Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14
TIRED OF THE KAISER.
Germany's Cabinet Called Down for
Deferring Too Much to Him
INSTEAD OF TO THEIR COUNTRY.
Opposition Has Killed the Fatherlands
Worlds Fair Project
COMMERCIAL DICKERS WITH RUSSIA


sonal bias of the Emperor in swaying all
important affairs of State policy.
The Ministers lavishly ask, say the Tos.
sischs Zeitung, not what is best for the coun-
try. but what will please the Emperor
Everywhere the imperial person is brought
| forward and the responsibility of the Cabi-
net is more and more disregarded. This,
the paper says, is . dangerous policy, be-
cause public opinion is far from approving
certain measures supposed to have their ori-
gin with the Emperor. Ministers having
no other ambition beyond the carrying out
of the will of the Grown are hardly endur-
able, even in an autocratic State. German
statesmen ought to resign if they find their
protest against the Emperor's designs made
impotent The article reflects with fidelity
the feeling which pervades all classes.
The Kaiser q Capricious Monarch.
Though the energy and good Intentions
of the Emperor are appreciated, discomfort
with his imperious intermeddling prevails
everywhere. The instability of public
affairs, the constant change of high officials,
the frequent removals of military officers,
the sudden turns in policy, now radically
Liberal and anon extremely Conservative,
has aroused a general longing for firm
hand and for unswerving methods of govern
ment, even If they are sometimes oppres-
sive, as under Prince Bismarck. Officials
and the public then knew what to expect
They had confidence that measures proposed
would be carried through at all risks.
Emperor William has decisively opposed
the proposed Berlin Exhibition. To-night's
Reichsanzeiger states that the Emperor, act
ing on report from Chancellor Won Ca
privi, has withdrawn all official support
from the scheme. The Chancellor's report
declares, it is said, that the reasons for not
approving of the holding of the exhibition
are that only small section of the German
industrial societies held that an exhibition
was desirable, and that a majority of the
Federal Governments denied Its necessity
on economic grounds
The Worlds rafr Project Abandoned.
The Prussian Ministers were especially
opposed to the project, while 40 members of
the Bundesrath voted against it and only
seven in favor of it. The Chancellor con-
sidered that unanimity was indispensable to
success, and that being wanted, he recon-
mended the Emperor to discountenance the
undertaking. In this intance the Emperor,
exhibition. has bowed before the will of the
majority.
An influential section of the press. chiefly
the National, Liberal and Freisinnige
parties have been indulging in outspoken
attacks upon the Ministers for submitting to
the will of the Emperor regardless of their
duties to the country, and upon the EN-
peror for exercising despotic sway over
every ministerial department
The resignation of Herr Herrfurth, Prus-
sian Minister of the Interior, IL now
credited, not to difference in point of
policy with Herr Miguel Prussian Minis
ter OF Finance, but because he incurred the
Emperor's distavor by combating the
Schloss lottery.
German Distrust OF Gladstone.
Some satisfactory assurances have already
reached the foreign Office here through the
stones foreign policy. All the German po-
litlcal parties view Gladstone's advent as
Prime Minister with regret as likely to i'm
peril the solidity of the Triple Alliance, un-
less Lord Roseberv would become q Min
lister in his Cabinet.
As late as yesterday the advices from the
German embassy positively stated that Lord
Rosebery, finding that Mr.. Gladstone re-
fused to follow his lead in the position of
England toward the Triple Alliance, Egypt
and Russia, and differing with him in the
essentials of his policy, refused to accept
Office. To-day's official dispatches an
nounce probable entente between Mr..
Gladstone and Lord Rosebery, the former
bury's foreign policy on its main points
The commission on a commercial treaty
with Russia has concluded its discussions.
1t has recommended as basis for the nego-
tiations decrease in the tariff on Russian
grains and timber in exchange for lowered |
tariff on German manufacturers, especially |
steel Apart from the tariff arrangements |
the Russian Government asks an important |
in the resembling of the edict |
the Reichsbank from making
advances on Russian loan.
Political Entente Also Wanted.
The Council of the Reichsbank has been |
and it favored the repeal of the |
but the Government is under |
stood to be averse to granting the concession |
unless some political entente with Russia is
with the commercial one. In the
event of a treaty being concluded, mer-
chants and shippers engaged in the Baltic
trade hope that the Government will declare
Stettin, Dantzic and Kiel free ports.
The Reichstag will resume its sitting in
November The proposed Government
measure prohibiting the culture of native
tobacco, while increasing the duty on for
eign tobacco, NAV never see the light The
Ministers have been warned of fierce oppo-
'ition to the bill The prohibition would
mean ruin to many thousands of tobacco
growers in Germany, even if they were re-
mbursed BY q Government bounty, while
thousands of persons employed in the pro-
luction of domestic cigars would be thrown
,ut of work without compensation. This
would add largely to socialist discomfort.
The Ministers must devise other fiscal
Methods to raise the money necessary for
he increased army expenditures, or risk q
torn against which the Emperor's favor
will be unable to shield them.
Horse Meat an Article Of Food.
A convention of German horse butchers
las agreed to open first-class restaurant
lere for The purpose of educating the up
YER classes to the use of horse flesh as a
7iand. The report submitted to the con-
'ention stated that there are 2,400 horse
butchers in Germany who kill SO, 900 horses
These horses are mostly fat
ened for the meat market No worn-out
nimals are used.
f seven soldiers in the Neisse river while
ngaged in swimming exercises. Two hun
red men were odered to swim across the
iver in linen suits and carrying their
if1es. They swan in three rows. The
rst row was half over when cries for help
aused general terror. The rows got mixed
and the seven men, selling each
ther, sank. No boats followed the SWIM
hers, and but for the presence OF some pom
who rescued many of those who
ad lost their presence of mind, the loss of
te would have been terrible The mill
ary authorities are blamed for taxing the
trength of the men beyond endurance.