Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-20
THEY WAGE WAR ON AMERICAN
PRODUCTS OF L KINDS.
ANTAGONIZE THE GOVERNMENT
SAY 1T HANDLES OUR ..LICE INFECT
ED POULTRY TOO TENDERLY.
Society of Husbandry Asks German
Government to Subject American
Horses TO Six Weeks Quar-
nntinc and IndeIibIy
Brand Them.

tant event of the week, politically, was the
annual meeting of the Federation OF Hus-
bandry in this city. The Conservatives the
week before, attempted to make an anna
BILE bargain with the federation whereby
they would wage a joint campaign in the
reichstag and diet elections; but, at the
convention, the leaders of the federation
frankly declared they would not support
any candidates who were not pledged TO
support the aims of the federation. Her
rem Deidtrich and Hahn, prominent mem
bers of the reichstag and ntimate frlenos
of Prince Bismarck, who are known to be
inspired from FREDERICKSBURG. boldly de-
clared that the federation must antaSonize
the government at the coming election I'M
less precise promises are given to satisfy
the agrarian demands. especially in the d.
rection of paralyZing or excluding tine
constantly increasing American competi-
ton in all products of the soil, which, II 1t
remains unchecked, will utterly ruin Ger
man agriculture, which is equivalent to
running the whole country"
Resolutions were adopted. to the eject
that the agrarians, no matter of what par
", would only succor the candidates stand
ing on the federation's platform. Withln
the ranks of the National Liberals a SIM
ilar breaking up of party lines is occurring;
a number of the leaders declaring they Will
vote only for candidates of agrarian ten
denotes. Thus, the pivot of the campaign
is the question of supporting or antaSoniz-
ing agrarianism. The whole OF the Left
lists, of course, are anti-agrarians, but they
are almost assured of the whole OF me
Rightists. and many of the Centrists sup
port. There is a visible increase IN the
agrarian strength among the Centrists, al
though the leaders and the Centrists press
are doing their best to discourage II.
Shortly, the agrarian problem will be par
amount in all the legislatures of the coun-
try. There is no doubt the agrarians are
an enormously increasing factor IN pom
tics, and they are doing their best to
hurry the government into a tariff war
with the United States.
In this connection, the remarks of the
Deutsche Tages Zeitung, the leading agrar-
ian organ, apropos of the news that the
house of representatives of washington
had called for the correspondence relative
TO American beef, fruit. horses and aduiter-
paper mentioned says: I'VE sincerely hope
the Americans viii look thoroughly into
those German measures For one thlnS.
they will arrive at the conclusion that
Germany has dealt as leniently as possible
with them. Then, we harbor the hope that
the insolence of these Yankees will be so
increased by the discussion of those mat
tiers in ongresS that Germany will not be
able to do otherwise than follow up the
paper-measures by more palpable ones. For
this reason We do hope the Americans will
go it in great style"
The Vossische Zeitung replies to this eff
fusion. saying: 1T would be hard to I'M
veil in a more frivolous manner the de-
signs of the Federation of Husbandry to
drive us into a tariff war. the enormous
damage of which cannot be foreseen."
Following the example OF the previous
week, numerous members of the reichstag.
during the course of the debates. have
competitors. Herr Roesicke declared the
German government had handled the slice
infected" American products more tender
ly than America itself, adding:
1.-The spectre of q tariff war with that
country has had no terror to the Germans.
who fear God and nothing else in the
world"
A meeting of the Society of Husbandry,
specially called, has passed a resolution
calling upon the government to subject all
American horses to six weeks quarantine
and to indelibly brand them. The society
also decided to prepare statistics regard
ing horse raising in America.
The government during the past week
sent experts to all the ports of entry and
revenue stations. to assist IN determining
whether American fruit is infected. The
officials of the United States embassy here
have not yet been informed whether the
costs of the examinations will fall upon
the exporters.
The press is very indignant. at the fact
that German nurserymen have been or.
dered by cable to discontinue sending their
products.
Diplomatic notes are passing between
Perrin and ST. Petersburg, the latter COM
planning of the new and most severe regu.
lations of the minister of agriculture
baTOU Won In reSdrC
TO the importation of Russian hogs, and a
reprisal is threatened.
The Opera subscription ball on wednes.
day was the most brilliant of Berlin's so.
Ciety functions. Ii was attended by the
whole court and diplomatic corps and
there was an unusually large American con.
tingent present. One of the richest cos.
tunes was that of Mrs. White. the wife OF
the United States ambassador. 1t was Of
straw yellow brocade with diamonds anC
pearls. The other Americans present in the
company include Mesdames Allen. Wibort
and Dixon. of Cincinnati, and Mr.. Gold
schmidt and wife. Mrs. Sabin's party OF
eight exceptionally pretty American girl:
attracted the attention of the emperor. wht
sent an officer to ascertain their names
Among the Americans, married to Ger
mans. who were at the ball. were Princes
1ynar and CounteSSeS WalderSee an,
Oriola. They received particular attention
from the emperor. who spent an hour il
the diplomatiStS' box. conversing especially
with Mr.. White and the British ambassa
dor. Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles.
A conference of the chiefs of police of TIL
large PruSsian towns has been called 70
the coming week in Berlin, with the view
of a reorganization of the whole police
Police outrages have been so frequent o
late that the emperor desired the meetin;
TO ne called in order to consider the mat
ter and 10 report to Baron Won Windheim
exhaustive investigation Of the police or
rarizations of the European capitals las
summer.
Prince Henry NNVI. of Peuss. who's
crazy escapades led him 10 he confined Il
an asylum. has been released.
The jubilee of the rising of Schleswig