ENGLISH SUPERIORITY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 13

ENGLISH SUPERIORITY.

A Reuter message reports the following excerpt frem the German Premier's' recent speech : — "Gentlemen, we have just witnessed the course of an electoral contest of unexampled passion in England. The contestaats wielded in it weapons at least as sharp as those in use in this country. Well, in an election that may be so. A century-old political education and culture, however, prevent Englishmen from dragging political or even religious aflimosity in#> personal or -social matters. "The Englishman does not appraise the worth of an Englishman according to whether his political or religious ideas ar© identical with his own. We unfortunately have not made so muchprogress." Baidiaments were no longer, he contrn«ed, as formerly, centres of parliamen**ry education. The demoeratisatioa of the franchise appeared to result inthe brutalisation and degradation of political manners. (Shoufs of assent and disapproval.) The Prussian Franchise Bill had evoked so much interest in the- Empire generally because many peopte wanfeed Prussia to be so democratised by her franchise that the destimes ofthe Empire should be determined by a democratised Federal Council. To such an outcome they -were opposed. The tendency of Germany to split up had made her the plaything of foreign interests. The secret ballot, the- Cnancellor added, undeniably helps to make a morally .and intellectually weaker class of elector, Jess free against material influences, , personal discontent, and the like.

In America they are looking forward with much interest to the publication of Emerson's journal. He began to "keep it in the year 1820, and he seems tc have kept it with regularity almost un-tii-4lie end of his life. The first two vol- j unies will appear in the autumn, and will include the entries of nine yeais. The contents, we are told, are of a miscellaneous variety, sometimes meditative, again painstaking in phraseology, mildly humorous, critical or politic. The journal, it is worth while adding^ was contrived "a double debt to pay" — to perfect SM.tasou'6 4tjy]# aad logic, and to record, Jtttdouige ajod jgf.iSMiijajMt