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IMPERIAL WILLIAM ISBECOMING DEMOCRATIC

Reactionaries of Germany Alarmed by Recent Tenden-cies Shown by the Kaiser?Whole Country Is Stirred

by His Entertaining Jewish Business Men.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF IT?" THEY ASKEmperor Has Come to Understand That Dem-

ocracy and Monarchy Need Not Necessarily Be An-tagonistic?Herr Ballen Responsible.

BY HERBERT A. WHITE,Berlin Correspondent of the United

Press.RERUN, April 2.?Once again

the kaiser has stirred Germany tothe depths. This time he has doneit by temporarily becoming a con-vinced democrat and a pro-Semite.

Aristocratic Germany is mad withrage. The "Junkers" are up inarms against what they consider abetrayal of their privileges andrights. The influential courtcliques and reaclionary politicalgroups are in despair.

It all started quite harmlesslywhen the kaiser invited the mostprominent among his Jewish sub-jects to accompany him on a re-rent North Sea cruise aboard theKaiser Wilhelm 11. The party In-cluded thirteen admirals, six gen-erals, three cabinet ministers andmen of prominence In science, artand letters. Altogether the guestsnumbered one hundred, and couldrightly be said to be really repre-sentatives of the makers of mod-ern Germany,

PROMINENT JEWS WEREINVITED.

Rut the Jews, the all-powerfulheads of Qermao finance, were theguests that really counted. Tlieyincluded: Paul Schwabaeh, headof the banking firm or of Moich-roeder; Frits Krledlnnder, miningmagnate; Carl Vaeritanburg,hanker; Emit Katheiiau. managingdirector of the Berlin ElectricalWorks; l.udwig Dellirueck. hanker,and Arthur (Iwinner, director of theDeutsche hank.

Theso are the men who controltho money market of Berlin. Theyare the keen business men of thecountry with whom both the kaiserand his government must keep oncordial terms. They know theirpower and are not to be placatedby pleasure cruises or imperialfavor. They are also self-mademen, who, with no initial advan-tages of rank or fortune, have comeout on top against the strenuousopposition of the old nobility andaristocrats. They realize the ob-stacles that have boon placed intheir way and In turn they are thebitterest enemies of the reaction-aries who rule the Fatherland.KAISER BECOMES A DEMOCRAT

Now tho kaiser has gone out ofway to seek their advice and court

their good will. He has clone thtsdespite the fact that the men towhom he is paying court are theimplacable opponents of the Prus-sian franchise bill, which has near-ly driven Germany to revolution.He has sought their opinions andhas discussed the situation withthem In every detail. And all Ger-many is asking: "What is themeaning of it?"

The answer is that the kaiserhas awakened recently?mostly un-der the teaching of Herr Uallen,head of the Hamburg-Amerika line?to a sense of many things thathe never knew before. First of all,he appreciates that the future ofGermany lies in the hands of hard-headed men of business and not ofthe reactionary aristocrats. Hesees that a Jew may be a betterGerman citizen than an heredi-tary noble. He realizes that theworld has no longer any use torthe latter type.

MONARCHY NOT ENDANGEREDThe kaiser has also come to un-

derstand that democracy and mon-archy need not necessarily bo an-tagonistic. All his life he has beenpersuaded by those around himthat the growth of power in thehands of the people must necessar-ily be synonymous with an endan-gered monarchy. His talks withmen of affairs have modlfed hitviews considerably. They havepointed out to him (hat, to the manof business, the form of govern-ment under which he lives matterslittle so long as It is stable andgives lull freedom to the people.

1136 MATCHES PER MAN.

PARIS, April I.?During1909 Franco (which has thematch monopoly i sold 44,1 IK,-

--1.151 matches, which meanta distribution per Inhabitant of1136 matches and an expendi-ture of 30 cents a head.

