St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-13
Emperor Frederick Issues His
First State Paper to the
People.
A Remarkable Eulogy to the
Memory Of His Dearly
Loved Father.
He Also Addresses a HiStOpi-
cal Paper to Prince
Bismarck,
Calling on His Aid, and De-
fining His Position in
Future.

BERLIN, March 12.-An extraordinary
the following proclamation from EN-,
peror Frederick:
To my people: The emperor has
ended his glorious life. In the much
loved father whom bewail, whom my
royal house laments with me in deepest
sorrow, the faithful Prussian people
have lost their fame-crOwned king, the
German nation the founder of its unity
and the newly risen empire the
first German emperor. His illustrious
name will remain inseparably bound up
with all the greatness of the German
fatherland in whose new creation the
strenuous labor of the Prussian people
and princes has met with its most splen-
did reward. While King William raised
the Prussian army to the heights of its
earnest vocation by never-tiring care
of a nations fateer, he laid sure foun-
datiOn for the victories which were
afterward gained by German arms under
his leadership and out of which
sPRANG NATIONAL UNITY.
He thereby secured to the empire a
portion of power such as up to that
time every German heart had yearned
for, but had scarcely dared to hope for,
and that which he won for his people in
honorable death-bringing fight he was
destined to strengthen and beneficially
increase by the long and peaceful toll
OF his labOriOus years of government
safety resting upon her own strength.
Germany stands forth esteemed in the
council of nations, and desires only to
enjoy in peaceful progress that which
she has won. That this is so we have
to thank Emperor William. In his
neVer-wavering devotion to duty and
his indefatigable activity consecratedto
the welfare of the fatherland, he was
supported by his reliance upon the self
sacrificing devotion of which the Prus-
sian people had given unvarying proofs,
and in which all the German races
shared. All the rights and duties which
are connected with the crown and my
house, and which for the time that,
ACCORDING TO GODS WILL,
may be allotted me to rule, Il am resolved
W ldlUiilully plCoClSC Will tllC ItiuC
now passed to me. Imbued with the
greatness of my mission, l shall make it
my whole endeavor to continue the
fabric in the spirit in which itwas
fOunded-tO make Germany the center
of peace and to foster her welfare. To
my faithful people who have stood by
my house throughout the history of the
whole century, i'll good as in evil days,
l offer my unbounded confidence, for
am convinced that on the basis
of the unbreakable bond between
the sovereign and the people, which, in
dependently of every change in the life
of the state, forms the unalterable in
heritance of the house of Hohenzollern.
my crown rests hencefOrward as Sc
curely as it does upon the devotion of
the country to the government Of which
am now called, and of which l sol
emnly promise to be faithful king,
both in .appiness and in sorrow. May
God grant me is blessing and strength
to carry out this work, to which my life
shall hencefOrth be devoted.
FREDERICK.
Berlin, March 12, 1888.