Show GERMANS HERMANS ARE SEEING ZION Took Lectures of American Professors at the Universities of the Fatherland EXCHANGE OF TEACHERS THEY COME TO STUDY AMERICA AT FIRSTHAND A trio or of young Germans are at tile the and are t in the sights of Salt Lake prior to going through the Yellowstone They are or of W Eckermann of Leipsic and count Von Frees i of Berlin All are uni university men Count Von is a son or of a former fonner wen well known G states statesman man who was for far a long time preal dent of the r or German parlia parliament meat ment We Ve came over to spend three months In America said Herr and have bae already stayed four months with our trip not yet et over There is so much to see We have visited al your great cit lea Ies especIally your our centers or of learnIng In these latter we were most Interested I myself took the lectures of some of the American professors when they ox ex exchanged changed courses with some of our lead lug Ing scholars I refer particularly to the lectures of Professor Peabody which were ot or Incalculable benefit to us ns This exchange of great grent thinkers b by the way Wa was one in which our kaiser took an Interest as indeed we an all did In Germany I do t recall from whom the first suggestion of the exchange came but the kaiser took an early inter interest est eat in the movement and followed It all through Nothing could have be been n pro of greater good to both countries from an educational standpoint than this interchange of thought and we ae hop lug Ing that it Is but the beginning of a great International educational move movement nent ment Dont Understand the Kaiser I do apt think the Americans as yet understand the kaiser r I have found that Is an impression that he is a rest les troublesome Individual and a thor thorough thorough ough autocrat There is no doubt that he Is a men of r remarkable energy In that he be Is like President Roosevelt but he has ha no other thought than the welfare of his people I admit that we distrusted him when he came to the throne but buthe he hc has bas overcome that and is generally loved by all hi subjects There could be no greater admirer of America or American institutions than the kaiser He is interested in every thing that bears on matters In this coun country try tn This Interest he Is always showing a and d I believe belleve that it will be through his feeling toward America that a better understanding Win ida The coming to Germany of t the e American scholars to in our universities was a great step In that It has turned the eyes of many or of us in this direction As to German Politics Nor are our polities politics understood here The idEm Idea seems to be that we are not nota a p and in many minds weare w are cOnfounded with th state of affairs rs that prevails In Russia We have no more real dangerous political par parties parties ties or agitators than you have here The more radical of our political par parties parties ties contain high minded men and aU all allare are for the best Interests of the coun country country try The They are outspoken in fact there Is as much freedom as here but we have net no dan dangerous rous or revolutionary parties There Is more unit unity among our states tates statesmen men than your our give us credIt for In ID fact your papers paper seem to prefer to give more space to mythical doings of the k than to our real When hen we have bave seen something more of Salt Lake we will go through the fa famous famous Yellowstone thera thep to Los Angeles and will salI saH from San Francisco as soon as we can though we e ma may fin find It hard to g get t awa away from this country |