The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-16
OPEN CAMPAIGN OF ABUSE
LEADERS IN FOREIGN POLITICS
ARE ASsAILED.
Attempt to Force Won Bulow to Re
tire and Prejudice Public Opinion
and the Reichstag Against the
United States-Emperor Not In
fuenced By Mischief-makers.

! the masses. The most remarkable fea-
! ture of the affairs is the united daily
! onslaught made by the entire agrarian,
anti-semite and part of the conserva-
| tive and national liberal press on the
| cabinet especially on the minister of
! foreign affairs, Baron Won Buiow, who
! is charged with following a caVillating
! policy and yielding too much to Brit
ish insolence and Yankee impudence.'
a regular campaign of abuse has
| been opened against the leaders in for
| eign politics, many of the latter utter
ances being of unusual vigor for the
German press conditions: 1t is learn
| ed on good authority that the aim is
| to discredit Baron Won Bulow with the
! emperor, force his retirement and pre-
! JUDGE public opinion and the reichstag
| against the United States and thus de-
| feat the meat inspection bill which is
considered by agrarians to be too IA
vOrable to America and too harmful to
I Germany.
1t is added that Fridays interpella-
ton of the government in the reichstag
on the Samoan question and Baron Won
Bulows reply, We're intended as a test
of strength between the two cOntending
| parties, as Baron Won Bulow as we'll as
the cabinet, which is more or less
swayed by him, is considered by the
agrarians to be distinctly hostile to
their interests.
But the great noise of the agrarian
press and its allies ought not to deceive
I people into the belief that they repre-
sent public opinion. They are merely
the minority. The emperor nor the
government have allowed themselves
| to be Influenced by these mischief-mak-
ers. This fact was strikingly illustrated
in the passing of the midland canal
bill by the diet. The measure was
extremely distasteful to the agrarians.
The party is distinctly on the down
grade. In the reichstag the party has
only 100 out of a total of S97 members,
and in the diet its adherents number
considerably less than half the total
membership.
DIR. LEHR'S JINGOISNI.
Dr. Lehr's ridiculous jingoism in the
reichstag last evening in presenting the
opening speech of the Interpolation
spoiled the agrarian game.
The German press comments on the
occurrences in Samoa this week diff
fered remarkably, to the party stand
point on each paper. Until Friday,
while the fate of the high commission
was trembling in the balance, the COM
ment was more vivid and more bitter.
The Deutsche Zeitung headed page
editorial, The Shame of Samoa" and
condemned the action of the govern
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wholly devoid of national sentiment and
aspirations, and asked, ironically:
What more do we want? The crei-
bund has fallen to pieces, Russia is al
lied with France, England with the
United States, Austria is secretly allied
to France, and Italy is wholly depend
ent upon England, with the possibility
OF her sliding over to France. Added
TO all this the brutal treatment we have
he cd TO Inv 1c-la 10
United States, by Count Won Thun-Ho
henstein austrian premier), Mr. MaXse
British consul at Apia), Mr.. Chambers
(chief justice of Samoa), and Admiral
Kautz. Indeed, we ask what more do
we WANT
One agrarian organ spoke of the i'm
potent weakness shown in Samoa, and
concluded: I'VE stand aghast at the
tombstone oe German honor"
The more reasonable part of the press
expressed itself most bitterly. The
hreuz Zeitung, officially inspired, said:
1T seems to be settled that we were
too optimistic in judging from the de-
clarations of Mr.. White that England
and America had not identified them
selves in the Samoan matter. This. in
deed, seems to be the case not alone in
Samoa, but generally in the White
House and Downing street"
From inquiries made among leading
members of the colonial party, the cor
respondent of the Associated Press as
certains that it is their belief the Unit
ed States wants the Samoan islands,
and is going to have them. A well in
formed correspondent of the Volks lei
tung asserts this in an article, adding
many details.
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
The Lohal Anzeiger made under the
head of "A Noble Pair of Brothers an
expression of the opinion that the An
glo-American understanding will not
last long, as merchants so INSCRIPTIONS
in competition as the English and
Americans will easily become enemies
Continuing, the Lokal Anzeiger sur
misses that the United States before
long will again be friends with Rus
STA
The Vossische Zeitung compares the
former cessions to the United States by
France, Spain and Russia with the
present movement in the British West
Indies, and says:
"An the countries subsequently re-
GREETED their sales and England has
no need to yield valuable possessions in
the West Indies so long as she is not
needing worthless territory in Africa
any Polynesia. Surely Yankee greed
at this first opportunity seems to DEM
onstrate that the British-American
friendship will not be of long dura-
ton
a number of papers also point out
the absolute necessity of a larger navy.
The semi official Post, in an inspired
article, says:
Probably the Samoan difficulties
would not have arisen at all if the 9TH
er countries had to reckon with a strong
German fleet ready for any emer-
gency."
Many of the papers have emphasized
the fact that the absence of cable con-
nection with Samoa was largely re-
sponsible for the most recent troubles.
They urge the laying of a cable as soon
as possible.
The Cologne Gazette points out that
the system of unanimity is feature
which the United States has previously
strongly insisted upon, quoting Presi-
dent Harrison, in 1892, upon the sub
ject.
The papers also deduce that even ac-
cepting the American Interpretation of
the treaty, Admiral Kautz has put him
self in the wrong.
The officials of the United States en-
bassy are well satisfied with Baron
Won Buelow's speech, which agreed
with his private statements to the Unit
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