The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-26
cHAMBERLAIN's LETTER IN.
cREAsEs THEIR ANGER.
HE MAKES NO RETRACTION
Secretary Hays New York Speech
Meets With Favorable Ger
man Comment.

Berlin, NOV. E3.-Germany cOuLluueS
to ring with protests against the refer
ences which Mr.. Chamberlain, British
colonial secretary, made to the Ger
man army in his speech at Edinburgh.
Meetings are being held every day and
there is no sign of abatement OF the
agitation. The Pastors society of
Gladbach is circulating a protest
which has already received the sigma
lures of $50 pastors. The Wurtemberg
Veterans society has issued a warn
ing against attaching too great i'm
portance to one mans u~tterances.
The letter from Mr.. Chamberlain's
secretary is pronounced here to be
quite unsatisfactory, for, as the pa
pers note, Mr.. Chamberlain takes
nothing back. The press generally
regards the letter as another insult
and reject the assumption that the
anti British movement is artificial. On
this latter point the Cologne Volks
Zeitung asserts that the movement is
as spontaneous as it is possible to
imagine, adding that the government
has tried by every means to suppress
it, but has failed in the effort. Other
papers describe the movement as be-
ing the most remarkable of it's kind
ever witnessed. Liberal organs like
the Tageblatt and Vossische Zeitung,
try to prove that the movement is di-
rected exclusively against Mr.. Cham
berlain and not against Great Britain,
but the Frankfurter Zeitung admits
infamed in an unmistakable ann
against Great Britain. The paper as
serts hat it was unstatesmanlike on
the part of Mr.. Chamberlain to give
fresh fuel to this feeling and says Mr..
Chamberlain was not wise in reassert-
ing his error. Nevertheless, the
Frankfurter Zeitung admits that part
of the cause of this friction is to be
found on German soil. 1t says that
the movement here expresses German
want of confidence in the management
of Germany's foreign policy, which is
looked upon as being lacking in stead
mess and principle and as acting by
fits and starts. The paper last quot
ed says that if the government had
rightly guaged the movement at the
start it could have forestalled it by
timely utterances. Nevertheless, the
paper concludes that too much noise
has been made in Germany over the
Chamberlain matter.
Secretary Hays speech at the ban
quet of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, Tuesday last, has raised a
lively discussion of German-American
relations. The Kreus Zeitung sees
therein proof that Washington does
not intend to be liberal in drawing
up commercial treaties with European
states and that it is not willing to
concede the same duties as other con
tracing states. The same paper says
that since Secretary Hay holds fast to
the DINGHY tariff other countries can
only answer by the imposition of sim
liar duties.
Assurances given by DIR. Won Hol-
lenben, German ambassador at Wash
ington to President Roosevelt regard
ing the attitude of Emperor William
and the German people towards the
United States have been warmly re-
ceived here. All papers express hope
that there will be improvement in the
relations between Germany and the
United States through this clearing
of the atmosphere. The Berliner
Zeitung calls DR.. Won Hollenben's as
nan The paper admits that the
Pan-Germans advocate foreign con
quests in a ann which necessarily
caused %veXation abroad. 1t shows
from the Pan-German associations
printed matter that the Pan-Germans
wanted to Chilli, Argentina,
South Brazil, the West Indian Islands,
N%orthlands, turkey, etc., and goes on
to show that the German Fleet society
which enjoys high government pro-
lection, follows similar ideas. 1t
quotes the following from a recent
article published in the -society's or
gan: Whether we succeed in win.
ming back to Germanism at least part
of the German emgrants, particularly
those in South America, and possibly
in Queensland and South Africa, de-
ponds chiefly upon the degree in
which we expand as a power during
the coming century"
The Berliner Zeitung asks: What
does this mean, but that when our
navy is strong enough we shall begin
war Of conquest in all lands where