The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-05-30
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
summary of the Most Important Hap
peninss in the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers,


den praised President Wilson as a
man of high moral and high spiritual
character, of whom we might be proud
If he were ours" What the writer
characterizes as lazy ignorance" is
represented as 'chattering from the
mantle of would-be patriotism, which
really has nothing in common with
genuine patriotism, when President
Wilson is assailed as he frequently
has been" Germany he adds, should
be ashamed of people who SANDER
Wilson because they have read calum-
ny in newspapers" I'm all his con-
troversies with Germany" says Herr
Harden, President Wilson has acted
from absolute conviction" Dare we
measure by a standard of students
squabble in the complaints of great
free nation led by man Of the weight
and Importance of President Wilson?
III President Wilson after a thorough
investigation is convinced that warlike
acts of Germany have broken the laws
of humanity, it was not only his right
but his duty to talk with clearness
He owes this not as a duty to himself
but to US"
Search by the police of the meat
markets and private homes of butch
ers revealed more than $4,000 pounds
of meats, hams and sausages, con-
cealed and sold privately to custom
ers at exorbitant prices, in some in
stances almost incredible. In each
case the police confiscated the meats
found, and they were sold under po-
lice supervision in the markets at
the maximum prices. In central po-
lice headquarters a department has
been organized to ascertain and prose-
cute the food usurers. The shortage
in meats for May and June, which the
government frankly announced called
for economy, has been intensified by
many butchers concealing the guam
titles distributed to them, In order to
force fantastic prices from the peo-
pie who can afford to pay them. This
also applies to the butter stores. In
consequence, a number of butter
stores were mobbed in Charlottenburg
and the windows smashed by women,
Infatuated by the methods of the pro-
prietors.
The business of the Imperial bank
Of Germany in 1915 was much larger
than ever before, owing chiefly to
large transactions for government &C
count The turnover reached the stu
pendous total of 1921 $50, 100000
which compares with $124,000,00 100000
for 1914 and 100000, 100000 for 1918.
In other words, the business Of the
bank has considerably more than
doubled since the war began. The
earnings also were far in excess of
all previous years. They amounted to
$65,000,000, or more than twice those
of 1914. According to law recently
passed special war tax was laid on
the Imperial bank in addition to the
large proportion of the earnings fall
ing to the treasury under older laws.
Thus the treasury gets SAT, 100000 Of
the earnings, whereas the stockhold-
less than for 1914.
Americas next step in the negotia-
lions with the allies regarding treat
ment of neutral commerce will be de-
layed on account of the implied threat
contained in the German note Of May
5, in which the imperial government
expressed confidence that in view of
the new orders issued for submarine
warfare the United States would in
sist upon Great Britain observing the
rules of international law in dealing
with trade and reserving to itself
complete liberty CT decision" unless
this end was accomplished. 1t was
stated that Germany's note had COM
plicated the situation, making it i'm
possible for the United States to press
it's demands upon the allies at once
without appearing to do so at the bid
ding of the Berlin government, and
consequently it was uncertain when
reply would go forth to the latest
British communication.
Kaiser Wilhelm and Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg have decided that
Clemens Delbrueck, German minister
of the interior and vice chancellor,
must resign. Minister Delbrueck has
been reported i'll during the past few
DAYS. but the real trouble is dissatis-
faction with Germany's food supplies.
Count George Won Hertling, the Rus
varian prime minister, is regarded as
the probable successor to Minister
Delbrueck.
The Koelnische Zeitung says about
the latest German note: 1--WE really
have sufficient enemies, and our enc
mics do not make it easy for us to beat
them. We all know that Germany's
back will be broken if we do not win
this war. All the same, we believe
that the emperor and his counselors
had no alternative than to make the
answer they sent. 1t must have been
hard for them and us to swallow our
legitimate wrath. We can do it, as
our way does not lead to Canossa, but
allows of peaceful outcome on the
basis set forth by President Wilson.
In many Bavarian cities the authori-
ties have taken charge of the sale of
eggs, to prevent extortion by farmers
and SPECTATORS The start was made
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