Of tobacco (also a govern-ment monopoly) Fiance soldNX.f>37.l2°. pounds, or morethan two pounds per man.woman ami child in the coun-try. This represents nn ex-penditure of 477.736,560 francs,

?or about 196,647,313, most ofwhich was clear profit to thestate.

GERMANY LEADS IN FEVERISHDREADNOUGHT BUILDING CONTEST

England Underestimated theSize of Warships Germans

Were Constructing.

REJOICING AT BERLINScore Now Is: Britain, 12;

Germany, 11?EnglandMust Hurry to Retain

Power.

?teV HERBERT A. WHITE(Berlin Correspondent of the Uni-

ted Press!BERLIN, April B,Xot only the

Bavy league but all patriotic Ger-mans are rejoicing just now becausethey believe they have secured abeat on their British rivals in thedirection of warship building. Allthe British calculations in regardto the relative strength of tho twonavies have been thrown out ofgear and now it is realised that In-stead of England having a long leadin Dreadnoughts they are really on-ly just on a level,

In the first, place the displace-ments of the ten German Dread-

now completed or underconstruction have been vastly un-derestimated by (iro.it Britain. Thetonnage of the first four was be-lieved to be 17,ti"!> tons; as a mat-ter of fact they each displace IS,---500 tons.

lint the remaining six Dread-noughts have also been grievouslyunderestimated by Groat Britain,instead of their displacement being19,000 tons, as was supposed, it Isreally 82,500. And Instead of theironly being armed with II Inch guns,as the British admlrality firmly be-lieved, they are in reality armedwith a 12 inch gun, which is farsuperior to anything, else In exist-ence.

ENGLAND UNDERESTIMATED22,722 TONS

The total error, therefore, ofEngland in calculating tho displace

meat of these ten Dreadnought!amount! to 82,722 tons, more thanequal to one Buper-Dreadnoughtof the latest type. Nov Ifl this all.Three armoured cruisers of tin*Dreadnought type have also beenlaid down by Germany. Tin1 dis-placement of these was reckonedby the British admiralty as 1K,700tons each or 66,100 in all; in reali-ty their total displacement Is 63,---000 tons, a difference of 6,900 tons.

So far as the British Dread-noughts are concerned they beganwith a displacement of I7,!'00 tonsand the latest under constructionare 19,600 tons. Altogether the12 British Dreadnoughts completedor launched displaces in all only121,900 tuns; against this the 13German Dreadnoughts, launched orunder construction displace 271,000tons?prat ically a difference ofthree Dreadnoughts, [or which theBritish admiralty had in no wayallowed.GERMANS BUILD THEM FASTER

Then again the Germans havestolon a march in the direction ofrapid construction, According t<>the semi-official figures the nextfour Dreadnoughts wore not to becompleted before tho summer of1911, Thai la to say, they shouldnot have boon commenced beforethe summer of 1909, As a matterof fact they were begun In Febru-ary of lust year and will be com-pleted In February 1911. In thisway Germany has gained sixmonths over her rival in regardto the building of these shlpa andbus onoo more disturbed the deli-cate balance of the English navalprogram.

Tho result of this all la that,whereas England thought that InFebruary, 1911, she would have 12completed Dreadnoughts againstthe seven of Germany, In fact shewill only have I:' to Germany's 11.This will not ensure anything Ilitetin- recognised British Btandard ofsuperiority and so the British ad-miralty will once more have to setfeverishly lo work to regain thehad of her rival. Ami all Germanyis proud to think that Great Britianha;, been properly taken in,

CATHEDRAL AND THE VATICAN, WHERE FORMER PRESI-DENT WILL HE GIVEN AN AUDI-ENCE.

ENGLISH HOTELSWILL BAR JAPS

6N THEIR VISIT"Mine Hosts" of LondonFear They WillLose Amer-ican Business If They

Don't.

