The sun., 1908-05-17
KAISER RAFTLES THE SABRE
GElRxf1aNR aAsPY OYER MOROCCO
EAND A@ACEDONIA.

Cologne Gazette" warns Ensland and
France That PasenesB Near rts AmIt
no neiisnes on Arbitration Sharp
I mecrudescencc OF tho yellow scare.
Special Gable ps,psieh 70 TEE sus.
4 LONDON. May 16.--When the Kaiser rattles
tI,d sabre the whole world Immediately pays
attention. He has several ways OF doing
Il, Sometimes IL 10 by sending q semi"
private despatch to foreign ruler. 40 IN the
case Of the KrIger telegram. Again. it
may be an ominous phrase in a speech Oh
one OF his Journeys. as at Tangier on the eve
Of the Moroccan crisis. His latest method
10 to uso tho columns OF the newspapers for
the purpose. ,..,.. -. ....
& The Cologne Gaxetts, which everybody
Recognizes as semi-official organ, devoted
sssterday the whole OF it's first page 70 an
article warning all and sundry that II would
be better not to assume that Germanys
policy is one OF peace at any price. 1t Is
evident throughout the article that the
cause of the writer's irritation is not con-
nscted with Gernany's direct interests, but
hrs reference to such affairs az the Mo-
rcccan and Macedonian questions.
II Is evident that Germany dignity has
been greatly afYronted by the tendency to
ixnore German suscepibilities. The writer
0vE
Among Germans resident abroad the
unanimous opinion prevails that Germany
wishes to keep peace in all circumstances
and that other nations may do as they please
because she will tolerate anything. 1t 10
sat tAak <,np y,rnkn uvn ho.
casise the nation does not want II and that
" the sabre ia occasionally ratified 1t Ia only
thea4rioal manouvre. The treatment Of
the Moroccan question and the attitude Of
Germany on the Macedonian question are
cited a. evidence that Germany Is inspired
hy the same idea as Prussia was fifty years
AGO. chat the strong gives way courageously.
II would otherwise be impossible for one
loudly 10 assure a foreign sovereign OF re-
eurity and Of his Independence refer
ence TO the Kaiser's speech at Tangier-
~only afterward to fold ones arms and
watch that sovereign robbed OF his inde-
pcndence piecemeal.
r @To maintain peace with honor must be
the guiding principle Of nation as we'll
a. Of its diplomacy. But there 10 q limit
70 be, reached. Continual weakness and
constant giving way injure the honor OF
the empire. encourage the arrogance OF our
se1emies and directly produce the peril
which it 10 desired TO avoid. Out In tho
world people should understand that our
patience too has its limits. Our father
land keeps heavily armed primarily for
defence. but II also carries a sharp sword
as ~ side. the necessity to draw which
becomes more remote the more foreigners
are convinced that we are ready to resort
to that extreme II our honor 10 injured"
The true significance of this kind OF talk
b OF course speculative. It is one Of the
Kaiser moves. In the existing diplomatic
situation the commercial world takes It
seriously, for the Gazeue's article had a
heavy and depressing influence upon yes
terdays Berlin bourse. The Emperor Will
ism 10 angry and France and England are
warned to 60 slow, Whether they will
heed the warning remains to be seen.
Germany's indifference In the matter OF
the negotiations for al arbitration treaty
with the United States arouses much COM
mept in England. The Spectator remarks
that it can mean only that Germany objects
to arbitration ON principle. holding that a
nation's 's-interests are above the decisions
Of courts 4She is quite entitled says tho
Speltator, 'to take this view, though we
regret II. But the lesson for Britain is
clearer than ever. Although we trust that
Anglo German peace may never be dis
turbed We must recognize that the inter-
national machinery for settling disputes
must rot be reckoned on In any way and
that II ever we are forced into q serious
dispute with Germany we shall have to look
to naval strength az the one and only ar
bitrament."
s The unrest OF Asia Is a subject that 10
arousing the gravest apprehension in the
aninds OF all the responsible statesmen Of
Europe. No day passes without brin aging
renewed evidence OF it among all the older
races from the Bosporus to Pekin. It
10 tie most alarming problem which faces
the British Government in its own do
nlinions. but il is by no means confined
10, India The, Spectator sucoinctly sum-
rnarizes the situation in an ominous article
In which n says THE western peoples
viii soon be compelled to res Use their ideas
n the eastern world, For centuries past
Nsy have thought of Asia as q continent
whose Inhabitants are lost in apathetio
quietude. Now, however. one rarely sees
telegram from any country in Asia which
does not record disturbance. sometimes
ri the most dangerous kind The rise Of
Japan. which within the last century was
supposed to be voluntarily isolated from
lla1lkind. has shattered the old conception
sof lAsia and has restarted the idea Of the
yellow peril which was thought to have
been extinguished with the extinction Of
the TAtar ascendenoy in Russia.
There In supposed to be a revolution
pending in Far Cathay, which Pushkin
once described as lying in Its dotaGe. The
despat0hes every day record aotne new
symptom Of the unrest which is prevailing
in India. affecting not her solaiery, 40 In
The mutiny, but the whole population in
tkeiE uncountable millions. In fndo-China
he French officials are haunted by the
Eosslbility Of vast popular insurrection
k8banistan's wari ike clans are evidently
poadering upon the possibility OF q new
dsscent into. the southern pepinsnle and
maS yst compel their nominal sovereign
cltlqf 10 lot them loose or TO take the lead
10 war TO which the dlscontented IN India
are said. on good authority. to be per-
pStsially melting him. :
z The fact IN often disputed. but there
undouh4edly 10 comfy Of Asia which