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Show i iiiS PLEASED I s WITH TIE TARIFF K c ! -S ; J j fgard Americans as Fair i fighters in the Field of , 'Commerce Everywhere. f ' tOBING THE KRUPPS ilgaria Internally Torn and t 1 I Austrians Are Too I Much Taxed. 4 i By FREDERICK WERNER. ?clol Cable to Tho Tribune. IERLIN, Dca. 6. There Is not tho iteet doubt thQt Gorman merchants 'manufacturers are exceedingly well ' " ied with tho new oustoms tariff of Bunltcd Slates, and that it will 8tlmu- K thorn to malco strong efforts to cx- 5 ft tho German market in tho statos. g irnposslblo to read a German papor Bjout noticing tho new spirit of good He toward America which tho revision Hthe American tariff has created. It entirely taken, tho wind out of tho Hp, of tho Pan-GermanlHtlc movement K'evorywhero you liear tho opinion ex-DfJ ex-DfJ K8 t,iat tnoro 13 really no longor ,. H; reason why the relations botweon tho uA, Hcountrles should not bo moist cordial JJJ Bycry way Germans fully realize how Hited they stand In ISurope. Tliey aro "5D Bectly well awaro that their country Hi not possess a slnglo friend hero, and H? every effort should "be made to win 'Hf.respcct and confldenco of America, Onj.Hf-especially hoped that tho two coun- B may find a way of working togethor w Bhe far cast whero both aro Interested fgj counteracting and keeping down WT'jHit'ha opinion of our most up-to-date lSti, Roncrgetl merchants and manufactur-r,-:Mtho commerce of the world Is bound HUQ.BTall Into tho hands of Germany and fcrlra. whose methods aro more pro-llUf-fcslvo than thoHo of the more old-.ilojied old-.ilojied Mnglond and France. Germans Mvf that Americans will bo tholr moat Bgerous pompctltors, but everywhere lmy have alrcailv met them, In China us wmiB 11s tt South America, they have) H Kid thPtn lighting fair and their rela-! ms lunc . omalnod friendly. I K pbing the Krupps. ! ' too resultr, of the revelations made , lug the Krupp trial are apt to be ' J uli more far-reaching than the convlc- , l of a few jsoapegoats. While a ma- i ty of Uo uorman people aro pretty, ' 1 convln-cil of the necessity of tho! , rmous expenditures on armaments in j a of peace under present conditions, ! re Is an Increasing feeling that the j . crnment la not getting Us war supplies Sal, w lowest possible price. Wo cannot! Bp rid of the .feeling that the firm of tM- tpp has made uso of Its practical mo- , oly to rob tho taxpayers, and many ics aro advocating 'the nationalization fMI the great steel works. The. special mission of tho relchstag will sooner or iw r report on this question, ajul on the ggr ire of this report will depend what la o done. ituble in Bulgaria. ar Ferdinand of Bulgaria may or may iabdlcato In favor of his oldest son. IS.U when it Is ofllclally denied that thero ttil J growing nntl-dynastlc movoment In S,M jarln, the government Issuing the de-b de-b Is perfectly well aware that the lucannot remain hidden very much or Ferdinand Is most cordially ' d" bv his people, because of the po-r po-r 1 Hi crimes he committed during the tan wars, and which are officially TO (at the door of the former cabinet. 10 present Bulgarian forelcn minister 'other day Etrongly brought out the ius errors committed by Dr. Daneff FGcshoff. who declared war without (10115 safeguarding the country ' Jtnatlcally Geshoff was accused of Ing Daneff free to act an ho wanted. i of having overlooked a number of vmices which would havo made Bulgaria -"feat power In "Europe. Nobody doubts, J'Jevor, that It was at the Instigation BP'.BCzar Ferdinand that Dr. Daneff on iQ, m 2 refused an Invitation to an alll-Ka alll-Ka with Rumania, and also spurned -j'F " oxcfteillnelv advantageous poaco of-:a of-:a ings of the Turks when thev found Tjselves driven back to Tchatalja. Be-'1 Be-'1 all tho speeches mado by ministers statesmen in Bulgaria Is seen tho elation that It was the personal ambl- of Ferdinand which brought about all .IcalamltlcB that befell tho country. fcainst High Cost. !. a AuHtila the high cost of living lws " Z the schoolmasters of Bohemia to pt an extraordinary resolution to ictico so-called passive resistance ' it means, to do as little work as posal--Un the clciosrooms should their sal-; sal-; ib not bo Increased. : (any civil servants in Bohemia and . er provinces advocate hlmllar tactics 1 uld the government not soon improvn 1 r conditions. Tloucewlvcs In Vienna ' j In many provincial towns oro -hold-1 meetings to protest o gainst the pro-?j pro-?j ionlfit policy of the government, S ch makes tho nit nation of tho worlc-A worlc-A claHses wcll-nlgh unbearable. A roso- )n adopted at these ninetlnj:s de-id3 de-id3 a reduction of tho customs on ""i', als and olhor foodstuff:!, and tho un-0'- floted Importation of cattle nnd meat, ' le government, on the other hand, Is 1' ;Vet satisfied with tho numerous new in or tho exorbitant Increase In tho ting onen. which Is now bolng con- M, ' red by parliament. It lntondB shortly 1 Jitroduco some more taxation pro-' pro-' ib, by which the tax on lnsuranco jracts v1ll be Increased and lawsuits ' more expensive. |