Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-20
FUN FOR THE PRESS
GERMAN PAPERS DISCUSS kAI-
SER'S TELEGRAM ON STRIKE.
IT'S NOT WELL RECEIVED
Several American Questions Comment
ed on by the Berlin Papers-Prince
Bismarck Making Himself More I'm
popular With Residents Of Ham
burg-German News.

Berlin, July 16.-Emperor Williams
telegram 10 DR.. Hinspeter, former tu-
tor of his majesty, furnishes the press
with welcome relief from midsummer
dizziness. His majesty's assertion of
his unspOken determination to con-
tinue in spite of all resistance in the
way he considers right is generally in
terpreted as referring to the anti
strike bill, but it is not believed the
emperor's words will help the measure,
which all agree is buried beyond hope
OF resurrection. The telegram has not
been well received outside Of the con-
servatiye press. 1t is generally cOnsid-
cred another Of his majesty'S unfor-
tunate Weddings with party politics.
The Pan-Germanic Deutsche Zeitung
regrets the telegram, while sympathiZ-
ing with its object, and asks why re-
sponsible ministers do not take such
work off the emperors shoulders. 1t
also questions whether the personal
utterances of his majesty tend to pro-
mote the interests of the bill and denies
that these utterances promote the well
fare of the monarchy. The conserva-
tive Post regards the telegram as a
symptom of the imperial government 5
determination not to leave the path the
late Prince Bismarck followed in deal
inging with labor and social questions.
The socialistic press at once seized up
on the telegram as excellent agitation
material for the social democracy.
| The Vorwaerts regards it as the en-
peror's answer to the reichstag's vote
on the stike bill, adding: THE en-
| peror has not been convinced by the
sentiments Of the people and is follow
ing aims to which the people are pas
sionately opposed and which the minis
try willingly endorses"
The papers also comment on the
| United States refusal to arbitrate the
| Hazelton PENN affair Gas requested
| by Austria), as being inconsistent with
| the attitude of the American peace
! delegates. Otherwise the work of the
| American representatives. is referred
| to in complimentary terms. Great
Britain's role at The Hague is COM
mented on with much less approval.
| Her refusal to abandon the dum-dum
bullet causes bitter remarks on the
subject of what the papers style Eng
! lands uncivilized methods Of warfare
The Cologne Volkszeitung calls at
tentiOn to the continuous increase OF
exports from the United States, while
the imports are continually declining
and confesses the United States is
growing more independent than any
other foreign country.
The publication of President McKin-
ley's letter at the dinner given in New
York to the German insurance COM
panies has been received here with
great satisfaction.
The announcement that Russia was
about to order field guns in the United
States is received with doubt here
Several large manufacturers claim to
know from an authoritative source
that the report is utterly untrue.
Since the death of his father Prince
Herbert Bismarck has been doing much
to make himself unpopular. The Ham
burg excursionists to the Saxon forest
complain that many favorite spots are
now forbidden to the public and theonly
walk whence a view of the room in
which Prince Bismarck died could be
mad has been closed. The ladies CT
Hamburg raised 1000 marks for a
wreath of silver oak leaves for Bis
marck's mausoleum, but Prince Herbert
refused to accept it, explaining that no
wreaths were to be laid on his father s
grave. The ladies decided to hang the
wreath in. the city hall of Hamburg.
! The summer exodus from Berlin is I'M
usual. From July 8 to July 10 100000
| persons left Berlin.
Fifty bronze cannon captured in
Cuba have arrived at Hamburg on their
way to Silesia, where they will be sold
to bell foundries to be cast into church
bells. The casting of the Bismarck
monument, which will be unveiled in
front of the reichstag building in 1901,
has been finished. The figure is 100
feet high.