The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-26
HIS OFFENSIVE LETTER
UNFIT TO HOLD OFFICE OF
CHIEF JUSTICE.
Letter to His Brother, In Which he
Criticised the Germans, Has Stir
red Up the German Press-Ameri-
can Spies Annoy German Manu-
facturers-Debates In Reichstag.

! has had several protracted conferences
this week with Baron Won Richtofen,
under-secretary of the foreign office, on
the subject of the recent troubles in
Samoa, and has received a number of
documents in support of Germany S
view of the situation. The interviews
were of the most friendly character.
An official, in behalf of Baron Won
Bulow, the German minister of foreign
affairs, tells the correspondent here of
the Associated Press that the German
ambassador at Washington, DR.. Won
Helleben, has represented to the
United States, informally and in a
friendly manner, the advisability of re-
calling William Chambers the chief
justice of Samoa. The German govern
ment is of the opinion that Mr.. Cham
bers, since the publication of the letter
to his brother, which appeared in the
newspapers of the United States. is an
improper person 10 represent the
| three governments at Samoa 1t is
further said that he was put there in
order TO represent the protecting pow
ers, and for him to criticise one Of
| these powers makes him manifestly
unfit to serve any longer in his present
capacity" 1t is only necessary, it is
pointed out, to reverse the case in or
der to show this Strikingly to Ameri-
cans. Let it be supposed" said the
German official, that such a letter had
been written by Herr Rose, the Ger
man consul at Apia. Would not the
entire American press point out that
it was fragrant proof of Herr Hoses
unfitness to any longer hold his placer
CHAMBERS UNFITNESS.
Mr.. Chambers letter has greatly
stirred up public feeling in Germany,
! and nearly the entire press asserts that
by the letter Mr.. Chambers has ''glar-'
ingly manifested his unfitness for his
| position" Some of the papers declare
that inasmuch as Germany. the United
! States and Great Britain have declared
! their intention to preserve Samoa in
! tact, while Mr.. Chambers. by his words
and his acts, has put himself outside
the act, he can no longer be consid-
cred proper mandatory of the sigma
| tory powers.
The same foreign official, speaking of
| the Philippine islands, said: Germany
only wishes the accomplishment of the
orderly conditions. and this solely on
account of our commercial interests in
the islands,"
a number of Saxon manufacturers
have petitioned the Saxon and imperial
| governments, complaining that many
Americans visit the German textile and
other factories, spying upon their
methods and inducing employees to be-
Tray the tIduc secrets anu IIIlIliSIdle
to the United States. They ask the au-
thorities to interfere.
SCENES IN THE REICHSTAG.
There were spirited debates in the
reichstag and Prussian diet this week.
In the former the Socialists, criticising
the severe sentences imposed on So
cialist rioters by Dresden court,
caused violent scenes. Herr Gradnauer,
q Socialist, TERMED the sentences bru-
tally tyrannical. Herr Reuger, the rep
resentative of Saxony, took exception
to this, calling it an abuse of free
speech, and appealing to the president
for protection, at which the Leftists
hooted.
Herr Stradthagen, another Socialist,
who has just been released from prison,
where he had been confined on the
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 Brit
ain in adopting a system of conditional
pardons in the case of youthful crimi-
nails.
The government was strongly repre-
agricultural council this week, which
resolved to send experts to Cuba, Porto !
Rico, the Philippines and the United ]
States to study the sugar question from |
the point of view of the extent and !
how soon German sugar will be threat /
ened by the production in those parts |
of the world.
Last year Emperor William shot S44 |
pieces of game, including 90 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 to his place. |
He assumed his duties this week.
CAPRIVPS PATIENCE.
\ 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 stings.
In one, replying TO a correspondent
who wished to see his honor INDICATED,
Caprivi said:
81 must decline to comply with your
wish and give you the motives which
guided me. Not an inconsiderable part
of my motives concerned Bismarck and
may say with all due recognition of
the brilliancy of his person and our
great times, that 1 saw, even before I
became chancellor what a great draw
back the reverse of that medal showed
Prince Bismarck, as has often been
managed his home policy by
the same means he employed in foreign
politics. Thus the nation was in dan
ger of seeing its moral standard low
cred 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 said:
TT 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
a long life But the hardest
of all is to be exposed with tied hands
to public disregard and be obliged TO
look ON and see what one believed one
had created for the good of the state
demolished again. l had to abandon
many dear relations in order to remain
faithful to my convictions. l could not
foresee this. 1 remained faithful to my
king and to myself. This belief no
body can take from me. AS for the
rest, people may think and say what
they like"
A TAME CATFISH.