The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-02-08
The FRUIT DEGREES
I:tD LIBERAL PRESS DISCOUE
AGE THE DEPARTURE.
ENGlAND'S ATTITUDE AS TO CHINA
The Government viii Be INDICATED in Dis
cussion of Queens Speech--Cayendish's
Expedition to the EiIe--Velyet All
the Go this Spring.
the Go this Spring.

Copyright, 1893, by Associated Press
Berlin. Feb. 5.-The freedom which
the Reichstag and the Prussian Diet
conceded this week to the Agrarians, who
formulated numerous wishes and com
plants, is significant. The Minister of
Agriculture, Baron Won Hammersteln-
LoXten, promised the government would
grant as many of their demands as
possible. At the moment he was making
this declaration measures were preparing
to stop imports of American fruit and
the decree in that connection had al
ready been issued. Inc entire Liberal
press openly disapproves Of the policy
and asserts it was a government track
to obtain the vote of the Agrarians for
Emperor Williams Naval bill. The
leading commercial journals point to the
ill-Will and indignation such measures
are bound to produce in America, and
to the futility of prohibiting the importa-
ton of an article Germany does not
produce with sufticiency. The neWspa-
pers claim the only result will be that
fruit Will be imported from the south
OF Europe at a higher cost than is now
being paid for American fruit.
Several of the newspapers express the
opinion that the decree Will not be per
manent, and that it was only intended
as a temporary act of retaliation for
American treatment of German sugar.
Inquiry made at the Foreign Office and
at the Prussian Agricultural Depart
ment. however. shows the steps taken to
be the only f~OrerunnerS of others Of
more Importance, the government having
concluded that something must be done
to crafty the Agrarian demand for re-
taliation on the United States. There was
an eXemplification. in the Reichstag. on
Tuesday, when Du Hahn, Il friend of
Prince Bismarck, demanded the prohibit
ton of American horses. claiming the
imports had increased III 1897 to 1870
900 marks, and that something must be
done ito show those oyer-bearing Am
orleans that an energetic German gov-
eminent exists" The views of the Prus-
sian Cabinet are ~gaugeable by the de-
claratiOn made Yesterday by the Minister
of Agriculture, Baron Won Hammerstein-
Lozten, in the Diet. who declared that
American horses developed influenza AT
ter importation.
1t is said that Prince Naximilian. Of
L"dbtI, LIZ HIS llIjIltIlo lIt1N refused
to marry, Will shortly be betrothed to
Princess Pauline, Of Wurtemburg. in
whose honor emperor Francis Joseph
gave q big court ball Il week ago.
ENGLAND TO BE INDICATED.
Copyright 1898 by Associated Press
London, Feb. 5.-tSpecial London ca
bic letter)-lt is probable that but littl
further reliable information regarding
China Will be obtainable until the Min
listers have Il chance to round on taei
assailants during the course of the de
bate in Parliament on the address in re
ply to the speech from the throne.
The whole Ta-Liem-Wan story neve
received a shadow of official sanction
AS cabled to the Associated Press 0!
Thursday last, Great Britain has neve
demanded that Ta-Lien-Nan be mad
Il treaty port. 1t was merely one Of tn
suggested constituents of the bargain
and if it should be withdrawn it cal
only be because it is a barrier to tn
negotiations for the loan. The object O
the condition was to ~checkmate an,
scheme for the transformation of Por
Arthur into a closed Russian port an
the object was equally secured by exact
ing from China and Russia together
pledge in regard to Port Arthur, simila
to the pledged eXacted from them in re
gard to Corea, before the evacuation }
Port Hamilton and this will probabI
be upshot. The s~emi-oficial statement
distinctly point thereto. notably tn
specific assurance early in the week i
regard to the temporary nature of tn
Russian tenure of the Port Arthur
which was accompanied by the part
~~ance that Great Britain is no
bound to Japan by any warlike alliance
In short, there is every reason to believ
that Great Britain does not intend to re
cede an inch from the position whic
has been officially taken up by Messr,
BalfOur, Chamberlain and Hicks-Beacf
in the name of the Marquis of Salisbury
In the course of an interesting ad
dress at Bradford, before the Chambe
of Commerce of that place, on Thursda,
last. the United States Consul, Erastu
S. Day, applauded the Marquis of Sails
bury's doctrine of free trade in Chin;
He said that America had every sympa
thy with it and that the people of Grea
Britain and the United States ought t
lead in shaping the worlds thought an
action. He said they had the opportun:
ty to achieve great things; would the
unite to achieve lasting benefits to then
selves and to the worlds
Speaking of the tariff, Mr.. Day sal
the overwhelming ~preponderance Of SCI
timent in the United States was in fave
of the protective theory. The Wilso
bill, he added. had sickened the peopl
OF tariff for revenue onlv' theory. an
it would not be wise for the manufac
turers of Bradford to hope for til
speedy enactment o another Wilson bill
(which closed too nan mills in til
United States to be retired"
The Cavendish expedition which is
bout to leave London is one of the mo.
striking examples Of how young ar
wealthy Englishmen, with a fondnc!
for sport and exploration, combine thes
tastes with Empi1e-making. IIenr
Cavendieh. a relative of the Duke
DevOnshire has already sent $1,000 900
preparations for the expedition. A
though nominaIly private. it's aims a
on the Upper Nile, where the French a
supposed to be operating, and are W