Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-24
AS TO KA|SER'S VISIT
British Press Divided Con-
corning It's Significance.
MAY CONCEAL DANGER
REMARKABLE SERMON BY THE
BISHOP OF RIPoN.
English Country Police Wage War on
mobilists-London News
and Gossip.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
LONDON, November H. 1902.
The British press is hopelessly divided on
the subject of the German emperor's visit.
Many papers declare that it is merely the
friendly visit of a relative to King Edward,
and has no Interior motive while others
see in the Kaiser's coming new concessions
by this country to- Germany. They remem-
Der the three years SANDER campaign of
the Germans during the Boer war, and
long for ministers strong-minded enough to
withstand the Establishments of the concili-
atory kaiser.
Lord Salisbury, it is said, recognized the
danger, and, when he could, avoided it by
fight. The English cannot forget how on a
memorable occasion some years back the
emperor, to use a homely phrase, hum
plugged Mr.. Chamberlain into the belief
that Germany and England had formed a
strict alliance would do so, and how
when the colonial secretary indscreeuy
proclaimed this supposed good news. the
German premier promptly disclaimed it.
This rebuff caused extreme mortifica ton
in England. What will happen now? 1t
is clear that the emperor's visit to San
dringham is not meant to end with the
shooting of few score of pheasants.
Views in Parliamentary Circles.
In parliamentary circles less heed is paid
to the kaiser's visit than is commonly sup
posed. The notion that the German en-
peror is here formally to complete the deal
about Delagoa bay does not meet with
credence in most generally well-informad
circles. The understanding between Eng
land and Germany on that subject dates
from before the war In effect, the treaty
simply gives England the right of pre-emp-
ton should Portugal desire to dispose of
her rights in that region. Had it been pCS-
sible to compel Portugal to sell the treaty
would nave come into operation at The be
ginning of the war, for the obvious reason
mat with Delagoa bay in Great Britain s
possession the war would have been short
ered considera bly,
The keeneSt students of foreign notifies in
the house of commons are inclined to think
that the kaiser's visit is chiefly intended to
remove the suspicion and unfriendliness
which have been growing between the two
countries in the last two or three years
In face of this mornings news from
emma that Germany has made secret ar
rangement with China for advantages in
| the Yangtse valley, 1t is interesting to re-
call the fact that Lord Rosebery is never
tired of insisting, privately if not publicly,
that Lord Salisbury and his colleagues have
always proved too pliable with German Dip
| lomatists. The graceful concession" Of
Heligoland is a case in point.
The British are perfectly willing to be
friends with the Germans if the latter do
not try to overreach their cousins here, but
they are naturally somewhat suspicious Of
them. Mr.. Balfour at the lord mayors
banquet preached peace and predicted it as
| we'll 1t is heartily desired here and Brit
Germany to preserve peace If a possible
way be shown.
A Significant Sermon.
One of the most interesting features Of
the royal visit thus far is the sermon which
the bishop of Ripon preached before the
uncle and nephew on Sunday at Sandring-
ham. This also breathed peace and friend
ship The bishop said, in part:
This is a day on which the monarch Of
kindred people has come not a sovereign,
| but as a kinsman and a friend, to share the
joys, as awhile ago he shared the sorrows
of the English people. Call it a dream that
one day these distinctions will disappear,
and yet it is well that we should dream
nobly. Facts seem to point to the POSSIBLE
ity of the realization of that dream. Ma
ture may have differentiated races by one
part of her processes, but during the last
5000 years she seems to have blended them
The ninety one hundred nations of the
time of Herodotus have diminished, and it
is calculated that in hundred years the
two three hundred tongues of the earth
will have sunk to thirty or forty and the
nationalities to twenty.
The western civilization and the western
| races are growing, wnlle the oriental peo-
pies stand still. 1t is calculated that with
! in a century the western population will
well nigh double the eastern, and however
much Germany and England may be divided
by the German ocean the race blended by
both peoples goes on growing across the
Atlantic where Germans and English are
becoming one nationality
This latter statement is the expression of
a fact that has been slowly fiItering itself
| into the minds of the British people. that
American nationality is a separate entity.
| 1t Is neither British nor German nor any
thing else blrt American. IT has
| ments and America has the power of as
similating all kinds of people, but all turn
| into Americans in way that does not
seem within the power of any other coun-
| try to accomplish
King of PortugaPs Visit
An emperor present, of course, overshad-
ows a king absent, and so with the Kaiser
Wilhelm within our borders we hear little
at the moment of the King of Portugars
| approaching visit. Yet it must prove to be
one of extreme interest. The king, as an
Individual is unique parsonage One
| might call him the William Tell of Portu-
gal. AS a shot he is one of the very best
coins held between the fingers of some shiv-
ering courtier. In Portugal he dispenses
with police supervision. No one wants his
life. There are no industrial troubles to
give birth to plots for the simple reason
that there are practically no industries
His people, somehow, procure enough to
enable them to ''laze" along If life, and ask
for no more. Abroad, however, it is diff
ferent.
His majesty is then insured, and the in
surance companies take good care that he
is surrounded by detectives, who see every
thing, but are themselves never SEEN In
the case of the kaiser he has his own de-
tectives Scotland Yard has it's, the rail-
way companies have theirs, but even with
this regiment of detectives, numerically
stronger than the LIST Ora goons, whom his
majesty reviewed when he came, the insur-
ance companies are not content, and SO
send men of their own on duty.
Police War on Automobiles.
The police in this country wage unceasing
war against automobilists, just as 1 see by
the papers they are doing In some parts of
America. Motors have increased immensely
of late and frequent arrests are made.
have friend who, when he first got his
| motor. declared that the twelve-miles-an-
hour legal time limit was good enough for
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