The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-30
ANGRY COMMENT BY GERMA-.
PRESS AND PUBLIC AT THE
NEW TARIFF
BILL MAY NOT GO THROUG
Claim Is Made in some Quarter
That Won BUeIOw Does Not
Intend That 1t
Shall.
WOULD HURT GERMAN TRAD

BERLIN, July @-The correspondent
here of the Associated Press heard a I,-
port in manufacturing circles ,day tha.
the publicat on Of a sharp alta k up.r
the new tariff bill n Russian papers
telegraph agency he G having the m1. [
intimate relations with the 70 eign C.
hce, indicated that the chancellor. Co.ni
Won Bue ow, caused the publicat on c.
the tariff bill in r-er 30 arou tho
ahti-Agrarian agitation against the mea.
ure and thereby secure lower agr.c lltra!I
duties. The correspondent ca led tie at
tentton of a high government ofiica. 10
the viol mt tone of the Russian press. Ht
answered:
Yes, have read the publ shed cx
ira is, and we are doing nothing 70 sun
press them"
The official referred to implied that the
extracts were published with tbs gov
ernmcnt's expressed sa ct on. ana he
further emphasized the fat that fore.ar
newspapers should not get exc!tel. s.rcC
nothing had yet been decided the bl
being only the basis for discussion"
Among manufacturers the corre-
sponGent finds there is an exceeding
bitter feeling against the bill ana is
Agrarian promoters.
The comments of the fore gn press on
the German tariff are extensively repro
duced here, especially the Russian and
Austrian. American comments are fewer
and more temperate than those of st
Petersburg and Vienna There Is q
widespread impression in Berlin that
the severe criticism appearing I'm the
Austrian semi-officiaI press is due to an
effort on the part of the Vienna govern
ment to impress Germany with the great
political IN yarhfp
element in Austria would be exposed
through the resusci.atjon of race ami
mostly in Austria if the bill should be-
come law.
The Berliner Neueste Nachrichten Is
deeply incensed because the Fremden
blatt, the organ of the Austro- Hungarian
foreign office, app IS TO the re,chs,ag to
reject the bill; and it rCga IDS the indig-
nation Of the American press as i'll
placed in view of the fact tat the Ger
man increases don't reach by any means
the height of the American tariff war"
WILL FIGHT THE BILL.
Commercial treaty sympathizers have
begun to raise a funi called "GegeD
den Brotwucher' to promote agitation
against the bill
In the course of the day tn 60 re
spon1ent Of the Associated Press inter-
N!eWcu Il NUMBER or mCr II ntS int CS cd
in American goods. Tire director Of
large electrical com any imp rtlng much
electrical machinery from the United
States SAID:
while some Of the Increases I'm our
line are very heavy. stu the duty IS s
small a part Of the value 81 the goods
that we can continue importing. The
bill undoubtedly will reduce Imports OF
electrical goods, but the Americans pro
duce such extraordinary good and cheaI
machines that the latter will continue e.
come in under smaller profits for max
ers shippers and sellers
A prominent importer Of American ma
chine tools said:
American machine tool makers are 50
far ahead OF the Germans and their sys-
tenn Of production is so specialized that
their cheap machines will continue TO
find a market here. OF course the mar.
ket Will not retain the dimensions of the
past two years, which was due to the
great German boom, but steady im2 2urts
win be kept up for some years yet
Two dealers in frst-class American
bicycles pointed out that while the in
crease on bicycles is enormous. namely
from so to $50 marks per cwt-st1 the
wealthy classes in Germany are so thor
orughy convinced of the superiority of
American machines over German that
they will insist upon having them with
out regard to the price.