The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-31
GERMANY WAS EVER JUST
During Our War with Spain the Ger
Aan9Eovernment Preserved
Great Fairness.

sAs&t0AhrNfonduct OF Germany during
our war with Spain, while the press
with two or three exceptions, was anyA
thing. but friendly, 1,ahdARAlpe A4arge
k1hajbhtyJof1 sRel peepie wereahoaile 70
US on account of the nafhFaF sy91 pathy
fdEh AnialG bo&ef battling against Z
larger one, the course of the imperial
especially Of the foreign
I0f1ce, under Count Won Buelow. and
BafonEyqn, RdcAthpf4w Erites Andrew
D. White, iii CHAPTERS from My Diplo-
matte, Life" in, Century, MAS ALI ythat
could bS3desAedi Indeed, they went SO
far on one occasion as almostto alarm
hussf fThe American consul lat Hamburg
having notified me by telephone hat a
spanish vessel SUPPOSED Ito be loaded
With arms for use against us in Cuba,
was aPorg to leave thatport FASTENED
toithe foreign office and urged that Wig
orous steps be, takeni with the result
that the vessel, whichfih the meantime
had left Hamburg, was oyerhauled and
searched at the mouth Of the Elbe The
German government might easily have
pleadsdgi in answer TO my TeQuest, that
Athes Anaericap goverament had gener-
ally shown itself opposedgto any such
Interference With the shipments of
small arms to belligerents and had
contended that it was not obliged to
search vessels to find such contraband
of war, but that this duty was incum-
bent upon the belligerent nation con-
cerned. This evidence of the fairness
of Germany | took pains to make known,
and~in-mE address on the following
Fourth of July, at Leipsic, declared my
belief that the hostility OF the German
people and pressa ar large was only tenn
porary and that the old=sOod relations
rWCgldsbe restored. Knowing that my
speech two t4d BE Mide1y 1duotedI IN the
GermRn press, l took even more pains
to show the reasons why wexeould bide
our linn and trust to the msgnanmty
OF the sGaman beaAeA ole thlggI
then ard always Reminded my hearers
-namdy, fthat during our civil war,
whensdar rational existence was tremb-
ling fnK the balance, and our Foreign
friends Nese few, the German press and
people yerS steadily on our side.
AS the war with Spain progressed.
varioQss causes OF difficulty arose be-
tween derhany and the. United States,
but l f4l hound to:say that the German
g~overArnent continued to act toward US
with I4ics. The sensational press4in-
deed gdatipmed its. works on both sides
of the Atlantic. On our side it took
pains I'd SECURE and publish stories OF
insults BY thes German Admiral Died
erichs Id the American Admiral Dewey.
and t9 Develop various Legends regard
ing thfR two commanders. AS a mat
ter of ifsct, each Of the two admirals.
when thsir relations first began in Ma
Mia, was doubtless on his guard against
the otRag; but thisefeedag soonytelded
to diffel1nt sen4iments9- 5.+- 81 ~
The .iAeffahIy foolish p~tteranoess OF
various 9ndviduals spread by. sundry
AmeriGaA Papers were Heartily echoed
in the; German press, the most noted
amongf 4efk being AN. alleged after
dinner speech by an American officer
at q NewGofk club, and a congressional
speech aI which the creature who made
1t declarl that the United States. hav,
ing whip9ediSpam. oi!ebt no~(to whip.
GermaAyx' (Still the thinking men i'm
trusted the relations between the
two cotRtrfss labored on, though at
times th@e must have come to all of us
a sense If the divine inspiration Of
SchillegsE words, ~"AgaHHst~stIrfdftJ
even the gods fight in vain" -.~~