THE LION OR THE EAGLE ? A German Preference.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 83, 1 February 1902, Page 8

THE LION OR THE EAGLE ? A German Preference.

THE Geiman and his beloved Fatherland, m 1 elation to Britain and her alleged bad behaviour, is calling for more than passing attention at present The Empire over which the Kaiser leigns is so happy, so prosperous, and it manages its affairs in such a delightfully oDcn-handcd way, that its sens aie forever leaving its freedom behind to sheltei under the atiocious flag of the British Empue Why this contradiction ? The Germans have colonies of their own, the whole wide world is open to them, they can go and plant sugar undei a dozen different brands of law, or glow giapcs with people of eveiy shade Yet, while they SDcak unkindly, just because a few rich Dutchmen had subsidised their press, thousands o* them want to go to Queensland to plant sugar A gentleman in Fiankfoit (the home of the sausage) has it cabled out to these colonies that 2000 home-tired Germans are eap"er to work under the laws of perfidious Albion m a State of the Australian Commonwealth. Why do they not go to a German colony to plant sugar, and luxuriate m the blessings of perfect Geiman freedom, instead of voluntarily taking refuge under the British flag and becoming naturalised Britishers as quickly as possible ? ♦ * * The fifty-six thousand German clerks m London, who are not fleeing back to the liberty of the Fatherland, are not required to do military service, are happy, well-con-tent — half of them naturalised British subjects, and the rest waiting for the expiration of the time that shall enable them to become legalised Britons. Australia is dotted over with German settlements, where the laws are English, and the language is German •* * * Remarkable that they could not form settlements under Teuton laws, and at German rates of pay The fact is, that the average German, who thinks pretty deeply, and is more than usually hard headed, knows full well that he is certain of greater freedom under the British flag, which some of his people have been paid to revile, than under any other. Queensland, being loyal, probably will not accept the offer of these two thousand sugar-planting Germans, although those men may not have a word to say against the country under whose standard they are so anxious to work ♦ » * When the tens of thousands of Germans on English soil roll their "swags," and return to the Fatherland, the alleged race hatred fomented by Dutch bubes may be deemed to be univeisal m the Fatheiland It is quite plain if British freedom is to be still extended to Germans, who have ever been only too anxious io live under the piotectmg shelter of the Union Jack, that the time has come when the wordy warfaie against British methods* must cease