The San Francisco call., 1899-04-16
JINGOISM
HURT THE
ACRARIANS
Their Wrath Prematurely
Vented During NegOtia-
tions as to Samoa.
Won BULOW ASSAILED
English Stubbornness" and "YankeG
Greed" Caused the Berlin Press to
Use Idiotic Pyroteohnics.
Copyrighted. 1899. by the Associated Press.

Copyrighted, 1899, by the Associated Press.
D ERLIN, April 15.-The Samoan
question continued to over
n shadow all others during the
week. so much so that the inter
est 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
forces and part of the Conservative and
National Liberal press on the Cabinet.
/ especially on the Minister of Foreign
/ Affairs, Baron Won Bulow, who is
! charged with following a vacillating
/ policy and yielding too much to Brit
| ish insolence and Yankee impudence."
A regular campaign of abuse has been
opened against the leaders in foreign
politics, many of the latter utterances
! being of unusual vigor. 1t is learned
| on good authority that the most of this
| is directed against Baron Won Bulow.
1t is added that Fridays interpella-
ton of the Government in the Reichs-
! tag on the Samoan question and Baron
Won Bulows reply were intended as a
test of strength between the two con-
! tending parties, as Baron Won BulOw,
| or less swayed by him, is considered
by the Agrarians to be distinctly hos
! tile to their interests. But the great
noise of the Agrarian press and it's
! allies ought not to deceive people into
the belief that they represent public
/ opinion They are merely the minority.
Neither the Emperor nor the Govern
ment has been Influenced by these mis-
! 1rbis fo of was CT JfI
illustrated in the passing of the mid
land canal bill by the Diet. The meas
ure was extremely distasteful to the
Agrarians. The party is distinctly on
! the down grade. In the Reiehstag the
party has only about Ice out of total
of 397 members and in the Diet it's ad-
herents number considerably less.
DR. Lehrs ridiculous jingoism in the
Reichstag last evening spoiled the
i Agrarian game.
The German press comments on the
occurrences in Samoa this week diff
fered remarkably. owing to the party
standpoint of each paper Until Fri
day, while the fate of the high COM
mission was trembling in the balance,
the comment was more vivid and more
bitter. The Deutsche Zeitung headed
a page editorial The Shame of Sa-
moa," and condemned the action of the
Government. 1t declared that the Cab
met was wholly devoid of national
sentiment, and asked ironically: What
more do we want? The Dreibund has
fallen to pieces, Russia is allied with
/ France England with the United
States, Austria is allied to France and
Italy is dependent upon England, with
the possibility of going over to France;
added to all this, the brutal treatment
we have been subjected to by England
and the United States. by Count Won
Thun- -Hohenstein austrian Premier),
Mr.. Maxse British Consul at Apia), Mr..
Chambers (Justice Of the Supreme
Court 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: 1--WE stand aghast at the
tombstone of German honor"
The more reasonable Conservative
press expressed itself most bitterly
The Kreuz Zeitung said: "It seems
to be settled that we were too optimis-
tic in judging from the declarations of
Mr. White that England and America
had not identified themselves in the
be the case not alone in Samoa, but
generally in the White House and
| Downing street"
From inquiries made among the lead
ing members of the Colonial party, the
correspondent of the Associated Press
ascertains that it is their belief that the
! United States wants the Samoan ISL
ands and is going to have them. A we'll
| inf oOrraSnOndapt Of
Zeitung asserts this in an article, add
ing many details. The Lokal Anzeiger
made under the head of "a Noble Pair
of Brothers" an expression of the opin-
ion that the Anglo-American under
standing will not last long, "as mer-
chants seem unscrupulous in competi-
tion the English and Americans will
easily become enemies
The Vossische Zeitung compares the
former cessions to the United States by
France. Spain and Russia with the
present movement in the British West
Indies and says: "All the countries
subsequently regretted their sales and
England has no need to yield valuable
possessions in the West Indies so long
as she is not needing worthless terri
tories in Africa and Polynesia. Surely
Yankee greed at this, the first oppor-
tunity, seems to demonstrate that tho
British-American friendship will not be
of long duration"
A number of papers also point out
the absolute necessity of a larger navy.
The semi-official Post in an inspired ar
ticle says: Probably the Samoan diff
ficulties would not have arisen at all
if the other countries had to reckon
with strong German fleet ready for
any emergency"
Many of the papers have emphasized
the fact that the absence of cable con-
nection with Samoa was largely respon-
sible for the most recent trouble. They
urge the laying of a cable as soon as
possible.
| The Cologne Gazette points out that