The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-11
ISLANDS ARE WORTHLESS
Purchase of Carolines Severely
Criticised.
TERMS WERE EXORBITANT
Spain Reaps All the Advan tages and
Shares No Responsibiity-Anti-
Strike Bill Is Arousing the
Opposition of Labor.
Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.

Copyright 1899 by Associated Press.
Berlin, June 10.-The cession of the
South Sea islands to Germany focused
attention during the week. A curious
feature was that. while on receipt OF
the news the press as well as every body
else at first expressed satisfaction, this
changed radically as the week advanced
and the terms of the bargain became
known. Not only did the radical and
socialist press severely criticise the
terms as exorbitant and far beyond the
value of the islands, but a large portion
of the press rejecting the views of
other parties did the same. Prince Bis
marck'S saying in 1885, characterizing
the CarolineS as lumperei, is quoted.
According to the latest official statistics,
German trade in the islands for several
years has not exceeded 200 marks year.
ly and no German exports have been
sold there for some time.
After listening to the statement of
the minister of foreign affairs, Baron
, Won Buelow, in the reichstag, the criti-
ciSm became severe. The Frankfort
Zeitung says:
The text of the agreement shows
that Spain retains all the advantages
of ownership, retains full liberty for
the clerical orders, has a coaling sta
ton in each group of the islands and
is put commercially on the same footing
as Germany, while she merely cedes
Germany the onus of the cost of the adj
'minlstration and receives an exorbitant
price, which probably no other power
would have paid
Recalling Prince Bismarck's opinion.
the paper adds: Now this lumperei is
all at once believed to be worth S17 eOO.-
000."
The National Liberal Correspondent,
usually an enthusiastic supporter of
matters calculated to increase Ger
many 8 colonial possessions, disparages
the new acquisitions, pointing out that
the only advantage is a new tariff I'M
Outstanding with Spain.
A foreign Office official who was en-
powered to speak for the minister of
foreign affairs, Baron Won Buelow, said
TO the correspondent here of the asso-
c1ated press, that he fully expects to
see the reichstag pass the appropria-
ton for the purchase money by large
majority, adding that the freisinnig
and socialists will be the only parties
TO vote against it, though the center
might make its approval conditional
The bill for the appropriation will
provide for the administration of the
new possessions and it is said the tariff
understanding with Spain is only of A
general character Germany and Spain
admitted each other among the favored
nations
The news in the Morning Post and
other London papers to the effect that
Germany offered the United States a
Is cable station in the Caroline islands
confirms what the associated press cor
respondent cabled some time ago. but
offer
ly. 1t is fact well known to the Ger
man ana American government that
. spain, at the beginning of the war,
offered to sell Germany all her possess
j sions in the far East, including the
Phlllpplne islands. Germany then re-
Piled substantially that she could not
: accept the offer, as Spain no longer
mad the Islands to give away, but ad-
uniting that Germany would agree to
take all of SPANS possessions in the
South sea, which the United States left
her off her hands. This conditional
bargain was made during the early
stages of the war and was renewed in
the autumn at the end of hostilities.
1t has now been ratified.
The offer to exchange cable stations
will probably be renewed as soon as
Germany's title to the Caroline islands
is perfected.
The foreign office officials confirm the
relative to the release of Herr Mar
quardt and Herr Hoffnagel, the Ger
mans at Apia, Samoa, who We're ar
rested in connection with the disturb
ances there.
All of the official reports from Apia
lately are to the effect that things are
assuming a promising aspect there and
it is confidently expected here the COM
missioners will arrive at a satisfactory
settlement.
The anti-strike bill continues to ex-
cite the laboring classes to an unusual
degree. There were 10 protest meetings
in Berlin and its vicinity this week, at
which the socialist reichstag delega-
tions received ovations. Similar crowd
ed meetings have taken place in other
cities. From the tone of the press, it
does not seem likely that the reichstag
Will pass the measure, and certainly
not in its present shape.
The circular of the minister of educa-
ton, DR.. Boose, forbidding corporal
punishment by teachers in the public
schools of Prussia except by the prin-
cipal Of the school. has created a stir.
The matter has been the subject of
debate in the reichstag, where a resolu-
ton was adopted prohibiting corporal
punishment entirely. The conservatives
and centrists, however, urged that such
punishment is needed in order to main
tain discipline. DR.. Boose has gone to
the limit of his prerogattiVes and the
teachers felt it to be interference with
their time honored privileges TO be de-
MED the right of judging when corpo-
raj punishment is required. The reso-
luton was finally rejected by large
vote.
Recent events in France have been