The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
or by consideration for England. may

or by consideration for England. may
cost him dear. 1t says:
The truth is, william II. is about to
encounter the opposition or his people.
Since the Jameson raid. since the
Kaiser's famous telegram TO President
Kruger, the German press has neve
ceased to be enthusiastic about the
Beers. whom they regard as the only
Germanic race able TO resist the en-
croachment of Berlin in South Africa,
German volunteers ave Joined the
Beers in largest numbers. and German
subscriptions figure as the most con-
siderable for Boer ambulances."
In the Paris Eclair. Alphonse Hum
bert says. Inc it is plain enough not to
be misunderstood:
Does Won Bulow think his policy of
treachery can be excused on the score
of German interests Let him ask
Germany. not the noisy. sentimental
Germany, but thinking Germany. A
mass-meeting in Munich. at which
most of the university professors were
present, passed the following resolu-
lions: % A protest against h Eng
lish atrocities in South Africa; CD a
demand for Intervention on the part OF
the powers; CD the wish that the Kais-
er and the Reichstag may retrieve the
wrong done to President Kruger; (D
hat all German cities be asked to par
ticipate in this agitation. That, then,
is the answer to % Bulow. Germany
knows we'll enough that it is not to her
interest to stand ~dishonored before the
civilized world. m also knows
hat it is not to her interests to de-
liver one half of Africa over to Eng
land"
Won B1low fares no better at the
hands IF Russian editors. They are
4ry1- 49, 1oriixyn ssNaxyar xrrora tho
weak more brutally treated by the
strong" says the st. Petersburg Sviet,
The Novoye Vremya predicts that Eng
land will requite ill the services which
Won Bulow has rendered her. The
Birshewya Viedomosti (Moscow), how
ever, thinks the German government
will adopt a very different attitude Is
These are signs that nay be portents.
They show disturbances. dissatisfac-
ton. Lord R~osebery. we mir 1T was
in his superior address to an university
last year. thought that liberal govern
ments had declined in popularity and
that after a trial Of a century or more
they had lost character and the trend
"oS ~ " III SAiS ~ooAH
Mckinley and tribe may so think, but
the people will be heard from before the
usurpations are fully consummated and
a huge cataclysm occurs. The trend is
to a genuine republic rather h to
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is among the peo-
piles of the world. Look at Russia,
look at Germany. look at France. The
friends of a true republic have Just
achieved a notable victory. and by a
majority of SO votes in the Chamber of
Deputies-and hat too after a very
bitter fight against the present minis
try. in which Bonapartists. Bour-
bons. Clericals. Nationalist and Re-
publlcans of the Ribot stripe united.
The third republic is over thirty years
old. The signs are for more power for
the people in Europe in the years to
come rather than less. The address of
Hon. Herbert Gladstone the other day
rang out a note of warning to the Tory
government. and limited strongly at
a~bolishing the House of Lords. That
body will go, if not now before a half
century, we have but little doubt.