Washington sentinel., 1899-02-04
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v Il would be useless and unproftabIe
to attempt to inquire into the personal
causes OF the German Emperor's anti
al English policy. 1t has been psradoxi.
}. cally said that they have their origin in
= his being Sc very much Of an English
l. man in his views and character But
e while he lapses now and again into utter.
n ances OF emotional tenderness toward
t the inhabitants of these islands. the
S settled purpose Of his life remains. That
e IS to make Germany the leading com.
! mercial and colonial State Of the world.
} In the realization ofthe German Fmper.
or's designs England stood and stands
, IN the way. Germany can only become
the leading commercial and coloniaI
, Power by her downfall The consum-
nation Of that catastrophe becomes.
therefore, the FIRST end the essential con-
ditlon for the success of the Emperor's
policy. The Emperor William is a man
OF Ideas but he is also a man who ac.
cepts facts, and the first fact that he had
TO- and did,recOgnize was that the down.
tallof England could never be brought
about by Germany alone in his time. for
II he himself fails to be the architect of
German supremacy, the sweetness Of
success will be gone. The plan of the
German Emperor is the revival of the
Continental alliance against England IN
a far more insidious and perilous form
than was conceived by Napoleon. He
has not merely written - 'CaytfaPo deLen-
aa sSf," but he has drawn up plan or
| project for combined naval action be-
tween Germany, Russia and France.
The accuracy of the calculation is MOTTO
be disputed on paper. The British fleet
IS not now equal to the combined fleets
OF the three powers; they are between
them building twice as many ships as
| are being constructed in our docky ards.
and IN another four years it is assumed
| at Berlin that Britain will be in a state
| OF manifest iuferiority" on her own
| element to this new Triple Alliance.
| The danger is Of the gravest character
| and it is not remote.
1t must not be supposed that the Ger
man Emperor wishes the destruction Of
England, or that he even contemplates
such project as its INVASION. HIsgam
IS a tar more skiliul one than that would
be. He wishes to be in a position 10
exercise such pressure at any moment
by display ofnavaI power superior to
her own that the British Government
will give way-just as Japan did after
Shin onoseki-and allow him and his
friends to regulate matters in Africa, in
the Far East, and elsewhere as they wish
and to recolor the map as they choose.
1t is impossible to treat the Emperor's
plan as chimera, for it has already done
practical work 1t has compelled Eng
land to give way exactly as he said 1t
would, but in three years time the naval
power OF the allied Powers will be rel
atively and substantially far greater than
now. Then we shall have to make still
greater sacrifices, and to accept less USE
fu compensation than even the barren
and practically untenable WeiHa Wei.
Such were the calculations Of the
Emperor William, and, with the policy
of England controlled and curbed by
family influences Of philo Germauic
character, they would undoubtedly have
resulted precisely as their originator
and assumed. But a new and
factor has been introduced
into the problem by the easily gained
naval triumph Of America, the sudden
OF an imperial spirit in the
United States, and the unexpected
assertion of American pretensions in the
Far East. In the twinking of an eye
almost this vital change has occurred in
the international situation, and it is
change as beneficial to British interests
as 1t is disturbing 10 the calculation Of
their opponents. 1t would be disturbing
even If il were unaccompanied bv the
gravitation OF England and
America toward each other, and the
evidence afforded that the
Angio-Saxon races have grasped the
act OF the solidarity Of their interests
hrougho the world. 1t is the answer
Providence has furnished to the
smperor's plan Ol Continental alliance
gainst the proud and confident island
hat claims the mastery of the sea.
The Emperor is impatient and he has
holy horror ofTepublics. The keynote
# his policy is the maintenance and, if
ossl5le, the spreading Of the monarchi.
al principal. The triumph of the
americans, and the expansion o. their
ower and ideas that must ensue from
}, are a rude shock to such schemes.
he probability is. therefore, that he
,Ill not wait, that he will do something
npetuous, and that, before he knows
here he is, he will find that he has no
loiCe between submitting to a rebuff
the Philippine and a war with
merica. The American people, with
laraCteristic shrewdness. have detected
is RESENTMENT and hostility. and they are
no mood to put up with browbeaung
ON any one. AT this moment the
lestion turns on whether the German
mperor can induce Russia and France
, join him in a demonstration OF supe-
or naval force to that possessed by the
nited States, both in the Pacific and
e Atlantic, and the answer to that
lestion largely depends on whether he
I'd the Emperor of Russia between
lem can exercise sufficient personal
-essure in England to induce OR Cow
-nment, in return for some empty con-
.ssions IN Africa, some easily broken
-omfses IN China, to hold ITS hand, 20
estate for the necessary moment, while
ley enforce their will on the United