The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

trr nc week 10 XIV P'l poi talNS VI
,,.n, SO 10 speak The three this week
! 40 lord Haldane. Lord Charles Beres-
lord and the King of Italy.
Lord II4ldauc, II appears, has been
roentlv attacked in the London press
ga pro-German. and Arnold White, a
.,ond rate journalist, has not scruplcd
a .urrcst that Haldane when Minister
IN war practically ruined the English
amy out VI love for the German Kaiser.
Tie hatred II Germans has become
ranaca, 10 Great Britain. The other
dv Prince " Battcnberg was sacri-
fced 10 Il and relieved Of his position as
An Admiral. At the very beginning OF
tine war notice was posted up in the
Conservative club in Northumberland
syanu, London. asking all naturalizcd
Germans not to use the club during the
var though they had paid heavily for
lie privilege. and throughout the
country nuturali2ed Germans, even those
who had lived in England for many
year. and married English wives. wer
,ubicrted 10 police visits and annoyed
IN various ways by untimely question
ings and unwarranted suspicious.
There can hc no doubt that this feel
Ing " dislike is more active in England
toward Germans than IL is in Germany
toward the English. This may he as
crbed 10 the fact that there are a hun
dred Germans living in England for one
Engshman naturalized in Germany: or
g may hc set down to another cause.
Hatred is mixture OF fear and igno-
lance and ignorance Is a main ingredi-
eat In tho British hatred OF all thing.
German. just as the other day il wa
The main element in their loathing ~
tho Bocrs Nations seem unable to tight
without constantly vllifying their adj
NersdrloS
The attempt to pillory Haldane Is pc
cularly dlsgrdceful. lie has been called
the kai>ers chief friend in England:
The Kaiser 1t Is said has stayed in .l.s
house and So forth. The liaiser's best
friend in England is certainly the sport
Ing peer. Lord Lonsdale. and probably
tic nest thing we shall hear is that tho
yellow Earl" as King Edward called
'oa,G4'c because of his reddish side
Nh.'k.rs and the loud tweeds he usually
wear, has been ostracized.
The truth Is that when young man
Hadauc spent n couple Of years study
ing IN GoettinGen University and there
imDbed an immense respect for German
bnace and German efficiency. He is
ne only man in Eagland of Cabinet
rank who knows anything about Ger
many or can speak German and he
naturally used this unique advantage to
he full
llaidne game to the front first as a
lawyer but he is something more than
that; he has for an Englishman a wide
grasp Of political principles; he has read
Herbert Spencer and assimilated the
Spencer scientific view Of the clemen-
ury forces and laws underlying human
passions
IN collaboration with harder workers
b has written a life OF Adam Smith
snd translated Schopcnhaucr, but his
hest literary works are his two volumes
On Education and Empire" and The
Pathway 10 Reality" In both books
there is revealed a generous reading, a
ia,r II not a profound mind and a GER
TAIN sense OF what is necessary to sue
cess and greatness even in this in
choate world.
T, Al the same time there is nothing
crsnal in him, nothing demonic in his
makeup He is an ordinary well read,
VOL Informed Scot. who gave all his
energies for thirty years to getting on
10 The world and has brought II to
wealth a peerage and the highest place
II his profession.
me facts suffice to prove that Hal
care is commonplace enough for any
ung. You might live with him forever
without hearing a new thought, but he
good companion, Of easy temper,
unaffected manners and has a certain
oolr Scotch humor Of his own that now
shd again riffs the leaden gray sky Of
rs mind with CLINT OF sunshine. He
eminently patriotic, as a man who
mas got all his ambitions satisfied in a
"ul'ry is apt TO he, and emnently safe,
o4' his German training has taught him
mat wealth, like other symbols Of sue
oS' goes to him who thinks and labors
not TO him who plays, and that be-
ie' IN England is looked upon az cast
"- doubt ON English methods.
'ar example: \ year or so ago Lord
madame was asked to open the new
.1.anss for applied science at Shelf
n'a University. He called it an event
y, ~ English history, for unless Eng
'''nen woke up thoroughly in the mat
I OF education and particularly Of
.'SNer and scientific education" he
e'o"ed himself a little nervous as to
what would become Of "our commercial
Supremacy"
80" mans mind is like his body,
"'alhy though fat. when Strengthened
W. %" must he five feet nine or there
"''u' and must weigh 240 pounds or
more llc likes good dinner and
SoN bottle ~ wine and a good book,
guy IN his youth he might have reached
w." .H"ught had he had the German spur
"s hanks or had he found that life
'',n.-nd'd original work.
fortunately for him, life in Eng
''.u even at the top, or | should have
gay" especially at the top demands an
''"drN commonplace mind and routine
.',''. and 50 lIaldane's fibre has de-
s.''alcd into adipose tissue.