The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-19
AMERICA IS GAINING FAST
GERMAN JEALOUSY IS REFLECTED
IN ALL SECTIONS OF THE
BERLIN PRESS
RAISER AND THE AGRAR1ANs
Emperor Reported to Be Highly An
gered at the Opposition to- His
Plans in the Reichstag
and Diet.

BERLIN, May 1S-The large amount
of space and attention which the Ger
man press and public Of every class nave
recently devoted to the United States.
and more particularly to the United
States relations with Germany and Great
Britain is remarkable. A year ag1 it
was mainly the Agrarian press which
systematically antagonized the United
States. in view of agrarian products and
political influence. but now the Liberal
and Radical press also are slowly be-
coming convinced that the United States
is their keenest commercial and INDUS
trial rival This fact came out strongly
during the reichstag debates, last month";
and also in the diet. Naturally the Con-
servative and Agrarian press stir up this
fire by every available means. Arguing
on these lines, the Kreuzzeitung (Conser-
vative) today devotes a lengthy editor a!
to Anglo-American relations and points
out that these relations though semi
c0~'ie1 MUST nccessarilv become acute.
as the United States rapidly becomes out
sDckenly Great Britains sharDest y
mercial enemy in trying to wrest the
~0rlds trade from her. AS the core OF
Great Britain's policy has always been
dominated by commercial reasons. this
nascent conflict, according to the par err
mentioned. will steadily become greater
and definitely disrupt any possible Anglo
F-~"~ic0n understanding.
The Post today points out cit ri llv
the enormous commercial manufacturing
progress made recently by the United
9 ties which in man respects beats the
German home field It saws that. through
tho Pan-American exposition at Buffalo,
a well considered CAMPAIGN to invade the
whole of Central ana South America
now begins to drive out the Germans.
Tho raDer calls on German n0rnnoe'"ial
circles to consider this and agree upon
a plan for defense before It is too late.
KAISER IS WRATHY
From various sources it is learned that
the harmonious relations between the
emperor and the Conservatives have suf-
fer2d severely through the last sessions
of the diet and reichstag during which
the canal bill was disresDectfulIy spurn-
ed While the party claims to have re-
ceived the governments assistance in
adopting pro-A grarian measures, the en-
peror. in private conversation, is report
ed to have spoken Indignantly about this
disloYal behavior of the Conservatives.
i is also Signifant that this week the
North German Gazette Conservative re
printed without comment severe article
from the Weser ZeiUUEg of Bremen (Na-
tional Liber3n on the subject. His
majesty is reputsd to be especially wroth
because the Conservatives failed to in
diligently appreciate his prO-British pol
icy ana the reasons therefor. and instead
joinJeI in the rabid arti-R1itish cry
The correspondent Of The Associated
Press learns authOriJatively that tie
questions rsEard.n E the method of The
Chin settlement have not yet been
agreed urOu. whether Il shall consist %
q single lean under the Joint guarantee
of TIE powers. whether each power. shall
guarantee its portion. or whether there
shall he no loan, letting China pay eff
the indemnity in installments.
Politically, nothing prevents tire with
drawal Of the foreign troops from CHI
IA Immediately Their withdrawal viii
certainly begin soon, but viii be carried
out gradually Count Won Waldersee
leaves within a fortnight, and after Wis
1ting Japan he will probably return by
way Of the United States.
RUSSIAN JEW BATTING.
in spite of the Prussian governments
prompt remOnstrance, Russia continues
10 maintain stringent anti-Jewish meas
ures in the frontier districts, virtually
preventing all Russian Jews from pass
ing the German frontier and practically
prohibiting all German Jews FROM cross
ing into Russia for any purpose. It is
claimed Russia resolved upon such Sc
we're measures because an investigation
showed that Jewish smuggler bands were
responsible for the recent Socialist and
Nihilist lamentations along the frontier.
and also for the wholesale introduction
of dangerous pamphlets
The Berlner Tageblatt prints an az
thOTized statement from the Dresdener
Nachrichten denying that the latter pa
per ever bought or negotiated for
shares Of the Paris Figaro for it's own
account but admitting it did so or for
eign customers, the number Of shares
obtained being 50l which was not sufH-
Gent to gain control of the paper.
y prominent Socialist member of the
reichstag, DR.. Luetgehau, has been SEN
fenced to a fortnightS imprisonment in
Jail by the Dortmund court for fraudu-
lent practices.
Before the Berlin Medical society, DR..
Wohlgemuth this week demonstrated a
new method of using chloroform which
is perfectly harmless.
The emperor and empress leave Urvillc.
near Metz, this afternoon, after Witness
ing the parade of an entire army corps
in honor of the birthday of the Gar of
Russia today. The flag over the Unit
Cd States embassy was half-masted to-
day, owing TO the death of Edwin f. Uhl,
formerly United States ambassador to
Germany.
Andrew d. White, the United States
ambassador to Germany, and Mrs White
viii shortly visit the imperial chamber
lain. Baron Won Riepenhausen, at his
castle at Oranien.