Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1899 — Cafe and Observation [ARTICLE]

Cafe and Observation

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The G-erman ambassador to this country, Baron Von Holleben, has just published an exhaustive statement showing the present friendliness of the German government towards this country. And that is all right too, so far as it goes, but it should be remembered that Germany’s friendliness was a plant of very sudden growth, and as such should be reckoned in its true value. The friendliness appeared only after our complete destruction of the Spanish navy demonstrated that we were a great naval power. Von Holleben seeks to gloss over and explain away the very meddlesome, annoying and unfriendly actions of the Germans at Manila, but the American peo pie will be very shallow indeed if they are deceived by that explanation. “All they wanted at Manila was to protect German interests” says Von Holleben; but while England, with yastly greater interests there than Germany, found one war vessel enough to protect her interest, Germany rushed practically all their naval strength in eastern waters into Manila harbor, until they actually had a stronger force there than Admiral Dewey had. And their conduct there was so annoying and unfriendly that Admiral Dewey had to practically threaten war, before they would adopt a more neutral attitude. The German people have always been friendly enough to this country, and our German immigrants are among our best and most patriotic citizens, but the German government, that iron heeled military despotism, is our friend only when policy makes it such, and was most decidedly unfriendly towards us all through the late war.