BY CHARLES P. STEWART.LONDON, April B.?"Japanese

visitors are expected in London ingrunt numbers this summer," saysthe Week-End, one of the bestknown ol metropolitan periodicals,"and the Week-End learns withragret that their coming is not re-garded with any great satisfactionby the more lashionable West Kndhotels.

"The chief London hotels livelargely by their American guests

and between the American andJapanese there is a barrier of mu-tual dislike. It would be foolish,'said a gentleman who voices theopinion of the directors of two ofour great hotels, 'to receive theJapanese as guest ; at our estab-lishments. We depend almost en-tirely upon our American clienteleand we know that we should loseevery one of these Americans if,when they came here, they werebrought constantly in touch Withthe Japanese Singularly enoughthere- is no objection to the Chi-nese and it is difficult to under-stand this prejudice against theJapanese, but it is a very realthing and no hotel proprietor canafford to ignore it.'

WILL BAR JAPS FROM HOTELS."The prejudice against the

Japanese is not confined to citi-zens of the United States. TheCnimdiftns hold it, if anything, morestrong!)' than their neighbors.

"Some hotel managers say theywill take no steps to bar the Jap-

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1910.

PALACES AND RULERS THAT TEDDY WILL SEE IN ROME

KING HUMBERT AND KING'SPALACE, WHERE ROOSEVELTWILL BE ENTERTAINED.

anese, but it must be rememberedthat they would hardly be likely toadmit such a thing,* What willhappen is that the Japanese will bepolitely told that 'the hotel'is full..'

"It is certain that they will not\u25a0be received?save, perhaps, theOfficial representatives of theMikado?at many of the fashion-able hotels in London."

CHOICE REPARTEEIN CHAMBER OF

DEPUTIES, PARIS

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EL PASO, Tex- Worst sand'storm since 1882 strikes this city.

OMAHA. Neb.?Kingdon and .layGould elected directors Pacific Ex-press Co.

ENGLAND RICHEST ANDROUMANIA POOREST LAND

Dr. Bertillon Figures Out What Each Person Ought toHave in Each Country to Be Up to the Average,

But It Don't Work Out.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.Paris Correspondent of the United Press. ?

PARIS. April 2.?How much money have you got In the old sockbetween the mat tresses ?

ir you are 10 years old and are keeping apace with French thrift,yOU oilulit to have 82321.

Dr. Uortillon. the man who Indented tho police measurementSystem now in use the world over, baa a bug for statistics He eats'i in anil dreams 'em. and figures on em all day long b) way ofrecreation. He has just made a compilation of the continent's ttirlft.not getting as far from home as America, and a paper on the subjecthas been sent to the Academy <»f Sciences. France, as will in- seen.striken a happy medium England coming first with 14201 tin for everyman 40 years old or over. Holland is second with 13353.20. Accord-ing to Dertlllon these are the richest countries, on this side of thewitter, at any rate. Austria has only $TM to to each man of -til andover, while tho old tobacco box of Spaniards of the same age is sup-posed to contain but $7<iT.4o, Italy dropping near the last with |770,Roumania is the poorest with 8801.80.

The vanity of statistics! They prove only-what they prove!That there is so much wraith in the country, and that this sum, di-vided by the number of Inhabitants, theoretically shows what eachperson has laid away. The fact, however. remains that 10,000haven't a sou and the in have millions. If, by Chance, you don'thappen to have $1201.60 laid away at the age of 40, don't fret be-cause statistics show your cousins iv England are so much betteroff than you.

