The Alaska citizen., 1911-06-26


 tain ot the Paris newspapers k thar the people of Alsacc and Lorraine are calmly awaiting he lime when they may ris" and drive the hated Ger man cut. Here in Strashours there k no sign of this. On the contrary. the Tcuron has completely swallowed the Gaul Forty wars i, q long time between drinks and sovcroignri,~
 There were persons iu Europe who thought the south would met warm To the flag al Ihe outset of 'h" Span ish war Necessity. the m ther of invention, becomes in ruIu rnr father of the eXp-dient. The COufrIcralcS had ;o adjust and reconcile them selves to the inevitable. and they did: and. after awhile they forgot their that what is. k best.
 Tn" French in AlSa,c and Lorraine were given as little alternative A generation ,muothes many wrinkles and makes many changes. The ami versaries come and go Only the bronze figure of Stra~bourg in thc Place de la CoucOrdc. at PatiS is drapcd in mourning. Here. on the spot. the Tickle mob, all unconscious of bondage. eats, drinks and i- merry as in days when thc nCur-dp-lis bloOmed up.n rh" milk white ban ners of the Bourbon Kings. or the tricolor of the republic nuatcl deh- ant over Ihe town hall, token of the triumph of the people ever the aris- tUCrats and he rule of lib, rtE. equal it fr.,t Q, |. ~. two NapOleonic intcrludeS ending re spectiveIy with Waterloo and sedan
 Yet StraSbOurg, GermaniZcd. k not the StrasbOurg. let us say fir short of Erckman-Charrian. Richmond Va Iank, elied. is scarcely the Richmond of the FOr1eS and lifticS: and. for the matter of that, no more is Bal timOre. II is not the change of par ties. or of political jurisdiction. IL is the commercial over the colonial The same is truo of SrrasbOurg
 A jolly old place il was in days of But something ails it now"
 Not the heel If despotism; not government. alien to the people; just dollars-mean and sordid dollars the avaricious spirit and the grasp ing hand behind il.
 The idiOSynCrasy of the age k not liberty, but money. That is why John Bull and Jonathan are falling into enc another's arms and weeping upon one anOther'S bosom. l. too. am in favor Of peace, as l am in favor of pure air. l believe in the brother hood of man, the comity Of nations and the arbitration of disputes But truth having been ever the star of my idolatry, l cannot close my mind to the fact that we are so far away from the millennium as to make the current ettusiOn in England and the United States seem to be d kind of tlOrodora SeXtette with President Taft and Earl Grey. Mir Carnegie and Premier AsQuith, and Messrs. Bal four and Knox whose sincerity do not in the least question for the professional beauties stiu,ting their pretty hour upon the stage attended by a chorus of women and preachers.
 The Imperial Chancellor is nearer right than wrong. From the German point Of view he speaks the language of a united public opinion through out the fatherland and to public opinion. not the divine right of kings. the least popular form of government and all statesmen are beginning to look. playing demagOSue and invoking the populace with assiduity. intelli- gence and method. Of course Baron -Hollwig had England. not America ill his mind.
 He addressed himself to an actual and existing situation. For a long time England has been, and at the moment still is. mistress of the sea and ill position to exercise by her predominant force certain control of German world policy and German world commerce. In possession of this predominance, England, backed by Us. says, in effect. to Germany; This is an entirely satisfactory state of things; we will both agree to go no further and to leave matters as they are. Having made ourselves masters of all the leSS-developed sur face of the earth. controlling all the great avenues of world trade, occu- pying such point of vantage that your ships shall sail the seas on our Sufferance, we shall maintain that unchallenged supremacy, and you will kindly accept it as the final. definite and satisfactory arrange ment"
 The United States comes up smil- ing and says: Don't you see, HanS?" Hans. being hard-headed fellow, does not see" at all. This is not be- cause Hans is wicked and ruthless, or blood-thirsty or un-Christian. It is not even that he actually declines to consider the limitation of arma-