The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16
STRIKE BILL IS BURIED
The Emperor's Determination
Will Not Save It.
REGRETS THE TELEGRAM
Williams Modelling in Politics Considered
Unfortunate-Good Results Sure
to Come From the Peace
Congress-

Copyrighted, 1899 by the Associated Press.
Berlin, July 15.-Emperor Williams
telegram to DR.. Hinspeter, the former
tutor of his majesty, furnishes the press
with welcome relief from the midsum-
mer dizziness. His majesty's assertion
of his mistaken determination to con-
tinue in spite of all resistance in the
way he considers right is generally in
terpreted as referring to the anti-strike
bill, but it is not believed the emperor'ss
word will help the measure, which all
agree is buried beyond hope of resur-
rection. The telegram has not been
well received outside of the conserva-
tive press. 1t is generally considered
another of his majesty's unfortunate
meddlings with party politics.
The Pan Garmanic Deutsche Zeitung
regrets the telegram, while sympathiz-
ing with its object, asks why the
responsible ministers do not take such
work off the emperor's shoulders. 1t
also questions whether the present ut
terances of his majesty tend to pro-
mote the interests of the bill and de-
welfare of the monarchy.
The conservative Post regards the
telegram as d symptom of the imperial
government being determined not to
leave the path the late Prince Bismarck
followed in dealing with labor and So
cial questions.
The National Zeitung calls the tele-
gram a purely personal and private ut
terance. The Tageblatt attempts to en-
phasize this view by printing the tele-
gram under the heading of court news
and affects to regard 1t as of no polt-
cal Importance and as sent from the i'm
perial yacht without the presence of
responsible minister.
The socialist press at once seized upon
the telegram rs excellent agitation ma
terial for the social democracy. The
Voerwaerts regards it as the emperor's
answer to the reichstag vote on the
anti-strike bill, adding:
The emperor has not been convinced
by the sentiments of the people and is
following aims to which the people are
passionately opposed and which even
the ministry are unwilling to indorse.'
The Voerwaerts also interprets the in
cident as showing that the struggle
against the bill has only begun and says
that his majesty'S words have pro
duced waves in the stream of constitu-
tional life which will not soon disap-
pear
Now that a plan for arbitration has
been adopted at The Hague and the
articles regulating warfare on lana
have been published, the press is devot-
ing much attention to the work of the
peace conference. Notwithstanding the
tone of skepticism with which the con-
r. ference is generally treated the opinion
is freely expressed that the results VIII
be considerable and permanent 1t is
admitted that the exaggerated hopes
INDUCED in by some that the conference
would do something to make war well
nigh impossible in the future have not
been fulfilled but it is pointed out that
the conference is not therefore failure
by any means.
The Cologne Gazette says: AL
though the conference does not offer
a guarantee against war, it has erect
ed a barrier which in many cases may
prove effective"
The Pan-Germanic Deitsche Zeitung
referring to the arbitration plan, is ex-
ceedingly uncomfortable over the
thought that Germany may be caught
in this trap" and says it thinks the
permanent bureau will become the area
for English intrigue.
In treating the question some of the
papers point that the United States
and Great Britain have not shown in
practice as much zeal for arbitration
as they have displayed at The Hague.
The refusal of the United States to
arbitrate the case with Spain and
Great Britain'S refusal TO so settle the
Transvaal difficulty are mentioned by
the Kreuz Zeitung and National lei
tung as inconsistent with their posi-
lions at The Hague.
The papers also comment on the
United States refusal to arbitrate the
Hazelton, Pa. affair as requested by
Austria, as being inconsistent with the
attitude of the American delegates
otherwise the work of the American
delegates is referred to in compliment
tary terms. Great Britains role at
The Hague is commented upon with
much less approval.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung calls at
tention to the continuous increase of
exports from the United States while
the imports are continually declining,
and confesses that the United States
is growing more and more independent
of foreign countries. 1t says:
I'm the iron industry, already the
United States is strong enough to beat
England and Germany"
The Agrarian Deutsche Tages Zei-
tung prints an article claiming that
the asserted superiority of American
agricultural methods is an error, ad-
ding that the only advantage Ameri-
cans have over the German farmer is
in the abundance of virgin soil and
lower taxation.
The announcement that Russia is
about to order field guns in the United
States is received with doubt here,
The Neuesten Nachrichten. owned 10y
several large manufacturers. claims to
know from an unobjectionable source
that the report is utterly untrue, as
serts that it is the product of an i'm