Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-17
THE KAISER AND PEACE
Semi-OfficiaI Organ Issues a
Warning Note.
DIGNITY OF THE NATION
Must Be Maintained With Sword at
It's Side.
BRITISH PRESS COMMENT
German Indifference to Arbitration
DIGNITY OF THE NATION
.sH PRESS COMMENT
BRITISH
German Indifference to Arbitration
With United States-Western
Views of Asia Need Revision.
Speciol Cahlegram to The Star.

Special Cahlegram to The Star
LONDON. MAY I6-The Cologne Ga
zatte which everybody recognizes as
semi-official organ, yesterday devoted the
whole of its first page 10 an article warn
ing all and sundry that it would be net
ter not to assume that Germany poilc9
is one of peace at any price IL Is
evident throughout the article that the
cause of the writer's irritation Is not con-
nected with Germany's direct interests
bat with such affairs assthe Moroccan ana
Macedonian questions. 1t is evident that
German dignity has been sravely at
fronted by the tendency to ignore Ger
man susceptfbilities. The writer says:
among Germans resident abroad the
unanimous opinion prevails that Germany
wishes to keep the peace in all circum-
stances, and that other nations may do
as they please. because she will toler-
ate anything. 1t is said that Germany
cannot make war. because the nation does
not want IL. and that II the Sdber is oc-
casionally ratified ii is only a theatrical
maneuver
The treatment of the Morocco ques-
ton and the attitude of Germany is. in
spired by the same idea as Prussia was
fifty years ago. that the strong gives
way courageously- 1t would otherwise
he impossible for one loudly to assure
independence" "a reference to the kali
ser's speech at TangierS,. only after
ward to fold ones arms and watch
that sovereign robbed of his independence
piecemeal
To Maintain Peace With Honor.
To maintain peace with honor
must be the guiding principle of
a nation as we'll as of its diplomacy.
But there is a limit to be reached. Contin-
ual weakness and constant giving away
injure the honor of the empire, encourage
the arrogance of our enemies and direct
~ produce the peril which it Is desired
TO avoid. Out in the world people should
understand that our patience, too, has
its limits.
Our fatherland keeps heavily armed
primarily for defense but it also carries
a sharp sword at its side. the necessity
to draw: which becomes more remote the
more foreigners are convinced that
are ready 10 resort to that extreme if
our honor is injured.
The true significance of this kind of
talk is of course. speculative. 1t is one
of the kaiser's moves. In the existing
diplomatic situation the commercial world
takes 1t seriously, for the Gazettes ar
ticle had heavy and depressing influence
upon yesterdays Berlin bourse. The EN-
peror William is angry and France and
England are warned to go slow. Whether
they will heed the warning remains to be
seen.
Germany's Indifference.
Germany's indifference in the matter of
the negotiations for an arbitration treaty
with the United States arouses much
comment in England
The Spectator remarks that it can mean
only that Germany objects to arbitration
on principle. holding that nations in
terests are above the decisions of courts
She is quite entitled" says the Spectator,
Ito take this view. though regret it.
Hut the lesson for Brit ain is clearer than
ever. Although we trust that Anglo-Ger-
man peace may never be disturbed. we
must recognize that the international ma
cninery for settling disputes must not be
reckoned on in any way. and that. if ever
We are forced into serious dispute with
Germany. we shall have 70 look to naval
strength as the one and only arbitra-
ment.
The unrest of Asia is a subject that is
arousing the gravest apprehension in the
minds Of all the responsible statesmen
OF Europe No day passes without bring
ing renewed evidence of il among all the
older races, from the Bosphorus 10
Peklng. II is the most alarming problem
which faces the British government in its
own doninions, but il is By no means con-
hned 10 India. The Spectator succinctly
summarizes the situation in an ominous
article, in which ii says:
Westerners Must Revise Ideas.
THE western people will soon be com
PEELED 10 revise their ideas of the eastern
world For centuries past they have
thought of Asia as a continent whose in
habitants are lost in pathetic auietude
Now. however, one rarely sees a telegram
from any country in Asia which does not
record disturbance sometimes of the
most dangerous kind
The rise of Japan. which within the
last century was supposed to be volun-
tailiy Isolated from mankind. has shat
tered the old conception OF Asia and has
restored the idea of the yellow peril
which was thought TO have been extin-
guished with the extinction of the Tartar
ascendancy in Russia There is supposed
To ne 4 revolution pending in far Cathay
which Pushkin once described a : diving in
lis dotage. The dispatches every day
record some new symptom OF the unrest
which Is prevailing in India affecting not
her soidiery. as in the mutiny but the
whole population in their uncomfortable
millions
SITUATION I'M MOROCCO