New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-16
RERLIN MUCH WROUGHT UP
AGRARIAN ATTEMPTS TO PROVOKE
STRIFE OVER SAMOA.
THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT AMI ~
SENSIBLE PRESS AND PEOPLE NOT
,,o,,rr nv aITCU CIAMOR.

Berlin, April 10.-The samoan ques'o" ~
TONED all others in this capital during 'ne wen
The most remarkable feature OF the aiIair -
.,a ,ri,cd daily onslaught made by the entire
Agrarian and anti-Semite and part OF the Oon-
aar,.ot,va and National Liberal press on the
Cabinet and especially on Baron Won Buiow the
Minister Of Foreign Affairs. who is charged with
following a vacillatng policy and yielding too
much to British insolence and Yankee iinpu-
derce" A regular campaign OF abuse has been
onered against the leaders in foreign politics.
many NJ tho utterances being of unusual vlgor
and venon II is learned on good authority
that the aim Of this Is to discredit Baron Won
pnIoyv with the Emperor. force his retirement
and pretudice public opinion and the helchstas
against the United States and thus deIeat tue
Meat Inspection BILL which Is considered oy Tue
Agrarians to be too favorable to America. 1t
IS added that Fridays Interpolation OF the Gov
eminent in the Rechstag on the samoan queS
ton and Baron Won Bulows reply were incl
dents Of the contest between the two parties
The great noise Of the Agraran press and It's
allies ought not however. to deceive people lhto
the belief that they represent pubic OPINION
They are merely the blatant minority. Neither
the Emperor nor the Government mas Deeh IN
fuenced by these mischief-makers. Ihls TACT
vas strilinglv illustrated in the passage of the
was extremely distasteful 10 the Agrarians
The marty is distinctly the DOWN grade in
Prussia and Germany generally. In the Reichs-
tay n has only about one hundred out OF total
NJ 397 members and in the Diet its adherents
number considerably less than half the total
membership Dr. Lehr's ridiculous jingoism in
the Reichstag last evening in presenting the
onening speech Of the Interpolation spoiled the
Agrarians game.
AMBASSADOR WHITE PLEASED.
The officials Of the United States Embassy are
we'll satisfied with Baron Won Bulow's speech
which agreed with his previous statements 10
Ambassador White The latter considers the
speech moderate and pacific and he so caDied
Washington.
Both Great Britain and the United States ex-
pressed the hope that the unanimty principe
would not be carried to an unreasonable extent
which might easily Illustrate the whole purpose
of the Samoan Commission and result IN a dead
lock. Germany gave conciliatory assurances.
The German press comments on the occur
rences in Samoa this week differed remarKapiy
according to the party standpoint Of each paper
Until Friday, while the fate OF the Hlgn COM
mission was trembling in the balance the coih-
ment naturally was more vivid and more bitter
The "Deutsohe Zeitung" headed page editorial
the action of the Government. 1t declared the
Cabinet wholly devoid Of natioral sentiment ana
aspirations and asked ironically:
Whit more do we want? The Drebund has
fallen to pieces, Russia is allied with France
England with the United States. Austria IS Sc
cretly allied TO France, and Italy is wholly ne
pendent upon England. with the posslplnty OF
her sliding over to France. Add TO all this the
brutal treatment we have been SUBJECTED 10 Dy
England and the United States, by Count Won
Thun- Hohenstein 0he Austrian Premier). Mr..
Maxsie the British Consul at Apia), Mr.. Cham,
hers dhe Chief Justice Of Samoa, ana Admiral
Kautz Indeed, we ask what more do we want!
One Agrarian organ spoke Of the "impotent
weakness shown in Samoa and concluded:
I'VE stand aghast at the tombstone of German
honor"
Part of the more reasonable press also ex-
pressed itself bitterly The "Kreuz-Zeitung,
often inspired. said:
If seems TO be settled that we were too OPP
timistic in Judging from the declarations OF Mr..
White that England and America had not ident-
fed themselves in the Samoan matter rms, IN
deed, seems to he the case not alone in Samoa,
but generally in the White House ana Downing
Street.
sNEERs AT THE ANGLO-SAXON.
From Inquiries made among leading members
Of the Colonial party the correspondent of The
Associated Press ascertains that it Is their be-
I
Islands and is going TO have them. well-n-
formed correspondent of the Cologne "volks-
Zeitung' asserts this in an article, adding many
apparent details. The "Lokal- Anzeiger," under
the head of "A Noble Pair Of Brothers," ex-
presses the opinion that the Angio-American
understanding will not last long, "as merchants
so INSCRIPTIONS in competition as the English
and Americans will easily become enemies.
/ Continuing, the "Lokal- Anzeiger' predicts that
the United States before long will again be
| friends with Russia"
The "Vossche- 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 these countries subsequently regretted
| their sales and England has no need 10 yield
valuable possessions In the West Indies so long
she is still annexing worthless territories in
Africa and Polynesia. Surely Yankee greed at
/ this the first opportunity. seems to demonstrate
that the British American friendship will not
he Of long duration.
A number Of papers point out the need Of a
larger navy The semi official Post in an in
spired article says:
Probably the Samoan difficulties would not
have arisen AT all II the other countries had had
| to reckon with a strong German fleet ready for
| any emergency.
The correspondent here Of The Associated
Press has had an interview with a high Foreign
Office official who bitterly complained of the
many erroneous statements hoated by the Lon
don press regarding the Samoa muddle." He
mentioned the reported encounter between an
American sentinel and German officer saying
there mot a word of truth in the story. al
though much has been made OF II both In the
| English and the American press.
YESTERDAYS PRESS COMMENT
The morning newspapers to-day generally ap-
prove of the speech Of Baron Won Bulow in the
Rechstag yesterday. Part Of the press contin-
ues TO impute TO Great Britain unfriendliness be-
cause Of that country's long delay In accepting
the German proposals. The Tageblatt says:
This has left sting. as German political cir