Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-06

berlih OanRers 4aya taken anotner thiru Oh
the loan proposSh lkst March, and he hopes
that they will Va Take the remainder. Gen.
eral Diaz gives, however, but few figures to
substantiate his statements that the treasury
is really out of theicrisis. The exports have
fallen off slightly. What the imports were
he does not say, though the slight gain in
the national income would seem to imply
that they were larger than last years. Even
so, the revenuesafs about 81 900 900 short of
the estimated expenditures In foreign re-
lations, Mexicos - on an excellent footing
with her neighbers and all the world.
The sensation and the situation produced
by the publication of those remarkable ex-
tracts from the diary of the late Emperor
Frederick grow more and more interesting.
The latest dispatches state that Bismarck
has threatened to resign because Emperor
William disapproves tho idea of criminally
prosecuting Prof Geffcken, who gave the
diary for publication, and also was dspleased
with the chancellor's report on the affair
This has been Bsmarck's way of forcing an
acceptance of his policy, and it remains to be
seen whether it will be so effective
with the present emperor as with
his father and grandfather In
that the chancellor has been hard hit. A dis
tinct slrinkage has taken place in his dimen-
sions and he is no longer the unapproacha-
BILE Jove of European politics. He seems to
be painfully conscious of the circumstances,
and is talking and acting in manner far
from being marked by his wonted shrewd-
ness, and which can only make matters worse.
For once the ma of blood and iron seems TO
have lost his head.
The exhibition at Melbourne has been
gratifying success, which seems to be due to
the Australian fondness for such things
as much as to the Intrinsic excellence of the
display The American Court is conspicuous
in the Avenue of Nations for its fine en-
trance, which has been treated with much
originality and artistic skill. There is
colossal semicrcular archway sprnging
from the capitals of six Corinthan columns,
and the voussors are panelcd with devices
representing all the states of the union. The
keystone is an enormous golden eagle which
is tanked by fla ystaffs with the national
banner At the doorway of the United
States commissioners Office is pretty well
dressed negro, whose name is Washington.
but, strange to say, not George, and he ushcrs
all visitors to Mr.. McCoppin with a cheerful
alacrity which has made him one of the fea-
lures of the place. Mr.. McCoppin, the COM
missioner, received considerable criticism
for the backward state of the court, which
| was the very last to be completed but he has
won golden opinions by the zeal with which
he has espoused the interests of all the ex-
hibitors and the good taste he has shown in
general arrangement and decoration.
1t would have been thought that California
being on the threshold of the ocean highway
| to Australia, would parayze all other Ameri
can exhibitors by the completeness Of her
| displays but this has not proved to be the
case. The palm of excellence by common
consent has been awarded to the tobacco ex-
hibits from Virginia, and these have excited
real enthusiasm among the antipodians of
! Australia. Indeed, the display is 50 thorough
and so unique, and in some particulars so
| amusing, that many visitors consider it to be
the best in the whole exhibition. Besides a
thorough showing of tobacco of every variety
displayed in a Business like way, there are
an intinity Of objects formed out of cigars
and plugs of James river cavendish
| and natural leaf, and these tickle
the Australians to the last degree. In one
place is Gatling gun formed of cigars and
-
in third there is a gigantic pair of shears
formed of plugs. There is also large sized
| model of a tobacco factory and magnificent
case made of mahogany and ilver-plated
metal filled with smoking and chewing to-
baccos Of many brands put up in paper of
the most gorgeous coloring and startling de-
signs as trade marks California has dis
tingulshed itself by piano with an attach
fupi nv
furniture but the Australians are laughing
at the enterprise of a San Francisco real
estate dealer who makes a display of maps
of various sizes and tons of pamphlets about
California and It's golden climate. Australia
| is hardly an emgrating country.
~
The departure of the German expedition
| for the relief of Emin Bey has been delayed
| until the rising OF the natives in East Africa
is quelled. Such is the information tele-
graphed recently in Berlin, and no doubt
will be entertained of it's accuracy, seeing
that the route of the relief expedition was
| through Zanzibar. Two and two make four.
What the telegram does not tell us is the
time in which the doughty Bismarck pro-
poses to quel rising with which American
! patriots must sympathlze, and which appears
~
Much as we admire and fraternally as we
| regard the German race, we are disposed to
| sympathize with the people of Zanzibar who
are driving German colonists from their
| lands. These Zanzibarans are by no means
| savages, but, on the contrary, boast of
| strong infusion Of Arab blood in their veins,
| and have acivilization of their own which has
| its merits. No treaty with the sultan of
| Zanzibar can possibly confer any rights of
| settlement on the Germans, for, though the
| sultan theoretically owns everything, includ-
| ing the land, it is as trustee for the people.
| This trusteeshp is not part of the sultan
| ship, which is purely military, but belongs to
| the religious title of Imaum. All the Arabic
| tribes are intensely patriotic and care very
| little for their rulers, who, in most cases,
| combine religious and military authority to
| very little purpose. 1t is about time that
| this grab game in Africa should be stopped
| ~
| 1t is incouceiyable that government so
| strong as that of Russia should stoop to the
| vexatons OF the passport system. The news
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