Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-31
THE WORK OF DECORATION.
Everybody and His. Wife Invited to
Honor the Linking Of the Pacific
With st. Paul.
AT CHICAGO.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

house. The delegation comprised the fol-
lowing:
G. Willius, NJ. Hou,
Ansel Oppenheim, Albert Scheffer,
VIM. T. Murray, A. Won Deyn,
Arnold holman, c.. Stahlmann,
l.. Fisher, G. Bshn,
George Refs. C. H. Lieneau,
+. Harrsen, George Benz,
DIR. Stamm.
Several OF the distinguished foreign
guests invited to participate in the cere-
monies of the opening of the Northern
Pacific railroad arrived here yesterday and
this morning in advance of the main
party. Ameng them was DR.. Edward
Lasker, of Berlin. Perhaps no one of the
many people who saw the stranger
enter the portals of the hotel suspected
the little portly gentleman, with round,
kind face, dressed without any other con-
sideration than that of comfort, to be the
most formidable antagonist of the great
Bismarck on the floor of the German
reichstag and IN German public life. DR..
Lasker is at once one of the brightest and
one of the most popular of the German
public men who have taken an active part
in shaping the German empire and bring
ing about German amity. He has been a
member of the opposition ever since he
entered public life. but at the same time
never allowed any doubt about his patriot
ism or the purity of his motives to even
spring up. Very few men, indeed, have a
stronger belief in Germany and her i'm
portance among the worlds powers than
DIR. Edward Lasker. This great ad-
versary of Bismarck dill not come.
however on any mission based on
Bismarck's Ukase excluding American
PORK from the German markets. He did
not come on any mission at all but simple
to see the country.
"For the several years past" he said to
the reporter. Il intended to take trip to
the United STATES because / felt lively in
terest in them and wanted to see for my
self what influences this rapidly growing
new nation might in time have on the
entire civilized world. But was not per-
mltted to see my desires realized before
this summer when l received an invitation
to be present at the opening of the North
ern Pacific railroad. l shall join Mr.. Viii
lard's party here in Chicago, but preferred
to leave Germany several months ahead of
the rest of the party because 1 want ed rest
and recreation. I must confess I found
both while 1 was in New York on
the Hudson, in the Catskills.
IN Saratoga and some other eastern resorts,
and beside gained most favorable i'm
preston of America. The hospitality of
the Americans is really wonderful"
"Did you have any opportunities to
observe the social and political condition
of the country?" the reporter asked.
81 have conversed with great many
well informed people and improved every
opportunity that Offered to give informa-
ton. The conclusions reached from what
1have learned amounts to this, that Amer
lea, politically and socially, is still in its
babyhood. Your political parties seem
to have no defined principles and your
whole public life has an unfinished, uncer-
tain character
Have you made any observations about
the feelings of American public men on
the tariff question:
Il have and am free to say that great
many thinking men favor my belief in
free trade. 1t would seem to me that the
free traders who are now to be found in
both political parties will sooner or later
form new and powerful political party
But at present the free trade movement is
still very small and hardly we'll enough
understood. If the tariff question enters
into the next national campaign 1 think
the Republican party will declare for a
protective tariff, while the Democratic
party will advocate free trade. Most of
the free traders now are Democrats 1
believe although 1 have met with many
Republicans who are strong advocates of
unrestricted free trade"
''As free trader you do not approve
then of the exclusion of American pork
from the German market?"
II can answer that question only by
saying am free trader and opposed in
principle to every restriction on
international trade. I fully
understand that the order excluding
American pork from the German markets
is based on the claim that the measure was
necessary for sanitary reasons. But
know that the true reason is to be sought
IN the protective policy of the reactionary
party in Germany of the junkers who do
not like the competition of America in
agricultural products. They who control
almost the entire food production in
Germany want to control the market also
by excluding all competition, and nothing
suited them better than the strong feeling
against America in the industrial classes
which the discrimination against import
ed manufactures in the American markets
has caused. This feeling will grow
stronger the longer this discrimination
lasts and I fear should the United States
answer the prohibition of the American
pork in the German market by prohibiting
the importation of German products the
reactionary party would be only too glad
to close the German markets to American
products of all kinds, much to the detri-
ment of the consuming classes in Ger
many, will admit, but to the great advo-