The herald., 1897-02-14
IN THE kAISER'S REALMS
A Tariff Announcement Causes
a Sensation
AMERICAN COMPETITION
Will Be Disposed Of When Present
Treaties Expire
Emperor William Continues to Urge the In.
crease Of the Navy. But Meets With
Bitter Opposition
Associated Press spec,al wire

The declaration in the reichstag by
! Count Pozadowsky, secretary of the i'm
perial treasury, that the so-called auto
nomic tariff will be adopted by Germany,
has created a sensation in commercial
and financial circles. That such tariff
at the expiration of the existing CONNER
cial treaties will be used as a weapon
against countries whose competition the
Agrarians dread the most, and against
| the United States even before then, an
| official of the foreign office, who enjoys
the full confidence of the minister of for
| eign affairs, has informed the corre-
\ spondent of the Associated Press. The
new tariff will be prepared Jointly by the
| foreign office and finance department
The first stage of the work is just begun.
Expert statements are being obtained
from every point of the empire in order
to get an accurate picture of the condi-
ton of the various industries and trades,
and especially husbandry, so as to fix
precisely the degree of protection need
ed in each case. The new tariff, based on
this inquiry, will be passed by the reich
stag in time to be used as means or
| pressure to conclude favorable COM
| mercial treaties dating from 1908.
The scheme provides for general and
| special tariff. The latter will be grant
ed to treaty nations and the former Will
| be used against nations with which
| Germany has no treaty. All the present
treaties will be terminated and there is
| no doubt that Germany's present rela-
| tions with the United States and Russia
will be considerably modified.
The competition is becoming keener
| and more dangerous, but the govern
ment believes that with the measures
proposed Germany can protect herself
| by increasing the specialization of her
| products and raising the quality Of her
| goods.
Emperor Williams remarks at the
parliamentary dinner given by DR.. Mi
| quel, minister of finance, strongly urg-
ing that the strength of the German
| navy be increased, and advocating a
coalition of the Conservatives, Imperial
lists and National Liberals in order to
| carry out his patriotic work, have been
commented upon throughout the empire
and the newspapers point out that it is
| eveidently still his majesty's life dream
| to make Germany as powerful at sea as
| she is on land. But nearly all the pa
pers, even the Conservative organs,
| maintain that his dream is not realizable
and the Centrists. as the strongest party
| in the reichstag, are deeply offended at
|
| list of the national parties. The leading
Centrist organ, the Volks Zeitung, says
| defiantly that the Centrists will not
| support such inflated naval plans, add
ing: And if the reichstag is dissolved
| for rejecting them, the elections will
only put the government in worse po-
! sition. The election cry of new vessels
and new taxes" means sure defeat for
the government. Let the Conservatives
| and National Liberals consolidate. They
| still will be powerless."
| The Agrarian mouthpiece, the
Deutsche Zeitung, also fatty denounces
| the naval scheme. 1t claims that the
national parties will only unite under
the banner of Agrarianism.
Articles published in the French press
as to the advisability of a Franco-Ger-
man entente against Great Britain are
| followed with much interest here.
The Gauicis today referring to Gre
| tan question asserts when the King of
! Greece was in Paris in November last,
| he informed the French government
| that, being no longer able to resist the
| aspirations of the Greek people and
| being aware of the unfriendly dispoSi-
| tion in Russia he was compelled to draw
closer to Great Britain and Austria.
| The Gaulois also declares that SEN
sation has been caused in diplomatic
| circles by the report that Emperor Will
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his adhesion to the policy of France and
Russia in the east. This has. however,
led the Gaulois to warn Germany that
! France will not lose sight of the question
| of AlsaceLorraine.
| Prince Bismarck's organ, the Ham
burger Nachrichten, says: Much as
we like to welcome in the interest of
peace the choice of France in favor oil
Germany against England, yet we do
not believe French politics will yet make
| such a choice. France is ready tempor-
| arily to cooperate with Germany in the
| instance of the far east or in the African
| colonies when directed against England
and especially if Russia sanctions it, but
we do not believe for moment that
| France, under any circumstances, would
relinquish her hope of recovering AL
ace-Lorraine and regaining military
| and political preponderance in Europe"
| Both Count Won Mirbach and Baron
Won Manteuffel, the two ablest of the
/ Conservative leaders, intend to resign
| their seats in the reichstag.
The Prussian minister of the interior,
| Won der Recke, is preparing bill to re-
organize the PrusSian municipal elector
system, to deprive them of their present
plutocratic character
Herr Auer has placed Herr Liebknecht
as editor of the Voerwaerts, and since
! this change the paper has been more vio-
!
! pensioned by the S'Aialist party.
According to the Military Wochen-
| blatt, military bicycle organizations
have scored a success and the army men
| Of France are forming wheel clubs
which will be followed by Germany.
The 40Oth anniversary of the birth Of
Melancthon will be celebrated on Feb
ruary 16 throughout the Protestant part
of Germany. At the Berlin university
a special address will be delivered by
| DR.. Adolph Hernick, professor of &C.
clesiastical history and the best known
| exponent of broad evangelical theology
| in Germany.
In Leipsic, Giessen, Marburg, Goet-
tingen and Heidelberg, as we'll as in
| other universities, the day will be suit
| ably celebrated. 1t will also be kept in
! the public schools and gymnasiums of
| Protestant Germany.
In the Berlin Gymrasia orations on
! Melancthon of a biographical character
and pointing out his Importance as a
| compeer of Luther in the reforma ton
will be delivered,
| A monument to Melancthon has been
| erected in his native place, Breton, near
| Baden, and it will be unveiled on Febru-
airy 18th by the grand duke of Baden.
Mr. Edwin T. Uhl, the United States
ambassador and Mrs. Uhl will tomor-
row accompany their daughter and son
in-law, Mrs. Thompson and Prof. Guy
Thompson Of Yale. to Bremen, whence
they will embark for New York
| Daring Robbery