The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-24

WITH CHIP
ON SHOULDER
Anti : Chamberlain Meetings
are Held Every Day
NO SIGN OF ABATEMEN 7
Great Britain Denounced for
Her Alleged Hypocrisy.

Berlin, Nov. 2S.-Germany continues to
ring with protests against the references
which Mr.. Chamberlain. the British col
onial secretary, made to the German army
in his speech at Edinburgh.
Meetings are being held every day. and
there is no sign of abatement of tha
agitation. The pastors society Of Gladbach
is circulating a protest which has received
the signatures of $50 pastors. The Quer-
temberg Veterans society has issued a
warning against attaching too much i'm
portance 10 one mans utterance.
The letter from Mr.. Chamberlain's sec
retary is pronounced here to be unsatis-
factory, for, as the papers note, Mr..
Chamberlain takes nothing back. The
press generally regards the letter as an
other insult, and rejects the assumption
that the anti-British movement is arti-
fetal. On this latter point the Cologne
Foiks 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-
remarkable OF its kind ever witnessed.
The liberal organs like the Tageblatt and
the Vossiche Zeitung try 10 prove that
the movement is directed exclusively
against Mr.. Chamberlain, and not against
Great Britain. but the Frankfurt-Zei-
tung admits that German patriotic feel
ing has been inhamed in an unmistaka-
ble manner against Great Britain. The
paper asserts that it was unstatesman-
like on the part of Mr. Chamberlain to
give fresh fuel to this feeling. and says
AIr. Chamberlain was not wise in reas-
serting his error Nevertheless, the
Frankfurt-Zeitung admits that part Of
the cause of this friction is found on
German soil. 1t says the movement here
expresses the German want of care in
the management of Germany's foreign
policy, which is looked upon as being
lacking in steadiness and power as act
ing by fits and starts. The paper last
quoted says that if the government had
rightly guaged the movement at the start
it could have forestalled it by a timely
utterance. Nevertheless, the paper con-
cludes that too much noise has been made
in Germany over the Chamberlain mat
ter
Secretary Hays speech at the banquet
of the New York Chamber of commerce
Tuesday last has raised a lively dis
cussion 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 it is
not willing to concede the same duties as
We're contracting states.
The Kreuz Zeitung adds that since Sec
retary Hay holds fast to the Dingley tar
if, other countries can only answer with
the imposition of similar duties.
The assurances given by Dr. Won Hol-
leben, the German ambassador at Wash
ington. to resident Roosevelt regarding
the attitude of Emperor William and the
German people toward the American peo-
pie, have been warmly received here.
All the papers express the hope that
there viii be no improvement in the re-
lations between Germany and the United
States through this clearing Of the at
mosphere.
The Berliner Zeitung calls DR.. Won
Hollenben's assurances a disavowal of the
Pan-American Germans. The papers ad-
nit that the Pan-Germans admit Ameri-
can conquests in a manner which neces-
sarily cause vexation abroad. It shows
from the Pan-German Association print
ed matter that the Pan-German wanted to
annex Chill. Argentina, South Brazil the
West Indian islands. the Netherlands,
Turkey, etc, and goes on TO show that the
German Fleet society. which enjoys high
government protection. follows similar
ideas. 1t quotes the following from a re-
cent article published in the society's or
san. Upon whether we succeed in win
ming back TO Germanism at least part of