The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-08
Nations Practical Politics,

Illustrate German colonization plans.
Nations Practical Politics.
will we Germans never learn the
principles of practical politics? Shall
we always despise the English because
they let others fight their battles for
them as long as II Ia possible: and be-
cause they pay their wars only with
gold. not with blood, the noblest treas
ure of all nations? Shall we always
tumble along with abstract legal con-
ceptions and emotions instead of CON
sider'ng only the advantage OF the ma
nation?
Whether we love the Russian or
despise the Car along with his whole
cheap tribe. we do desire Russia as our
customer and ally. And whether we
admire the free ana strong Briton or
sneer at the Quaker, hypocrite. cant
worsnipper. we had 10 arm ourselves
against England's aggressive power.
Germany long looked 10 England like
n blown frog that 500 must lose his
breath. The German immigrant offered
cheaper work than the British engineer.
agent. clerk or walter. The German i'm
migrant stood for worse treatment han
the Briton he fastened on the market
to divest himself Of his national garb
and to adapt himself to Anglo-SaXon
ways wore woollen shirts and could live
without n bathtub reason enough to
despise him.
with these creatures who do not train
their bodies. who can't be happy without
beer n who as thirty-year-olds sport
an embonpoint-with them. 80 1t was
thought. Germany will not conquer the
world. "A nice c~ountry-very nice.
Dresden. Nuremberg. Freiburg Heidel-
berg. Rothenburg old churches and an
Client ruins and everywhere music.
sausage and Munich beer a nice coun-
try indeed. quite appropriate for a spring
Journey! Also a very nice and striving
industry which we may well help along
with good profit. because they can't
compete with us So thought the
Britons.
, The Stronger Organization.
Long ago the German was not well
come in England, but he came to be
respected. And no Englishman thinks
of Understanding or even looking down
upon Germany. Our industrials and
merchants have become dangerous to
the British captains of industry. Eng
land sometimes had the %stronger per-
~sonalities Germany always had tho
stronger organization.
THE Prussian lieutenant, the Deutsche
Bank. the All Gemeine Elektrizitaets-
Gesellschaft. the Badische Anilinfabrik
and he German Socialists these most
visible fruits of German culture do no
grow in Albion's sea climate. The COM
petition soon became worse In that the
German. worker was content with lower
pay. the technician more thoroughly
trained. the German salesman more far
sighted.
ITO the desire of the statesmen 10
keep this young Continental Power in
check came the fury OF those menaces
commercially. The zone of friction had
become greater the political intercourse
more difficult.
Yet the possibility of n serious con-
flict seemed far distant. Bismarck with
his dead sure calculation and his ma
Jestic common sense always knew jus,
what he had to hope and what he had
to fear from England. II he had had
his way England and Germany would
have long continued courteously to toler-
ate one another. The German Empire
he figured, needed a half century to
strengthen itself domestically. to secure
the new borders in the east and west, and
meanwhile could play the part of the
satiated State. the rest remained to be