Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-06-29
THE SITUATION IN GERMANY.
BY Wilbur N. Coffee.

Emperor Frederic is dead; and Ger
| many overwhelmed with grief, HAY
ing lost two kings within SO short a
time seems almost Frustrated. Their
sorrow for the loss OF the late Emper-
or is great but the foreboding pros
poets of the empire bid the people lay
aside their sackcloth and begin at
once to act, in the interests of the
Fatherland Of the Rhine.
Had Frederick lived, Germany
would have taken her place alongside
of the progressive nations Of the earth.
She would in q great measure have
abandoned policy which other ma
lions are RELOCATING to the past and
which sooner or later must be super
coded by policy over which the en-
llghtened governments of the world
can extend the hand Of friendship.
Frederick William was a lover OF
the arts Of peace. Under his admin
istration, culture and refinement
would have been placed moro conspic-
uously in the foreground, education
would have taken On that which be-
longs to true education and Germany
would have assumed an air less dis
tinctiyely German and more in keep
ing with the appearance Of her sister
| nations.
| Now the fine arts and every German
lover OF them, may "long for tho touch
Of a vanished hand,
For the sound of voice that is
still"
Emperor William II has succeeded
so the throne and has taken formal
charge OF the interests of Germany.
He has issued his address to the ar
my and also to the navy, and they give
one the impression ola great l" re-
lieved by plenty of "my."
Before Frederick died he called his
wife and Bismarck to his bedside aud
clasped their hands in token of the
reconciliation which he wished might
be brought about after his death.
In measure the new emperor is
moulded after the fashion prescribed
by Bismarck. He is imbued with a
spirit Of war and heartily endorses a
policy of maintenance by force of
arms. There has been no estrange-
ment between him and Bismarck, ev-
! erything is pleasant between them
and upon his ascension, William III
fell upon the neck Of this great diplo-
mat and with tears in his eyes begged
him to remain unchanged toward him.
Although Queen Victoria is the
young emperor's grandmother, he
maintains strong dislike to the Eng
fish and is said tc have treated his
mother with great disrespect on this
account. London papers express gen.
eral dissatisfaction with the expressed
sentiment Of the young man, while the
world at large accuse him of unbecom-
ing haste in preparing for the assump-
ton Of government when his father
should die.
His hatred to France will undoubt-
edly find some way to express itself ere
llong. 1t is thought that he looks in
this direction for laurels to make him
self the peer Of his late grandfather:
ct any rate the world will watch close
ly the management of affairs under
the new ruler, and hope that wisdom
and judgement may come to him. and
he be guided by different motive than
that Of war.
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