The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-03

may have Its basis in truth who
knows? He says:
When shall we all recover a GER
tain international sickness that keeps
us all feverish? The continual tank
and writing about international friend.
SHIPS. being of the same family, or
lhe same race, the cousin propa-
Sandism in short, is Irritating not
helpful. We have been surfcited
with peace talk till we are all i,ri-
table One hundreth part of an ounce
OF the same quality OF peace powders
that we are using Internationally
would. II prescribed to happy family
In this or any other land, lead 20 dis
sensions. disobedience. domestic dis
aster and divorce. Mr.. Carnegie will
have lived long enough to see more
wars and international disturbances.
and more discomfort born OF superficial
reading, than any man in history who
was at the same time so closely con-
nectcd with their origin"
But" he writes in another connec-
ton. eve shall have war when the
German Kaiser touches a button and
gives an order, and the German peo-
pie will have no more to say In the
matter than YOU and l."
1t Is this all pervading, all power
full person and pcrs onality OF the En-
peror that Americans find It hard to
understand. and only the perusal Of
such book as Mr.. Golfers can make
II clear The three class system of
suffrage. the complete Capitalization
of power-for even the authorities OF
the wonderfully governed cities of
Prussia may he removed by the EN-
pcror for cause. and the cause may be
merely his Imperial whim-the i'm
mense weight of uniformed bureau
cracy and the curious character OF
the Rcichstag, 4 making body dis
soluble at the will OF tho Emperor.
all these must be understood before
| one can realize the monocracy that Is
| the German Empire.
! Even the parties OF the Right, the
Centre and the Left, including the
Socialists, of whom we hear so much
and so little that is good. arc. accord
ing to the author, habby at best The
parties themselves are not real. since
! thousands of voters lean TO the left
merely to express their discontent;
but they would desert the Social Demo-
! Gratis at once did they think there was
| chance OF real governing power for
them. a small industrial was warned
of the awful things that would happen
| did the Socialists come into power
An he replied. but the government
! would not permit THAR" A profound
! commentary IN a Joke,
Fortunately for the Germans at
home finds Mr.. Collier. they want 20
/ be governed. for governed they GER
| tainly are. The most infinitely, In
ordinately governed people on earth,
and the press. so powerful in other
| countries. helps them or hinders them
not at all. Indeed. the chapter devoted
| to the Fourth Estate Of Germany Is
simply n slmmering. highly spiced
roast" with the exception OF a few
| paragraphs devoted to Macmillan
Harden and his "Zukunft."
| Although Germany is governed and
! policcd TO degree Incredible in this
country. 1t Is intellectually a republic.
says Mr. Collier, and we Americans
have beyond all other peoples profited
| by her literature. her philosophy. her
music and her scientific and economic
teaching. Possibly this intellectual
freedom, together with her youthful
ness as a nation, he thinks. is respon-
! sible for the noDd OF nasty literature
that is now sweeping over her, just
| as 1t may he held accountable for the
| inconceivablc immortality OF Berlin and
the tremendous percentage OF cases
| without benefit Of clergy" through
out the Empire.
So. too. 1t may be because OF the in
| tellectuality OF this freedom that there
! is no free and stalwart opposition to
| the Government: 1.-THE German ina
! gines," opines the author, that ne has
done something when he has an idea;
just as the Frenchman imagincs that
he has done something when he has
! made an epiGram."
The professors. the teachers. he finds.
are superlatively good. but the people
are over-educated: the men are poets.
drcamers and musicians. but the
women are looked upon. by them as
mothers cooks and darners Of socks
their streets are amazingly clean. but
their municipal statues are monstros-
tiles; the Germans are coddled grand
mothered." and pensioDed. but one In
every twelve persons living In Ger
many has been convicted of some Of
Tense, not because he Is criminal
but because he has in some way yio-
lated a "Verboten" sign; Germans love