The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07
Won BUELOW IS ATTACKED
For His Supine Disregard Of Ger
many's interests.
BIG CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES
Have Been Brutally Treated by the
United States and England-Knuck-
ling to Americans A Fierce
Attack on American Meat
Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.

Copyright 1899 by Associated 1FeSS.
Berlin, May 6-The belief has taken
complete possession of the public mind
in Germany that German interests in
| Samoa have been brutally and ruth
| lessly disregarded by both England and
| the United States. 1t seems that this
view is steadily gaining strength with
nearly all classes. The press certainly
reflects the sentiment with increasing
| violence. The government has done
nothing the past week either to fortify
| or dspel this trend of public opinion.
| The government press has been
strangely silent upon the subject. The
! agrarian newspapers and many other
journals have seized the occasion of the
birthday anniversary of the imperial
minister for foreign affairs, Baron Won
Buelow, to severely attack him for
what they style his supine disregard
of Germany's legitimate interests in
| Samoa and his alleged obsequious-
ness toward Great Britain and the
! United States. The matter of claims
| for damages both in Samoa and the
Philippine islands, for German property
destroyed in recent engagements has
| also been injected into the press discus
sion with singularly growing excite
ment, the assertion being made that the
United States meant TO disregard these
just claims. The imperial foreign office,
however, has done no>hing to create or
foster this condition of public feeling.
| In the course of an interview here
with the correspondent of the associat-
ed press, the United States ambassador
to Germany, Andrew D. White, said:
THE question of German claims for
damages for property destroyed in the
Philippine islands or in Samoa in con-
sequence of the acts of our naval or
| land forces was never once mentioned
| during all the conferences which l
have had with the imperial minister for
! foreign affairs. So far as l am aware,
no such question has yet come up at the
foreign office. At any rate, 1t Is too
early to discuss the subject, as no evil
| dence, pro or con, has been advanced
on either side"
| 1t appears that the sole basis for the
| wholesale charges in the newspapers
with regard to these alleged enormous
damages is a few private letters re-
ceived from the Philippine islands and
| Samoa, in which the writers seek to
make out a case in advance. The Vos-
| reproduced two of these letters, taking
for granted all that was therein claimed
and arguing on the lines presented by
the writers of the letters who. among
a number of alleged facts, asserted that
Major General Otis, at Manila, had
bluntly declined to recognize any Ger
man claims for damages. When United
States Ambassador White was asked
about this matter by the associated
press correspondent he was very reti-
cent. only saying:
"Of course, the reports of General
Otis on any of these cases would nave
great weight with the state depart
ment, but in any event the maj al
iustment of such claims must be made
at Washington and not at Manila
The Kreuz Zeitung, in the course or
an editorial article that has attracted
a great deal Of attention said:
Despite the African agreement be-
tween England and Germany and de-
spite the civilities exchanged, this ex-
traordinarily perfidious action In Samoa
was planned by the English, who kept
in the background and sent some
American hotspurs to the front in order
to establish the fact of an Anglo-Amer-
lean brotherhood in arms and embroil
Germany and the United States to the
extent that an understanding was rem
dered next to impossible. This much is
certain that the friendly understanding
between the United States and Ger
many Is a commission that British
statecraft just now relishes least OF
ALL
The North German Gazette. men,
tioning reports that English and Amer
lean merchants in Samoa express a de-
sire to see Germany annex the whole OF
the group. bitterly attacks the Imperial
foreign office for suppressing this state
ment and keeping it out of the press.
The agrarian Deutsche Tage Ieitune
in the course of a severe review OF Ger.
manys attitude toward the United
States during the past year, blames tht
imperial foreign office with "knuckllns
down to the Americans" in every case
; even recalling the instance of Admira
Won Diedrichs at Manila, so as not tt
hurt the feelings of messieurs thu
: Americans"
The article concludes as follows
'Only by now showing a bold and un
. yielding front can the prestige of thu
empire, which has suffered SO seriously
, lately, be re-esta blished''
The same newspaper and a number o
others blame the emperor for Showing
too much friendlineSS toward Amer
; cans and charge President McKinle,
A with a gross want of tact in not reply
/ ing to Emperor Williams telegram o
congratulation on the subject of TIN
r new transatlantic cable in German
ana thus OutfaSlnS all lnternatlona
l courtesy"
On the other hand the Berlin Tage
blatt, the Cologne Gazette and a larg
r part of the liberal press take a NOR
y rational view of the relations between
;, Germany and the United States, allud
!, ing to the good will of the Unite
o States as recently shown on several oc
: casons in highly complimentary terms
. The animosity of the agrarians to
J ward Baron Won BueloW and the for
eign policy of Germany is doubles
I largely due to the meat inspection bill
| the provisions of which. so far as ca
| be seen, are favorable to American in
| telests, which condition of affairs i
| attributed to the influence of Baro
| Won Buelow. The agrarian campaig
| against the meat inspection bill contin
| ues in full force The Federation c
| Husbandry this week presented 3.O5
| petitions against the bill. The agraria
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