Omaha daily bee., 1911-03-31
nGPRACTICABLE TO HUMAN KIM
Weak Nation Will Always Be Prey
of the Strong.
ENGLAND SEEKING ADVANTAGE
No Standard for Limitation Possible
Says Speaker.
Won KAETTz TALKS OF AMERICA
Conservative Leader says Reciprocity
Raises Point as TO what COmmen-
satory FavOrs Are to BE HAD
by Kaiser.

BERLIN, March 30-Chancellor Won
Bethmann -Hollweg. in the Reichstag to-
day. discussed disarmament and interna-
tional arbitration. but without departing
one iOta from the known standpoint of the
German government, often declared on for
mer occasions.
The imperial chancellor saw the chief
difficulty In a disarmament agreement in
the possibility Of supervision Of individual
states
"Ccntrol over these" no said, "I regard
a. absolutely impracticable. The mere at
tempt to control would have no other re-
suit than continual mutual distrust and
universal turmoil General disarmament
Is an insoluble problem as long as men are
men
1T will remain true that the weak will
be the prey OF the strong II any nation
feels that It ls unable longer to spend GER
tain sums Tor defensive purposes, inevita-
bly, it will drop to the second rank There
always win be a stronger one ready to
take It's place We Germans, IN our ex-
posed situation, cannot shut our eyes TO
this reality
No Practical Plan.
THE nations, including Germany" said
the chancellor have been talking dis
armament since the first Hague conference.
but neither in Germany nor elsewhere has
a practical plan been proposed Great
Britain wishes the limitation OF armaments,
but simultaneously wants a superior or
equal fleet Any conference on this subject
is bound TO be fruitess. No standard for a
Limitation can be found, and any conceiv-
able proposal would be shattered on the
question OF control"
Won Bethmann-Hollweg instanced Ma
poleons Limitation of the Prussian army
when Prussia. adhering TO the letter Of its
treaty, trained a fun army by shortening
the period Of training, Germany was will
ing, he said. to accept the English proposal
for an exchange information regarding
navy building programs. He accepted the
idea OF arbitration in principle. but uni.
versal arbitration was as impossible OF ac-
complement as universal disarmament
The ehancellors speech. which was along
the Zine Of his earlier utterancei was made
in the discussion of tn eresolutons offered
by the socialists and radicals asking fol
an extension Of International arbitration
and the limitations of armaments. These
resolutions came before the house at tn,
opening OF the customary debate on foreign
affairs In connection with tn echanoelior',
budget. The chancellor deferred his re
marks until the representatives OF tn,
leading parties had been heard.
KRnitH Talks of America.
Count Won ISRnitz, conservative, devote,
the greater part OF his speech to American
affairs, contrasting the speech of Com
mander William Sims OF the American
navy at the Guild hall, London. whicl
called forth a reprimand from Presiden
Taft with the utterance OF Congressmal
Champ Clark concerning the annexation
Of Canada saying:
While an American naval officer is as
suring England of the friendship OF tn
United States, future president OF tina
nation is talking Of the absorption O
Canada"
Canadian reciprocity, he said, raised tn
point OF what compensa tory favors were [
be had by Germany. OF the propose
Anglo-Amerlcan complete arbitratio
treaty the speaker said that the pla
promised little II questions like that q
the Monroe doctrine were excluded
DR. SPAIN vice president and leader G
the center party, said that he fayore
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