The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17


ported-Affairs of the Empire.
Perrin, Oct I6.-CCopyrighted 1897, by
the Associated Press.)-Soon after the
new United States tariff went into ef-
feet the officials Of the American en-
bassy informed the German govern
ment that the United States was will
ing to begin negotiations for a reel
procity treaty under clauses 8 and 4.
no answer of any kind has thus lar
been made, but preparations are &ctu-
ally making 10 open negotiations, al
though the pace IS very SLOW. The
question IS being thoroughly considered
i'll the imperial departments Of the in
terror and finance. as Vel as ia the
German foreign office the officials OF
that department of the government he
ing engaged in collecting and comE1IIhg
statistics FOR aseerfaining not only the
effects Of the new tariff Of the United
States upon the different branches of
German industry, hut with 4 view of
the possibility OF extending new
branches OF goods into the German
exports.
one of the principals in conducting
s, this work Is Herr Wermuth, the for
I mer German commissioner at the
Worlds fair at Chicago, while the sta
tistical branch is wholly in CHARGE OF
BaTon Won Thielmann. formerly Ger
man ambassador at Washington, and
n0M secretary OF the imperial treasury.
The fact. however latent, that the
cabinet crisis is still on, and IS consld-
cred the only end with the departure
of Prince Hohen!ohe, necessarily re-
tards the whole work Of the reciprocity
treaty preliminaries.
MISLEADING REPORTS.
Erroneous and misleading reports as
to the effects of the new United states
tariff on German industry continue to
appear in the press. Consul Gene II
Goldsehmidt has just compiled an ofn-
cial list OF German exports from which
it appears that there has been great
decrease in exports Tor the quarter
ending Sept 30, largely due to the very
great haste in croWding exports to
America prior to The Dingley bill be-
coming a law, but the decrease in the
whole of Germany is only 81 per cent,
and not sc per cent as reported by the
Kreuz Zeitung.
Mr.. Goldschmidt points out that the
decrease is mostly IN sugar, evidenced
by the fact that during the third guar
ter of 1896 the sugar. exports from Ger
many 70 The United STATES WeTe 'Yafued
at S6.669. $50, while in the second quar-
ter OF 1897. anticipating the massage OF
sugar We're nearly double that amount,
namely S13.9S0. 597. but for the third
quarter of 1887 The sugar exports TO the
United States were under 100000 in
value.
EXCESS OF SUGAR EXPORTS.
The sugar exported during the fiscal
year of 1S96-97, ending on Aug. l,
amounted TO $50, %, 66S, showing an
enormous excess as compared With nor
nal years. How terrific was the crowd
ing OF German exports in anticipation
Of the Dinglay bin becoming law is
shown BY the fact that while during the
second quarter OF 1896 the figures were
only SIS, S37, los for the Berlin district,
during the second quarter OF 1897 the
amount reached S24.S59, 1e7 for the Ber-
lin district alone, comprising only the
northern half Of Germany. while for
the whole of Germany the figures were
about S5I, 5000 against s26,090,000 for
the same quarter in 1885. In other
words, the German exporters discount
ed their trade, in anticipation of the
whole passage Of the Dingley bill, for a
whole quarter in advance The German
press here, with a few exceptions has
not looked at the above facts SQuarely
in the face. Even the Cologne Gazette,
which has influence in western Ger
many. publishes this week statistics
claiming TO show the disastrous effects
OF the Dingley tariff law
The National Zeitung says: Every
body has known that the DinGIey tariff
hin would injure German industry. and
the question is what can be done on the
German side to neutraliZe the injury
a tariff war such as the Agrarians
want would only render the situation
more acute
ANIN1os1TY AGAINST Us.
The Deutsche Zeitung, leading
ApTarian organ. after speaking of the
continual flow of money from Europe
10 America, says: If it should prove
that the commercial intercourse be-
tween Europe and the United States
continued, as at present. to necessitate
an outflow of gold to America and a
chronic stiffening Of the European
money market the European countries
which this year will have to pay about
500 600 geo marks for the American GER
eais in excess Of their exports, will be
compelled 10 organize joint measures
for self defense"
Hinder these circumstances it is not
eu,rnrising that the growing feeling of
luminosity against the United States
8Y,ds expression even in the liberal and
radical papers, which have hitherto
1,oe0 friendly to America It is sig
rfdcant. for instance, that Herr Max
gehfpperel, a socialist member of the
,-eicbe.ag. has declared in behalf of the
ofs1er- 81 socialist members OF the house,
the Willingness Of the socialist faction
"a aid the government in any measures
calculated to bring about state of
commercial interchange with the
1Tnited States more favorable TO Ger
many than at present.
SOCIALISTS AROUSED.
THE sentence imposed on the editor of
5be Hamburg Echo, Herr Reinbold
Stencil. who was committed 10 eight
n7onffls' Imprisonment after being tried
on the charge of Iesemajeste in assert
;og that King Leopold of Belgium had
b,ibit,,aUy encouraged gambling, and
Who has since been released on 5000
marks bail, and the case of Herr
I5ebknecht. the socialist leader, whose
apneaI 10 the supreme court against
the sentence Of four months imprison-
nent passed upon him in 1895 for lese-
naa1este committed in his speech at the
oyentng of the socialist congress at
BresJall IN October of that year, has
heen dismissed. Sgiaieh necessitates his
undergoing the term of Imprisonment,
continue to agftate the newspapers and
neriodicals of every shade of opinion,
who demanfs that the reiehstag abolish
section 1913 bf the penal code, under
which Herr Stencil was convicted.
The income tax bin introduced in the
Rayarian chambers is ElodelIAd upon
the law of Prussia, but on a fscaIe 80