THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1910 STRAIGHT TALK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 983, 1 March 1910, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1910 STRAIGHT TALK.

Herr Maximilian Harden, the German publicist, and editor of the "Zukunft," has an article in the "New "York World," informing Americans that the time has arrived when England and Germany must compromise or fight, "Even the dullest eye," he says, "can see the uselessness of th* brotherly love swindle. We can either go to war with England (and war with us is desired not by King Edward, but by the party which includes the Tories, the Glad- ( stonians, and the Socialists), er we can come to an agreement with England over the naval situation. There is no other alternative, for Lord Charles Beresford's plan (of a gigantic loan) would also bring war, a financial war, which would be worse for us to fight than a war of. weapons. Germany must say to England, 'Every sane German respects England's power, and does not doubt that in the hour of danger her sons would swarm to her aid; therefore Germany wants peace with England, but tlv; time when v»u could tie ai us as a poor relation has parsed. We are rich and strong, and we demand equal treatment. You cannot destroy oar power by commei-ci«l - , powder war. Tnoigti the Empie's franco are not vet in order, we have many futher souces of re-vena j /

We can create state monopolies of the sale "of coal and petroleum, and of the supply of electricity. If you destroy our navy and seize our colonies to-morrow Germany will not rest until she has been avenged. Gemany's population grows at the rate of a million yearly, and in 1920 it will be 73,000,000. They requira room. Will you in return for fair compensation accept the inevitable necessity, and let Germany occupy as much room in the world as she requires. Will you permit her to incorporate in the Empire such i smaller peoples as would profit thereby, since no sane German nowadays dreams of colonising part of the American continent, or will you compel Germany unwillingly to mobilise against you to obtain room at I your cost after a long and perhaps barbarous war? You have the choice." ThereJ is no other way in which to talk to England, according to Herr Harden, and the price of peace, as defined by the editor of " Die Zukunft " is apparently that England should allow the Germans to secure for themselves the hegemony in Europe, "a hegemony," he continues, "which would pretty soon teach the Danes and the Dutch the advantages of closer union with the German Empire. To England leave what she has already won, and add thereto Arabia, the Congo, and all the seas of all the world. To Germany, as the leading Power in Europe, concede the right to extend her'frontiers to the east and north-west. Only on such a basis I is an agreement possible."