New-York tribune., 1902-11-09
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS.
LONDON.
MEANING OF THE VISIT OF THE GER
MAN EMPEROR.
ANOMALOUS CONDITION OF AFFAIRS AT
BERLIN-ENGIISH VIEWS OF PRESIDENT
PROSPECTS OF EDUCATION BILL

-PROSPECIS OF EDUCATION BILL.
Especial to The New-York Tribune bv French CaSisD
Copyright; 1902: BY The Tribune Assocatioul
London. Nov. s.-The German Emperor has
been received to-day English soil with naval
and military honors and at Sandringham with
royal cOrdiality. A British battIeship at the
More has greeted the Hohenzolleru with boom
ing guns. and the hotilla OF torpedo boat de-
stroyers has led the way into port, where every
ship was respIendent with rainbow colors. Adj
miral Markham has received him at Port VIC
toria. and Lord Roberts at ShorncIifIe. The
Mayor of Folkestone and the chairman Of the
Sandsate Council have presented addresses.
and the 1st Dragons have cheered Justify
for their honorary colonel At Sandring-
ham he has been affectionateIy greeted as the
chief guest at the Kings birthday party. and
ministers OF state have been invited talk
politics and diplomacy with him. and Kubehk
is kept in reserve to play for him. Every detail
has been carefully prearranged. and no honor
has been withheld. Whatsoever may be the
grievances of the English people against the
Chancellor and Germany. they have Just
| cause for resentment against the Emperor. who
has been consistent and useful friend since
the outbreak Of the Boer war, He has been
greeted as a friend we'll a sovereign. and
the family party Of which he will be the central
figure hardly fail to create good feeling be-
tween the two nations.
So capable and calculating sovereign as tbs
German Emperor must always be taken ssri-
ously. The English press pays him the comph-
ment Of assuming that he wants something.
There were protests from court and press three
years ago that il family party at Wind
sor. and that the Emperors visit had no polit-
! ical significance. but he conferred with Mr. Bal
four and Mr.. Chamberlain was singled out for
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dam there was a feeling OF confidence IN official
| circles that German intervention in the Boer
/ war out OF the question and il was not long
before an Anglo-German agreement was mads
/ respecting China. Some important. although
| temporary. results the sequels OF that FAM
| lily party Mr.. Chamberlain became for period
| an advocate OF something warmer and closer
than AngIo-German good feeling. and the diplo-
matte relations between the two governments
| were greatly improved.
| The present family party may also have a
/ more serious purpose than the celebration OF
| the Kings birthday or pheasant shooting. es-
peciaIIy when so many ministers are invited to
/ Sandringhan. Public conditions do not. how
/ ever. favor an alliance Of any sort between the
two countries in any quarter. A coalition either
I Ir, Fast Africa or respecting the Basdad rail-
! way or China would not be popular either in
1 England or Germany. Definite results are cor
4
cssios Some new scheme for embrOing Eng
land and Russia may be proposed. or the Ger
| man Emperor may be anxious to justify at
home his friendly attitude toward England dur
/ ing the Boer war by the production of adj
vantageous secret convention. and the visit of
| the King Of Portugal may be something more
/ than a fortuitous coincidence. The rumor
mongers sometimes make shrewd guesses-
| The domestic conditions In Germany
| anomalous. and the Chancellor would be we'll
pleased to have some triumph in foreign affairs
to divert public attention from the tariff
| troversy The Agrarians are unable to muster
| the quorum requisite for orderly legislation.
and the tariff bill may be dropped any day.
| Neither they nor the ChanceIlor's supporters
wish to take the responsibility of killing it. and
a compromise seems impractieable. The Agrari-
| ans know that they will relax their grip upon
| the agricultural classes if they consent to
/ final compromise. and the Chancellor is warned
| that an election ordered during period OF COM
| merciaI depression would involve the return OF
| a more unmanageable Reichstag. with enor-
nous increase OF the Socialist vote. To the po-
| litical are added diplomatic embarrassments- A
series Of important reciprocity treaties needs to
| be renewed next year in the interest Of manu-
fac,urers and merchants The Chancellor seems
TO have lost control Of the political situation at
II
Meanwhile the signs of industrial revival have
/ disappeared. Large masses of the population
are unemployed; every industry is overstOcked
| with plant: domestic trade is stagnant. and
| foreign commerce Improbable.
English comment on the complexities OF Amer
/ lean affairs has been reduced to generaHzations
| of tremendous simplicity by the personal ascent
| ancy Of President Roosevelt The weekly re-
views repeat the judgment Of the daily press
that the President has delivered the Republican
| party from defeat and rendered his nomination
and election inevitable. since the American peo-
;ke trust him and will not relax their grip on
rim He is credited with having saved the coun-
| try his party and even the Republican ma
/ chine and one reviewer. commenting upon the
| unsatisfactory condition OF New York society
/ finds in the Presidents manly and successful
/ career the evidence of the saving salt for the
/ classes possessing abundant wealth and leisure.
These English tributes to the President must
be accounted disinterested. for his stanch Amer
| icanism is conceded to be the secret Of his in
iuence. mo advantage to England is expected
from his continuance in the strOnghoIds OF
power. Even the prospect OF tariff revision by a
commission OF otherwise does not excite over
sanguine hopes. The prOtracted period of un.
certainty and SPECULATION before the changer
can be effected is recognized as a complete Of
set to any advantages which may be derived
from the reduction of duties on British manu-
factures.
Parliament Is making steady progress with
the Education BILL which. with the aid OF
the drastic enforcement Of closure will be
passed before Christmas. Mr.. Balfour is in turn
conciIiatory and infexible. The acceptance Of an
amendment securing 20 the Iaftv OF the Church