Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-16
SOME TOUGH PRINCES.
rbe Hohenzollerns Seen Through Eng
lish Eyes.
From the liverpool Post.

From the liverpool Post.
If we had to apply TO the Hohenzollerns
INV single descriptive epithet it would be
q ntopgh." Both as a family and as indi-
rilrals they stay. Their position in Eu-
4 rona now is one of prominence, but it
n bos taken them long time to arrive at it,
n ond the last stage in the transformation
If the BurggraYes of Nuremberg into En-
narors Of Germany has been reached only
Il 4 orr own day. The Bourbons survive
onIv i'm a Younger branch which occupies
q nrfyate station, hardly daring to aspire
n IFS ancient crown. The Hapsburgs
cached their elimination more than
tbrae centuries ago, and since Charles V.
have been very slowly going down hill.
i rba English royal family is older than
q arv of these. but it has been crossed by
n ea many different strains Of blood ais
n t9rdly 10 present any marked racial char
artaristies, while, tor the last century at
Isast. it's functions have been becoming
B more ceremonial and less administrative.
R1t fine HohenZollerns, though thew. TOO,
hove been served by capable ministers
q0d excellent generals, owe it chiefly to
& tbarselyes that their barren Northern
81 ,rjneipality first became an electorate
Il ana then a kingdom, and finally had BIOS
somed into an empire. The prosalc, al
Il most brutal thirst of Frederick William
n rrapared the way for the military genius
n II frederick, and put the arms which he
pa3ded into his hands. The race has been
n pnguarly true to itself; each representa-
tjyf has added another stone to the ediice
a It's Greatness, and ii has been its good
ortune, while carefully attending to its
atsn4ag 4f4.s.
81 q1rmauv the united boon which she so
i lo.g passionately desired, and desired in
81 yain-unon at home and a prevailing
81 y0.a in the councils of Europe.
The old man whose SSLh birthday has
y Inst been celebrated is a splendid exam
81 rle OF the H0henzoileru tOughpess. Moth
d 4 illustrates this more than the fact that
* having ridden into Paris with the victOri-
Gus army of the allies in 1914 he lived to
3 receive the capitulauon Of the same city
B In 1871. The assumption of the imperial
4 tide at Versailles in the latter year was
n tha zenith of his fortune. Who would
Shaye thought that after II years more he
would still be able to hear without break
& Ing down the heavy burden which court
q and military ceremony lays upon the
shoulders of q German monarch? Men
n saw that it cannot last long, that a grow
81 ing infrmity is only hidden from the gem
81 er8l view by many cOurtier-like devices,
B ard that, like other very old men, the EN-
81 per0I moves safely along a groove of
#Aabit, though he would fan if taken out
& gift. Still he goes on. He passes through
E The Ggid routine Of his daily life, He
4 never misses levee or review, He is al
#ways ia his peoples sight. What viii
Nbappen when at last he drops, utterly
E worn out, and with him IS arrested the
Nmachne, political and military, Of which
E he is the pivot, no one can tell. VIII
b Prince Bismarck occupy with tue son the
8 rlace he has so long filled with the father?
5 Nll the then new Empress Of Germany,
MVb0 is credited with strong convictions
Mand a fixed Will, succeed in making her
#m6ueueefelt? VIII Socialism take adyan-
Ntage Of a new reign to begin a more active
propaganda? win the alliance of the
81 tree empires be maintained, or Will Ger
#mauy grayitate towards the more cOnsti-
#mtional nations of the Vest and South
E AU these things are impenetrably hidden
Il from political foresight, yet may be re-
#yealed at any moment. A stumble or a
Painting Il the breaking Of the thinnest
blood vessel, even a bad cold, may be
Nfaugbt with consequences m0mentOus to
81 le balance of European power. Mean
& Ghile-althOugh the HOhenZOllerns, if
heroes al all, are heroes of a very prOsaic
Sind-all honor to the ola man who still
steadily perseveres in what is for him the
path Of duty, and is determined ''to die
Sandingo as an Emperor should.