The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
UNITED STATES NOW A GREAT
NAVAL POWER.
Germans Must Build More Ships In
Order to Hold Their Own-German
Press Becoming More Friendly
Official Denial That the Govern
ment Favored Spain.

Won Bulow (who is away on his sum
mer holidav)- is acting chief Of tn
foreign office. and who may be re-
garded as voicing in this conversation
the general official view of the subject
discussed. The gentleman began by
saying:
Baron Won Bulow, on leaving, eau
toned me that no expression of opinion
contrary to Gernany's policy of strict
neutrality was to be promulgated
That we mean to observe neutrality
of this description, 1 think the world
now knows. From the start the for
! eign office has made it invariable &c
| say nothing that could be interpreted
| as offensive to either side, and we have
| in no way tried to influence the Ger
man press in favor of the United
States, except on a single occasion. AT
/ first there was so much hostility on
/ the part of the German press toward
the United States that we took every
! opportunity to arrange for the appear
ance of articles of a different tone.
Almost the only affinity existing be-
tween Germany and Spain is found in
the monarchial institution. while the
bonds uniting Germany and the United
States are enormous. 1t is true that
at the commencement of the war Ger
mans We're much Influenced by the
fact that a powerful nation was at
lacking a weak one. This was a strong
strain upon German idealism and the
sense of justice which characteriZeS
the German people, and the mere fact
that you were the aggressors in this
case somewhat prejudiced the German
mind against you, quite irrespective of
the merits of the controversy. Besides,
it must not be forgotten that Germans.
in the matter of political education, are
still somewhat unripe. 1t is not long
since they became a homogeneous po-
litical entity. 1t is partly due to this
fact that Germans are given to reach
ing haSty conclusions on questions of
politics. Hence Sprang a great amount
of public comment in favor of Spain in
the earlier stages of the war. Such
talk. however, ought not to be quoted
against the German government, in
regard to which there has been.
think. no Just cause of complaint by
Americans"
BECOMING FRIENDLY.
AS a matter of fact. during the past
fortnight the tone of the German press
has been much more favorable to the
United States, and hardly anything di-
rectly hostile has appeared in any of
the more important papers, while the
number of journals openly friendly
has considerably increased. The pa
perS now point out that the authori-
ties at Madrid and Manila and the
Spanish press were largely response
bic for the excitement arising out of
the Irene incident, as they miscon-
strued it and preceding incidents in
manner that necessarily aroused suS-
picion in the United States.
A good sample of the average of
editorial articles nowadays is furnished
in the Lokal AnZeiger, until recently
one of the most, violent anti-American
sheets in Berlin. In an article printed
today this journal draws d parallel be
tween the Turley-Grecian and the
Spanish-American wars, and says that
the difference between the cases is
mainly in the fact that Greece was the
attacking and not like Spain, the at
tackled power. This the Lokal Anzeiger
goes on to say, was only a formal DIFF
ference, for Spain, after annoying and
injuring a powerful neighbor for a long
time, had finally engaged in a war for
which she has not the necessary
strength. To defend her possessions
only imposed sacrifices upon her, and
she was bound to lose. If, on the other
hand. she had sold these colonies, she
would have realized a large sum-
by her unreasonable attitude" the
Lokal Anzeiger continues, Spain as
SUIil6S DIS ldlSG q measure OF feSDO-iSl-
bility as Greece. Both Standards and
Greeks are blind and full of conceit."
NEW SITUATION.
The newspapers here today discuss
deliberately the new situation and the
changed conditions growing out of the
war. The conclusion reached is that
the United States must hereafter be
reckoned a great naval power and that
Germany will be obliged once more 10
increase her navy in order to hold her
own with the other powers.
The Deutsche Zeitung, discussing the
annexation OF Hawaii and the plans of
the United States as regards Pago-
Pago, says: This means a change in
the balance of power in the south sea,
regarding which Germany cannot af-
ford r" he SILENT
Thu dper concludes a somewhat ag-
gressiVe article by saying: I'VE have
confidence that the leaders of our fo--
eign policy will do all that is required
to prevent the disturbance of German
interests in Samoa"
The Vossiche Zeitung says that the
war has ended as the majority of COM
petent judges expected from the be-
ginning that it would end Spain, the
Vossiche Zeitung says, undertook the
struggle without a chance of success.
The Americans, the article says, owe
their success. besides their military su-
periortiy. to a harmonious joining of
all important factors
Admiral Won Knorr, commander-in-
chief Of the imperial navy, informs the
of the the Associated
Press that during the approach of
autumn and winter the German navy
will be more strongly represented in
American waters than at any time
since 1891. when Germany took q lead
ing part in the settlement of rthe Chill
ian trouble. Five warships. the Geier,
Hela, Moltke, Sophie and Nixo. with a
total tonnage of 10,500, and carrying 81
guns and 1,534 men. will be kept there.
MEAT FAMINE.
The meat famine that prevails
Germany is causing much
dissatisfaction among the poor, who
are unable to pay the increase in the
price. Villagers on the Silesian front
er daily cross the line and visit the
nearest Russian towns to procure cheap
neat. The Berlin butchers this week
resolutions expressing in
iignation at the governments policy
If preventing meat imports, which has