The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12

yelt-actually loves him for two reasons.
Firstly. because in him he sees the type
of Americanism that the Beriner himself
s striving so successfully to initiate, and
secondly, he Is SO very much like the Ger
man Emperor himself.
And here we touch the root of 1t all.
To the mind of every thinking German
there does not exist the slightest doubt
that a large part of the tremendously
prosperous evolution the German has gone
through of late has been due directly
to the personal influence of its emperor
Himself an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS man of
the Roosevelt type, he Is slowly and
steadily awakened his people until they
have become almost the equal of their
prototypes until the slow, deep nature of
the original German has been turned into
the quickly deciding, energetic, hustling,
money-grasping American-German.
1t is no doubt that this Americanism
has prevented the German people from
ever looking upon certain English Anti
German maneuvers, undertaken for poit-
ical reasons. as serious matter. While
only very few years ago the German
would angrily have disclaimed the num-
erous disagreeable intention attributed
to him In certain British quarters, he to-
day gives his shoulders very American
shrug, and smilingly says: "Let em.
When they've finished, they'll stop"
And he does not feel In the least sore
against the English. On the contrary,
recognizing the reasons for the actions
he gives them credit for it. He Is not
afraid of war with England; does not be-
lieve In the possibility of 1t, and quietly
permits a certain class of Englishman to
continue their political agitation against
Germany. What does he care? He is too
busy And he does not want war any
how For that, too, he is too busy!
Mr.. Knox has told me personally-and
has since repeated 1t publicly that the one
and only nation that responded at once to
Americas appeal for a constant court of
arbitration, was GermanX That in all
attempts for an arrangement to forever
secure the peace of the worlA. Germany
had always been ready to join hands
with the United States. Since then Roose-
welt, apostal of peace, has visited Berlin
and talked to the man who has no great
er desire on earth than everlasting peace
Emperor William And then fate willed
it, that both these men visited London
together. The cause was a sad one, the
result may be happy one.
It's an Ill wind that blows no good. The
spontaneous expressions of sympathy
from the German Emperor and his peo-
ple-and a spontaneous action must in
varably come from the heart-has proba-
NY CoINinccu tuc I1OSl HeTCe bTltlSI
antagonist of Germany of the true senti
ments of the Germans for England That
anti German feeling across the channel
seems to be on the wane. The two apos-
ties of peace. Kaiser Wilhelm and Colonel
Roosevelt. have been in London and talk
ed to King George. That they talked
very much of politics Is hardly likely;
besides, it has been denied. But the in
fuence of that visiting must not be I'M
IL tn1 ArI nj ri <,k,@
is worth more than thousand kilograms.
King George is as yet an unwritten
book But people who ought to know,
claim that he will very likely prove him
self the man who will make use of the
present pro-German feeling in England for
a better German English understanding,
Il not an entente-cordiale. Already
there are rumors. not loud as yet. but
very positive, of an English-German
American understanding.
1t does seem as IL the wish were
the father of the rumor. Certain diplo-
matte circles seem to figure seriously with
such a possibility. A combined England
Germany-Arherican could really dictate
the politics of the world. All the so
we'll intended prize-courts of Mr. Knox
and tho American Peace league could
not achieve their ends half as quickly
and completely as such a combination.
Inc ruinor Is, as l SAID aDOut,t mere
there, everywhere Mr.. Roosevelt will
very likely have a word or two to say
OF the subject in the near future. Let us
hope the runlor will become q fact. Amer
lea and Germany are no doubt too busy
for war. And as they intend to remain
busy they do not care about war in other
quarters.
Should the rumor become o fact, then
the names of the three stars upon the
political heavens, Wilhelm, Roosevelt and
George will be engraved with golden let
ters into the history of the world