The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-05

back of all this ado over EN-
a peror Williams yacht and
the visit of his brother to
supervise its christening has been gen.
orally suspected and many surmises as
to what that something is have been
made in the papers both here ana on
the other side. The most plausible guess
that we have seen appears in the New
York Tribune, which says:
"Although the German element of the
population of this republic is remark
ably enlightened, progressive and intlu-
entail, and has always been distin-
guished for it's loyalty to the Stars and
Stripes, yet there is no foreign land
where the prejudice against American
enterprise industry and trade is so
pronounced us in the German empire.
These prejudices are shared neither by
the kaiser nor yet by his present min
isters, but they are rampant in the I'M
peral parliament and likewise in the
legislatures of Prussia and of the other
fedepal states, so much so indeed that
the efforts Of the government to Sc
to remove the restrictions upon Ameri-
can imports have until now been fruit
less. While the leaders of this anti
American movement are to be found
among the great land owners who fear
the competition of American foodstuffs,
and among the manufacturers who ap-
prehend the effects of trans Atlantic
rivalry if any of the tariff restrictions
are removed, the feeling against the
United States is by no means limited
to the agraran and industrial inter-
ests 1t is even still more marked
among the world of finance. insurance,
etc, and, thanks to the influence which
these interests are able to exercise, not
only in the press, the, public mind has
been to "a gerat extent poisoned in Ger
many against everything that savors in
the least degree of American enterprise.
las Il sample of the obstacles, it may
be mentioned that the American life
insurance, which is welcomed in every
other European country and viewed
with favor by the government, as cal
culated TO promote the thrift and pros
perity of the people and to increase the
national revenues, is literally barred
from Germany by veXntious legislation
and unfair administrative measures due
entirely to the antl-American preiu-
dice already described, and which nee
essalily constitute Il frequent and even
constant source of friction between the
two countries.
"It is this prejudice that Emperor
William, who is one of the most en-
llghtened and progressive monarchs of
his day. hopes in measure to dispel
by sending his only brother to this
country, and if the princes visit should
result in the removal of the difficulties
encountered by American enterprise in
Germany, as above described, the pur-
pose of his trip, as viewed here, will
have been achieved. And it is eXpec-
tations and hopes of the same charac-
ter that jointly with the dictates of
American hospitality have influenced
those who have prepared so elaborate
a welcome for the royal visitor the inn
portance of whose mission may be
gathered from the fact that he is ac-
companied by one of the ministers of
state, namely, Admiral Won Tirpitz, as
well as by number of other person.
ages of light and leading,
During their stay much will be
brought To their attention. Their views
about American life. American indus
try, concerning the economic possibil-
tiles of this great country cannot fail
TO be vastly developed and extended, 1t
may be remembered that the trip of
Prince Hilkof, the cars minister of
roads and railroads, to America few
years ago. when he was entertained and
taken about the country in special
trains and private cars, resulted in
vast Improvement OF the economic re-
lations between the United States and
Russia, and in the removal of many of
the barriers that had previously existed
at So. Petersburg TO American trade,
enterprise and industry II Is not too
much to assume that the American
tour of Prince Henry may be followed
by analogous results i'm Germany, and
that the warmth of the welcome which