Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-25

of the school and violently denounced
the authorities. Many persons We're ar
rested on the charge of insulting gov
eminent officials and sentenced to inn
prisonment for periods ranging from a
month to two years and to be put in
chains. The Polish newspapers are in
dignant at the outrageous sentences.
BRITISH BERATE GERMANY.
for the Anti German Outburst-
European News.
London, Nov. 25.-The British press, if
rot the British public, continues to make
much of the German demonstrations of
hostility which have broken out afresh
since the sudden termination of the
Franco Turkish incident OF course.
Mr.. Chamberlain is getting good deal
more blame in this particular outburst
than he actually deserves. tho as cab
met minister, with the weight of heavy
public burdens on his shoulders, he was
certainly indiscreet in his Edinburgh
speech. That glib passage in which
he grouped certain incidents of the
Tranco-G German war with the Bosnia,
Polish, Chinese and other historic afro
cities,' has led to fierce and long
continued stream of vituperation from
Germany. But German Anglophobia,
even in its most violent development, is
so unlikely to lead to anything more
than words that the enormous impor-
lance suddenly attached to it by the
English newspapers, both conservative
,ta1
Intended to serve an immediate political
purpose at home.
Some leading journals have been send
ing special commissioners" to Germany
for the purpose of looking into the mat
ter. which, 1t is supposed, means max
ing as much copy as possible out of
H. the idea clearly being to keep alive
the present public demand for some sort
of change in the government.
Lord Salisbury is feeble and behind
the times Balfour is deeply immersed
III golf and THE Foundations of Belief. =
and has no time for governmental prob
lens. while distrust of the methods and
wisdom of Chamberlain, hitherto the
strongest man in the ministry, is ex-
tending to all classes.
This disposition, therefore. to make as
much as possible of the latest German
outbreak OF anger and to assume that
IL may lead to serious complications, Is
influenced by desire to keep Lord
Rosebery, who Is looked to rs the man
to help restore order, up to the mark and
to induce him not to shirk the task be-
fore him.
1t is unlikely that the present situation
v,af NIL ne
tons whatever The Spectator warns
Germany that If she continues to try to
make an enemy of England it will be
worse for her, as she is only pushing
England in the direction of Russia and
France But such threats commonly
mean nothing. If England would ignore
the Insults of the German press and uni
yersity students they would soon cease
Engiand's most dangerous enemy at
the present hour is here in England.
The premier lately declared with pa
thetic earnestness that England was the
only country in which, during great
war, eminent men write and speak as
il they belong to the enemy. William
Watson. accounted by many as eminent,
sings doleful songs of "England's
strange and new, staggering forth and
paving her path with babes and suck
lings slain" which is sheer nonsense.
The will of the English people is that
the guerilla warfare in South Africa
shall be ended without indignity to the
empire, and whether or not there is
change of any sort in the government,
the will of the people will be carried
out
Meanwhile; Germany has her hands
full OF home trouble. The financial and
commercial situation is bad enough al
ready and the aggrarian influence
seems hopelessly bent on making II
worse. There was never so many I'M
employed as now, never SO much acute
suffering. The annual Prussian day of
humiliation and prayer fell this week,
and a Berlin correspondent observes
that never before had there been
greater need of respectful observance OF
such a day. immortality and crime are
on the increase. and Berlin initiates all
the vices of Paris without approaching
the buoyant gayety and charm of the
French capital.
About the Nicaragua canal and the
new treaty, l fancy one hears as much
here in common conversation as in New
York, which is to say, nothing at all.
Journalists are bound professionally to
make it subject, but the canal itself
is SO remote and OF SO little immediate
human interest. that Britons generally
are not interested in it. Among the
Journalists one notes a wanton disposi-
ton to believe that England is to get
a quid pro quo for her action in the
matter of the treaty, but little is said to
this end in print, and the known facts
certainly do not justify such an idea.
Journalists here and elsewhere are fond
of believing that there is big story
waiting to be nosed out. AS for certain
brilliant achievements OF journalism in
relation to the new treaty, the foreign
Office here declares that it has not Civ
en- any information whatever, and that
no attache has talked of the matter Will
any journalist
WOULD SAVE MILLIONS.