The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1915. A GOOD WORD FOR GERMANY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 January 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1915. A GOOD WORD FOR GERMANY.

■'The Gorman Colonies' , is the titlo of Jin article by Sir Harry Johnston in the Edinburgh Review, and in a generous way he gives the Germans credit for much. Ho starts by asking—"What account has Germany to give of her stewardship, of her thirty years ns a Colonial Power? On the ivholo a good one. International science has 'been greatly the gainer by th« presence of Germany as ruler or administrator in Africa, Oceania, China and the Turkish Empire. Look at the magnificently furnished museums of ethnology and natural history; consider the German contributions to philology, to the study of tropical diseases, to economic botany, chemistry, palaeontology, history, and archaeology. Germany has effectively abolished the deep-ly-rooted slave trade in East Africa and in the Kamernn hinterland. Her treatment of the native races in some parts of -Africa has been harsh, but on the whole—when unprejudiced truth is told—the natives are better in the long run for the incoming of the German." Sir Harry expressed the hope that irhen there is a redistribution of Germany's colonial possessions the Powers will establish no differentia] treatment, for commerce, that trade and industry in those regions shall once again be. as ojx>n to German enterprise as to that of the subjects of Great Britain.-Rus-sia. Belgium or France. Well, our quarrel is not so much with the German people as with the Prussian lords who rule thorn, and' when this military caste is crushed the , nations will be just to n vanquished foe. As Sir Harry says: "In that way and along these lines the nations whom Germany lias wronged can eagely concede to her 'a place in the sun' a.nd permit her to recover from the frightful damage which she too has suffered through the insensate ambition, the cruelty and tlie duplicity of the Prussian dynasty. Before long it is to be hoped that the Hohcnzolterns may cease to be the muling house m the German inm™™. t>.-j ,i

.i. urie uerman Umpire. Rid of them and Prussian Junk'erdom, Germany will be able to recover from her war wound/3 and her money losses. No longer suspected or dreadedi as the preparers of sudden invasions, 'frightful examples.' treaty repudiations and 'Holy ware,' Germans will be welcomed everywhere for their inmate abilities, their commercial aptitude, their scientific acumen. Fortunate will be the European nation (once they are dePrussianised) that car, attract them in large numbers as colonists, as instructors in many arts and crafts, or as traders and mariners. Germany will play as important a part as over in the development of the world, but it will be as a collaborator with the other people of Europe, Asia, and Africa: not as their despot and taskmaster."