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Germany not only made her great politically, but by 

 fostering her commerce and industry made her a 

 formidable rival to our trade. This being the state of 

 the case, can one wonder that their rulers should seek 

 in other countries an outlet for their teeming popula- 

 tion and for their increasing commerce, countries in 

 which the future populations would look back to the 

 " Vaterland" with similar feelings of loyalty and love 

 to those with which our colonists regard the " Mother 

 Country." Can one marvel that they see with envious 

 eyes the steps which we English have taken to 

 secure for ourselves in our lands beyond the sea 

 that for which they so ardently long ? 



Whether the expressed determination of Germany 

 to become a first-class sea-power may be intended to 

 wrest from us some of our possessions, or whether 

 it is for the simple purpose of protecting their trade, 

 we cannot tell. The mere chance of the first of these 

 happening is sufficiently serious to warrant our deter- 

 mination that, come what may, the English sea-power 

 must remain supreme. 



At any rate all well-wishers of peace and progress 

 in both countries must deplore the continual attacks 

 made by certain organs of an irresponsible Press 

 on both sides on the good feeling which ought on 

 all hands to prevail. It would be an outrage to 

 civilisation if two countries so closely allied in 

 blood and intellectual development should ever come 

 to blows. 



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