Show THE GERMAN BUDGET the announcement ol 01 the forthcoming german budget and the speculation fco which it has given birth serve as reminder of a statement once made by a celebrated european diplomatist to the effect that the ordinary man in the sheet knows and never can know anything of current international politics the great foreign offices like dishonest cashiers keep two sets ot books one for their em ploy cra the public and the other for their own use and ane two get do not agree the facts in foreign affairs at which the public is looking are never all of the facts and the unknown Is always the vital and the essential it seems that the german budget proposes to increase the taxes on beer and tobacco to such a point as to produce an increased revenue of and that the of this very considerable sum is 10 bo used for building warships non the average has a very decided weakness for beer and for tobacco and to increase alia price of thee necessaries or german life will be an intensely unpopular measure alpon the other hand the need for a very cicat navy hag never yet appealed very forcibly to the german mind and all suggestions to this end have been combated increasing energy anil success it i now the whole ot tho moroccan difficulty uli france and the bellicose attitude toward england have been deliberately devised and created by the astute kniser for no other object 0 purpose than to coa vilce bis own subjects that the ot the empire does actuary demand tho new warships upon which lie emperor has set his inflexible mind the situation has actually called forth english threats to destroy the german navy and to bombard german ports here then Is a position that must surely appeal to the most obdurate of german voters and persuade him to loosen his purse strings that the fatherland may no longer at the mercy of albion all this may bo pel true world has long since ceased to eel any astonishment at the policies of the versatile genius to whom it has pleased an inscrutable providence to entrust the destinies ot germany tt however it should transpire that tue emperor did actually create the recent volcanic situation as a mere lobby expedient to influence the reichstag then tho verdict of the world will be that he has been playing with the sharpest tools and with tho hottest alre that can well bo imagined and that he may have invoked forces before which even emperors and foreign offices must bend franco german hatred like poverty Is always with us but it is no small thing to lash into fury the popular mind in germany and in england and such diplomacy as this might bear its unexpected fruit somewhat before the new german ships aie launched and this would bo premature and it might be disastrous it is not wise to offend even france too deeply it it is actually true that england offered her aid to M dalmasse Dal casse the french people may think that such opportunities port unities are not common enough to bo wasted the german emperor Is a man of enormous ability he thinks largely but he hs the element of instability not unusual aith genius Ms peculiar diplomacy may be safe with foreign offices that have heads hut no hearts but it may not be so safe when it descends into the streets and amongst men who have hearts but no heads |