26 NOVEMBER 1904, Page 2

to the service of his people, but described the present

Emperor as a Sovereign who had " markedly added to the lustre of his great house and his great nation, and one who, while keeping ever ready to defend the rights of his people, has also made it evident that he and they desire peace and friendship with the other nations of the earth." That goes a little beyond British experience of William II. ; but Sovereigns are bound to display a lofty courtesy to one another, and Mr. Roosevelt, though not a Sovereign, has the position, and more than the usual powers, of a King. The speech has given much satisfaction to Germany, where there is a keen wish that German emigrants should not merge themselves so com- pletely as they do in the great body of the population.