El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-13
CARE
IN HANDLING
THE FLAG
German Emperor Warns
People to Hoist It Only
Where Can Be Maintained
WANTS FLAG TO
FOLLOW TRADE


Berlin, Germany, July 13.-Emper0r
william has just made a speech de-
signed to curb the too aggressive spirit
OF tnose Germans who wanted to see
the German flag raised over 4 part of
morocco last year This speech, which
was made at q yacht regatta banquet
at hamburg and was largely addressed
10 Hamburg merchants, contained
pointed reference to the Agadir Incl
gent The passage in question was as
AS you all know, gentlemen, the
nag must wave in honor, and it must
not be reclkleSsly spread to the breeZeS
or hoisted where we are not sure that
we can defend it. You will understand
why l have practiced self-restraint in
spreading the German flag at places
where many persons perhaps long to
see II floating. l was governed by an
Old Hanseatic principle craven on the
town hall at Lubbock. The little
flag is easily bound to the staff but
1t costs much to haul it down again
with honor"
The emperor went on to say that he
could claim that, during his reign, the
honor of the German flag had never
been insulted from any quarter; then,
addressing himself to the Hamburg
merchants present, he added; I pledge
you, and I stand for it, that my flag
viii follow you wherever you lead the
way" This latter remark shows that
the emperor does not believe in the old
political maxim that trade follows the
flag He is less aggressive, and is con-
tent to have the German flag follow
trade.
Ocean Spot Six Miles Deep.
The German navyS surveying ship
Planet has discovered in the Vicinity of
the Philippines the deepest known spot
in the ocean, $3.50 meters, or 400 feet
more than six miles This record
sounding was made, according to
cable account received at the admiral
ity here, about 40 sea miles off the
north coast of Mindanao- The greatest
depth hitherto known, $685. meters
just under six mileS-WaS found by the
United states cable steamer Nero in
1901 to the south of the Island Of
Guam.
Women to DispIace Men.
Woman suffraEists. the Socialists
and other advocates of the equal-pay-
for equal-wOrk doctrine are much
wrought up over plan of the imperial
postal department, Just announced
replaced by women on the score of
economy It is estimated that yearly
saving of about 5000 600 marks. or
practically S1,5O0,0OO Will be effected
to be filled with women viii be $50
marks a year. This makes SASS a
month.
Says America Is on Decline.
The United States has reached It's
period of CScline, Is announced by
Baron H. Won BarnekOw, a widely trav-
eled German, who contributes to the
ReichsbOte, a Berlin newspaper, an ar
ucle summarizing impressions he
gained on the latest of his many visits
are not infrequent in the German
press, but ordinarily they are written
with such manifest animuS that they
deserve no notice Baron Won Barne-
he to- =
ter of fact way. without a trace of
anu-American feeling. and appears
genuinely glad to be able to see some
hope that the decline may be arrested.
That this decline has begun, writes
the baron, must be observed by any
person who visits America after an alb
sence of a few years. The change for
the worse has been very rapid The
scenes that have attended the Repub-
lican campaign for the presidential
the change, which is marked by a
hitherto unknown indifference, a ten
dency to let things take their course
by an unhealthy and excessive self
appreciation and a general coarsening
Of moral views. All these, says baron
Won BarnekOw. are products OF the last !
few years. The moral cOarsening has
worked down from the top, from the !
newly rich Another indication of de- |
cay is the alleged fact that the Amer
can intolerance of the drOne, of the !
gentleman of leisure, is beginning to !
disappear. Suggested as a possible con- /
-rlbuting cause of the decline Is the |
'act that the birthrate among the old /
American families is falling off, while /
{ remains high among the south Euro /
lean immigrants The old families of \
he New England states and of the /
south have as yet been less affected by /
he demOralizing tendency of present !
American affairs than the people Of 4
my other section
1t is, however in the farmers of the l
United States that baron Won Barne-
COW sees a possibility OF arrestng the
downward movement As yet, he says,
hey have not been touched by the /
moral decline. The jewellers in the
Ountry, he declares. represent today
throughout the republic the depend
bile, conservative element in which
n upright Christianity and a nigh
tandard of family life have been pre-
erved; they represent the most inuus- /
riOus and deserving portion of the
Whole population of the country" An
special word of praise is spoken for
he German-American farmers.
Two Soldiers Killed.
The attempt Of a party of Russian !
mi grants to America to gain the land
aging the Russian passport fees re- !
ulted in the death of two soldiers Of
he frontier guard in an incident re-
crted from Schmallenlngken, vii
age on the east PruSSlan border, Which !
one of the main centers for run
ing the frontier" without passports.
he party had arranged with the SEN
~ on post for unmOlested passage at
he usual rate of $3.50 per head, but
heir man was relieved before the emf
rants appeared. He remained in hid
lg near the spot and when the party
ppeared endeavOred TO force his sue
essor to divide the money with him.
ailing in this. he fired a shot to call
he guard and stop the emigrants.
-hereupOn his cOmrade first killed /
i'm and then committed suicide. When I
ne guard arrived the emiGrants were |
safety on German territory and only |
he bodies of the two soldiers were
)unf