Washington sentinel., 1901-03-02
FOREIGN NEW S.
! Translated and Selected from leading
EUROPEAN baosYSIOy The SENTINEL
ENGLAND.
England and Germany.
PsSfet- LI0yd
ENGLAND.
Rsfer LIoyd

It is a long time since the English
people have talked in such friendly wise
OF foreign nation as they now do OF
Germany. The leading London news
papers are not Aattering an illustrious
| guest; they are merely expressing the
sincere and univ er al opinion ol the
nation when they declare with one voice
that no foreign sovereign has ever been
SO popular in England as Kaiser William
II is today,
No one will seriously maintain that
the journey OF the German Emperor to
be present at the deathbed OF his grand
mother was dictated by political
motives, yet today every one recognizes
that that hurried voyage, undertaken
solely from family affection, may and
must have some p 'litiCal result. Even
if one regards the KaiseT's appointment
as an English field marshal, and the
| bestowal OF the Garter upon his son
and heir, merely as the expression Oi
the thanks Of a King for the sympathy of
an Emperor, i. is possible to hnd in the
| speeches and ad1rs sses something more
than courtly compliments and the inter
change Of family amenities In the
speeches which King Edward made on
the one occasion to the Emperor,
and on the other to the Crown Prince,
there is note Of ceiling struck which is |
more than that Of family grief and love |
there IS a note Of sympathy and OF |
union, not only between one roy i house |
aud another, but between land and land, |
between nation and natIon. The con |
ventional Expression OF sy mpathy for an |
occasion is extended to embrace a
friendly recognition OF the real meaning
Of friendship tor both paTties the wish
for peaceful progress together in the
sphere Of policy can be easily transl ted
10 mean a desire for mutual and united |
efforts towards the advance ement Of the
two nations King Edward spoke
frankly MAY these two great nations"
be said, "pass onward, hand in hand, to
the great goal, which IS the establish
ment Of peace and the advancement Of
civilization"
This is not the first time that such
words have come from the mouth Of an
Englshman 1t is just sixteen yeais
since Gladstone declared in almost the
same words that be yielded to none in
his admiration for Germany. IF, said
he, Germany becomes a colonizing
power, will be she first 10 call down
Gods blessing upon her; Germany and
En- gland will be friends and allies for the
good Of mankind. 1 hail with Joy her
entry into this new sphere ofactvitv, and
am honestly thankful that she will be
our companion and helper in the work
Of spreading the light Of civilization in
less civilized countries" These re
markable words Of Gladstone's were
quoted in the Reichstag, and the speaker
OF them was heartily thanked by Bis
marck, the same Bismarck whose name
the Arg 'ophobes in Germany have been
so ready to invoke when there was any
chance OF sowing dissension between the
two countries
In the sixteen years that have passed
by the words and wishes OF these two
great men have been over and over
again forgotten In England the people,
with Britannia rules the waves" ring.
ing in their heads, looked on half angry |
and half scurniul when their landsmen /
cousins suddenly took to the sea. Today |
the people of both countries have reali. |
zed that the immediate future OF both !
countries can only be assured by their |
mutual friendship; that it must be the
task Of their statesmen to carry out
the wishes Of the Sovereigns on both
Sides and the raBbrOfheNient between
England and Germany is not mo
| mentary impulse arising out Of a unique
occasion, but a great policy which
| huds its justification in the assurance
OF peace for the world, and which
has for its object the iurtherance
o civilization. Nothing Of higher ability
could be effected than this understand
! ing, which cannot but tend TO the
| strengthening OF the Triple Alliance
itself, so Lord Salisbury has said, a
fortunate thing for the world at large.
10 this best of all possible worlds that
expedient has always been the most
successful which fills up the gaps left by
| former generatioa S. II is some time since
an anti English.policy was likely to ind
| favor with the German peope; but the
thunder Of the cannon in the Transvaal
! called into being an extraordinary ex.
| citement in the German newspapers,
! indeed throughout the whole nation
| Then the Kaiser paid visit to England,
and manifested personally to Queen
Victoria in Windsor Castle his sympathy
with the English side When the vic
tories Of Lord Roberts destroyed all
hopes that the Beers would press srve
their independence the Kaiser sent his
| congratulations TO London thus acting
directly in opposition to the openly
expressed sympathjes ofthe greater part
Of his subjects. Finally, when the Anglo
German Agreement in Chinese matters
was settled, the door OF the Imperial
| Court was shut 10 the face of the aged
Kruger who was com ng 10 untold his
tile OF woe
TODAY there are lew who do not
gratefully recognize the effect Of this
policy OF the mperor, as It regards the
peculiar interests OF Germany His
wise and determined efforts to bring
about an Anglo German understanding
, have not in the slightest degree bin
I dered him in his policy of doing tile
, best for his people aud his country, nor
have they prevented him from increas
c ing the strength ofhls fleet. Il Germany
. intends 70 follow the line OF action she
4 has marked out for herself, she can nave