Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-11-27
Strong Feeling Among Some Ger
mans Against This Country
over THE TARIFF And M0NROEISM
Some Lively Discussions Expected
at Meeting Of Reichstag.
SURPRISE FOR MR.. WHITE
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.

BERLIN, November -, 1901.
| Roosevelt and Roseveltism are a men,
| ace to Germany" exclaimed DR.. Hans
Won Wagner. distinguished German pub
| licist, in an article devoted to the present
occupant of the White House appearing in
| the last number of the semi official Co.
lonial Zeitschrift. DR.. Wagner is one Of
the leading disciples of anti-American-
ism. Here in Germany there is anti cleri-
| calism, anti-Semitism, anti-monarchism,
and now comes 'antI-Americanism." The
utterance above attributed to DIR. Wagner
| should not be literally accepted as the
! unanimous sentiment in Germany toward
| the new executive. But in scanning the
| editorial leaders the essays on Roose-
| welt appearing in the German periodicals
| and the published statements made in the
! German press since the so-called "Rauhe-
ritter" has been in the presidential chair
reveals little of complimentary nature
The American peril has been pictured
| in still more vivid colors since Roosevelt
| has become President. The German corpo-
| ration which contemplated the construc-
/ ton of a railway in lower Brazil in order
to enhance German trade with that repub-
| lie falters and holds back for some I'M
known reason. The proceedings before the
| pan-American conference at Mexico re-
| ceived considerable notice. as does every oc
currence in regard to South America. PreSi-
| dent ROosevelts emphatic statements
| the Monroe doctrine in its application to
South America are reproduced in double
loaded paragraphs, while the American
correspondents in Berlin and the leading
German papers are, to all appearances, in
structed to feed the press here with litera-
ture designed to increase prejudice against
the new regime.
National ZeitunE Dissents.
1t is refreshing amidst such a chorus OF
criticisms and detractors to read the leader
entitled Roosevelt" which appears I'M
der this date in the National Zeitung. 1t
concludes with the statement that the
greatest danger of breach between Ger
many and the United States arises not
from the respective attitudes of the two
governments. but from the press of both
countries. The Colonial Beitschrift, which
is the official organ OF the colonial party
and hitherto regarded as one of the most
conservative and solid journals, INDUCES in
species of yellow journalism" which
would do credit to it's American prototype.
I The editors give DIR. Wagner the first two
pages, in which this gentleman proceeds to
criticiSe President Roosevelt and charac-
terizes the United States a "craZy-quit
country which has not yet arrived at the
dignity of a nation"
The German reichstag assemblies within
two weeks to discuss the tariff bill and the
German mind Is Just now in that recep-
tive state where such utterances sow seeds
of distrust and prejudice. The tariff debate
which has been In progress here since last
July, when the government published its
proposals. has brought to the surface all
that venom against the United States
commercial rival which has hitherto been
covertly shown by anti-American inspec-
ton and exclusion laws by freight diScrlm-
nations against American imported lumber
on the PruSSian imperial railway and
| score of other ways. 1t is almost daily
that one reads reports from speeches deliv-
( cred by some infiamed orator before con-
| ventions of commercial associations, indus
trial representatives and merchants In
| which the United States is inveighed
against and speakers receive boiSterouS APP
| plause when they cry 'Oh, for a Bismarck
who will call together the nations of Eu-
rope for an international tariff union
against the United States" 1t Is only fair
to say that the German government has re-
tected all proposals of this character thus
far But when the kaiser himself is quot
ed as saying not long ago on board his
yacht in the Oddefjord, The American
trust is the gravest peril which confronts us
today and which can only be countered by
an alliance such as Napoleon formed on
the continent against England it is rath-
er doubtful that the resistance to such
Jingoism is genuine.
Mr.. White May Be Surprised.
| Ambassador White. who has just returned
| from the United States, may be somewhat
surprised by this evident change in the po-
| litical winds. When President McKinley's
lCHeEdl WdS CcleDTdteO III tQc american
chapel here the flower of the German diplo-
| matte and official offices was present to
| lend significance and solemnity to the &C.
| casion. When the late empress dowager
| of Germany passed away the stars and
| stripes" were alone of all foreign flags in
| evidence displayed side by side with the
German emblem. To walk through the
main thoroughfares Of Berlin Is to witness
| one American store after another exhibit
| Ing American-made goods, while the label
1 An1a rt0ar do ic cd
| a guarantee of excellence
! In spite of these contradictions it is not
/ hard to explain the animus which governs
anti-Americanism. 1t is not alone the COM
| in domestic markets, but in the markets
where German exporters have gained a
| foothold in South America, Asia and con-
tinental Europe. President Roosevelt's
| strong stand for the Monroe doctrine is no
idle warning for the Germans who have
| beer steadily coloniZing South American
ports, and especially Brazil where may be
| found communities of Germans, where Ger
| man alone is spoken and the fatherIand
customs preserved. But few weeks ago
| the announcement was made in the court
| calendars that at the beginning Of the next
| fiscal year the government would create a
| new colonial bureau to divert the flow of
| Germans from the United States to German
| colonies in Africa, Sumatra, New Guinea
| and to the German settlements in South
America. 1t Is absurd to give credence to
| the occasional rumOrs that German ships
| are seen in South American ports making
surveys an indication of the German
| governments desire to establish a coaling
| or naval station in South America. Ger
! many has no intention of Selling territory
| in South America. for the simple reason
| that its large colonies in that part OF the
western hemisphere are practically possess
sions, may be shown by the fact that
Germany has outstripped Great Britain and
| the United States in coralling South Amer
| lean trade.
Case of SwelIed Head.
An official of the United States embassy
here in Berlin stated to your correspondent
recently, THE trouble with Germany Is that
1t Is suffering from an aggravated case of
Uranium development" This was not in
tended as a flattering testimonial to Ger
many's educational prestige, as that Is un
disputed But Germany has begun to fee
it's oats because of it's remarkable con-
quests in trade, industry and in political
spheres. True there is just now relapse
the nausea which follows excess in produc
tion capitalization of watered corporations
and braggadocio in entering markets In al
| corparS Of the globe a tremor of ANNA.