The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-16
GERMANS UP IN ARMS ABOUT THE
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE sA-
MOAN DIFFICULTY
PRESS SPEAKS GUT BOLDLY
SAYS GERMANY IS COMPLETELY
ISOLATED AND EsTRANGED
FROM OTHER POWERS
SOME CRUMBS OF COMFORT


How He Forced the British to
Yield a Point-BeIief That There
America and Great Britain Bold
~ Asserted.
Copyright by the Associated Press)
BERLIN, April 10 The Samoan guess
| tior continued to overshadow all othera
during the week-so much so that the in
terest in the subject has even seized
the masses. The most remarkable feature
of the affair is the united daily onslaught
made by the entire Agrarian, Anti-Semite
and part of the Conservative and Nation-
al Liberal press on the cabinet, and es-
pecially on the minister of foreign af-
fairs, Baron Won Buelow, who is charged
with following weak policy, and Yield
ing too much to British insolence and
Yankee imDudence."
A regular campaign Of abuse has been
opened against the leaders in foreign poll
itics. many of the utterances being of I'M
Usual vigor and venom for the German
press conditions.
1t Is learned on good authority that
the aim of this is to discredit Baron Won
Buelow with the emperor, force his re-
tirement, and prejudice public opinion,
and the reichstag against the United
States, and thus defeat the meat inspec-
ton bill, which Ia considered by the
Agrarians to be too favorable to Ameri-
can, and too harmful to German interests
It is added that Fridays Interpolation
of the government in the reichstag, on
the Samoan question. and Baron Won
Buelow's reply. were intended as a test
Of strength between the two contending
parties, as Baron ven Buelow, as well as
the cabinet, which is more or less sway
ed by him, Is considered by the Agrarians
to be distinctly hostile to their interests.
JINGO MINORITY.
But the great noise of the Agrarian
press and its allies ought not to deceive
the people into the belief that they rep
resent public opinion. They are merely the
blatant minority. Neither the emperor
nor the government have allowed them
selves to be Influenced by these mischief
makers. This fact was stril1ingly illus
trated in the passing of the midland canal
bin by the diet. The measure was ex--
tremely distasteful to the Agrarians. The
party is distinctly on the down-grade in
Russia and Germany generally. In the
retchstag the party has only about 100
of e total of 397 members and in the
diet Its adherents number considerably
less than half the total membership. Dr.
Lehr's ridiculous jingoism in the reich
stag, last evening, In presenting the OPEN
ing speech of the Interpolation, spoiled
the Agrarian's game.
GERMANY'S ISOLATION.
The expressions on the Samoan question
differed widely this week according to
the political standpoint of the party. Until
Friday, when the high commission was
trembling in the balance, the comments
ter. The Deutsche Zeitung headed page
editorial, THE Shame Of Samoa" and
condemned the action of the government
In toto. 1t declared the cabinet was
wholly devoid of national sentiment, and
aspirations, and asked ironically:
What more do we want? The drie-
bund has fallen to pieces, Russia is al
lied with France, England with the
the United States, Austria is secretly al
lied to France, and Italy is wholly de-
pendent upon England, with the posi-
Dlilty Oh ner SllOlES over 10 france. AQQ
to all this the brutal treatment we have
been subjected to by England and the
United States, by Count Won Thun-Ho-
henstein the Austrian premier), Mr..
Maxse Qhe British consul at Apia), Mr..
Chambers dhe 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 of German honor
OFFICIAL UTTERANCEs.
The more reasonable part of the press
expressed itself most bitterly. The Kreuz
Zeitung, officially inspired, said:
ut seems to be settled that we were
too optimistic in judging good relations
Of Mr. White (the United States ambas-
sador at Berlin) that England and Amer
lea had not identified themselves in the
Samoan matter This, indeed, seems to
be the case, not alone in Samoa, but gen.
orally, in the White house and Downing
street."
From inquiries made among leading
members of the colonial party, it is their
belief that the United States wants the
Samoan islands, and are going to have
them. A well informed correspondent Of
the Cologne Volkszeitung asserts this in
an article, adding many apparent de-
tails. The Lokal Anzegier, under the
head of "a Noble Pair of Brothers" ex-
presses the opinion that the Anglo
American understanding will not last
long, "as merchants SO INSCRIPTIONS in
competition as the English and Ameri-
cans will easily become enemies Con-
timing, the Lokal Angler says that "the
United States, before long, win again be
friends with Russia.
The Vossische Zeitung compares the
former cessions to the United States by
France, Spain and Russia with the pres
ent movement in the British West Indies
and says:
.'All 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 annexing
worthless territories in Africa and Poly
nesia. Surely Yankee greed at this, the
first opportunity, seems to demonstrate
that the British-Amerfcan friendship will
not be of long duration"
WANT A STRONGER NAVY.
A number OF papers also point out the
absolute necessity of a larger navy. The
semi-of1icial Post. in an inspired article.
says:
probably the Samoan difficulties would
not have arisen at all If the other coun-
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