Arizona republican., 1902-12-27
Kipllng, and the English Distrust or
 Germany.


 Hereafter, Rudyard Kipling will be nersona non grata in Germany. Were he a German subject his trial for "lese naieste" would immediately follow. Catching with his usual celerity and nrecision the dominant thought of his countrymen. MT. Kipling in poem or great strength reproaches the govern ment for entering into an alliance with Germany in the Venezuelan affair.
 The English people regard friendship with the United States as the cardinal feature of their foreign policy. They look with indifference upon the game played by Great Britain in interna- tionaI affairs, until the question or holding the friendship of America IS discussed; then they are quick to as- sert the national feeling. They took no interest whatever in the boundary dis pute with Venezuela. some years ago, until President Clevelands message made it clear that Lord Salisbury would have to submit the question to arbitra- ton or face the possibility of war With this country Such a belligerent note from any other great power would have beef answered at once, as one of the London papers pointed out, by the as- sembling of the British fleet But when it was seen that England's cor dial rela tions with the United States from all sections of the United King dom for Salisbury's withdrawal from his stubborn position. After holding out sufficiently long to save his face, Salisbury conceded practically evers point that Secretary Olney contended for. When the present difficulties with Venezuela arose, the English people were again indifferent, as before. The subject had no interest for them, and little space was accorded it in the Lon don papers.
 It was not until it became known that there was an understanding or alliance with Germany that the question took on an interesting phase, and then the uppermost topic was the attitude of the American government. The mild dis cusslon became quickly an uproar, however, when somebody suggested that the British government had been duped by Emperor William, whose deer. design was to weaken the ties between England and the United States. In all probability the German emperor is innocent of any such pur- pose, but the Balfour government will have difficulty in emerging with credit from the situation. The popular dis trust of Germany and dissatisfaction with the partnership in Venezuela, are well voiced by MT. Kipling. His poem was printed in the London Times on Monday of this week. As cabled it reads:
 The banked oars fell, an hundred
 strong,
 And backed and threshed and ground; But bitter was the rowers' song
 AS they brought the war boat round. They had no heart for the rally ana
 roar
 That makes the whaleback smoke When the great blades cleave and hold
 and leave
 AS one on the racing stroke. They sang. What reckoning do ye
 keep,
 And steer her by what star, If we come unscathed from the south
 ern deep
 To be wrecked on Baltic bar? Last night ye swore our voyage was
 done.
 But seaward still we go; And ye tell us Of a secret voyY
 Ye have made with an open foe. That we must lie off a lightless coast And haul and back and veer, And do the will of the breed that have
 wronged us most
 For a year and a year and a year. "There was never a shame in Chris
 tendie
 They laid not to our door. And Ee say we must take a winter sea And be safe with them once more Look south. the gale is scarce OCT
 past
 That stripped and laid us down When we stood forth, but they stood
 fast
 And prayed to see us drown. "The dead they mocked are scarcely
 cold,
 Our wounds are bloody yet: And ye tell us now that our strength Is
 sold
 To help them press for debt!