Arizona republican., 1898-08-26
GERMANY's OWN CONFESSION.

eager assurances are TOW put forth to the effect that the enmity revealed by this attitude does not exist and that we have no warmer friends anywhere than the Germans. Our ambassador at Berlin, who ought to know, has several times repeated his assurances that .here is absolutely nothing in the con- iuct of the German government to which we have any good reason to ob ject. If he means by this that there is nothing which can be considered as easus belli, he is right enough. But hat is a different thing from saying that Germany is a. friendly power
 Enough is known of the proceedings # the German fleet at Manila to show hat no considerations save these of prudence withheld the German ad
 niral from giving active assistance to
 he Spaniards. The moral weight of he fleet has been on the Spanish side. We cannot forget the Irene incident, nor the departure of the Kaiserin
  patches for Admiral Dewey, which would have been a customary courtesy lnder the circumstances. The con- reyance of General Augustin to Hong Kong was apparently no breach of international law. But the details of
 hat incident are not yet at hand.
 Whatever Germany has done or 'ailed to do, it is interesting to note hat the Germans themselves evidently feel that some apology is demanded Ambassa dor White may be satisfied, out the Frankfurter Zeitung, an in duential German paper, has confessed hat we have reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of the German gov ,Tnment. The observations of the Herman press in general have been so 3cutely hostile that early in the war Mr. Carl Schurz felt compelled to utter ! public protest against them and to leclare that they were doing every hing in their power to make cordial citations between Germany and the United States impossible. Nor have he German-American papers in this country been much more discreet in heir criticisms of our conduct of the var. As for it's own contemporaries. he Frankfurter Zeitung is obliged to admit the truth of all that has been aid relative to their unfriendliness
 Newspapers which have the reputa- ton of being oficial,' it observes, have steadily insulted the Americans md imputed to them the most con emptible motives. No one need won Ter, under these circumstances, that the repeated assurances of the Ger nan ambassador in Washington as to he neutrality and unselfishness of Germany have not been able to dc away with the general distrust in America, especially when not a single word of blame has been heard froal any German authority against these attacks And no one can doubt that word from the government would have been effective.
 "The American mistrust, however" the Frankfurter Zeitung goes on to say, was most strongly kept up by oul behavior in the matter of the Philip pines. They say in America that if he German governments anxiety was merely to protect it's subjects and Ger man interests around Manila, the pres ence of one warship, or of two ships at most, would have sufficed, as it did for the other powers. By sending five vessels to Manila, Germany gave the whole proceedings the character of a demonstration against the Americans" " Here is confirmation of the reasonable ness of the contention that the un- strikingly manifested. If the mani testation was unintentional, or if .t meant something else, then it can be said only that the Germans have been unfortunate in arousing suspicion where it was unjustified, and that we must impute their proceedings to bad manners rather than to bad motives. No doubt the emperor is far from wishing to provoke a conflict between the two nations, though it pleases him to see how far he can go and fall short of that disaster. Nor is there any good reason for such conflict. Nevertheless, the American people are in no mood to submit tamely to in- suits, and it will be advisable for Ger many to mend her ways in the future The United States intends to settle the Philippine problem without any for eign interference To Great Britain we have every ground for gratitude i To no other nation do we owe word of thanks. We have no desire to in jure them, but we certainly shall not 1 be hindered from doing as we like by expressions of their disapproval, act i've or passive. This will be very useful thing for the Emperor William