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It is simply absurd to suppose that Germany has not cherished designs more or less ambitious, based upon the apparent desire of England to get rid of its responsibilities in South Africa. To deny, or even to doubt the existence of these designs contingent always upon a policy of abdication and retirement on England's part is simply to ignore the abounding evidence of experience and of fact.
Prince Bismarck's last speech to the Reichstag puts all doubt on that point at rest. England, however, having proclaimed her resolve, the course likely to be pursued by Germany is the course of shrewdness and common sense, two qualities that never fail to distinguish the Teutonic mind. Germany will elect to confine her colonising policy within legitimate and accessible limits.
This has been somewhat of a revelation to English colonists, no less than to foreign nationalities; but it is a fact. That fact is no doubt fully recognised by the German Government, and it is a fact which will be respected. Had it been made manifest a little earlier much misunderstanding, and possibly certain vain aspirations and illusions might have been saved.
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