The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-14
Some of the Beauties Of a Protec.
tive Tariff Exemplifled in
Germany.
Good King Williams Upright Life
Contrasted With That OF
Wicked Wales.
A Friend of Bfsmarck Under a ClOud-T0
Assist Emigrating Jews--Other
Foreign News.

lCopyrlghC Ao5l NeV 1oFk hSsOoIateu Presa. ]
BERLIN, June 13.-Undaunted by the over
whelming majority which supported Chan
cellor Won Caprivi on the cereal duties
question, members of the freisinnige party,
at mass meeting decided to prosecute
more vigorously than ever the anti grain
duties law agitation. Figures published by
the liberal press showing that the stores Of
cereals in Germany were nearly exhausted,
elected the official statistics given in to-
days issue of the Reichsnnzeiger, which
aim to prove that the grain harvest of 1880
was not short, but on the contrary, was bet
ter than in 1889, being equal to the average
harvest of the last ten years. The figures
are admittedly based ION rough computa-
1890 yielded 2139,O0O tons of wheat,
and 5.S77.OOO tons of rye,
against 2,372,43O tons of wheat and
5,363. 426 tons of rye in the preceding year,
and an average Of 2,479,000 tons of wheat
and 4,702,O00 tons of rye for the past decade.
The potato crop of 1890 amounted to 23,-
32O 600 tons. against an annual average of
1884, 600 tons for the past ten years. Ton
in these statistics signifies 1000 Kilograms,
OF 1877 pounds. Allowing that the figures
Of the OeichsanzeiRer are accurate the facts
remain that the high price Of bread presses
heavily upon the working classes.
The declarations Of Chancellor Won Cap
rivi that crops in Germany are in better
condition than generally supposed has been
contradicted by reliable reports from
several quarters of the empire,
received by telegraph to-day. In the
m ioh
burg, Dresden and other centers, reach the
chancellor protesting the necessity of a re-
duction of the tariff on grain. The session
of the landtag will be brought to close
next week, when the liberal members will
carry the agitation into the cou ntry dis
tricts.
Military and social circles are equally
amazed at tie revelations regarding the
conditions of society in England The ad-
mission that the prince of Wales has been
involved in gambling scandal is the prin-
clpal topic of conversation. At all military
casinos and clubs the action of the prince
in the affair is emphatically condemned.
1t IS impossible. 1T is stated. to conceive of
high Prussinn officer condoning the Of
tense Of cheating or screening person
found 10 be guilty of such an act. The
newspaper press draw comparisons between
the habits of the prince of Wales and those
of Emperor William, whose strong con-
demnation of gambling in the German army
has greatly assisted to check the
practice of playing for high stakes.
The kleine Journal goes 80 far
in alluding to the relations OF the
princess of Wales towards her husband as
to say she is neglected for women of the
demi-monde, and finds her sole consolation
in the respect with which the English peo-
pie surround her.
:, A suit for libel now being tried at
Bochum continues to excite the country.
The prosecution has asked the Essen
tribunal to sentence the editor of the
Fuscangel to two years and Lunemann to
one years imprisonment respectively for
accusing Herr Baare, director of the
Bochum Iron works, and friend and fina n
cial adviser of Prince Bismarck. with falsi-
tying incomes for the purpose of escaping
the income tax. graver charge is that
Herr Baare, for sixteen years, has been
aending out from his works steel rails
which have not been properly tested, and
which bear forgery of the government
stamp. Suspicion that Baare has originated
system of supplying German and foreign
stamped as Officially tested" will not be
set at rest without open government in
qulry, which certain of the officials are &C.
ccused of trying to prevent.
The Post asserts that the French govern
ment's demand that the czar make definite
NuoiutaeioI 60 W Ouo WHICH le
would assume in the event of Franco
German war has obtained only the vaguest
response, committing Russia to nothing.
At conferences of Hebrews held here i'll
has been resolved to form an international
emigration committee for the purpose of
supervising the emigration of Jews from
Russia. Only refugees who have been COM
PEELED to leave their homes will be assisted
and these will be sent to their ultimate
places of settlement. At these conferences
ample evidence was adduced to show that
the exodus is reaching immense proper
tions. 1t has little effect upon Germany
and England, however, the flood of em-
grafton tending toward the United States.
! he new trial which was secured by Emil
Seitfert. the American-German adyenturer
who was recently sentenced to two years.
Imprisonment for defrnuding Mrs. Mcclure,
of Detroit. Mich, has been postponed pend
ing the arrival of Mrs. Mcclure, who has
announced by cable her intention of re-
turning and giving further testimony
against the prisoner.
ID. q. Mills, who has been here ns the
guest of United States Minister to Germany
Phelps, took his departure yesterday. Mills
will sail for New York on July l.
Mrs. Jos. III. Choate and Gen. Il. Veile, of
New York. who have been entertained at
the American legation here, have gone to
Dresden.
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