The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-21

specialist. DIR. Mackenzie, plays the leading
part. Mackenzie" they say, has never be
ieved the disease to be of cancerous nature,
but has always considered and treated II as
chronic laryngltis; and now. when the maladys
durable at first. is past recovery. it turns out 10
be cancer of the larynx. indeed, and to have
been nothing else from the beginning To
this We reply: Mackenzie was not the hrst
and never the only, physician of the Emperor
in his present malady. he was preceded by
German colleagues. and has always been sur
rounded by such who, however. were never OF
one mind, and changed their view of
the case with every change or the
amongst them, has repeatedly, and hardly more
than one month ago, the evening of his de-
parture for Egypt. examined excretive particles
OF the swelling In the Emperors throat ana pos.
itively declared that they contained no trace of
cancer, thus fully concurring in the diagnosis of
DR. Mackenzie But this Scotehnan must be
merely because he is not German. Since his
arrival at Charlottenburg ne has been bonn
barded with letters threatening him with all
sorts of terrors in case his imperial patient
should die. And it is the same rabble of high
and low degree which in the afflicted Empress
suddenly discovers that hateful "EngIishw
tainng Mackenzie. Had not these persons.
overfow1ng with patriotic anxiety, local
pride and national vanity lost all
power of reasoning they would perhaps
admit that prince, as such. is not deprived of
the right of every person to select as his physl-
elan him in whom be has the most confidence;
that an empress, no less than the Vile or COM
mon day y-laborer, is entitled to express her pref
erence In the choice of doctor for her sick hus-
band; and that the imperial coupl6 are the most
interested parties in this case. since the EN-
peror has only one life and the Empress only
one husband TO lose, while the dear citizen, i'm
mediately upon the death of one emperor. will
get another of the same dynasty. Why do the
Berlinese in this case not stick TO the old rule
that the patients confidence in his physician Is
tha first prerequisite successful cure, IL such
be yet possiblel The suggestion that the EN-
he'll MaN zla TrnrF IA nj
her husband. but from inherited Guelphish stub
bornness and ambition, is infamous; for had
she not always been loving wife to her Fritz
she could not have attached that HohenZollern
whose forefathers were by means renowned
as model husbands intimately to herself as
she did; and to inherited traits of character
1t is to be remem bered that her mother made
the nemory of her dead husband yeritable
cult, in which she boldly confronts the decision
of vicious world. The national vanity OF
these Ber3nese travels on dangerous paths, and
begins to manifest itself as hatred against every
thing foreign to Germany her capital city, and
from behind it turks that Brandenburgish chau
nown, and. over the shoulders Of the Empress
has already fixed its eager eyes upon
the future Caesar. William H.
Beriinese insult her whom that Emperor loves
most, his wife. and from q morbid anxiety con-
cerning the preservation of his life they threaten
to kill. the physician who will not despair of
that life. While the people of Great Britain
every opportunity to show their love for the
German Emperor, these frantic Rer1inese re-
turn the sentiment with sneering illusions to
the English birth of their Empress. And all
this at q time when Bismarck is straining every
nerve to draw Great Britain into closer COM
panionship with Germany and her allies.
Strange, ignoble inconsistency And what a
contrast even with the present chivalrous atti-
tude of France! The Germans of the empire
and in foreign countries should beware of
initiating bad example. Can we,
German-Americans, for instance, blame the En-
press for not having entirely overcome the i'm
preesions of her childhood, retaining some of
the views of her native country, while we make
il a point to do the same thing in this country2
Or the PrussIan Junker consistently blame
his Empress for her English predictions while
he lands the Princess of Meckienberg, who,
the wife OF Russian Grand Duke, upholds the
ideas of her German fatberland at the court of
st. Petereburgq Suppose land it is a mere sup
positionl that the German Empress should even
try TO transplant some of her English ideas
pollsf1;n en- German soil, must not we,
free German Americans, applaud her7 And
have oar cousins in the fatherland for
gotten how they rel DICED when Frederick brought
his English bride TO Berlin and everyb looked
upon her as the harbinger of free, parliamen-
tary government rescuing and resusotating
Prussia from the stupefaction into which she
had fallen under the remorseless dictates of Gear
Nicholasl The French do not think hard of
their President because his grandfather lies
buried near the German fortress of Magdeburg,
but the Berlin chauvinist cannot forgive mis- En-
press having seen the light of this world first
on English soil. though she is of German parent
age. Foolish people!