The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21
ERMAN DREAD YANKEE
BUSINESS RIVALRY.
SEE new CAMPAIGN BEGUN
Buffalo Exposition Scheme to Drive
Them from South Ameri-
can Countries.

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of space and attention which the Ger
man press and public of every class
have recently devoted to the United
States and more particularly to the
United States relations with Ger
many and Great Britain is remark
able. A year ago it was mainly the
agrarian press which was systematic
ally antagonlstic to the United States,
in view of agrarian products and po-
litical influence, but now the liberal
and radical press also are slowly be-
coming convinced that the United
States is their greatest commercial
and Industrial rival. This fact came
out strongly during the %reichstag de-
bates last month and also in the diet.
Naturally, the conservative and agrar-
ian press stir up this fire by every
available means. Arguing on these
lines the KreuZ Zeitung, conservative,
today devotes a lengthy editorial to
Anglo-American relations and points
out that these relations, though semi
cordial, must necessarily become
acute, as the United States rapidly
becomes ~outspokenly great Britain's
sharp competitor in trying to wrest
the worlds trade from her. AS the
core Of Great Britain's policy has al
ways been dominated by commercial
reasons, this nascent conflict, accord
ing to the paper mentioned, will
steadily become greater and disrupt
any possible Anglo-American under
standing.
The Post TO-DAY points out editorial
~ the enormous commercial and man
u~facturing progress made by the Unit
ed States, which in nan respects
beats the German home field. It says
that through the Pan-American expo
sitiOn at Dutlalo a we'll considered
campaign to invade the whole of Cen
trail and South America now begins,
to drive out the Germans. The pa
per calls on German commercial cir
cles to consider. this and agree upon
a plan for defense before it is too
late.
From various sources it is learned
that the harmonious relations be-
tween the emperor and the conserva-
tiyes have suffered severely through
the last sessions of the diet and
reichstag, in which the canal bill
was disrespectfully spurned. While
the party claims to have received the
governments assistance in adopting
p~ro-agrarian measures, the emperor,
in private conversation, is reported to
have spoken Indignantly about this
disloyal behavior of the conserva-
.tives. 1t is also significant that this
week the North German Gazette, con-
servative, reprinted without comment
a severe article from the Weser lei
tung OF Bremen, national liberal, on
he subject. His majesty is reput.
ed to be especially wroth because the
conservatives failed to intelligently
appreciate his pro-British policy and
the reasons therefore, and instead,
Joined in the rabid anti-British cry.
The correspondent of the Associat-
ed Press learns aut~horitatively that
the questions regarding the method
OF the China settlement have not vet
e decided upon, whether it shall
consist OF a single loan, under the
joint guarantee Of the powers, wheth-
er each power shall guarantee it's por-
ton, or whether there shall be no
loan, letting China pay the indemnity
in installments.
Politically nothing prevents the
withdrawal of the foreign troops from
China Immediately. Their withdrawal
will certainly begin soon, but will
be carried out gradually. Count Won
Waldersee leaves within a fortnight
and after visiting Japan will probably
return by way of the United States.