The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-17

OF 1897 the amount reached $24, ,S59, 167
for the Berlin district alone, comprising
only the northern half Of Germany,
While for the whole of Germany the
figures were about $51, 100000, against
SIG, 600 for the same quarter of 1896.
In other words the German exporters
discounted their trade in anticipation
Of the passage of the Dingley bill for
whole quarter in advance.
The German press here, with few
EXCEPTIONS has not looked the above
facts squarely in the face. Even the
Cologne Gazette, which has immense
influence in Western Germany, pub
fishes this week statistics claiming to
show the disastrous effects of the Ding
ley tariff law The National Zeitung
says: Everybody has known that the
Dingley tariff bill would injure German
industry, and the question is, what can
be done on the German side to neutral
ize the injury? A tariff war such as
the Agrarians want would only render
the situation more acute"
The Deutsche Zeitung, a leading
Agrarian organ, after speaking of the
continual flow of money from Europe
to America says: IF it should prove
that commercial intercourse between
Europe and the United States con-
tinues, as at present, to necessltate an
outflow of gold to America and stiff
the European countries which this year
will have to pay 3,500,000,000 marks for
American cereals in excess of their eX-
ports, will be compelled to organize
joint measures for self defense"
Under these circumstances it is not
surprising that the growing feeling of
animosity against the United States
finds expression even in the Liberal
and Radical papers which have hither-
to been friendly to America. 1t is sig
nificant. for instance, that Herr Max
Schoepperel, a Socialist member of the
reichstag, has declared in behalf of the
other forty-seven Socialist members of
the house. the willingness Of the So
cialist faction to aid the government in
any measures calculated to bring about
state of commercial interchange with
the United States more favorable to
Gtrmany than at present.
LESE MAJESTE.
The sentence imposed on the editor
of the Hamburg Echo, Herr Reinhold
Stencil, who was committed to eight
months imprisonment, after being
tried on the charge of lese majestic, in
asserting that King Leopold, of Bel
gium had habitually encouraged gamb-
ling and who has since been released
on 5000 marks bail, and the case of
Herr Liebknecht, the Socialist leader,
whose appeal to the supreme court
against the sentence OF four months
Imprisonment, passed upon him in 1898,
for lese majestic, committed in his
speech at the opening of the Socialist
| congress at Braslau in October of that
yC ar, has been dismissed, which neces-
states his undergoing the term of I'M
prisOnment, continue to agitata the
newspapers and every shade of opinion
demands that the reichstag abolish sec
ton 103 of the penal code under which
Herr Stencil was convicted.
The income tax bill introduced i'll
| the Bavarian chambers is modelled
upon the laws of Prussia, but on a
scale averaging so per cent lower. The
! official report up on the exclusion
! of cattle and meats from the
| German frontiers, shows that only "a
per cent Of the total consumption is
| imported. Since Oct IA, 1894, not a
| single head of American cattle nor a
pound of American fresh beef has been
imported.
The condition of Prince Henry, of
! Reuss, who is confined in a private
asylum for the insane in this city, is
! rapidly growing worse and the family
| has begun proceedings to have him de-
clared irresponsible. 1t appears that
the prince, before he was placed in
| confinement did several sensational
things He ordered diamonds and other
jewelry to the value of 100000 marks
and the jewels have since disappeared.
He also presented his valet, "a man
named Schneider. with a deed to a
house in Berlin, with 100000 marks.
The first shipment of American but
ter has arrived at Hamburg in excel
lent condition and found ready mark
ct at prices slightly lower than the
German, averaging to the American
| b1ittaT % n 26 cents ner nOund
Rudolph Nunnemacher, of Milwau-
lee, son-in-law of Frederick Pabst, the
well-known brewer who has been pass
ing part of his honeymoon in Berlin
has left this city on his way to Paris.
Capt. Wibourg, of Cincinnati, who
accompanied Gen. Nelson A. Miles
through Europe. has sailed for home.
At the reception of the members ol
the leprosy conference at the palace
of Potsdam on Friday, by the emperor
and empress, his majesty conversed al
length with the American delegates
Drs. Gatewood and Kinyonne, about
Ieprosy and the danger in the United
States.