The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-01-14
TOWARD UNITED STATES AND ST.
LOUIS FAIR.
EXHIBITORS INTERESTED
Foreign Minister Ready to Promote
Adequate Representation of
Germany.

Berlin. Jan. 1l.-Whether by reason
of President Roosevelt's specially cor
dial personal communication to En-
peror William, recently transmitted
unoficially, or because the United
States has shown more than passive
good will toward Germany in tue Ven
ezuelan ENHANCEMENT, the foreign of,
fee here shows a disposition to for
ward any object in which the United
States is interested. Consequently
this is the moment for the St. Louis
exposition management to tell the
German government what it desires
for the fair.
Since last summer when the foreign
Office gave little encouragement to
the representations of the United
States embassy on the subject, a
change in the governments attitude
has taken place. Though Baron Won
Ricthofen, the foreign minister, has.
thing etao Observation-Disclosures
not committed the government to any
thing elaborate or even to anything
specific, he now shows readiness to
promote the adequate representation
of Germany and were the St. Louis
delegation here at present they would
be welcomed and given an opportunity
to present definite requests.
German manufactures have taken
considerable interest in the exposi-
ton, judged from the inquiries made
at the United States consulate.
The arrival here of Walter Williams,
the we'll known newspaper man of Co.
1umbia, Mo-, who is at present max
ing a tour of Europe, has stimulated
newspaper interests and the newspa-
pers are printing interviews with him
and notices and descriptions of the
fair.
Buengert's last opera of the HON.
eric circle is finished and the distribu-
tlOn of the text has commenced. It is
not settled where and when it will
be produced.
DR.. James Trow of the Berlin uni
Versity who is making studies of the
labor market and the Industrial sit
uation finds that coincident with the
depression, is a greater concentration
of capital and the squeezing out of
the smaller and weaker concerns. The
improvements reported apply mainly
to the great establishments which are
absorbing markets previously held by
their small rivals.
The consumption of beer in 1901
avelsaged so gallons per head,
throughout the empire, the average
rising in Bavaria to PIP gallon per
head. The average consumption in
1882, according to the official records,
was IS gallons per head, an increase
in two decades of nearly so per cent.
The Prince of Wales visit to EN-
>ror William on the occasion of the
ALTERS birthday will be for only a
day. Those who seen in this visit a
desire on the part of the British gov
eminent to show good will towards
Germany are quite mistaken. It is
intended simply as a token of King
Edwards personal regard for EN-
peror William. The Prince of Wales
has therefore declined all invitations
to entertainments proposed in his hon
or, including a reception by the Ger
man regiment, in which King Edward
is colonel, SO that the Germans may
be under no misrepresentation regard
ing the private and personal character
of the visit. Had the Prince of Wales
been here this morning he would not
nave been able to read any Berlin
periodical that did not contain lam /
poems on his father, caricatures of
Lord Kitchener, or brutal descrip-
tions Of British inhumanity in South |
Africa:
Considering that Chancellor Won
Bnelow's two speeches and the utter !
ancesso of the German minister to Great
Britain were deliberate efforts on the !
pxrt OF the government to demon.
sfrate friendliness toward Great Bri-
tain, the illustrated papers here show
malignity in giving gruesome repre-.
sensations of the tortuer of i~nnocents
Ia South African concentration camps.
These things don't affect the in1ex.
ibly correct attitude of the govern
ment but they intensity the heated
feeling against Great Britain.
The lot Of Germans in Prussian Pc.
is full OF vexations. The Poles
are ingeniously nagging the teachers
and officials and boycotts are serving
a system Of petty intimidations.
JAefgOvernment has decidod IN cto-