New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-02
WILL HE ACCOMPLISH 1T?
THE VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND THE INTER
ESTS INVOLVED.

Although hospitality is a virtue for which Amer
leans are celebrated yet 1t is to something more
than this that must be ascribed the elaborate
preparations which have been made in this country
for the welcome of the kaisers brother, and those
who. like Congressman Wheeler. disposed to
condemn the preparations made for his entertain
ment as favoring OF sycophancy evidently
blind the important results of economic order
that likely to be derived from his trip TO the
United States. Although the German element of
the population of this republic is remarkably
nghtened. progressive and influential. and has al
ways been distinguished for its loyalty TO the Stars
and Stripes yet there is foreign land where the
prejudice against American enterprise industry and
trade is pronounced in the German Empire.
These prejudices shared neither by the Kaiser
nor yet by his present ministers. but they
pant in Imperial Parliament and likewise in the
legislatures OF Prussia and of the other Federal
States much indeed that the efforts of the
government to secure the passage OF measures
destined to remove the restrictions upon American
imports have until now been frutless. While the
leaders of this anti-American movement to be
found among the great land owners who fear the
competition OF American food stufrs and among the
manufacturers who apprehend the effects of trans
atlantic rivalry If of the tariff restrictions
removed the feeling against the United States is
by means limited to the Agrarian and industrial
interests. 1t is still more marked among the
world of finance, insurance etc, and. thanks the
influence which these interests able to exercise.
not only in the press. the public mind has been
to great extent poisoned in Germany against
everything that In the least degree of Amer
lean enterprise
AS a sample OF the obstacles. 1t may be mentioned
that the American life insurance. which is well
coined In every other European country and viewed
with favor by the government. calculated to
promote thrift and prosperity of the people
the national revenues is literally barred
from Germany by vexatous legislation and unfair
administrative measures due entirely to the anti
American prejudice already described and which
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source of friction between the two countries.
It is this prejudice that Emperor William, who is
one OF the most enlightened and progressive mon
archs of his day. hopes in a measure to dispel by
sending his only brother TO this country and II the
Princes visit should result in the removal of the
difficulties encountered by American enterprise in
Germany as above described. the purpose of his
trip as viewed here will have been achieved And
It is expectations and hopes OF the same character
that jointly with the dictates of American hos
Vitality have Influenced those who have prepared
so elaborate a welcome for the royal visitor the
importance OF whose mission may be gathered from
the fact that he is accompanied by of the Min
listers OF State. namely, Admiral Won Tirpz, well
as bv number OF other personages OF light and
leading. During their stay much will be brought to
their attention. Their views about American me-
American industry. concerning the economic posi-
biites of this great country cannot fail to be vastly
developed and extended II may be remembered
that the trip Prince Hilkofr. the Cars Minister
of Roads and Railroads, to America a few years
when he was entertained and taken ABOUT the
country in special trains and private resulted
IN a vast Improvement of the economic relations
between the United States and Russia, and In the
removal of many of the barriers that had previously
existed at st. Petersburg American trade, enter
prise and industry. 1t is not too much 10 assume
that the American of Prince Henry may be
followed by analogous results In Germany. and that
the warmth of the welcome which he receives. and
the hospitality with which he is entertained by the
authorities by the representatives OF the great bust
interests of the United States and by the peo-
pie at large. may tend 10 diminish and ultimately
remove that anti-Amercan prejudice in Germany
which is to a great extent based on ignorance.