Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — GERMANS ARE STIRHED UP. [ARTICLE]

GERMANS ARE STIRHED UP.

Speeches of Root and Lodge May Hasten Passage of Navy Bill. A special from Washington says that it ia the belief of well-informed department officials that Germany will heed the warnings given her by Secretary Root and Senator Lodge by more strongly urging the passage of the bill providing for the increase of the navy desired by the German emperor. It is understood that the administration expects Germany to try to block, diplomatically, every plan which may strengthen the position of the United States, as in the case of the Danish West Indies, but it is not supposed for a moment that she will go to the extreme of hostilities. It is thought to be her policy to continue the colonization of Cenr tral and South America to get a preponderant German influence in those States, so that in case of war with the United States these German communities might have an Important bearing upon the degree of neutrality the southern republics would enforce. ■_ M. Hlppolyte Jayr, the last of Louis Philippe’s ministers, died reccr.tly at the age of 90 years. He held the office of minister of public works under Guizot for a few months from 1847 till the revolution of 1848. The Prince of Wales admits that he is one of London’s “slum landlords," but says he can’t break his long-term leases of tenements. The rumor that Mrs. James Brown Potter had been divorced.ln London and would marry Lord Kitchener was salsa.