HON. JOHN HAY & GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2544, 19 August 1915, Page 5

HON. JOHN HAY & GERMANY

s - ... - _ "What would the situation bo if, in- - stead of Mr. Bryan in' tho State Dox partment, we had the late John Hay?" i asks the New York "Nation." i "Selections from' Hay's unpublished . lottors now presented by William RosJ coe Thayer in "Harper's Magazine" mil } inako unpleasant reading in Berlin. Re- ! garding affairs in China after the Boxer - rebellion, tho Secretary of State is outi spoken when it comes to Germany. To > a friend he writes:— i " 'Tho success wo bad in stopping that first preposterous Gorman movement . when tho whole world seemed likoly to i join in it, when the entire Press of the . Continent and a great many on thiß , side wero in favour of it, will always [ bo a source of gratification. The moment wo acted the rest of the world i paused, and finally came over to our ground; and tho German -Government, which is generally brutal but seldom silly, recovered its senses, climbed down off its perch, and presented another proposition wliioli was cxactly in line with our position.' [October 16, 1900.] "And some time later to Henry Adams Mr. Hay wrote;— " come. At least wo are spared the infamy of an alliance with Germany. I would rather, I think, bo the dupo of China than the chum of the Kaiser. Have you noticed how the world will take anything nowadays from a German? Bulow said yesterday in substance: "Wo have demanded of China everything wo can think of. If wo think of anything else wo will demand that, and be d to you"—and not a man in tho world kicks.' " It is anticipated that, owinjr to so man? shearers having gono to the front, a dif- • ficultv will be experienced in filling th« boards in the Wairarapa as - tho season advances. A promjnonfc Jlasterion she,nor suggests that, with a view to miuimisinjr tho difficulty, ownors should combine and institute tho system of "runs." Under this system shearers would bo engaged for a number of sheds in a given area, thereby avoiding a loss of time in travsl. ling long distances from shed to shed.-: ilUstertcn. wrresgemd^t/