The Washington herald., 1913-07-27

dreadnoughts. not to speak of the
| triumphs in the realms of science, art,
and industry. ."
The name Germany today is synony-
nous with power and progress. Vigorous
at fifty-four, the silver Jubilee finds the
Kaiser still the worlds model Of al
| aggressive, able and ambitious monarch.
| We have all, long since, came to the
conclusion that he is not the sinister
| figure portrayed by his detractors-not a
ruler who breaches peace but practices
] war-and that he is sincerely and in
violably dedicated to the course of inter-
national amity.
There is the Eaisers brother, the Iowa
BILE Prince Henry (well remembered and
esteemed by Americans since his visit
| here in 1922, the crown prince. the late
Won Kinderlen-W Waechter foreign secre-
tary), the German Chancellor Won Befh-
mann-Hollweg and his famous predeces-
sor, Prince Buelow: Prince Won Fuersten-
berg (the kaiser's Chum and Dug
bruder," Count Zeppelin, commander of
| the arr; the late Marshall Won Bieber.
| stein. Count Bernstorff German AmEas-
sadOr at Washington, the Krupp family
and establishment. &c.
But there are others mentioned, who,
though not ION top" have been the
brains Of modern Germany, and they
deserve place in this Hall of Fame"
Herr Ballil, the head of the Hamburg
American Line; Arthur Gwinner. whose
financial genius created the Deutscfe
Bank, whose branches have done so much
for the opening up and development of
the German colonial trade; Emit Rattle
rau, the famous chief of the "Augemeine
Electrocitaets' Gesallschaft." who in
troduced electric power and incandescent
light all over the empire and elsewhere:
Hans Delbrueck, the financier. and
others.
The book fits the occasion eminently,
and contains a fund of information.
MEXICO. THE LAND OF UNREST: By Henry
Baerleln. fhiadelIhia-J. u. LippincOtt Com
rany.
The author in his former capacity as
the representative in Mexico of an Eng
lish paper has had a fine opportunity of
witnessing the outbreak OF 1910 and its
immediate causes, as also other revolu-
tions down to the present day.
During the administration OF Porfirio
Diaz Mexico appeared 10 have no history.
but it had commercial progress and fos-
tered the arts of peace. All was nice and
tranquil there after the renegados had
been persuade by the greatest OF Ill
Mexican rulers to keep the law-that is,
his" law. And yet the smolderng dis
content lay so deep out of sight after
all, though those who predicted that
after his decease something would hail.
pen" We're rebuked, for being either in
CRATES or blind
As long as possible sly old Don Por-
firio'S partisans endeavored to waylay
the truth, even as the President himself
had in ii olden days. and as in our own
time he had suppressed the men who
really knew him. The abuses of the legal
system were SO fragrant, the semi-inde
pendence of the federated States so ig-
nored by Don Porfirio; the men he dis
patched into the States We're in their
turn such despots and the economical
condition of the entire republic so un-
satisfactory that the discomfort was gath
ering and gpining everywhere, as, for in
stance, in Yucatan.
If the MeXicans had not been so long
suffering. so contradictory, the revolution
would have come much sooner. When
finally the torch was lighted, the con-
ftagrItion deVasted the republic and, al
though the President resisted to the Very
last, he and his party had to go. The
oonquerors brought the promise of prog
ress with them. The PorfiTio Diaz men
resisted as long as they could those who
were fighting for the constitution, and
! they had the best or II, manly owing TO
the rigorous censorship in that country
and the ample facilities for suppreSSing
news items that happen to disprease the
authorities.
The Mexicans. says the author. are
childish. One would think that with
population so much mIXed-pure Spanish.
Spanlsn-InuIan. ana score oil aIHerent
indian races-lt would he impossible 10
| generaIIze, Yet. as a whole, being kept IN
/ ignorance. they are childish and almost
supplemented.
| For the rest, the author reCites his per-
| sOnal experiences in the land during the
| exciting period since the fall of the Diaz
regime. the MADEIRA government, the lat
ter's assassination, and the Huerta rule
of iron, all contemporaneous history with
which all are familiar.
The particular aim of the publication
no doubt is the desire of Mr.. Berlein
to justify his several actions as the rep
| -esentative of the London Times. There