New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-05

feet any OF the German people for q time we
may confidently count on the final supremacy
among them Of right. reason and justice
And say more: Whatever may be the con-
duct OF any who from any cause are pretudced
against us. feel bound to acknowledge the con-
duct Of those In authority-those who represent
Germany to our country and who have been
all that we could desire from the first during
the war. The German Government recognized
at the outset our full rights as begerents II
has observed a full and strict neutrality. and
this neutrality has been neither cold nor grudg-
ing. There has been no request made by our
Government which has not been met promptly
and freely
There have been occasions when, had there
been wish on the part Of the rulers Of Ger
many to check our career delays and evasions
might have taken place; but there have been
neither delays nor evasons and I may say that
whoever else than Germany may or may not
understand the real import OF the present strug-
gle and the questions bound up therein. the Ger
man Government understands those questions
and does justice to the motives OF our country
men, They know that Government and
people desired peace as long peace was pos
sible. They know our motive In ordering on the
war was not to grasp new territory.
Whoever may forget or be careless Of the ties
uniting the two nations, the German Govern
ment recognizes them. 1t bears in mind the
great interests OF commerce between the two
countries. 1t recognizes the fact that whatever
increases the prosperity of the United States
increases the demand for articles Of German
manufacture. 1t bears in mind that honorable
peace and cordial relations have existed between
the two nations for more than a century-rela
wh Erede
was the first continental monarch. 1t recognizes
American independence. 1t recognizes the ties
OF family binding millions in the United States
to the land Of their fathers and here. in this
ancient and honornd university town. ! may
mention another tie which the real leaders Of
Germany cannot fail TO recognize
While We acknowledge In Great Britain. the
mother country Of the great majority ~ our peo-
pie. and while there has been during the present
struggle as never before in our history draw
Ing together Of Great Britain and the United
States, we may well recognize in Germany All
other mother country. one with which our own
land should always remain in warmest alliance.
For. from the universities and high institutions
for advanced learning in Germany. far more
than from those Of any other land. have come
and coming the influences which have
shaped and are shaping advanced education in
the United States.
Il do not believe these various forces. uniting
Germany and the United States can be easily
dissipated. The assurances given our country
by the German Government forbid US for a
moment TO entertain the thought that there VIII
be anything on the part ~ Germany hut fair.
loyal and straightforward treatment for our Ma
ton; and n this German policy Of fairness and
justice toward our country recognize the best
guarantee for that legitimate territorial and
commercial expansion which Germany so Justly
and ardently desires. and for that contir Iing
and increasing good feeling which is so i'm
portant to both countries"