Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-11

persion on the army should have any
effect in changing their policy. II this
reputation is to be an excuse for fore
ing upon us different attitude in re-
gard to the. war in South Africa, or a
pretext for bringing about unfriendly
relations between our people and peo-
pie towards whom We have never stood
in hostility and to whom we are bound
by weight interests, l wish to leave it
beyond doubt that will have nothing
10 do with anything of the kind. We
cannot let the din Of our foreign policy
be prescribed for us by speeches, reso-
lutions or popular meetings. That
policy can only be determined by the
real and permanent interests of the
country and that interests requires us,
while fully safeguarding our independ-
ence. dignity and honor, TO cultivate
peaceful and friendly relations with
Great Britain.
The chancellor expressed his apprO-
val of the recent speech made by
Prince Won Wolff Metternich, the Ger
man ambassador to Great Britain at
Hamburg. advocating mere cordial re-
lations withGreat Britain and conclud-
ed with expressing his regret that the
maintenance of friendly relations with
Great Britain had not been rendered
easier by the Chamberlain incident and
hoped that in the future they would be
spared such episodes, which did not
continue to the preservation of peace in
the world.
Count Won Buelow also expressed re-
greet for some sighting remarks made
by Herr Liebermann concerning the in
ternal affairs of Austria.
During the course of a conversation
in the lobby after the adjournment of
the Reichstag, Herr Sonnerberg said
he had deliberately exposed himself to
be called to order, wishing that the
real temper of the people might at last
be voiced in its proper place"
The impression is gathering force
among the supporters of the tariff bill
in the Reichstag and amounting almost
TO certainty, that the bill cannot be
passed in its present form. even if the
grain duties be stricken out and that
The government may have to drop the
measure altogether, although this. of
course, would only be dona after the
long sequestration of the bill with the
committee, where it now rests.
London. Jan. 11.-Count Won BuelOw's
second speech has quite failed to ap-
pease the English press. The Times
puts the matter most strongly and says
with reference to the speeches of Her.
rem Leibermann and Sonnenburg:
Seldom, if ever, has a friendly ma
lion been so grossly insulted in for
eign parliament, and never within our
memory has insult met with such
mild rebuke from the representative of
a friendly power with whom he pro-
fesses to desire the maintenance of
good relations, as Count Won Buelow
thought sufficient to inf1ict on Herr
Won Sonnenburg.
Even brgands and thieves may know
how to die. What we have a right to
expect from the minister of a friendly
state is the definite Reputation of the
calumnies uttered within his hearing.
With regard, not to the British soldiers
dead, but to those who arc living, we
must state frankly and emphatically that
the limit of British patience will be over
stepped if Count Won Bue'ow imagines
he can court British friendship. and at
the same time use the Kings uniform in
which our kinsmen are fighting hone rably'
in South Africa in order to wipe out his
parliamentary feet on it,"