New-York tribune., 1901-06-19
THE P4N-N4TTONALITY BUSINESS.

Truly. it does make difference whose OK Is
gored. or, In the present case, what race seeks
union of all its members. Not very long ago
| the friendly approachment of the two great sec
| tions Of the English speaking world provoked
| envious or hostile comments in various quar-
| tiers. What was rather awkwardly called Pan
Anglo-SaXonism was inveighed against some
| thing which had no business 10 be developed.
English speaking nations had no right to be on
intimate and friendly terms. For them to aim
at such relationship was an offence and a men
ace TO the rest of the world And so on. Such
utterances We're made In many cases by those
| very members OF the Teutonc race who were
and are diligently working for Pan-Germanic
union. 1t is perfectly patent that there is a
| strong movement In progress for the consolida-
ton Of all the German peoples by adding 10 the
present German Empire the German provinces
| of Austria. and even the Netherlands. 1t is not
an official governmental movement, but popu-
lar one involving many men Of light and leading.
Pan-Germanism. however. is not permitted TO
pursue its way unchallenged. any more than
the supposed Pan-Anglo- -Saxonsm. Russians
| object TO ii vehemently. The "Sviet," OF St
Petersburg. declares that it is n serious menace
to Russia 'It is high time for us TO think Of
protecting ourselves against the savage hatred
"Of our German friends. Ii Is time for us to
take mp the cause OF the sacred rights Of
"Christianity, and 10 protest against the effort
Ito introduce into civilized life the heather con-
"ceptOn Of the necessity of destroying whole
races. There is a rich and unctuous humOr
in that, albeit somewhat grim, seeing how Wig
orously the Pan-Slav propaganda is and has
long been urged. and how ruthleSsly Russia
crushes Poland and Finland and every other
land that stands in her way. To the Russian
mind only the Pan-Slav movement is just-
fable TO the German mind none is right but
Pan-iermanism. And so II goes. the world
around. 1t makes vast difference whose OK Is
gored.
But really the "Sviet' seems to exaggerate
the matter when It speaks of the necessity Of
destroying whole races The Pan-Germanic
movement, for example. is for conservation,
not for aggression. II aims 10 unite and weld
together all German States ana communities
but certainly not by the determination of those
not German. II would doubtless destroy some
political organizations. Thus II would wreck
the Austrian Empire by absorbing the German
provinces into Germany. But the reorganiza-
ton OF State Is not the destruction of a race
We are not arguing in favor OF any such
scheme. nor Indeed does II seem probable that
any such Will he realized. although there is
nuch To he said In favor OF having political
lines coincide with racial lines. Strictly speak
Ing however, that is impossible for the reason
mat no State is inhabited exclusively by a single
race. There are Slavs In the German provinces
OF Austria and Germans in the Slav provinces
The point Is, however. that such movements
toward national or racial unity. so far as they
are possible, are not necessarily destructive OF
other races, or even inimical 10 them. The uni
Tying OF the German Empire and OF the Italian
l< m ~
Europe, and neither would be the extension Of
the same principle TO the inclusion In those
realms OF all provinces which have for them a
dominant racial affinity