Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-31
With DisappoaranCs Of Old Peril British
Nay Renew Tsutonic Ties
GERMAN SOCIALISTS ARE RESTLESS
Younger Element Desires 10 Change
Party Program and Take Part
in the Active Affairs
of Nation.

friction between France ana GeTrndHN |
means that Great Britain is once again |
climbing down on the side of her old time
ally Germany and planning to line mp
against her old time enemy, France. Such
a proposition would in itself appear to spell
disloyalty to the spirit of the entente cor
dale between Great Britain and France.
and 1t is doubtful whether the people of
England would be willing to abandon the
idea of an attachment with their new-found
friends the French, except under the gra-
vest Of circumstances.
Probably the truth of the matter is found
I'm the idea that nations well as in
dividuals are self-centered II not selfish.
When it comes to final analysis Great
Britain is not for France. for Germany or
for any other nation: but first, last and all
the time for Great Britain. 1t would appear
as though the recent antagonism between
England and Germany has been economic
rather than political. Formerly Russia was
Great Brtain's great rival The war be-
tween Russia and Japan, resulting in the
destruction of the world prestige of Russia,
II not the ending of the Russian govern
ment as at present constituted, has re-
moved from the Englshman his greatest
apprehension--danger to India Russia's
ambitions for an outlet to the unfrozen seas
through the Golden Horn to the Mediter-
ranean. through the Persian gulf to the In
dian ocean, along the line of the Siberian
railway TO Port Arthur-these have been
the things which have kept the British
statesmen awake nights. The Russian peril
removed. Germany apparently became Eng
lands greatest economic rival for the trade
of the world and it's desire for the acquisi-
tion of more colonial lands appeared to
clash at times with Great Britain's policies
oin Duf
hassador, to london uttered a great truth
q tps ntbaE eye aiRfse a hapgaet i;,s IsoRdep-.
when IL said ttst there. had nexez<hsas<s
great war between the German and the
British peoples and that he hoped that
there mover would he serious difference OF
opinion between the two nations.
Germans Quick TO Respond.
Germans have been quick to see that the
now liberal ministry I'm England affords
them the best possible hope of re-establish-
ing cordial and friendly relations between
the two nations. II would probably be un-
just to assert that the Balfour government
countcnanccd the attacks of the lingo Eng
lish press upon the kaiser and his people.
yet it is believed here that in its desperate
cinging to official life unsatisfactory for
egn relations with some nation were not
unwelcomc In Great Britain, as in other
is to stand by the home government.
Whether Mr.. Balfour has ever possessed
any feeling on this subject. whether he has
been disposed TO use this well known fact
I'm international politics. he proba bly, alone
can answer.
Campbell Zimmerman is under such
temptation. Moreover. the whole attitude of
his party since the Boer war has been In
opposition to the most pronounced of inn
pcrialistic methods Tho presence I'm the
new cabinet OF James Bryce would alone
reassure Germany, for IT is only a few
months since he published an admirable
letter OF protest against a senseless anti
German campaign for which the military
and the naval jingoes were largely respon-
sible. Evidently the Germans do not in
tend to lose a minute in beginning the work
of pacihcation. The recent meeting of the
Berlin Chamber of Commerce, which re-
suited in the fricndlicst resolutions on the
subject of Anglo German relations, was ar
echo of a similar gathering to promote unity
recently held in London, with Lord AveburS
in the chair.
The kaiser has Just sent To Lord Avebury
who presided over the meeting in the Cax
ton hall in Westminster, his sinceres
thanks to all who share Lord Avebury';
feelings OF friendship and good will, and II
tue helCnsldB the references OF one OF tn'
principal members of the center party u
England deserves notice by reason of tn,
sentiment expressed, and of the reception
accorded to 1t by the house.
Socialists are Uneasy.
Here in Germany. the headquarters Of in
teruational socialism, recent events in a.,
United States, in Great Britain and in Rus
STA, perhaps the three leading nations o
the globe in point of numbers and exten
OF territory, are being closely examined b.
trained observers for the purpose of ascer
tanning whether the time has not come 10
a change in the program OF the so-calc
''irreconcilables."
The theory OF the younger socialists /
that the socialist party has been too ex
elusive in the past and that II IL is to con
tinue in the field il must be made NOR
practical and IT must be willing to utiliz
the forces which appear TO be making tn
great economic changes throughout tn
world. The younger generation OF socialist
openly accuse Bebel, Paul Singer, DR.. Aron
and Herr Won Vollmar of failing TO secur
one single substantial thins in the way O
reform. They assert that the changes goin
on in Russia, I'm England and the Unite
States would have come about just the sam
n there had been no Lasalle. no Bebel, II
Karl Marx The claim is made that III
social democratic party OF Germany, for in
stance. should be made more of a demo
cratic party. less of socialistic organizs
tion. 1t is asserted that all of the largo
used by the socialists TO discriminat
whether a man is a trade unionist with 81
cialistc leanings or an out-and-out socia
list is the height OF nonsense and that tn
entire movement is to be populsrized II IL
To survive as a force i'm Christendom.