25 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 2

The reception has gratified the pride of Germans, and the

comments on England and her cowardice in fighting one of the strongest combinations she has ever encountered are becoming milder. By and by the people will see, as the Government already sees, that if Germany desires colonies the friendship of England will greatly smooth her road, and that the way to a great commerce is to join Great Britain and America in insisting everywhere upon the "open door,"—that is, upon duties levied upon all traders alike. Mr. Whitelaw Reid, who may be President, has just been insisting upon that view as vehemently as the most convinced Free-trader could desire. Englishmen should not forget when they read German papers that German Conservatives dread English influence just as Englishmen in the first years of their pre- sent dynasty dreaded German influence, and that German Liberals in deriding Great Britain are attacking their own Government quite as much as English policy. In just the same way the Clericals all over the world express horror at the invasion of the Transvaal, not because they love the Boers, who are most stubborn heretics, but because they think the humiliation of England would bring them one step nearer to the restoration of the temporal power.