The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-04
TROUBLE is PREDICTED
norman Comment on the Peace
z Negotiations.
A RISING IMPERIAL STAR
= New Power Has Arisen Among tie
Nations of the world-Enelsnd WI
Surfer Most From Competition.
Warfare on American Meat.
copyrish, isss by Associated Press.

Berlin. Dec. 5.-Spain's acceptance Z
the terms OF the United States rs
keenly interested the German govern
ment and press. Adhering TO its policy
consistently followed throughout. the
government has uttered no opinlon
either in interviews or through the M
dium of the semi-ofiicial press. But
the newspapers generally admit that
the United States must be seriously
reckoned with in European peace an
politics and as a colonial power whose
purpose and energy may interfere with
the ambitions OF other powers. TIE
German papers. therefore. predict IN
quent political complications for tie
United States.
The Cologne Gazette attributes Ei-
ropes non-interference at the peace ne
gotiations at Paris to mutual abuses
and expresses the opinion that America
will find the new colonies a greater
source OF u than they suspect
The Lokal Anzeiger says: The
American government will probably
eschew compulsory general military
Service, but hired forces will imme-
diately come largely from Cuba. the
Philippines. Central and South Amer
Tea and East Asia. thu reviving the
-
The Vorwaerts declares that II is al
read certain that England viii find
her main competitor in the Americans
as well in the Eastern Asian markets
not Germany, hut America. The Unit
ed States is a rising star and W
the United States and Great Britain
the fight for this trade will begin.
The Deutsche Zeitung has published
a long editorial regretting that Ger
many has not interviewed between
Spain and the United States. and con-
GLIDING as follows: And can we OBJ
tain nothing from the Spanish c~olonial
estate. which Is vlsibly. piece by piece,
being sold at auction
The imperial meat inspection bill.
which was introduced in the reichstag
early In the session. is now taking a
surprising turn. The agrarians them
selves. for whom the bill was intro
duced. now strongly object to IL unless.
as they assert. IL is greatly altered.
They find that the bill in it's present
form cuts them nearly as much as IL
does the American meat importers, in
asmuch as II provides for a rigid In
spection of their own meat and for its
confiscation IL IL Is diseased. Therefore.
since there Is an enormous amount OF
disease in German cattle and swine, as
shown by official statistics and the reg
ular publications of the Reichsan-
xeiger, all this will hit them very hard
unless the government agrees to reim-
burse the owners OF co~niscated or re-
jected meats. Very strong pressure
has been brought to bear upon the i'm
perial government To insert "A clause in
the bill providing for the indemnihca-
tion Of domestic owners. and over this
clause a wrangle Is now proceeding be-
tween the various German govern
ments Prussia favors a moderate in
Identification. while the other Ger
man states are nearly all against II.
In the meanwhile the %agrarlan press
continues its warfare on all American
meats. it's main organs, the Deutscne
Tagezeitung and the Hamburger
Nachrichten. advocating the total ex-
clusion of all American canned meats
and sausages. In strange contrast with
this is a memorial about meat famine
drawn up by the municipality OF Der
lin. which proves that the German
breeders do not raise enough cattle and
pigs to satisfy the needs Of the nation
and nat the systematic exclusion OF
foreign cattle and swine has decidedly
lowered the quality OF meat 20
the market and has heightened the
prices TO such an extent that horse
and even dog meat has become staple
with the poorer classes in certain dis
trfcts and notably in large cities. The
memorial also proves that the meat con-
sumption Of Berlin has decreased since
the rigid examination OF meats.
The German agrarian press, on the
other hand. publishes alleged official
statistics TO show that the import OF
American pork increased enormously
during the current year and may reach
the figures OF 1897.
One of the largest Berlin wholesale
dealers writes TO the Nossische Zeitung.
saying that the statement In the agra
rian press that much OF the imported
American -four is adulterated Is utterly
untrue. He adds that not a single case
Of adulteratlon has been discovered In
the Berlin market. German dealers In
America have also forwarded TO the i'm
perial hygienic bureau a protest against
these ~prejudicial statements.
A bill has been drafted by the gov
eminent for introduction INTO the reich
stag as soon as the federal govern
ments have approved OF IL, regulating
private insurance companies and pro-
viding for an imperial bureau in Ber-
lin. The measure adopted Will take
the control of the American and other
foreign insurance companies out OF the
hands Of Prussia and other separat,
states and place IL in those Of the en-
pire. which would be a great improve
ment for American interests, as II
would also lead TO common regula-
tions for the whole of Germany.
Frank knaak of New York. who hat
been in Jail on the charge Of treason
in having referred to Emperor Will
lam as a calf-hesd. is still in Jail. In
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