The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-15
Houston, TEXAS, sunday, February IS, 1908,
40 PAGES TODAY.
GERMAN JINeoEs ANSWERED,

It seems that German jlngoes have been
oritlcisng the government for permitting the
participation of the United States in the
Venezuelan affair as tngoes on this side
have criticised the Washington adminstra.
tion for not assuming a more warlike attl-
tude
A semi-othclal answer by Berlin says:
It s not a question Of The imaginary defects
Of Fixed immutable facts, ignoring what would
have created German-Americsn complication
in place OF the German-Venezuelan incident. Z
Many tendencies AZ home and abroad are work
ing precisely In this direction but quite without
success. The patriotic publishers who call for
treating this question according TO The Bismarck
ian method can rest assured that this method 10
being applied Carefully nursing the friendship
OF the United States is Bismarcdan tradition
as documents testify In his relations with the
United States He never wore cuirassier's boots
as Is now so often In demand, and in the Samoa
question he perhaps less exacting than his
present successor.
There is more assurance Of peace IN this
statement than in anything heretofore Ut
tered by the Germans since the beginning
OF the embroglio The fixed. lnmutabe
facts" are undoubtedly the Monroe doctrine
which the American people would not per
NIT a president to abate II he we're so in
clined The German government If not all
the German people. recognizes this condition
as unyielding and lmplacable, and realizes
that any infringement would have provoked
a war out of all proportion to the trihing
claims at stake.
This statement is different In tone from
what we have had reason to believe was
the prevailing German view, II it has beer
tho attitude Of the government from Tho
start and has been understood by the Wash
ington administration, there is no ground fol
complaint against our State department #
permitting the peaceful blockade How
ever, by the same evidence It is clear tina
the German navy department strained tn,
governments policy TO a perious degree II
approving the wanton bombardment by tn
German commander in Venezuela.
It is altogether possible that the Germa
cabinet has itself been enlightened on tn
state OF American feeling by the incident
and popular expressions arising from this a
fair The statement frankly recognizes tn
controlling force of American public opil
ion.
However that may be, this semi.oflci'
utteranoe is evidence OF a clearer unde
standing of the situation, Germany know
now II she did not know before, that II
Monroe doctrine Is proposition which Il
United States means to defend at all hazard
cad the iingoes Will not be allowed to ne
the government into war without eau
more provoking and more serious than Il
method OF collecting debt The Germ;
emperor understands, also, that Amerc,
colonization IS not to be accomplished wit
out a gigantic struggle with all AmerlC
and his ambition in this particular might
we'll be abandoned Surely he is bound
see that even If he should succeed in plai
Ing colony It would be set amid a contine
Of foes who would never desist tin they h
destroyed Z.
Altogether Il seems that the effect ,of {
little international Tuning has been to Gle
the atmosphere and bring the "immuta
facts" CT the American position into sharI
perspective.