Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1888-04-12
GERMANY'S COMING RULER.
The Peoples Wild AccIaims When
They See the Crown Prince.

lRerln Special to the New York Sun, March 20 ]
Aman of twenty nine years, erect, square,
shouldered, 1.-THE, powerful and austere,
strode out of the railway station here to-
day after seeing batch of royal guests de-
part. He had a strong, heavily lined and
moody face. The guards presented arms,
and brilliant retinue of generals hurried
after the masterful looking German. 1t
was the crown prince, who will soon be
emperor of the nation of warriors. The
waiting multitude at sight of him gave
single yell that came from their very
hearts. The prince turned toward the sea
of faces and looked intently at the people.
His moody, suIly eys flew rapidly from
face to face. Then he slowly touched his
cap. Cheer after cheer rose wildly in quick
succession and with passionate fervor. The
prince listened with rapt look, then drew
back his head with sudden motion and
showed his teeth in smile of savage exul-
tation. The action was almost theatrical.
The people fought to get another look at
him, and he was whirled away amid the
hoHse and frantic shouts of his worship
pers.
The fierce light that beats about the
German throne leaves the dumb and sickly
monarch in the shadow, plodding slowly
on toward the nearing and inevitable end,
while it throws the stalwart, war-like and
aggressive figure of the Crown Prince
William out with vivid distinctness. The
name of the coming emperor is heard in
the councils of all the sovereigns and dip
lomats of Europe. Not since the first
Napoleon has young man welded such
tremendous power as will fall to the lot of
this headstrong, violent and revengefu
prince. He will have 100000 men and
100000 muskets at his back. He hates
the English and he hates the Jews So
do the German people. They detest their
present English empress because she makes
her children talk English, and has pre-
vailed upon the emperor to have an Eng
lish physician.
They have tried to mob Mackenzie, and
they look coldly at Frederick ILL., because
he spends the last hours of his life ennob-
ling men of Semitic nlood. They adore
the very name of the coming ruler who
has all their pre- judices intensified a thou;
sandfold. His aversion to the English
extends to his own mother. When he was
ordered to San Reno by the late emperor
to visit his invalid father, the royal party
started to walk to the church, and Prince
Williams English mother, the present
empress, attempted to take his arm. He
shook her off roughly in the presence of
the crowd. II represent the person Of the
emperor" he said haughtily. II walk
alone" His mother was obliged 10 follow
in his footsteps. His first English COVER
ness, Miss Ships, who had charge of him
as boy, when asked recently what sort of
man he was, said: "He is man whom
nothing can ever stay, once his anger is
aroused"
Won Moltke, the eighty eight year old
field marshal, has shrewd, brilliant and
ambitious assistant, Count Waldersee,
hater Df the English, who is only forty
years old, but a tactician, strategist and
general, in whom the great German army
places absolute confidence. The count and
prince are warm friends. When they are
together the ministers whisper that mis-
chief is brewing. When one is emperor he
will make the other field marshal. Both
are schemers. and their power will be tre-
mendous. Hence knights and diplomats all
over Europe watch Berlin with wary eyes,
and when William H. ascends the throne
the map-makers may get and sharpen their
tools, for they will have work to do.