Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-25
WILLIAM WRONGLY JUDGED.
Indications That His Policy Will Be
One of Peace.
THE WAR SCARE DISAPPEARING.
German Financiers Treasured and All
Securities Steady-Purport of the
Royal Address Honoring
the Empress Mother.
A Man of eac

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~Cablc-Special to The BEE. German
finanGiers and the great mass of well in
formed Germans seem to believe Kaiser
William is neither rash nor war-loving,
otherwise the sturdiness of the stock market
would be incomprehcnsible. All the stocks,
Russian, Austrian, ETC., which fuctuated so
violently during the last year of the old
kaiser's life are still controlled in a large
measure by German quotations. These
stocks are widely enough scattered through
Germany to insure a panic in them if any APP
preciable part of his subjects suspected the
emperor of desiring war. Yet there is no
suspicion of a panic nor of any marked
change from the period of steadiness which
seems to have set in.
In reference to the emperor's proclamation
that he will make on Monday in the reich
stag, l am able to give you the views of
some of the foremost men IN Berlin political
and financial circles with whom l have
spoken. They have been assured that it will
be of the most pacific character, laying
special stress on the fact that the foreign
relations of Germany will be continued ex-
actly in the same spirit as under William l.
and the Emperor Frederick. The imperial
proclamation will be most carefully guarded
and will not be printed in the government
printing office until about four hours after
the emperor pronounces it in the reichstag.
If those with whom | have spoken are right,
and they should know, and this peaceful
message is believed, there will be a general
seeking after needed vacations by
he anxious politicians, business men
and journalists, who have not dared
to go away until the future
was assured, at least for the immediate
present-politically and socially. Every
body will get away from here and there will
be little or no gossip to send you.
Regarding the rumors circulated concern
ing the kaiser's disposition and intentions,
an eminent political authority said to me-:
'Most of these rum0rs We're started or
greatly exaggerated by the radical press,
which more than anything else has always
feared the reign of another such firmly but
gently conservative king as was the late
Kaiser William. OF late, too, the radicals
have used every effort to prevent the late
emperor's abdication. Among these means
have been all kinds of stories about the
present emperor. Unfortunately the foreign
press quotes almost entirely from the sensa-
tional opposition papers. As a result, the
wilder the story the more certain it is to be
widely quoted, hence the world at large out
side of Germany, lacking other information,
has agreed to call the emperor a hot headed
warrior.
SIN German politics this misrepresentation
must prove a great advantage to the young
kaiser. He has been called bad names until
the people are ready to pardon any small
errors merely because they feared greater
ones. Now his proclamations prove him a
loyal son and, so far as words go, a wise
ruler. 1t will be quickly seen that any party
wiling in the past to endanger the empire by
exciting the suspicious of other nations
against its future ruler is unworthy of con-
tdence. Out of party anImosity will come,
therefore, a national party with the emperor
for its leader.
aside from an unprovoked attack on US
or our allies, there is only one risk of a Ger
man war. If the minor German sovereigns
should show themselves distrustful or ieal-
ous of their young kaiser; if, through sus-
picion or jealousy, any attempt Is made to in
fringe the imperial perogatiyes, then the
kaiser might choose to rally all
Germany around him for a vic
tOrious foreign war. The young
kaiser has probably no overwhelming desire
for the old imperial title "Increaser of the
Empire" but 1t is quite certain that without
a struggle he will never yield any power
granted his ancestors. The risk, though,
| needs scarcely be considered for the German
people are for the empire, even if thereby
against one or all the petty kingdoms. The
address from Prussia's old enemy, the Saxon
people, proves this.
'tinally the keynote of the new admin
~istration as shown by Die Posts official
article is opposition to all wars made by or
against Germany or its allies. When an
emperor scarcely on his throne goes so far as
to advise France where they may safely
strike, it is hardly fair to accuse him of IA
desire to make war himself. How was this
done: Oh, you did not notice the ending
of the POSTS article. Truly then, the world
offers wide fields outside-a war with Ger
many for French ambitions and French
energies and fields on which France will
meet no German jealousy, No, | did
not say | meant England, That idea
occurs to you naturally because England is
the nearest and most defenseless Of the fields
in which France can regain the self-respect
| she lost in 1870"
Among the odds and endI of news afoat is
a rumor that Kaiser William had decided to
showing his respect for his mothers abilities
by comforting upon her such vice regal place
as that now held in brunswick by Prince
Albert, of Prussia. Where and what is not
stated, but the reasons for this are said to be,
among other things, the desire to prove that
he is,not and has not been h%eropponentd during
his fathers and grandfather's reign and 70
so accustom the empress mother to practice
| government, that in the event OF a regency
she may be able TO fill the imortant place
which in any regency she must inevitably
take, If in any degree true, this would be
totally AZ variance with all Prussian customs
but might be politically most wise as it
would attach TO the kaiser most of those rad
icals who are now more loyal to the empress
mother than to her son,
l am able to state that the emperor will
continue on the same line as his two prede-
c~essors, leaving foreign affairs almost entirely
in the hands of Bismarck, and if Bismarck
gets sick then in those of Little Bismarck"
I so that no uneasiness as 10 the disturbance
of peace is felt and the friends already be-
come frmer. There is no more danger of
war now than under old William.
As to home affairs young William, although
he has given no actual proof as yet of it, is
expected to be very rigid and strict in all