The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-24
THE IRE NOT ARTIFICIAL
English Secretary'S Excuse
 Worse Than First 0ffense.
Secretary Hays Speech Has Raised a Timely Discussion as to the Relations of the United
 States and Germany.

Berlin. Nov. 23.-Gcrmany continues to ring with protests against the reference which Mir. Chamberlain, the British Co., lonia! Secretary, mada to the German al my in his speech at Edinburgh. Meet inss are being held every day and there is no sign of abate ment of the agitation.
 The Pastors Society of Gladblach is circulating protest which has already received the signatures of 6S0 pastors The wurtemburg Veterans Society has issued warning against attaching too great importance to one mans utterance. The letter from MT. Chamberlain's sec retary is pronounced here to be quite unsatisfactory, for. as the papers note. Mir, Chamberlain takes nothing back The press generally regards the letter as another insult and reject the assumption that the anti British movemsnt is artifi- cial. n Atlh
 On this latter point The Cologne Volks Zeitung asserts that the movement Is as spontaneous as it Is possible to i'm agine, adding that the government has tried by every means to. suppress it, but has failed in the effort. Other papers de- scribe the movement as being the most remarkable of it's kind ever witnessed. The Liberal organs like The Tageblatt and The Vossi che Zsitung. try to prove that the movement Is directed exclusive ly against MT. Chamberlain and not against Great Britain, but The Frankfurt ter Zsitung admits that German patriotic feeling has been infiamed in an unmistak- able manner against Great Britain.
 Chamberlain Not Wise
 The paper asserts that it was unstates- manlike on the part of Mir. Chamberlain to give fresh fuel to the flame and says Mir Chamberlain was not wise tn reas+ sorting his error. Nevsrtheiess The Fsankfurter ZeitunE admits that part of thevca of this friction is to be found on German soil. It says the movemeNs here expresses the German want of con ffdence in the management of Germany's 8 foreign policy. which iJ looked upon as being lacking in steadiness and power and as acting by fits and starte,
 Secretary Hays speech at the banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce Tuesday last has raised a lively discus sion of German-American relations. The Kreuz Zeitung sees therein proof that Washington does not intend to be liberal in drawing up commercial treaties with the European States and that 1t is not willing to concede the same duties as other contracting States The Kreuz Zeitung adds that since Secretary Hay holds fast to the Dingley tarin other countries can only answer with the impo- sition of similar duties.
 The assurances given by Dr. von Holle- ben, the German Ambassador at Wash ington, to President Roosevelt regarding the attitude of Emperor William and oVd no faA States have been warmly received here. All the papers express the hope that there will be an improvement In the rela- lions between Germany and the United States through this clearing of the atmos- phere. s
 Germany's Emigrants.
 The Berliner Zeitung quotes the fol- lowing from a recent article published in the organ of the Fleet Commanders As- sociation: Whether we succeed in win- ming back to Germanism at least part of German emigrants, particularly those in South America and possibly in Queens land and South Africa. depends chiefly the degree we expand as power during the coming century"
 The Berliner Zeitung asks: What does this mean but that when our navy is strong enough we shall begin wars of conquest in all lands where the German
 
 element is numerous?'
 Continuing the article quoted says 1t can readily be understood that. such ex- pressions from government protected society awakened distrust abroad and this distrust is all the more justified since in foreign countries. under the eyes of German Ministers and consuls, an agita- ton has been begun, aiming to represent the Germans there as being oppressed and naadtpo hp1D from home.
 The sentence of two years imprison- ment. imposed by a court martial on Lieutenant Hildebrand, who killed Lieu tenant Blaswkowitz, in a duel at Inter burg. East Prussia, meets with sharp criticism, and is regarded as inadequate Fault is also found with the fact that the trial was held behind closed doors and that the correspondents who were present were forbidden to report anything about the meting which brought about the duel It is not disputed, however. that the insult was given while Blasko- witz was greatly intoxicated.