New-York tribune., 1903-05-10

visits which were In most cases uninvlteo, as
he was not popular in those days he at first
incurred a good deal of criticism, both at home
and abroad. 1t was asserted that he was 1hahi
Testing too great anxiety to fiaunt his newly
acquired dignities at those foreign courts where
he had formerly been treated with comparative
indifference, and that he spent more OF his time
travelling abroad than he did in his own domlh-
ions But his subjects have since had occasion
to congratulate themselves on this policy Wnlch
he adopted For it was by means of his per
sonaI intercourse with Leo XIII that ne man
aged to bring to an end that war between his
government and the Church of Rome that had
been waged with intense bitterness on both
sides throughout a period of some fifteen years
or more impairing the unity of the empire, as
well as the loyalty of the German Catholics 10
the crown. and rendering parliamentary govern
ment difficult owing to the uncompromising at
titude of the powerful Catholic party in the
Reichstag. 1t is entirely through the kaisers
two or three visits to COnstantinOple and to the
friendship which he formed there with the Sui
tan that Germany has succeeded in obtaining
so powerful foothold in Turkey, where at the
present moment she is more favored by the Sub
lime Porte than any other foreign country. Ger
man influence being indeed predominant at
Constantinople and Emperor Williams wishes
something very much akin to law to the Pa
dshah, and again i is by means OF his two
visits paid to King Christian of Copenhagen
that the Kaiser has managed TO convert Den
mark from an unfriendly into friendly power,
and to efface from the hearts of its people the
cruel memories of the war of 1864
So convinced is Emperor William, indeed, of
the efficacy of these visits of his to foreign
rulers and of the benefits derived by Germany
from the establishment of personal Intercourse
hgT /
he can arrange to pay a state visit to the Presi-
dent of the French Republic at Paris he will
accomplish thereby more toward reconclIla-
ton between France and Germany than has been
achieved by all the cIeVeTest of statesmen ana
dfplomatists in the three-and- thirty years that
have elapsed since the war of 1870 Per
haps he is right For he can, when he wishes,
he exceedingly winning. and his character is
precisely the one calculated to interest and
please the French more than that of any other
monarch of Europe. During the last week the
Kaiser has once more been at Rome Stren8t then.
ing the bonds of the Triple Alliance and en-
deavoring to obtain for Germany from the Pope
the titular DrOtectOrate of all Roman CdthotIc
missions and interests in the Orient. hlng nc
tor Emmanuel who has already visited St
Petersburg and Berlin since his accession, VIII
be within the next few weeks Doth III
Paris and in England while Emperor NlchOIaS'
after calling upon the late Queen victoria
Emperor Francis Joseph the Kaiser, the hlnS
of Denmark and the President of the French Re
public is to pay his respects to King Victor EN-
manuel and Leo XIII at Rome in September:
The question now arises as to whether the
foreign relations of the United States would not
be benefited by personal intercourse between
the President and the various rulers of Europe.
Both Emperor William and King Leopold oil
Belgium have frequently discussed the probd-
bility of their paying visit to the United Sta,eS
and should the Kaiser come the laws of inter
national courtesy would require that the Presl-
dent should return the compliment by an Oth-
cial visit to Berlin within given period. Ihe
United States as of the great powers of the
modern world, represented abroad by full hedged
ambassadors, and at great state functions IN
Europe such cOronatlOns, by special en-
ba ssies, cannot afford to be remiSS in any of
these rules governing the intercourse between
the principal nations of the universe, and now
adays. with the fast steamers, the cable services
and wireless teegraphy, no constitutional OBJ
stacles remain to prevent President Roosevelt
from returning at Paris the visit, which, ac-
cOrding to some cable dispatches President
Loubet is to pay to this country next year in
connection with the international exhibition at
st. Louis. EA-AIIACdE--