The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-17
FARMERS WANT thrift WAR
WHILE OTHERS FAVOR NEGOTIATION
OF "A RECIPROCITY TREATY.
Nothing Likely to BE Done Until the
Cabinet Crisis Has Passed-Prince
Henry of Reuss Insane.
Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.)

a reciprocity treaty under Clauses and 4.
No answer of any kind has thus far been
made but preparations are actually making
to open negotiations, although the pace is
very slow. The question is being thoroughly
considered in the Imperial Departments of
the Interior and Finances, as well as in
the German Foreign Office, the officials of
that department of the government
being engaged in collecting and COM
piling statistics for ascertaining not
only the effects Of the new tariff of the
United States on the different branches Of
German industry, but with view of the
possibility of extending new branches of
goods into the German exports. One of the
principles in conducting this work is Herr
Wermuth, the former German commissioner
at the Worlds Columbian Exposition at
Chicago, while the statistical branch is
wholly in charge of Baron Won Thielmann,
formerly German ambassador at Washing
ton and now secretary Of the imperial
treasury. The fact, however latent, that
the Cabinet crisis is still on and is con-
sidered to only end with the departure of
Prince Hohenlohe, necessarily retards the
whole work of the reciprocity treaty pre-
liminaries.
Erroneous and misleading reports as to
the effects of the new United States tariff on
German industries continue to appear in
the press. Consul General Goldschmidt has
just compiled an official list of German
exports, from which it appears that while
there has been a great decrease in exports
for the quarter ending Sept 30, largely due
to the very haste in crowding exports to
America, prior to the Dingley bill becoming
a law, the decrease in the whole of Germany
is only "a per cent, and not Sc per cent, as
reported by the Kreuz Zeitung. Mr.. Gold
schmidt points out that the decrease is
mostly in sugar as evidenced by the fact
that during the third quarter of 1896 the
sugar exports from Germany to the United
States were valued at $6,669,955, while in the
second quarter of 1897, anticipating the
passage of the Dingley bill, the exports of
German sugar to the United States were
nearly double that amount, nearly $780,
597, but for the third quarter of 1897 the SUI
gar exports of Germany to the United
States we're under 100000 in value.
The sugar exported during the fiscal year
of 1S96-1S97, ending in August, amounted to
$50 227, $685. showing an enormous excess as
compared with normal years. How ter
rihc was the crowding of German exports
in anticipation of the Dingley bill becoming
the second quarter of 1896 the figures were
only $l3, S37, 108 for the Berlin district; dur
ing the second quarter of 1897 the amount
reached $24 S49, 167 for the Berlin district
alone, comprising only the northern half
of Germany, while for the whole of Ger
many the figures were about $51, 000, 900
against $26, OOO 900 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 a whole
quarter in advance.
The German rracc have x,y;4l, q e.. -
ceptons, has not looked the above facts
squarely III the face. Even the Cologne Ga
zette, which has immense influence in west
ern Germany, publishes this week statis-
tics claiming to show the disastrous effects
Of the Dingley tariff law. The National
Ieltung says: Everybody has known that
the Dlngley tariff bill 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"
The Deutsche Zeitung, leading Agrarian
organ, after speaking of the continued flow
OF money from Europe to America, says:
II 1T should prove that the commercial in
tercourse between Europe and the United
States continued, as at present, to necessi-
tate 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, 900 marks
for American cereals in excess of their ex-
ports, Will be compelled to organize joint
measures for self-defense"
Onuef THESE circumstances 1t is not sur
prising that the growing feeling of ami
mostly against the United States finds ex-
preston even in the Liberal and Radical
papers, which have hitherto been friendly
to America. 1t is significant for instance.
that Herr Max Schipperel, a Socialist mem
Der of the Reichstag, has declared, in be-
bers of the House, the willingness of the
Socialist faction to aid the government in
any measures calculated to bring about a
state of commercial Interchange with the
United States more favorable to Germany
than at present
The senetnce imposed on the editor OF
the Hamburg Echo Herr Reinhold Stencil
who was committed to eight months i'm
prisonment after being tried on the charge
of iese majesty in asserting that King Leo
pold of Belgium had habtually encouraged
gambling, and who has since been released
on 5000 marks bail, and the case of. Herr
Liebknecht, the Socialist leader, whose an
peal to the Supreme Court against the SEN
tence of four months imprisonment passed
upon him in 1895 for lese majesty commits
in his speech at the opening of the Social
list Congress at BreSlau, in October of that
year. has been dismissed, which necessi-
tates his undergoing the term of imprison-
ment, continue TO agitate the newspapers
and periodicals of every shade of opinion
demand that the Reichstag abolish Section
103 of the Penal Code, under which Herr
Stencil was convicted.
The income tax bill introduced in the Ra-
varian chambers is modelled upon the law
OF Prussia, but on a scale averaging so per
cent. lower
The official report on the effects of the
exclusion of cattle and meats from most of
the German frontiers shows that only "a
per cent. of the total consumption is i'm
ported. Since Oct. IA, 1884, not a single
head of American cattle nor q pound of
American fresh beef has been imported.
During the past week snow has fallen and
cold weather has prevailed in western Ger
many. %**
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 proceed
ings to have him declared Irresponsible 1t
appears that the prince, before he was
placed IN confinement, did several sensa-
uonal things. He ordered of a Berlin Jew
eler 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
of a house in Berlin worth 100000 marks
Max Biradkbira, a German American
actor, who is well known in New York. Chi
cago and Milwaukee. has created at the
Goethe Theater, the leading part iii new
comedy, entitled ''Tyrants of Fortune" by
Baron Won Zobelitz, which has scored a
great success, and which is going TO Amer
lea.
Albert Duering. a German American So
Sialist was expelled during the week by the