HOW THE GERMAN EMPEROR MIGHT WIN AMERICA.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Your knowledge of America is so uncommonly wide and sound that I should like to suggest a slight modification in the article published in the Spectator of May 24th about the German Emperor's policy towards the United States. Your main point, that as the aggressive upholder of the most arbitrary form of government he can never have the confi- dence of our people, is entirely true. It is a detail about his brother's trip to America that is hardly accurate. You would scarcely have found any man of average intelligence, lawyer, business man, car-driver, or even street-sweeper, who believed that Prince Henry was having "a good time." Tile almost universal view was that he was bored. Stories and jests to illustrate that view were thick. It was supposed to be only a step better than representing his brother at funerals. It was known that he saw almost nothing of real American life. It was a monotonous and crowded series of functions and .the " Wacht am Rhein." We rather liked the man, but were amused by the futility of the visit even more than we should have been had it accomplished so reasonable an end as furnishing pleasure to a Prince.—I am, Sir, &c.,
AN AMERICAN.
[We haven doubt that our correspondent is right in his correc- tion in regard to the comparatively small number of Americans who actaally saw Prince Henry and watched his struggles in the deep of receptions, excursions, and alarums. We were thinking rather of the vast majority of Americans who only followed his doings in the Press. Princely junketinga always sound so much more lively and amusing in the newspapers than they are in reality.—ED. Spectator.]
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