The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-04
GERMAN PRESS
PREDICTS TROUBLE
Thinks the United States Will be InVOlF-
ed in Complications.
OUR NEW COLONIAL POLICY
Expected TO Bring About Difficulties
With Foreign Nations.
THE GOVERNMENT NoN-coMMITTAL
Has Uttered No Opinion, Either in In
terviews or Through the Semi
Official Papers : Meat Bill
Takes Surprising Turn.

Berlin. December 3.-Spain's acceptance
OF the terms of the United States mas nat
urally keenly interested the German gov
eminent and press, although adherlng 10 It's
policy consistently followed throughout,
the government has uttered no opinion
either in interviews or through the medium
OF the semi-official press. But the news
papers generally admit that hereafter the
United States must be seriously reckoned
with in international politics and as col
onial power, whose push and energy may
interfere wi,.- the ambitions of other pow
ers. The German papers, therefore, predict
frequent political complications for the
United States.
The imperial meat inspection BILL which
was introduced in the reichstag early in
the session, is now taking surprising
turn. The agrarians, for whose benefit the
bill was intended, now strongly object to it.
unless, as they assert, 1t is greatly altered.
They find that the bill in its present form
cuts them nearly as much as 1t does the
American meat importers, as 1t provides
for a rigid inspection of their own meat
when 1t is brought to the market and for
its rejection or confscation if 1t is found
to be diseased. Therefore, since there is an
enormous amount of disease in German cat
tie and swine, all this will hit them very
hard unless the government agrees to in
demnify the owners of confiscated re-
jected meats.
Pressure Brought to Bear
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 proceeding
among the various German governments.
Prussia favors a moderate Naturalization,
while the other German states are nearly
all against 1t.
In the meanwhile, the agrarian press
continues it's warfare on all American
meat Its main organs, the Deutsche Tag
Zeitung and the Hamburger Nachrichten
advocate the total exclusion of all Amer
lean canned meats and sausages. In strange
contrast with this is memorial about the
meat famine drawn up ythe 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 systematic exclusion of foreign cattle
and swine has decidedly lowered the quail
ity Of the meat brought to the market and
has heightened the price to such an extent
that horses and even dog meat has become
staple with the poorer classes in certain
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clusion of foreign meats.
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Declared Utterly Untrue
One of the largest Berlin wholesale deal
writ m ha pba win
that the statement IN the agrarian press
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man dealers IN america nave also Iorwaro.
ed the imperial nygienic bureau protest
against these preJuuiclai statements.
Dill mas oeen oraited py the govern
ment Tor INTRODUCTION into the reicnstag as
soon as the FEDERAL governments nave APP
proved 1t, granting private insurance COM
panies privileges for an imperial bureau In
Berlin The measure Will take the control
Of the American and other foreign in
surance companies out OF the hands OF
Prussia and the other separate states, and
place 1t in those Of the empire, which
would be great Improvement for Ameri-
can interests.
The emperor is in no way pleased with
the reception he met with from the Ber-
liners when he came here on Thursday last