The San Francisco call., 1898-12-04
RECOGNIZES THE POWER OF
 UNCLE SAM German Press on the Peace Treaty. LAMENTs LOSS OF ISLANDS .2EGRETs. THAT WILLIAMS Gov- :. ~. ERNMENT IS LEFT OUT. While vigorou~ Steps Are Being Taken to Shut Out American
 Meats the Poor Feed on Horses and Dogs.
LAMENTS LOSS OF ISLANDS
-2EGRETS THAT WILLIAMS GOV-
 . EMINENT IS LEFT OUT.
Copyrighted, 1898. by the Associated Press.

: Copyrighted. 1898. by the Associated Press. BERLIN, Dec. 3.-Spain's acceptance or the terms of the United States has keenIy interested the German Govern nlent and press. Although adhering to its polio consistently followed through out the Government has uttered no opinion, either in interviews or through the medium of the Semi-official press But the newspapers generally admit that the ted States must be seri- ; ously reckoned on in European peace and politics and as a colonial power whose purpose and energy may inter fere with the ambitions of other powers The German papers, therefore, predict frequent political complications for the United States.
 The Cologne Gazette attributes Eu- ropes non-interference at the peace negotiations at Paris to mutual abuses, and expresses the opinion that Ameri- cans will find the new colonies a greater source of trouble than they suspect
 The Lokal Anzeiger says: "The American Government will probably eschew compulsory general military service, but hired forces will come 1dI SS4S AIOIu OUDd, the [ nlllpplne ISL ands, Central and South America and East Asia, thus reviving the medieval system of mercenary troops"
 The Vorwaerts declares that 1t is all ready certain that England will find her main competitor in the American as well as in the Eastern Asian markets not Germany but America. The United States is a rising star and between the United States and Great Britain the fight for this trade will begin.
 The Deutsche Zeitung has published long editorial regretting that Ger many has not intervened between Spain and the United States and concluding as. follows; And can we obtain noth- ing from the spanish colonial estate, which is visibly, 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 it, un- less, as they assert, 1t is greatly alter ed They find that the bill in it's pres ent form cuts them nearly as much as E does the American meat importers inasmuch as 1t provides for a rigid in spection of their own meat and for its conflscation if it is diseased. There fore, since there is an enormous amount of disease in Germany's cattle and swine, as shown by official statistics and the regular publications of the Reichsanzeiger, all this will hit them very hard unless the Government agrees to reimburse the owners of con- fiscated or rejected meats. Very strong pressure has been brought to bear on the imperial Government to insert a clause in the bill providing for the in- identification of domestic owners, and over this clause a wrangle is now pro- ceeding between the various govern ments. Prussia favors a moderate in identification, while the other German states are nearly all against it.
 In the meantime the Agrarian press continues its warfare on all American meat, its main organs, the Deutsche Tage Zeitung and the Hamburg Nachrichten, advocating the total ex- 2 clusion of all American canned meats and sausages. In strange contrast with this is the memorial about the meat famine drawn up by the munici- pality of Berlin, which proves that the German breeders do not raise enough cattle and pigs to satisfy the needs of the nation, and that the systematic exclusion of foreign cattle and swine has decidedly lowered the quality of the meat brought to the market, and has heightened the price to such an ex- tent that horses, and even dog meat, have become staple with the poorer classes in certain districts, and nota- ply in large cities. The memorial also proves that the meat consumption of Berlin has decreased since the rigid examination of foreign meats.
 The German-American press on the