FRANTIC WOMENAPPLAUD SPEECH

OF ITALIAN POET

MILAN, April 2.?Gabriele? d'Annunzlo seems to consider? himself the chief authority on? flyine since he made an ascentiin Glean Curtiss' aeroplane.? He hae just delivered an ad-? dres| an aviation in the Lyric? theatefir here. His audience? was *? mainly composed of1 women? whose applause was

\u25a0 frantic The poet, who prides\u25a0 himself on his impassibility,? wiped "away a starting tear and? inhaled a wbiff of scent froma delic,«te vinaigrette.

lie was in evening dress andhad a-carnat'on in his button-he'd His feet were compressed

' in!or ?'.No. 3 t-hce and he glaredthrown his eyeglasses,dinn. »d with emotion, at his

audence. Half ofhis -vords no one understood.The Bbet himself only guessed

at th*> meaning of one-auarter.\u25a0 Hf1 dwelt on the strange recol-

\u25a0 lection he had Df some prev-ious flight, seeming to implythat In a previous existence hehail bee-i either an angel or abird. Such facts as he put intohis lecture were unimportant.

COMET, 'TIS SAID,WILL MAKE 1910

WINE BETTERPAXIS, April 2.?Gentlemen with

red qoseK, within a few years, willbe fbuud to choose wines of 1910when Rooking over the card at therestsn-nnt. Why? Ifß a cometyear, and comet years always arecorking wine years. Kven tiny babycom?ts rccm to have an effect oilthe proper feeding of the grape viathe sap lines, making the sparkles abit brighter and hit the roof of themotif h-u trifle harder when one sipsIt thi'.a is ordinarily the ca3e..

Sneh n comet as the Halley onemeans fine business for the peopleof jftlietinis. Epernay, Bordeaux andother [wine districts of France.WHjM. Uhereforo. is to be expectedof the wine which is of the vintageof. g two comet year? Watch theman, with the red nose.

GOVERNMENT OFFRANCE TOSSED

ABOUT, HE SAYSMaitre Labor Predicts a

Gloomy Future for FrenchGovernment Unless ThereIs Reform.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS,Paris Correspondent of the United

Press Association.

PARIS. April 2.? Maitre Labor!.Whose writings have been for sometime widely read in America as wellas in England and on the conti-nent, paints a gloomy future forFrance, and so disgusted has he be-come that he will not be a candi-date for deputy again.

"Parliamentary control," he saysin announcing his retirement fromhis seat in the Palais Bourbon, "Isimpossible. Members alike, wheth-er of the majority or of the oppo-sition, are dependent upon the min-isters to whom they even have toapply for common justice to theirconstituents, this having become ajfavor."

Now I.abori's voice has beenheard in the chamber of deputies|rr four years. He was elected fromFontainebleau. He is a radical andthe radicals ?republican radicalsand rad'calr-socialists ?are inpower and have been for some time.Georges Clemenceau was of this"bloc." The Briand cabinet (thoughBriand himself belongs to the so-cialistic element) is radical yet, ithaving picked up the package whereClemenceau dropped it somemonths ago. The radicals alonenumber something like 350 mem-bers in the chamber out of a totalof approximately 575.GOVERNMENT TOSSED ABOUT.

Therefore Labori's disgust is nota symptom of Bour grapes -notnecessarily, anyway.

"While the ministers control thechamber of deputies, it must not bethought that they are a powerfulbody. They are not," says Labori."The truth of the business is. noone is less powerful than a min-ister." From this conclusion,coupled with the dependency of thedeputies, the maitre declares that"between the exigencis of a dem-ocracy which is daily growing moreimperious, and those of a final oli-garchy defending its own interestswhich are not those of the state,parliament and the government aretossed about like a shuttlecock."

Again he gives a verbal "whiff ofgrapeshot" at the cabinet, whichhe says is never upset or over-thrown on a question of principle.

PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVEMORE POWER.

"It falls at an hour when groupsof persons and lobby intriguershave decided on Its fall. And thennothing is changed but the men.Even those who by their strength

loverthrow the ministries, no longersucceed them."1 The remedy for all this, accord-ing to Labor!, is proportional rep-resentation electoral reformgenerally. The president of the re-public should he the real head ofthe government and should use theprerogatives bestowed upon him bythe law whenever necessary. Inother words, the maitre would see

France governed on line similar tothose In the United States, thepreside nt leading In all govern-mental matters. This cannot bedone a' once and Labor! urges thaino Violent reforms be attemptedsuddenly.

