The San Francisco call., 1898-07-31
GERM FANS BLIND TO THE TRUTH American Temper Yet Misinterpreted. HUMOROUS PRESS VIEWS THIS COUNTRY PICTURED AS EAGER FOR PEACE. Editors Continue to Predict Failure for the United States Military
 Movements in
 Cuba.
LUDICROUS PRESS VIEWS
THIS COUNTRY PICTURED AS
 EAGER FOR PEACE.
Copyrighted. 1898. by the Associated Press.

interpret the temper of the Americans. Theyf assert that the latter are ready for peace on almost any terms. pro- viding Cuba is granted independence, and that the war is most unpopular, especially in business circles; and in spite of the phenomenal successes the Americans have already secured, the military editors continue to assert that the United States will find it more and more difficult to achieve an ultimate military success, especially in Cuba"
 AS a reason for the delay in pressing the German merchants claims for damages which are alleged to have arisen through the war in the Philip pines, it is explained that the German Government considers that to push the claims now while the Americans are more or less incensed against Ger many would prejudice a favorable settlement of the claims.
 It is now certain that the Govern nent will make determined effort in the coming Reichstag to amend the constitution in the direction of abridg- ing the franchise in several important particulars, especially in raising the age limit from 25 to 30 years. Not only Is the Conservative and reactionary press vigorously advocating this as necessary step in fighting the increas- ing spread of socialism, but the Gov ernment press has joined in the hue aud cry.
 It is also certain that at the next session of the Diet and ReichStag the agrarians will vigorously assault Amer ican agricultural products. The agrar- ianS are now collecting a mass of evil dence tending to show the injury which has been caused to the home market ha iy17r1 of jean products. Among their arguments they allege that 50 per cent of the trichinoSiS in Germany is due to Amer ican pork, although the latter is only one-fortieth of the total German con- sumption. They also claim that Amer than the German. and they allege that in spite of the fact that American pork is officially testified to be free from trichinae the Hamburg authorities have officially reported 173 cases of American trichinosis pork during the last six months.
 The Agrarians also assert that Amer ican flour is arriving in a more and more frequently grossly adulterated condition, adding that the prevailing medium of aGulteration are mineral ines, which, they assert, are openly ad- vertised in American trade papers.
 Finally the Agrarians say that an
 
 ican canned and preserved meat of every description is arriving in a state unfit for human food. The Agrarians claim to have abundant proof of their allegations and will ask the Govern ment to totally exclude from Germany all the products mentioned.
 The leading organ of the Agrarians, the Deutsche Tages Zeitung, asks whether, in view of the fact that America means to refuse Germany the rights of the most favored nation, after concluding a new tarill bargain with France, the Government does not think it time to open a spirited tariff war;" pointing out, for one thing, the Amer ican bicycles ought to be taxed to a prohibitory duty"
 The recent general prohibition of meat imports has caused a rise in prices and 150 butchers of Hamburg and vicinity acknowledge their inabil- ity to sell meat except at 10 to 20 per cent increase in price A similar in crease has already become effective in Berlin.
 The sensational suicide of General VOn Pechmann, the commander of the Fifth Bavarian Cavalry Brigade, at Dieuze, Lorraine, is much commented upon. It is understood that his act is due to depression, caused by the ma levolence of a very high parsonage, who has repeatedly defeated his ad- vancement to a higher rank
 All the principal comic papers in Germany were confiscated this week on account of their publication of cartoons rfdiculing the Emperor and the police. Some of these papers will be prose- cuted on the charge of lese majeste.
 Herr Lieber, the Centrist leader, has started for the United States.
 While the quarrel between Emperor William and the regent of Lippe-Det- mold is only a storm in a teacup, over miserable question of court etiquette, it has occupied the press to the exclu- sion of almost everything else.
 A high official of the Ministry of the Interior has briefly outlined the facts in the case to the correspondent of the Associated Press. They are as fol- lows:
 The. regent was already offended on account of various alleged sights. for which he blamed the Emperor, when the general commanding the troops Tn the principality ordered his soldiers henceforth not to make the salute pre- scribed in the case of ruling sovereigns or to show the customary marks of re- spect to the regents family. The regent, thereupon, deeming his rights under the military convention of 1878 to have been sighted, appealed to the Emperor in a personal letter for re-
 
 sages which were construed by his Majesty to be purposely offensive. whereupon he sent the regent a tele- gram which traversed a dozen hands and thence reached the newspapers substantially verbatim. Then followed the deeply offended regents appeal to the sovereigns of Germany and to the Bundesrath. The matter Is expected to remain in statu quo for some time
 The correspondent of the Associated Press learns from another source that Emperor Williams anger was particu- larly aroused by certain references in the regents letter to the Empress and her family. a parallel being drawn on the question of rank In both cases, and his Majesty's ire was increased by the fact that the Legislature of LipDe- Det- mold, at the regents behest and with out awaiting the direction of the Bundesrath, passed a law in March prejudicing the chances of the success sion of Prince Adolph of Schaumburg- Lippe, Emperor Williams brother-in-