Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-07-21


biHG William of Prussia is one of the oldest
O. T.IEuiug sOveTeigns- He was born in the
midst Of the mist French revolution As child
he witnessed the humiliation OF Prussia. of his
tathtT, and OF his family, by the first Napoleon,
ari q yOUth Ie took part ia thu avenging
campaigns u 1915 and 1915. These events gave
q GCCi- we color 20 hi opinions and his charac-
Ter i0r life \ younger SOD, he gave himself up
O. a military career. felt AND protested openly
Z 20 utmost contempt for democracy and cOnst-
tJiiouali~ m, and ma lie himself 30 obnoxious ID
al TIE liberals OF Prussia that in ISIS he was
forced - ~ the Kingdom after doing mis- utmost
G. induce the government II allow hun 20 drown
tie TcVc.u- n in the blood OF the BeTiinP-e
samphau. cOntriyed to get him back after
~ CVile Of nine months in England; and in
10 be SiEEalized himself by his victorious and
Hcrciie,s campaign against the people of Ba-
dew In 80 he was made GOvernor-6ieneral
OF EEcHish Prussia, and during his residence AZ
hayencc lie contributed greatly 10 intensity
the hatred with which Prussia hal long been
regarded !H that city. doomed bv the military
strength ct It, position - see all its splendid
commercial advantages reduced to ROught.
Ia bitterly opposed the neutrality OF Prussia in
ttc Csimran war. longing then 10 lead an army
Ggslr~t France. He became Regent in ISj. bv
tic declared lunacy, and King in 1S6l By the
death OF his chi!dCss brother, Frederick VIII
ham " With his reign began the new military
career and Volicv OF Prussia. In October iE;i-
he had himself crowned with great pom2. and
declared that he held his throne not from the
people. but from God alone" This brought
on an opeH conflict between the Crown AMI "a
Parliament. dCTIng which the King never for =
H.
the Liberal party carried the election in 1sj2
the Hing refused to open the session OF Pa-lia-
uIent, and wien the Parliament rejected the
CuOTmOUS appropriations asked for the army,
the King sent for Bismarck, then AmbaS- .dor
at Paris, TO help him conquer these Oh -tinase
ContciaEers OF divine right. The House OF Peers
backed the King The Commons persisted. The
Peers voted the money refused by the Commons.
The Commons declared this vote Illegal. The
hing then closed the session. and cooIIv de-
ClsTed that the appropriation had been made
A. a ff,l aI
revolution against the rights of the people in
the history q; Europe since the days OF 17S9. 1t
was followed by prosecutions OF the press, by an
alliance WIFE Russia to suppress the Polish in
sUTTec ton, by ALI ordinance suppressing the lib
CTtvOf the press; and when the Liberal party
succeeded, J" lS'S, in carrying the elections
again b. great majority, the King at once
thanked them by opening the war with Austria
against Denmark Tor the conquest OF SchlS=Tig-
Hoistein. Foreign war thus became, "a it had
:" often before become. the grave OF domestic
liberty. Thc war OF 1895 against Austria COM
p.CtsG What the war OF 1855 against Denmark
had begun; and Ming William of Prussia is to-
ca g completely tine representative of armed
ana irresponsible SinSiy power in Europe as
wa the Gear Nicholas in 1881. lie looks the
character - thoroughly as he believes in it.
StsiwaTt. deep chCStCi, with a s1uare rugget
face, briStliDg gray muStache, cold imDiac-
able eyes, which rather twinkle than glitter
and "A heavy Jaw, King William is the beau
lital OF = veteran cuirassier, a ready to ride
down shopkeePeTs and lawyers in Berlin Is to
charge the cavalry Of France ut Jena. The
hereditary maiady of his family, which car
TiSd Oh hiS father IN a state Of religious mania
anu his brother aS a hypochOndriac, betrays
Itself in King William through an incOnceiy-
able worship OF his place and prerOyative
lie believes in the infallibility Of monarch, a.
CeyoUtly a Fins IN in the infalibility of
PcFeS. So firm Is his faith III the divine nature
c. BIS position that ne keeps, and tor wears kent
. minute daily diary OF everything which hap
pens u Inn. and whenever any new emergency
aristS he turns to bis diary to see what he did or
Ga not do ON the corresponding day in the pre-
yiouS 70 az OF hi> life OF now seventythree wears
ms c int Tnpt fUr al men not sOldirrs or mobiles
NJ ics = - difficult u conceal that he did not
''ign 70 bcStOw the slightest attention last wear
UPON The Humboldt celebration: and all the eff
f"ris OF Count Bismarck have been needed to
maze him treat Americans at Berlin with even
: SLOW o. courtesy since a piebian German MIR.
kreisSniar, whom President Lincoln sent ont "a
Couhsui = Berlin, insisted. with success, on
Ftt'lng aGIlttcd 70 his court, from which Con-
sIi> bad always been and indeed still are. ex
ciuocd a. absolutely a. merchants, bankers
ilwye rS and trahespeople of AL sorts With
tbs forward and fanatical old prince NJ. Bcoe-
detti was lett TO debate the peace OF Europe.