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev.?Robt. B.Kendall, £7, contractor far Quar-tette Mining Co., killed by fall Intoshalt.

MOBBING JIM PATTEN ON THEMANCHESTER COTTON EXCHANGE

\u25a0 \u25a0Sff'i'UlH PICTURE, WHICH HAS JUST ARRIVED FROM ENGLAND,fIPWS THE SCENE WHEN WHEAT KINO JIM PATTEN OF CHI-CWO WAS HUSTLED oi'T OF THE MANCHESTER COTTON EX-CHANGE MY THE ANGRY DEALERS. SOME OOOD FOOTWORKAND A FEW POLICEMEN HELPED PATTEN TO ESCAPE. PAT*TEN S) EFFORTS IN NEW YORK EARLIER IN THE WINTER TOJtJORNER COTTON CAUSED THE RloT.

BY CHARLES P. STEWART(London Correspondent of the Uni-

ted Press Association)LONDON, April 2,? Every time

there is an outburst of Japanese-American "war talk," English di-plomacy shakes in its shoes andprays fervently for peace. TheBritish government would almostrather fight Japan itself than havethe United States do it. It wouldbe less embarrassing.

England and Japan are tied to-gether, offensively and defenisvelyby a very tight treaty, but it isa treaty which few stay at homeEnglishmen like and which colonialEnglishmen positively loathe. Brit-ish statesmen admit now that itwas a mistake for their govern-ment to renew it, as it did longago, and if a sufficient excuse couldbe found for breaking it no onewould be sorry. Any incident graveenough to warrant the breakingof the treaty would probably begrave enough to warrant hostilitiesand, in such situation, Englandcould go into them with good grace.Such a campaign would be popular {with all Britons with whom waris popular at all.

ENGLAND WOULD ASSISTJAPAN

But fighting between Americaand Japan would be quite a dif-ferent thing. Under terms of theAnglo-Japanese treaty, Englandwould be bound to help Japan. Theonly way out of It would be byrepudiation of the treaty and tohave to repudiate so hard and fastan agreement under these circum-stances would be, to say the leastof it. indecent. '

Reform in German ArmyNow in Effect Received

With Acclaim in theFatherland.

POOR CAN BE OFFICERS

BERLIN, April ?>? Hy a simpleannouncement in the official ? Mili-tary Qaiette" the German army hasbeen revolutionised. The announce-ment only said that henceforth can-didatei for positions as officers inthe Prussian guard regiments areto be selected exclusively with re-gard to mental and moral capacity,Without regard to birth.

Heretofore none but sons of no-bility dared aspiro to guardsmen'sepaulets. The poor man, howeverskilled, was hopelessly debarred.Protn now on the crack regiments<>f the German army are open to allcorners, provided they have thebrains and character.ARMY PLEASED WITH CHANGE

The exclusion of the bourgeolsefrom the officer corps of the guardshas lon- been a cause of complaintin Prussia, and the news that thewar office had decided to breakwith the old system orested wide-spread gratification throughout the

"I! Ii :i well known fact that ontoo afternoon of June \u25a0;. I*ll, thinearth passed through the tall of itiehuge comet "f thai year, sn n,,t>t\u25a0 hiii .it' Cambridge (Bng.) univer-sity, probably the world's most emi-nent eetronomer today, baa writtenthe following about the experience.

\u25a0 -Editor. >

BY SIR ROBERT BALL.

In the year 1861 a fine cometappeared, it Is not so well remem-bered as its nn lits deserve, becauseIt happened, unfortunately for itsown renown to appear just threeyears after the celebrated comet of1858, which was one of the mostgorgeous of Its kind Iv modemtimes. Hut in 1801 we had a novelexperience.

