The times., 1898-06-04
IT IS DOLLARS AND GENTS
Germany Has No Personal Sym
pathy for the United States.
THE EMPEROR'S STATEMENT
The Kaiser's Government Has
Adopted an Omcial Policy of
FrfendIiness to This Government
Because Business Interests De-
nnand 1t.

The State Department yesterday issued
the following statements. containing
serni-official Utterance Of the North Ger
man Gazette. commenting on a recent al
legged remark Of the German Emperor and
q denial Of recent statements against the
American embassy in the Reichstag:
American and German papers have re-
Gently reported that his majesty the en-
peror, in conversation with the smbas-
Eador of the United States ct Berlin, is
said to have refuted the supposition that
the imperial government was animated by
unfriendly feelings toward America. As
we are informed. no such conversation
has taken place, and consequently all re-
ports in regard to It are imaginative. His
ajesty the emperor could have had little
reason for thinking it necessary TO give
the assurance ascribed TO him, because
the Americans could not be IN doubt as to
the character OF our strict, complete and
loyal neutrality, after the repeated dec
laratlons which have been made on that
point since the beginning of the war. and
especially In the speech from the throne
On the 9Th instant.
This is also to be said to those Eng
nsh, French, and Austrian papers which
have been endeavoring TO show that the
government and public opinion of the
German empire had taken sides against
the President and people of the United
States. Confidence should be felt in the
imperial policy which without weighty
reasons would not permit the friendly
relations to be disturbed which have ex-
listed for more than hundred years with
q state IN which millions of German peo-
PIE have found q second home"
A report was circulated and printed in
the public press several weeks ago to
the effect that at the final session Of the
German Reichstag several so-called
''anti-Americau" and agrarian leaders in
the house '1eveled the bitterest invec-
tives at the diplomatic box OF the Ameri-
can ambassador while Ambassador
White and the secretary Of embassy, Mr..
jackson, were present. The report Is en-
tirely without foundation It is positively
stated by Ambassador White himself
that the facts We're the very opposite,
and that the utmost courtesy and cordi-
slity were shown to the representatives
OF this Government, as has uniformly
been the case on all public and ceremonial
occasions
The State Department is carefully do
ing al that il can to circulate the Of
hciAlly neutral utterances of Germany
II is now known that Germany officially
has adopted a policy Of friendliness TO
the United States.
State Department and Administration
people generally who know the situation
thoroughly, however, are aware that the
great burden Of public opinion In Ger
many Is unfriendly TO America This
aversion is openly expressed IN many of
the newspap pers and in conversations that
are repeated to American ears.
4 member Of the diplomatic corps
friendly to America said TO a Times re
porter yesterday:
''The sentiment Of the German people
Is with Spain, and they believe that the
United States is waging a merciless and
tneXcusable war. Their commercial IN
terests, however. lean rather to America
than 10 Spain, and their commercial in
terests viii win. There can be no doubt
that II has been these interests that
have prompted the change OF tone in the
administration papers"