The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-27
GERMANY SAYS
IT is A SCHEME
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Annoyed Over Pan-American Con-
gress in Mexico City.
FEARS THE UNITED STATES
HOPES TO BUILD GRAVE FOR
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Berlin, Oct 26.-The Pan-American
congress a. the City of Mexico has
caused much press discussion here, the
general tone of which is belittling and
skepticaI of it's success. 1t is inter
preted as being a scheme of the Unit
ed States to increase its influence over
Latin America. An alliance between
the United States and the latter is re-
garded as chimerical, owing to the
radical differences, the only connection
between them being pronounced to be
merely geographical.
Therefore" says the Berlin Neuste
Nachrichten, Pan-AmeriCanism is
more lacking in a practical basis than
-Slavism.''
The paper continues: 1.-The Pan
American idea is solely capable of de-
velopment upon the basis of the sub
lection of all America to the United
States. The republics of Anglo-Saxon
and Latin America differ so greatly
respecting territorial conditions and
the composition of the populations
that a closer union is only conceivable
upon the decomposition of a decisive
predominance of the United States
DR.. Hans Wagner discusses the
subject at length in Der Tag. He says
the Monroe doctrine no longer means
America for Americans, but not Amer
leans. DR.. Wagner hopes for an in
ternationaI commission which will
prepare a well merited grave for the
Monroe phrase.
Says it is Utopian.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung calls this
Utopian, and also regards DR.. Wagner
as being wrong in thinking President
Roosevelt intends to adopt a harsher
policy toward Great Britain, since the
latter has already conceded all that
the United States
The Cologne Volks Zeitung refers
to alleged attempts in American news
papers to create an anti-German SEN
timent by the assertion that Germany
wants to establish colonies in South
America, admitting that the Pan Ger
man newspapers have given abundant
cause therefor. The paper Classics
the whole idea as being among the
most splendid castles built in the air.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung also says
1t viii be 100 TO one that suspicious
will be cast upon Germany's policy be
cause she has decided to establish an
information bureau in Berlin for emil
grants, under the anagement of an
official who was formerly a German
consul in South Africa
Colonial affairs and the establish
ment of the emigration bureau have
been widely discussed during the week.
The object of tbs bureau is to Guide
German emigration into the colonies,
but the press is largely skeptical OF
its success.
Government of Colonies.
Professor Hans Meyer, who has trav-
eled in the colonies, recently wrote a
series of articles for the Taegliche
Rundschau, arguing in favor of a rad
zeal change in the system of govern
ing the colonies. He says the govern
ment must abandon the Capitalization
which at Berlin holds the colonies in
bonds, claiming it is better to give
them government and to abolish
the imperial appropriations for the
colonies, except in the case providing
for the troops and naval stations for
their protection.
The Colonial Getting, organ of the
canal bureau and the colonial secre-
tary, rejects Professor Meyers plans,
which, it says, would injure the coll
onies immensely. The Freisinnige
Zeitung points to the fact that self
government is better for German East
Africa, since there are only 2S6 Ger
mans there.
The Taegliche Rundschau asserts
that the present system of government
from Berlin has not satisfied the
friends of the colonies and that Ger
mans who live in Africa are affected
by the colonial pessimism.
The Freisinnige Zeitung endorses the
above remarks, but says the fault is
not with the system of government.
but in the fact that these African col
onies, except in quite unimportant dis
tricts, are wholly worthless and can
not be improved by any sort of re-
ceipt.