On a Sunday evening in niidsummot of ihat year we dashed Intothe comet, or rather It dashed intous. Tin. re were, fortunately, novery disastrous roiiseo.uonces. in-Ideed, most of us neve- anew that

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FEAR WAR BETWEENAMERICA AND JAPAN

Britons Would Be Involved Because of Anglo-JapaneseTreaty?British Government Would Assist Nipponese

but People Would Side With America.

THEY HAD RATHER FIGHT JAPAN THEMSELVESEmbarrassing Situation, to Say the Least, Would Result

in England, if War Talk Here Should ReallyDevelop Anything Definite.

.Yet England would be compelledto do it. The British people wouldcertainly not permit their govern-ment to aid the Japanese againsttheir own kinsmen. There is nodenying that England Is jealousof America, that It enjoys seeingthe latter in difficulties, that Itsmacks its lips over stories ofAmerican graft or that IndividualAmericans are disliked in Eng-land. It is even conceivable thatthe British might, on their ownaccount, fight the Americans If bigenough interests were at stake. Forall this, there is an undercurrentof feeling in England that English-men and Americans are united byblood ties which should hold themtogether against outsiders.

BRITONS FEAR EUROPEANALLIANCE

Britons are chronically afraid ofa great European alliance againstthem and there is never a discuss-ion of International politics to beheard in the country that does notlead up to a contemplation of sucha possibility. Nor does it ever

{happen, this point having beenreached, that the disputants fall toagree that, anyway, in a situationof actual desperation, Americawould be sure to come to England'sassistance.

Whether America would do so isnot the question. The masses ofEnglishmen think it would. Andbitterly or contemptously as theyoften express themselves concern-ing America, these same masses in-variably take tbey view that thesetwo countries are, after all, relatives who, quarrel as they maybetween themselves, must not let

' outsiders come between them.

BRAINS Hi CHARACTER. NOTBIRTH, ROW ARMY STANDARD

Exclusion of Bourgeoise HasLong Been Grounds for

Complaint in Berlin.

army. Poor men have long beenable to become officers in the les-ser known regiments, and takingthem all around they were immeas-urably superior to those In theguards. Hitherto, however, onlynoblemen have been eligible asofficers for these renowned regi-ments, and the annoyance felt bythose holding commands in otherregiments has been re-echoedthroughout the entire army. Nowthe overwhelmingly predominantcaste has received a check and thearmy has been democratized. Theresults of this can hardly be esti-mated, but on all hands it Is rec-ognized that the army now holdsout a career to any man of brains,however poor, and the standard ofofticers is sure to be enhancedenormously.

Kffect has'already been given tothe order by the appointment oftwo cadets from the military acad-emy at Gross-Lfchterfelde as juniorlieutenants in Herlin guard regi-ments.

PLOWED LAND BYUSING DYNAMITE

SPARTANSIU'RO. S. C. April 2.j?J. Henry Caldwell, a fanner near

< here, broke up an acre of land with800 charges of dynamite, the ex-plosive being used instead of theplow.I Mr. ClMweil asserts that blasting

' land with dynamite is the bestmethod for subsoiling and that it

\u25a0 can be done more cheaply than bymanual labor.

Main person! witnessed the ex-IperlntenL

WE DIVED INTO A COMET'S TAILIN 1861 AND IT WAS A PICNIC,anything had happened at all, and

tho rest only learned of the acel-dent long after it was all over.

For a couple of hours that nightit would seem that we wore actu-ally in tho tail of the comet, butso far as 1 know no ono was In-jured or experienced any alarmingiuconvenionce.

Indeed, I have heard of only onedisaster arising from the collision.A clergyman tells us that in mid-summer he was always able In or-dinary years to read his sermonwithout artificial light. On thisparticular occasion, however, the:sky was overcast with a peculiarglow, while the ordinary light was

'so much Interfered with thut thesexton had to provide a pair ofcandles to enable the clergyman

ito read his sermon.| The expense of those randies

was. 1 believe, the only loss tothe earth iv consequence of its col.Hi ion with the comet of IS6I.