The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-08
HARDENS ANALYSIS OF THE BRITISH
AROUSED GERMAN OFFICIAL ANGER
Berlin Editor Said His COun-
trymcn Know English Only
in Caricature.

A rcck ago yesterday a cable des-
patch from Copenhagen stated that
Morimiiion Harden, editor OF Die
'Zukunjt. oos spending "an enforced
holiday OF indefinite duration" In Scan-
dfndrid, hdrtn0 been virtually ertied be-
cause OF recent articles In his ,peekiv
that aroused the prdth Of official Ger
many. one article. dealing with Italv,
ros mentioned particularly as having
greatly displeased the Berlin authorities.
The Punishment OF Harden ,cds Tented
~ another despatch on the foiio,cing day.
There has been No direct con rnation
from Berlin Of his reported expulsion.
The issue OF July II Of Die zukunJt,
copies OF ,ohich arrired In New York
yeste day. bears Hurden's name as that
Of the editor. but his usual leading
article Is lacking. all articles being
signed by contributors. THIS seem to
Indicate that the report is true.
THE Sun presents the first Of the
articles from Harden's pen, published on
May 22 last, that oroused the anger OF
the German Government.
why scold the Britons? They are
but doing what they have to do. why
tell them. day in and day out. that we
are the better. the nobler ones, the only
perfectly unselfsh humans on earth? 1t
only makes them smile.
Nor ought We ever to have blab-
bered in knavish manner OF blood re-
lationship and Christian duty tina COM
mands pious brotherhood. We should
have remembered always what Palmer
ston said in the Commons after the
February revolution In Paris: only
dreamers can labor under the romantic
imagination that the relations between
nations. between Governments. is essen
TALLY. or even permanently. governed by
friendship or similar emotions
Germany had no reason to be thank
reasons to fear her-fear that is based
upon respect. Great Britain IL wonder
fully strong. the biggest world empire
that history has known three-fourths
of the earth inhabitated to-day 10 terri
tory of the English language.
Their Idea of EnRIishmen.
Germans who on the Rigi have once
sat beside a Liverpool tailor disguised
as a lord. Germans who gather their
wisdom from the humorous sheets,
think they now Britain and the Britisn.
And this Is their idea Of Englishmen /:
Sneakish and cowardly stif, grouchy or
spleeny without a longing for kultur
Only a craze for sports and greed in
their heads-that. roughly. Is the popu-
lar picture.
That the strongest new theories
which taught us to learn nature and the
mind that Sha~kespeare's country had.
even in the nineteenth century. the most
productive literature. (not poetry
these things are overlooked. Because
the Briton loves sports and spends al
most as much time playing golf or foot
ball as the German does in drinking
beer. he is ridiculed. Is the Englishman
silly because he Is anxious that his
county should win in the cricket match
Does not his play which steels the body
serve his fatherland?
did you ever go into Hyde Park
and there see the hundreds of sturdy,
white haired old men riding briskly on
horseback? And the young girls and
old ladies In the West enc the work
men with their children on the play
grounds? Look at them and compare
them with the hin blooded. prema
turely withered, overwhelmed and wab-
bling figures you meet at every step
in the Continental cities!
Obedience without Tyranny.
9TH Briton. cheerful, healthy and
brave, was quick to realize that only
the strong can conquer the world. and
ne procured for himself the hygiene
which Is necessary to a nation confined
most of the time to factories and Of
fees, lest 1t die away. The Briton's
mode Of living and his actions are
sensible: he can obey without humili-
alton and force and give obedience
without arbitrary tyranny.
I'm India a Commissioner with only
n handful Of whites at his disposal com.
mands millions Of the brown race. who
do not dare wrinkle their brows before
his glance. In London II an uprising
Is feared dukes Join hands with cellar
tenants to do constable duty. Every.
body, whether he possesses a fortune
or has only a few pounds to lose, takes
the oath, joins the ranks and marches
against the foes of society. And II
is because this realization of ever ready
defensive strength governs all minds
that full freedo Is given to speech. Ia
criticism, to satire that the most bra
zen things may be said about the kine
and his Minister'S. about the institu'
tions, officials and about the national
character without interference, Not
before the highest officer of the en-
pire would the Briton bend his knees,
young men and women associate
in the closest friendship. pass whole
DAYS together on the river, without
Their aunts as chaperons. and not
one rough or immodest word disturbs
the harmless hilarity; any one who
would dare offend the ears of decent
women by indecent remarks would
Herewith become Impossible In that
company.
I'VE are only praising what deserves
praise. Have the BritOns pedler souls
They didn't think OF their wares, hut
exposed them to the gravest possible
danger and sacrificed billions In order
TO destroy Bonaparte. to whose hypnotic
will and power they alone-in all Eu'
rome. they alone--did not succumb!
"There are SOM In Germany who
used to praise all these good qualities
of the English. They knew that Eng
land has hardy human material, a no
bility which OF all nObiTit'es IL the mos
useful for battle. and that she has abl'
women; that England was wise enough
10 guard against the endemic evils o'
ALI democracies and has remained In
the twentieth century as In the wars
OF the Roses, an oligarchy. Those Ger
L~. Aha.F ann In In