The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-15
THE CONDITION or HOLLAND.
People Dissatisfied With Queen Will helmina, Fond of the Queen Mother
 and Distrust Kaiser Wilhelm.

People Dissatisfied With Queen Wil-
 helmfna, Fond of the Queen Mother and Distrust Kaiser Wilhelm.
 Five years ago Queen Wilhelmirla was crowned at Amsterdam amid fer went demonstrations of a popular en- lthusiasm astounding to those who un- ltil then had regarded the Dutch as the most reserved and phlegmatio among
 nations. The golden haired daughter
 given to the King in his old age, like the princess in a fairy tale, fired the IdulIest imagination For was not the tchild the sole decendant of the great lhero who had holden the power and glory of Spain So cheap and who sleeps in his mausoleum of black marble in the dim old cathedral of iBeft? To turn for q moment to the past is to comprehend the deep seated vitality of Dutch patriotism. It was IA but natural that the last bud of the tree of Orange should be thus be- loved, and that her subjects should draw fond parallels between her situa- Etion and that of the great Queen Elm press whose magnificent jubilee all the.
 world had watched in 1887.
 A certain similarity of circumstances
 was hailed as an suspicious omen. The Esullen mutterings of the Socialists were
 drowned in the shouts of the loyal multitude. Even the dark and sin-
 lister warning of the assassination of the Empress of Austria was not per .mitted to check the universal rejoic- .ings. At that time England was re-
 garded by Holland with something all
 most approching affection. The lan-
 guage was fashionable. and at Court
 largely replaced French, while the
 English style of living and even Eng
 fish modes of dress were constantly
 adopted. Then came the South Afri-
 can War and Volte-face in public opin-
 ion. It is both unnecessary and unin-
 teresting to recall the vituperations of
 the Dutch press, striving by shrill de nunciation to atone for it's utter in
 significance, or the incivilities and even insults with which travellers were con
 tinually met t.#It was reasonable that the Dutch should side with the Boers,
 but they would have been well advised to have done so in a less rancorous spirit of partisnship. They are now awakening to the fact, for the eompar- ative absence of English tourists has affected the prosperity of the hotel keepers, and certain lucrative trades have materially suffered. War fever has now dWindled down to a concen- trated hatred of MT Chamberlain, based on & trembling certainty that protection in England would spell ruin for many Dutch farmer by increasing the cost of dairy produce in England and Scotland.
 The land of fat green fields and gray waters is not as self-satisf1ed as was although suppressed so promptly had serious causes, and marked effect. The last observant traveller, whether he comes in contact with the Court officials or with the man in the street, will perceive that Queen Wilhelmina is no longer tthe idol of her people. Her if never as violently un- popular as was represented by some English correspondents, is not regarded as an unqualified success. Prince Hen drik's pronounced dislike for the title of prince consort is variously inter- preted, for by his own express desire he is now styled instead Prince of the Netherlands. He is somewhat unfor- tunate in not possessing the winning so valuable in his difficult po- sition, and although his indifference to ceremony comments him to his i'm mediate associates, he is still a stranger in a land very definately ad- to anything German.
 When the royal pair recently opened Parliament at The Hague even the ap- pearance of the golden coach, which was a national coronation gift, did not insure for the Queen more than a tepid welcome, The fact that some of the spectators of pretty miniature pag- ant did not even lift their hats as the Queen passed struck foreigners as sig nificant.. To those who had not seen Queen Wflhelmina since her dangerous Illness, there was something pathetic in the, pale, changed face, in sornbre