The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-08

BERLIN. Dec. 7.-(Copyrighted 1926,
by HAa Associated Press. president
Clevelands structures on Germany's
treatment of American food exports and
insurance companies in his message to
Congress have created a sensation here.
The government thus far, through its
organs, has not replied TO Mr.. Cleveland S
yelled threats, and the only seml-oftlclal
statement has been that Of the Cologne
Gazette on Wednesday last, in which rel
erence was made to the disadvantage
under which German sugar imports 10
America suffered, and contendlng that
the inspection of American pork was
merely of a local nature, which old not
warrant the differential treatment of
German imports to America 1t Is addeu
that American insurance companies We're
only subjected to the anne regulation as
all such institutions in Prussia ana con-
cluded with the remark that such queS-
tons should not be decided in moment
of anger, but settled in a manner agree
able to both countries after careful con
sideration Of all that may be said for
and against it. 1t was also stated that
there Was no doubt that this was also
MI. CleVeland's desire.
The Berliner Tageblatt reminds the
government that 1t had been warned not
10 take too severe measures against
American imports and insurance com
panieS.
Our industrial interests are threatened
all the more because the agrarian party
viii not fail to drive Germany into
tariff war with America for the purpose
of excluding entirely American cereals.
German Insurance.
The action of several states, such as
missouri, regarding German insurance
companies, is keenly watched, and the
whole matter will be thoroughly venti-
lated in the reichstag, the object Of the
F'reisinnige party and National Labor
party being to precipltate discussion
of the subject during the coming week
at the first reading Of the budget.
Mr.. Percy Bartholon, the United States
consul at Mayence, has written letter
TO the press in answer to the public
statements OF the president of the butch
er's guild there that American lard is
made from diseased hogs. The consul
says: IF all the presidents statements
were true, nobody in the United States
would be alive now"
A reporter of the Associated Press had
an interview during the week with Count
Won Mirbach. the well known Conserva-
tive leader. on President Cleveland's
congressional message. The count said:
The Americans are totally wrong in
menacing US with tariff reprisals. Ger
many has done more in shutting out
American food stufIs of rotoriously in
ferior quality than hygientc considera-
tons and care of the peoples welfare
demand.
1.-The trouble with the American insur-
ance companies, l understand. is solely
due to the unwillinSnesS or inability to
comply with our insurance laws. No
more is asked OF them than our own COM
panies. We will not be expected to favor
foreign companies more than our own"
Herr Richter, leader of the Freisinnige
party. said TO the Associated Press rep
resentatiye: This tariff war between
The United States and Germany is the
natural outcome of the tariff policy pur-
sued by both sides in favoTing raw pro-
ducts at the expense or the manu1ac-
turers. Il is high time that both coun-
tries should come to an amlcable under
standing on the subject. [ fear though
that things Will grow worse before they
grow better, for our agrarian party here
is much stronger this winter than a year
ago and is bent upon making trouble.
In order TO foster its own interests, 1t
refuses to recognize the fact that the
German is no longer an agricultural Dat
an industrial nation. 1 think however,
that the agTarians viii be once again
defeated in the reichstag.'
The Fall of a Baron.
The fall of Baron Koeller, the late
Prussian minister for the interior, is still
the sensation Of local politics, but has
not led 10 cessation Of the police cam
paign against the socialists. The courts
will be kept busy for months TO come
with cases created through the orders of
Won Koeller Indictments have been found
in the Berlin courts against Herr Lieb-
knecht and Herr Rebel and sixty-seven
other socialist leaders. In addition, three
editors of the Voerwarts, the socialist
organ, are now in Jail and the rest of
the editorial staff of that paper are under
Indictment. Besides these cases, six So
cialist members Of the reichstag have
been Indicted and Editor Ewald Of Bran
denburg has been sentenced to irnpris-
onment for leSe majeSte.
Editor Diehl of Chemnitz, was SEN
fenced to a years Imprisonment for the
same Offense.