The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-26

| agitation fund to aid the agrarians.
| The federation insists that the bill
| should contain a provision for the
double inspection of all foreign meats.
The Vossische Zeitung says the fedora
ton thus places itself in opposition to
the interests of German meat consum-
ers in rendering imports more difficult
and raising prices.
A number of Saxon manufacturers
nave petitioned the Saxon and imperial
governments complaining that many
Americans visit the German textile and
other factories, spying upon their meth
OBS and inducing employees to betray
the trade secrets and emigrate to the
United States. They ask the authori-
ties to interfere.
There We're spirited debates in the
reichstag and Prussian diet this week.
In the former the socialists critcising
the severe sentences imposed on social
list rioters by a decision court, caused
violent scenes. Herr Gradnauer, So
cialist, termed the sentences brutally
tyrannical. Herr Reuger, the repre-
sentative of SaXony. took exception to
this, calling it an abuse of free speech
and appealing to the president for pro-
lection, at which the leftists hooted.
Herr Stradthagen, another socialist,
who has just been released from prison
charge of lese majestic, answering Baron
Won Stumm. the conservative leader
said the latter's utterances were only
OF pathological interest" for which he
was called to order.
During the debate in the diet on court
practice, the government announced
that it was not ready to follow the
United States, Belgium and Great Erit-
ain in adopting system of conditional
he af f,,J
inals. The government was strongly
represented at the sessions of the Ger
man agricultural council this week,
which resolved to send experts to Gu
ba, Porto Rico the Philippines and the
United States to study the sugar 1ues-
ton from the point of view of the ex-
tent and how soon German sugar will
be threatened by the production in
those parts of the world
Last year Emperor William shot S44
pieces of game, including 20 boars,
against $500 pieces the year before.
Vice-Consul General Day has resigned
and Consul General Mason's son, d. B.
Mason, has been appointed in his place.
He assumed his duties this week.
A further batch of letters written by
the late Count Won Caprivi have been
published. They clearly show the pa
thence with which Caprivi bore all the
insults and attacks of his foes, but they
also show how he felt their sings. In
one, replying to a correspondent who
wished to see his honor yindicated
Caprivi said: II must decline to COM
ply with your wish and give you the
motives which guided me. Not an in
considerable part of my motives con-
cerned Bismarck and I may say with
all due recognition of the brilliancy
of his person and our great times, that
I saw, even before I became chancel-
Tor. what a great drawback the re-
verse of that medal showed. Prince
Bismarck, as has often been stated,
his home policy by the same
means that he employed in foreign pol
itics. Thus the nation was in danger
of seeing it's moral standard lowered.
But l do not think it right to enter
into more details or particulars about
this now"
A few other lines in the letter ex-
pressed the melancholy which Caprivi
felt after his resignation. He sad "It
is hard to be obliged in ones work to
dispense with the acquiescence of those
for whom one acts. and it is still harder
in old age to be separated from circles
in which one has lived so long. But
the hardest of all is to be exposed
with tied hands to pubic Disregard and
be obliged to look on and see what
one believed one had created for the
good of the state demolished again. I
had to abandon many very dear rela-
tons in order to remain faithful TO
my convictions. I could not foresee
this. I remained faithful to my king
and myself. This belief nobody can
take from me. AS for the rest. people
may think and say what they like"