The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-04
View Americas Growing Power
With Jealous Eyes.
PREDICT MUCH TROUBLE
EUROPE MUST RECKON WITH
UNITED STATES.
Think the American Army VIII Be
Recruited With foreign Mercen-
aries-Agrarians In Trouble Over
Their Meat Inspection Bill-Amer-
lean Citizens In Jail.

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press)
Berlin, Dec. 3.-Spain's acceptance of
the terms Of the United States has
keenly interested the German govern
ment and press. Although adhering to
its policy, consistently followed
throughout, the government has utter
ed no opinion, either in interviews or
through the medium of the semi official
press. But the newspapers generally
admit that the United States must be
seriously reckoned with in Eurooean
peace and politics, and as a colonial
power, whose purpose and energy may
interfere with the ambitions OF other
powers. The German papers, there
fore, predict frequent political comDli-
cations for the United States
The Cologne Gazette expresses the
opinion that America viii find the new
colonies a greater source of trouble
than they suspect.
The Lokal AnZeiger says: Inc
American. government viii probably
eschew compulsory general military
service, but hired forces will lmme-
diately come largely from Cuba, the
Philippines, Central and South Amer
lea and east Asia. thus reyiVing the
medieval system Of !nercenary troops
The Voerwarts declares that IL IS al
ready certain that England VIII hnd
her main competitor in America. The
/ United States is a rising star. and be-
| tween the United States and Great
Britain the fight for this trade Will
begin.
The Deutsehe Zeitung has published
a long editorial regretting that Ger
many has not interviewed between Spain
and the United States, and CONCLUDING
as follows: And can we obtain moth
ing from the Spanish colonial estate,
which is visibly, piece by piece, being
sold at auction?"
FELL INTO THEIR OWN PIT.
The imperial meat inspection bill,
which was introduced in the reichstag
early in the session, is now taking g
surprising turn. The Agrarians them
selves. Tor whom the bill was intro
duced, now strongly object to it, unless
as they assert, it is greatly altered.
They find that the bill, in its present
! form, cuts them nearly as much as II
does the American meat importers, in
asmuch as it provides Tor q rigid in
| spection of their own meat, and for its
! confiscation if it is diseased. Therefore
since there is an enormous amount o.
disease in German cattle and swine, as
shown by official statistics and the
regular publications of the Reichsan-
Zeiger, all this will hit them very hard
unless the government agrees to re-
imburse the owners Of confiscated OF
respected meats Very strong pressure
has been brought TO bear upon the i'm
perial government to insert q clause
in the bin providing for the indemnid-
cation OF domestic owners, and over
this clause wranEle is now proceed
Ing between the various German gov
ernments. Prussia favors a moderate
decentralization, While the other Ger
man states are nearly all against it.
IN the meanwhile the agEarian press
continues its warfare on all American
meat its main organs, the Deutscht
TaSe Zeitung and the Hamburger
Nachrichten. advocating the total ex-
cIusson CT all American canned meats
and sausages. IN strange contrast with
this is a memorial about meat famine
drawn up by the municipality Of Der
lin, 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. meat brought t.
the market and has heightened the
prices to such an extent that horse an6
even dog meat has become staple with
the poorer classes in certain districts
and notably in large cities. The mem
orial also proves that the meat con.
sumption of Berlin has decreased since
the rigid examination Of meats.
The German agrarian press. on the
other hand publishes alleged oficia
statistics to show that the import OF
American pork increased enormously
during the current year, and MAY
reach the figures of 1897.
One of the largest Berlin wholesale
dealers writes to the Vossische lei
tung. saying that the statement n the
agrarian press that much of the i'm.
ported American -four IS adulterated Is
utterly untrue. He adds THAI not q
single case Of adulteration has beer
discovered in the Berlin markets. Ger
man dealers in American -four have
also forwarded to the imperial hygienic
bureau protest against these preju.
dicial statements.
eminent for introduction into the reich.
stag as soon as the federal governments
have approved Of it. regulating private
insurance companies, and providing
for an imperial bureau in Berlin. The
measure adopted will take the contro
Of the American and other foreign in
surance companies out of the hands OF
Prussia and the other separate states
anu place it in those of the empire
which would be a great Improvement
for American interests, as it would also