Valdez daily prospector., 1915-01-12
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1915.
A QUESTION OF FACT.

Count Apponyi, the leader of the Liberal Party in Hungary, has this to say of Great Britain:
 England had in it's hands the worlds peace and cannot present d single motive for the war excepting jealousy of Germany's power and prosperity. In the action of England there is not as much moral quality to be discovered as even in the exa;5- gerated French nationalism or in the half way idealistic lust of Russia for world power.
 "England's attitude is in fact the attitude of shopkeepers, an attitude which has set the world on fire in order to maintain it's own monopoly "a monopoly not dependent on it's own excellence, but on naked jeal- ousy, naked envy"
 It would be far too much to say that Jealousy of Germany's pros perity" does not exist in England. The English are, in very truth, a na- tion of shopkeepers, miners, merch- ants, shippers, and bankers, and they have steadily pushed their activities until they cover the civilized and un- civilized globe. Among them there are those who are not only jealous but envious of the marvellous success of their chief rivals, the Germans, in the expansion of the varied business in which previously the English had long and easily taken the lead. For a score of years there has been in England party-or an active fac tion in one of the great parties which has sought to contend against German progress by means of tariff Instructions, and by special favors to British Colonial Interests. Inci- dentally the spirit of this party was that of the German fiscal party and, like that, was bitterly opposed to freedom of exchange and equality of trade opportunities. It is undoubted- ly true that this narrow, greedy, and unenlightened spirit has been inter- sified by the war, though there is no evidence that it has spread among the English people.
 The significant fact, however, bear ing on Count Apponyi's opinion as to the motives of the English in enter ing on this war-jealousy and desire for monopoly-is that the one cher ished purpose of the protectionist fac tion, tariff obstruction to German competition, has completely failed. The English people and, therefore, the English government, have stead ily rejected it. During the period in which German expansion has been going on, every port of the United Kingdom and every market controlled by the Parliament of Great Britain, has remained open to German trade, to German enterprise, and to Ger mans themselves, who, by the hun dreds of thousands, have pursued their occupations under the equal pro- lection of English law. German ships, subsidized by the government and commanded by officers of the Ger man navy, have freely entered Eng fish harbors from Portsmouth to Hongkong, and German enterprise, commercial, banking, industrial, has been absolutely unrestricted wher- ever the English flag flew. The pol icy of the English government, sus- tained necessarily by the English peo- pie, has been completely and consist ently the very reverse of what jeal- ousy or hunger for monopoly would have dictated.
 The opinion announced by Count Apponyi is not original with him, and very likely he has never thought tt necessary, carefully and candidly, to examine the foundation of it. It was made in Germany" and it's export to all quarters of the globe has been sedulously promoted by the kaiser and by all his faithful agents, mili- tary, mercantile, scientific, and theo- logical. It is not only absolutely op- posed to facts as they exist and as they had existed for years. It is all so, in reality, the unconscious ex- pression of the motives of the ruling class among the Germans themselves. Their conception of trade expansion has largely been that of special ad' vantages and partial or complete mo. nopoly. While Great Britain has maintained freedom of commerce, the Germans have surrounded their ter L.. L.