Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-06
(From our regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 20.

(From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 20.
The State Department has about
the same trouble on its hands regard.
ing the American Congressman who
recently visited the Kaiser that the
French Minister had with the French.
man Richard who purported to have
interviewed the President after the
Portsmouth conference. There is all
sorts of trouble in the big building,
and Second Assistant Secretary Adee,
who is the encyclodedia of dillitonti
diplomacy for the Department, is
scratching his head to know how to
square the Congressman with the
German Government in the person
of Ambassador Spec Won Sternberg
when the latter next calls. 1t really
appears from the dispatches that
reached Washington, both official and
otherwise, that the Kaiser, like the
parrot in the fable, talked too much.
He Was called on by Congressman
Littlefield Of Maine, McNary Of Massa-
chusetts, Bartholdt of Missouri, Waldo
OF New York and Barchfeld OF Penn.
sylvania. The Kaiser, according to
the story, tried to do little mission
airy work and talked to the Congress.
men at some length about the "yellow
peril" of which spook by the way the
Kaiser is the creator. Now in Ger
many there is the same unwritten
law, that the Kaiser shall not be quot
ed any more than shall the President.
Whether this was explained to the
Congressman before they we're admit
ted to the audience, is not known. 1t
is to be hoped for the honor of the
American Congress-, which cannot
even keep the secrets of the executive
sessions, that it was not. Anyhow
when the Congressman got through
with their heart-to.heart talk, they
told the whole story OF the Kaiser's
remarks. This was cabled at once to
the Japanese newspapers and the
Japanese government was much in.
censed. The Ksiser's missionary work
was rendered of non.effect owing to
the publicity and to square himself,
he had to repudiate the whole inter-
view. Consequently the Congression.
al party is going to cut short the stay
in Germany and the State Department
will make whatever amends it can,
unofficially OF course, for this breach
of international etiquette.
The Bureau OF Labor has Just is.
sued a report that is going to cause a
lot of disturbance in labor circles. 1t
is to the effect that the labor unions
of this country are in favor of the re-
striction of individual output as prac.
ticed abroad, and that in the last two
years. while wages in the meat-pack-
ing business have advanced 12J per
cent, the time taken to do the work
has increased from 30 to SO per cent.
This is bad hearing for the people who
heretofore looked upon the American
labOrer as the swiftest and most skill.
full in the world and who boosted that
there was no such thing as restricted
output in America. It was said that
whatever else might be charged against
them, the laber unions here had never
adopted the foolish foreign policy of
scaling down the speed OF an entire
lot OF men to the pace of the slowest
in the party. This has been the &C.
knowledged rule around for years past
and it has gotten so bad in England
as to make the work of the building
almost impossible. There
are even different scales of speed for
workmen on government and private
jobs, and the system in London
reached its logical conclusion on one