The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-27
German Editors Have Resumed
HOstilities Against America.
DEPLORE YANKEE GREED
WANT SOME OF THE sPoILs
THEMSELVES.
Government Urged to Secure Part
of the Carolines-Politica Unrest
Throughout the Empire = Too
Much Emperor In Every Depart
ment of Government.


Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Presso
Berlin, Nov. 26.-The German press,
this week, has busted itself a great deal
about the Philippine question and the
peace negotiations at Paris. Nearly all
the comment has been uncompliment-
airy to the United States, which is
charged with excessive greed and po-
litical indecency in formulating new
demands" President Mckinley being
also accused of Inconsistency and
lack of backbone" in not withstand
ing the increasing demands Of the i'm
perial party
A number of the German papers have
now adopted a strain indicating a de-
sire to obtain a portion of the Spanish
Asiatic possessions for Germany. The
kreuz Zeitung, which has much influ-
ence at court and in army circles, says:
Germany is materially interested in
the outcome of the peace negotiations,
more particularly with respect to the
Sulu archipelago, where Germany and
Great Britain possess the same kind of
commercial privileges, granted to them
by Spain in 1877, and in which Hamburg
and Bremen are largely interested.
American annexation of this group,
besides being a matter of strategic inn
portance, would mean, in view of Amer
ica's prohibitory tariff policy, the de-
struction of both the German and Brit
ish trade. In short, an understanding
with Great Britain for joint action and
Intervention is absolutely Indispensable.
The theory of an American sea cannot
be accepted by any of the European
nations. Mr.. Kasson, therefore, has
been INDUCING in day dreams"
The Deutsch Zeitung, an organ of
the pan-German party, says: 1T is
particularly painful that with the Caro-
line islands, to which will probably be
added the rest Of the islands, a piece of
Spanish goods is disposed of to which
we had the historical presumption
claim"
The Deutsche Zeitung concludes with
urging the government to seize the &C.
casion to acquire a portion of the Caro-
lines, or at least secure compensation
in Samoa and also obtain guarantees
for the future of Germany's commercial
interests in the Philippines and Sulu
archipelago, guarantees" it says spite
fully, which will hold water, even
against American interpretations"
NO INTERFERENCE
In spite of the newspaper comments,
the correspondent of the Associated
Press is informed on good authority,
that Germany still does not contem-
'-e~Ni
with the American claims, at least as
long as no concerted action is proposed
or carried out Jointly by the European
powers. This statement tallies with as
surances given by the foreign office
here. So far as the United States en-
bassy is concerned, no proposition of
any kind has been made by the Ger
man government. In fact, the German
press utterances urging Germany to
secure special benefits from America or
Spain during the peace negotiations are
solely an expression of the wishes OF
part of the German people, and they in
no way bind the government, which is
now, more than ever, DESTROYS OF los
tering the good Will of America.
The. Cologne Gazette publishes a. let
ter from correspondent at Manila, as
serting with keen regret" that half of
the United States land and naval force
there is composed of Germans, and CIV
ing a far from fiattering picture of
American rule at Manila. The Manila
correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung
draws an even more gloomy picture,
dwelling upon the alleged prevalence of
drunkenness and other excuses among
the American troops.
POLITICAL UNREST.
Emperor William has returned home,
to find Germany in a seething political
ferment. All classes of society seem
permeated with the spirit of unrest
and dissatisfaction. In Liberal and
Radical circles there is a feeling that
there is too much of the personal ele-
ment in the government of the coun-
try, and that this personal rule is do
ing much mischief. This feeling has
found expression in Etrong article in
the Vorwaerts, which discusses the
matter in its usual caustic and able
way. It-Says:
There is an imperial chancellor and
there are imperial Prussian ministers;
but who hears of them? Where is
Prince Hohenlohe? What is he doing?
No one knows. We hear day after day,
of the acts of the. government. The
emperor is everywhere and the chan
cellor is nowhere"
The meeting of the reichstag is looked
forward to with apprehension. The re-
opening of that body was announced
today for Dec. g. and domestic prob
lens viii have to be faced, which it
will require most tactful and liberal
craftsmanship to solve satisfactorily.
The anti-Serhites are clamoring for
measures against the Jews; the junk
ers demand legislation to arrest the
growth of the Polish population and
to oppose the steady march of the
Slav races westward; the Socialists are
sion of the rights of the working class;
the Radicals are insisting on a whole
programme of reforms; the Danes in
North Schleswig are bitterly resenting
the expulsions of Danes; the AlSatianS
are opposing dictatorship in Alsace-
Lorraine, and the Agrarians are goad-
ing the government into a reactionary
tariff policy.
Such is the stormy sea of conflicting
demands and interests, which the Ger
man government has to navigate dur
ing the coming session of the imperial
diet.
It was hoped the emperor would visit
the three South German rulers on. his
way home, and assist in the task of
government by allaying some of the
ill-feeling which is still latent in the
south against Prussia.
RUSSIAN HOSTILITY.
The fact that Russia is not on very