm South Africa 1t would be idle to count
upon the cooperation OF the French In Canada
and the Dutch at the Cape. Whatever grlev-
ances they may have against the British Gov
eminent, they would scarcely fight to exchange
It for another imposed by Germany or Russia.
For every chance that an attack upon the centre
of the Empire would disintegrate its members
there are hundred that 1t would only strength
on their attachment to 1t and their zeal for its
support Moreover so far as one OF the CHIEF
divisions Of the British Empire is concerned. an
other great branch Of the Anglo-Saxon race
might have concrete objections to its conquest
by an alien and dcspotlc Power No, 1t must
take vastly more commanding voice than that
Of any Cato of Berlin to say effectively Gar
thago deenda est"