ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 250, 27 April 1896, Page 2

ENGLAND AND GERMANY.

TO TEE EDITOR. £ir,—ln almost what can be called ■a serins of interesting and instructive articles which have appeared in jour paper lately on this critical question, you have been somewhat hard on *• that young man William." It must, however, be well known to you and to many of your readers that the present' Emperor of Germany is one of tho finest, if not the finest, and most powerful ruler of any empire in the world. If some of our English Royalty were half as useful in their various offices of State as is the German Emperor of Germany in his great office of State, the ratepayers of England would not have to pay for so many useless, sinecure " situations " as they do now. As a disciplinarian, tempering justice with a wholesome severity and skilful judgment, the German Emperor would be hard to beat. As to what you .say about his control of the press in Germany, I have often thought, since the perusal of newspapers and the study of journalism has become a hobby with me, that it would not be a bad thing at all if a little less freedom were allowed to the English press, and this control not be confined to England alone, but to the colonies as well. If you have seen, as I have seen, this much abused young man standing on the deck of his yacht at Cowes during the Cowes's Regatta week ; conversing with those about him ; friendly, and interested in the efforts of the English to amuse him their best at his annual visit ; you, or anyone who has observed h,iin, must have been struck with his manly face, containing that force of character and dogged determination of which he is so justly proud, and his grand physique, and feel that you are contemplating a man in every sense of the word, and one fully capable of undertaking and carrying out the honorable and sacred trust which has been committed to him, namely, the government of a great people. I am, etc., Englishman;