The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
DEWEY SAID IT.
The Admiral Made Published Re-
marks About Germany.


New York, Aug. 1.-The New York
Herald will say editorially tomorrow:
ION Friday last, Doctor Halstead
Boyland, a well known physician, who
sometimes, when travelling, corresponds
for the Herald in a dilletante way, sent
the Herald a dispatch from Trieste
which was published in our issue of
last Saturday. 1t gave resume OF a
conversation which DR.. Boyland had
had with Admiral Dewey.
In this conversation the admiral
spoke with sailor-like candOr and ex-
pressed opinions with regard to Ger
many that have stirred up a commo-
ton.
1T is regrettable that a friendly con-
VersatfOn should have found its way
into print. The admiral cannot regret
it more than the Herald does. STILL
when this has been recorded, the fact
remains that Admiral Dewey made the
statements reported by Dr. Boyland,
and even while deprecating the publ
cation of private opinions, the hero OF
Manila is too frank and courageous TO
trouble his head about what the kaiser
or the kaiser's encourage may think,
for the nut of the question is that the
German emperor was frankly hostile
to the United States during our war.
THE emperor's sentiments were not
those of platonic sympathy with an
other another monarchy. They were
plainly inimical to the American Re
public
force of the kaiser's stubborn divine
rightedness in Manila Bay, although he
probably would have preferred to keep
his opinion of the German potentate to
himself. Yet he has expressed it and
is ready to stand by it.
THE United States have no quarrel
with the German nation. There are no
more loyal citizens in this Republic
than the contingent of German-Ameri-
cans, as they are wrongly called, for an
American citizen is an American citizen
and nothing else. He owes no auegi-
ance to any other state, no matter
where he may have been born
mo, the United States have no quar-
rel with the German people, but it has
a serious one against the German en-
peror, with his antiquated theories of
hereditary prerOgatiVeS and military
supremacy.
1.-THE sooner the emperor learns that
militarism and peace are incompatible,
the better it will be for him. The soon
er he appreciates that, whatever his
views about Republics in general may
be, he would be well advised in Observ-
ing strictly a neutral position as far as
regards the United States, the less dan
ger there will be of his divine right
receiving a severe shaking up.
Admiral Dewey's expressed belief in
the emperOr'S personally hostile atu-
tude to the United States during our
war with Spain strikes a chord in en-
tire harmony with that which was
sounded throughout this country when
Dewey was facing the Spanish enemy
at Manila Every act in that brief dra-
ma told us that he was not only facing
an enemy, but was also lying alongside
the ships of a personally unfriendly
sovereign. Our admiral, with rare
judgment, avoided a clash that was
provoked by unfriendly acts, but was
avoided by wise discretion, and no one
who recalls what was said in the Amer
lean press at the time and was heard
right and left upon the streets, but re-
allies that Admiral Dewey's opinion,
expressed to our correspondent at
Trieste, echoes the sentiment OF the
whole American people,"