The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-12-05
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Wiulam's DoEnain.
Copyrighted, 1898. by Associated Press.
Berlin, Dec. 3.--spaln's acceptance OF
the terms OF the United states has keenly
interested the German government and
press. Although adherlng to its policy con
sistently followed throughout the govern
ment has uttered no opinion either in in
terviews or through the medium Of tina
semi-official press But the newspapers
generally almlt that the United States
must be seriously reckoned with on Eur
opean peace and politics and as a colonial
power whose purpose and energy may in
terfere with the ambitions OF other pow
ers. The German paper1. therefore, pro.
dict frequent political complications for
the United States.
The Cologne Gazette attributes Europa g
non-interference in the peace negotiations
at Paris to mutual abuses and expresses
the opinion that America viii henl the
new colonies a greater source Of trouble
IMAM thtS suspect. Inc Aohti Ah1"tSc1
says:
The American government will probably
eschew compulsory general military SER
vice, but its hired forces will come largely
from Cuba, the Philippine Islands, Gem
tral and South America and East Asia
thus revi~;ng the medieval system of mer-
cenary troops.
ENGLAND MUST LOOKOUT.
The Voerwaerts declare that It IL hi
ready certain that England will nnd her
main competitor In the Americans as wei
as in the eastern Asian markets. not
Germany, but America. The United States
is rising star and between the United
States and Great Britain the tight for
this trade will begin
The Duetsche zeitung has published a
long editorial regretting that Germany
has not intervened between Spain ana .hc
United States end concluding:
And can we obtain nothing from the
Spanish colonial estate, which Is visibly.
piece by piece, being sold at auction?"
The imperial meat inspection Dill. in
trodueed in the reichstag early in the
session, is now taking a surprising turn.
Tho Agarians themselves for whom the
bill was introduced, 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
inasmuch az It provides for a rigid IN
spection Of their own meat and for its
conflscation il it Is diseased Therefore
since there is a certain amount Of dis
eased cattle in Germany as is officially
shown by official statistics and the regu-
lar publications OF the Reichsanzeirer.
all this will hit them very hard unless
the government agrees to reimburse the
owners Of conhscoted 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 naturalization of domestic owners.
and over this clause wrangle Is now
proceeding between the various German
governments. Prussia favors a moderate
naturalization, while the various German
states are nearly all against It.
AGAINST AMERICAN MEATS.
In the meanwhile the Agarian press
continues its warfare on all American
meats. It's main organs. the Deutscho
Tag zeltung and the Hamburger Mach
riehten, advocating the total exclusion OF
all American canned meats and sausages.
In strange contrast with this is n memoir
ial about the meat famine drawn up by
the municipality 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 sys-
tematic 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 m ex.
tent that horses. and even dog meat has
become staple with the poorer classes In
certain districts, and notably In large
cities.
The memorial also approves that the
meat consumption of Berlin has decreas-
ed The German Agrarian press on the
other hand, publishes alleged official sta
tistics to show that the import OF Ameri-
can pork increased enormously during the
current year and may reach the hgure Of
1896
One OF tho largest Berlin wholesale
dealers writes to the Vosslche Zeitang
saying that the statement In the Aragian
press, that much Of the imported Amer
lean -four is adulterated, Is utterly untrue.
He adds that not single case OF adul-
teratiCn has been discovered in the Berlin
market German dealers in America have
also forwarded to the imperial bureau a
protest against these preIudiclal state
ments
FOREIGN INSURANCE.
A bin has been drafted by the govern
ment for introduction into the rechstag
as soon as the federal governments have
approved it, regulating private insurance
companies and providing for an imperial
bureau in Berlin. The measure adopted
will take the control Of the American and
other foreign insurance companies. out
| OF the hands OF Prussia and place Il In