The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-16
INTEREST in SAMOA
The Recent Fighting Has Overshadowed
All Other Subjects.
BARON Won BULOW ASSAILED
Aerarian and Anti.Semite Papers Are
Bitter in Their Attacks.
ASlMUS AIMED AT UNITED STATES.
The Opposition to The Government Is In a
Hopeless Minority.
MINUS AIMED At UNITED STATES.
THE INTERPRETATION IN THE RElcHsTAG.
Russian and Austrian Journals Con-
graduate baron Won BuIov on
His Diplomatic Success.
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Copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press.)
Berlin, April i5.The Samoan question
continued 10 overshadow all others dur
ing the week, so much SO that interest in |
the subject has even reached the masses. |
The most remarkable feature OF the af-
fair is the united daily onslaught made
by the entire agrarian, anti-semte and
part OF the conservative and national lib.
eral press on the cabinet, especially on
the minister of foreign affairs. Baron Won
Bulow, who is chaged with following
vacillating policy and yielding too much
TO British insolence and Yankee jmpu-
dence." regular campaign of abuse has
politics, many OF the utterances being of
unusual vigor for the German press 1t is
learned on good authority that the aim
of this Is to discredit Baron Won Bulow
with the emperor, force his retirement
and prejudice public opinion and the
reichstag against the United States aud
thus defeat the meat inspection bill. which
is considered by agrarIans to be too fa-
yorable to America and too harmful 10
Germany. II is added that Fridays in
terpellation Of the government In the
reichstag on the Samoan question ssd
Baron Won Bulows reply were intended
as test of strength between the two par
ties as Baron Won Bulow, RS we'll as the
cabinet, which is more or less swayed by
him, is considered by the agrRrlans TO ba
distinctly hostile to their interests. But
ST !. ~, Il
its allies ought not TO deceive people into
the belief that they represent public opin
ion They are merely the blatant min
GRITTY. Neither the emperor nor the gov
eminent have allowed themselves to he
Influenced by these Ipisehie makers. This
fact was strikingly illustrated In the pass
Ing of the Midland canal bill by the diet,
The measure was extremely distasteful TO
the agrarians. The party is distinctly on
the down grade in Russia and Germany.
In the reichstag the party has only about
100 out of a total OF 3g7 members and in
/ the diet It's adbereDtE number considerably
| less than halt the total membership. DR..
| LIehr's ridiculous jingolsn in the reichstag
| last evening in presenting the opening
speech of the Interpolation spoiled the
agrarian game.
The German press comment on the &C.
currences in Samoa this week differs &C
/
paper. Until Friday while the fate of the
! high commission was trembling in the
| balance the comment was more vivid
and more bitter. The Deutsche Zeitung
headed a page editorial, The Shame OF
Samoa" and condemned the action OF the
government II declared the cabinet waa
wholly devoid OF national sentiment and
aspirations 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 secretly allied with France
and Italy is wholly dependent upon Eng
land with the possibility Of her sliding
over to France. Added to all this the
brutal treatment we have been subjected
to by England and the United States by
Count Thun- Hohenstein austrian pre-
mier), Mr. Maxse. the British consul al
Apia, Mr. Chambers chief justice OF Sa-
moa and Admiral Kauta. Indeed we ash
what more do We want?
one agrarian organ spoke OF the i'm
potent weakness" shown in Samoa ant
concluded: Eve stand aghast at the tomb
stone of German honor"
The more reasonable part of the pres
also expressed itself most bitterly. Tn
Kreuz Zeitung, officially inspired. said
1T seems TO be settled that we were TO-
optimistic in Judging from the deciara
tions Of Mr.. White that England an
America had not Identified themselves Il
Inc samoan matter. This indeed seems L
, be the case. not alone in Samoa but gen
orally In the White House and down j
Downing street.
From inquiries made among members o
the colonial party the correspondent OF tn
Associated Press ascertains thut i Is thei
belief that the United States wants tn
Samoan islands and are going 70 hay
: them. we'll informed correspondent O
the Cologne Zeltung asserts the statemen
in an article adding many details
The Lol,al Anzeiger. under the head Q
lea Noble Pair OF Brothers, expresses tn
opinion that the Anglo American under
standing viii not last long, ''as merchant
so interruptions in competition as tn