The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-13
GERMANY, ENGLAND AND AMER

Count yon Buelow's public attack upon MT. Chamberlain is natural con- sequence of MT Chamberlain's s equally public attach upon the conduct ot the German army in the war with france'
 These mutual recriminations should be avoided, however, by serious statesmen. The tone of the English press betrays l resentment quite as bitter as that man.
 ifested by the German press in the nrst instance and the result must be hlgh-
 ly injurious to all hopes of good feeling
 between the two countries. There has
 been ample evidence that the govern
 ments-so far, at least, as they are rep
 resented by the sovereigns-do not wish to quarrel. The king of England ana
 the German emperor are uncle anu
 nephew; and if they have not always
 been on the best of terms, recent faml-
 ly events have brought them nearer to-
 gether, The conduct of each has been
 marked bv great cordiality and sym
 pathy toward the other, and the ln-
 creasing irritation between their sup
 iects and countrymen must De marked
 by them with dismay. But the tlme IS
 past when dynastic alliances can have
 much influence upon the course Of his
 tory. Public opinion, as reflected in
 parliament, dictates the attitude or
 Great Britain; nor, despite the widely
 differing conditions is it pOWerless III
 Germany The Germans have their
 ideas of liberty and if they leave thelr
 rlller a free hand it is because he repre-
 sents in the main the national senti-
 ments and aims. If passionate desire for war should arise among his people
 he could do little to balk it.
 That war should come from the pres ent episode is not in the least likely.
 Yet deep-rooted and augmenting na- tional hatreds make war easy. There
 are good reasons in policy why Great
 Critain and Germany should be friends; and there are equally good reasons why this friendship should be shared by the United States. The feud between Ger
 man and Slav. or Saxon and Latin, should it ever come, it would be natural for the great TeutOnic races to act to- gether The feud between Teuton and
 Slay is quite as irreconcilable as any other race feud, as the conditions in
 Prussian Poland and in the Austro- Hungarian empire plainly show. Ger many may make alliances With Russia, indeed; it may even eXtinguish for the time the snoldering animosity of France; but these are artificial rather than natural arrangements, and no
 close observer of the course of human affairs would wish to guarantee their permanency. But q policy of antaEo- nism among the three nations of Teu- tonic stock must make cordial co-opera tion more and more difficult It tS something new in Europe when states men publicly call statesmen of other nations names. Unfortunately it is not new in this country A freedom of de- bate has been permitted in congress 1 which for many years kept alive old preiudices against Great Britain and | caused not unnatural resentment among Enelishmen. The remarks of senators and representatives during the height of the agitation in favor of Irish l home rule, for example, might easily have led to war but for the English idea that these were among the exigen- cies of a political situation depending
 upon the Irish vote. Had they come from Germans and Frenchmen oblivion would have been less easy. Now that