The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-06
HERBERT BISMARCK.
At a Banquet he Speaks OF Ger
many in East Africa.
WISsMANN'S WORK COMMENDED.
I'm Colonial Matters we are Only IN the Kin
dergarten, so TO Speak"-Stanley and
his Followers.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
BERLIN, Dec. 5.-[By cable to the New
York Herald Count Herbert Bismarck
gave last night in his rooms in the Koning
Ratzer strasse one of those parliamentary
banquets which his hospitality has render
ed famous. The health of Stanley, Emin,
Gravenrauth, Wissmann and the Herald
was pledged again and again in great flow
ing tankards of Hoffraun or bumpers OF
champagne To the little group, of which
your correspondent was one, Count Bis
marck spoke as follows:
Gas regards East Africa, it is difficult
for me to say more on the subject than
have said in the reichstag. Major Wiss-
mann has made brilliant record, not only
as dashing officer and explorer, but as a
man of science. He is the only German
who has crossed that continent twice, and
he ranks among the most distinguished
German travellers. He had been eight or
nine years in Africa before we managed to
secure his services. No other Ger
man has such a record behind him.
l have already praised the work he has
done in the reichstag. Should he succeed
as well in pacifying the southern districts
come back to Berlin and listen to this sug
gestions and advice. What will then be
done will depend of course very much on
what the government Of the East Africa
company decides on. What has just hap
pened will give that enterprise fresh
impetus. 1t will, however, be at least
three months before we can come to any
difinite conclusion in the matter and bring
the question in proper shape before the
public.
Herr Voksen, a merchant, who has
been in East Africa, and in whom the com
pany has every confidence, is going out
there again before long as commercial
agent of the company. He was in East
Africa too in the employ of German firm
for many years. He will consult with our
consul at Zanzibar, who is on excellent
terms with the British consul there, and
will then, after talking the matter over with
Major Wiss mann, make a formal report to
the com amy. Then negotiations will begin
between the company and this government
which Will be brought to a satisfactory
conclusion, we hoped before Spring. The
government does not forget that the prin-
cipal object to be attained in East Africa is
the suppression of the slave trape. This
is the object for which the reichstag has
supplied money. Great results may be eX-
pected from the congress now in session
working in the interest of civilization at
bFuSSelS. III IldJ udGJer we SIMPLY IOl-
lowed the general sentiment of the German
people. We have good deal of work, not
always pleasant work either. We found
public opinion to be in favor of giving the
matter a fair trial-of waiting for the
chicken to beproperly Matched
sin colonial matters we are only beginning
in the kindergarten, so to speak What are
four or five years in the history of colonial
enterprises: / have been chary of eX-
pressing an opinion on these matters, but
now we are carried on the pressing wave
of public opinion
The Kaiser and chancellor We're early
notified by wire of the Herald telegram
which, morrow er, appears in the NOrd Deu 'ch
AllgeminG ZcituHg and other papers. The
Kaiser called on Count Bismarck and eX-
pressed himself as greatly satisfied with
the results and sent an enthusiastic tele-
gram of welcome and encouragement to
the family OF Emin Pasha.