The Saint Paul globe., 1900-12-11
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HOLLAND AND GERMANY
In discussing Mr.. Kruger's visit to
Europe. the Chicago Journal remarks:

In discussing Mr.. Kruger's visit to
Europe, the Chicago Journal remarks:
''Iittle Queen Wilhelmfna,s teIegran m
TO MIR. Kruger as President of the lSouf-h
Afrlcan Republic and her revealed aus
lhorSh1p of tie IorOffer of a Dutch man
ol-%af Tor mis- passage to Europe are
important only as they prefeIre thA
youthful monarclrs policy and iI,11u3i11o
ate her character. 1t may be said win
safety that if the little queen keeps on
IN lthls way her little kingdom wi be
gone before her little reign is half over.
- 1t is all very well to make faces at
Great Britain, which the balance of
power pledges to the support Of the two
Netherland monarchies on suferance.
But II the queens SENTIMENTAL and PER-
Sonal poucleS cross the purposes of her
big neighhor. the kaiser, Eer Minis rs
may be prepared to cut the dykes, Tor
Iaefe VIII be PrusS-an army corps 10
drown. A sound prteXt for a quarrel
with Holland IS all that is wanted to
round fi,d cut the German empire as a mari
time power. France could readily be
squared with Belgian spoil and Russia
with scandinavian. 1t would be the end.
IN brief, Of the little peoples of Nor. h,
efn Europe unless that old ally and sa-
Xlor before from the kaisers OF their
tmes (Philip H, Louis XIV, Napoleon
ID, whom the Young queen thinks it
well to fieut, should intervene"
OF course Russ a and France would be
only too glad to go into such deal
They would fall all over themselves in
their hurry to accept If Germany should
make the proposition, and what Eng
land might wish to say in the matter
probably wouldn't have much effect. In
fact, France did propose something SINH
lar in regard to Belgium before the Fran
co-German war
But that is just what Germany won't
do; not unless she wants to cut her own
throat. With Norway and Sweden .occu-
pied by Russia and Belgium belonging to
France, Germany would be wedged in so
tight that she wouldn't even have room
to breathe The gain of her r~.ortaI enc
mics through such deal would be so
much greater than her own advantage
that she might reasonably expect to be
carved up next.
For that reason the kaiser won't do
anything Of the kind. He always has
been and always Will be just as nice to
little Wilhelmina as he knows how. and
when she and her mother visit him, as
they sometimes do, he even talks Dutch
to her, just to be agreeable
The Germanic nations on the continent
Of Europe cannot afford to abandon anv
one of their number to Russia. They
will have to stick and stand together:
that is the only way they can hope to
resist Russian aggression, and the more
effectively they can realize this. the bet-
ter it win be for them.
OF course, this does not necessarily
mean that all the countries concerned
need to unite under one government. A
tariff union has, however, been proposed
similar to the ZoHverein to which most
Of the German states belonged before
the Franco German war which resulted
in their union as the present empire.
Such tariff union would put the small
er countries commercially on an equal
footing with the great powers and give
them the same opportunity in the mar
kets Of tho world. The different coun-
tries In such union would remain
quito Independent internally while united
on a common foreign and commercial
policy. Such a tariff union might prove
very beneficial to all the parties con-
cer@d
However, as the first result of Rus
sian aggression the Germanic peoples on
the continent have developed a strong
feeling OF unity of race, purpose and