Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-31
THE NEW. EMPEROR.
Sketch of the Dying Kings Oldest Son.


Still Under Thirty Years of Ags-His Love
for His Country Early Training and Mill.
tary Career.
Prince William, sop OF the dying Emperor,
who will succeed to the throne of Germany,
is II mere boy, being in his twenty-elghth year,
vet he has chiefly distinguished himself as
representative type OF the PruSs.aa military
younker. lie is the pride of the military
party aud the hope OF Prince Bismarck, who,
as Is well known, has no love for The Crown
Prince. The Prince was n great favorlte OF
the Emperor, who, with the great Chancellor,
instilled in him the principles of Frederick
the Great
He is young man who hates every thing
that is not German, and many say that when
he becomes Emperor there will be war.
His training has been most excellent. The
best professors have always been at his com.
mnni in the colonies mathematics, physics,
lgion and classics. lie was sent to the
University ut Cassel, where he held IA high
position in his class passing his cXamina-
tons with credit. His compositions at Cassel
were mostly on military subjects, one of them
being upon Alexander the Greats expedition
to India, in which he laudcd oiTusvcly the
wild monarch of Greece. The Prince was
afterward at Bonn, where h, Was very popu-
lar with the students. lie was fond of bot
anizing, mountain climbing and all sorts Of
sport. Among the Home heroes Hector
was his favorte The Prince was skillful OF
skates and fine swimmer
While at Bonn he translated some OF the
oacs of Horace and wrote several plays, one
OF which, "Charlemagne in AK la Chapolle,"
wns performed by his fellow students.
In 1877 he was placed in the military service
as Premier Lieutenant of the FIRST Regiment
of Guards. When he entered upon his mill
tary duties the old Emperor, his grandfather,
delivered to him this remarkable address:
You have learned from study OF history
that all the Kings Of Prussia have, together
with their duties as Regents, ALWAYS paid
chief attention to the army. Tho great Elec-
tor gave mighty example TO the hosts bY his
own personal courage. Frederick !. knew
very well when he placed the crown upon his
head that lie would be compelled to defend
this STEP lie we'll knew, however, that his
troors, tried in battle, would easble him to do
So Frederick William l., in the garrison,
which YOU now enter and which has been
well called the cradle of the Prussian army,
laid the firm foundation TO ts organization
by the strict discipline which he introduced,
without which no army can exist. And this
spirit still lives. Frederick the Great, pos
sessed of natural talent ms commander,
took this firmly built organization as the basis
Of the army with which he made war and
g. Sht battles that made him immoral = = =
Ia the last wear il was the Prussan army with
its invincble courage, its stcadfsst endurance
that enabled Prussia to attain the great,
position she now occupies. Your youth fell in
these DAYS You have in your father a noble
example in the guidance OF wars and battles.
In the service in which you are about to en-.
ter, however you will come across matters
that may seem insignificant to you; but
YOU will learn that in the service nothing
that Is small, and that every stone belonging
to the structure OF an army must be properly
formed If the completed edifice is TO be firm
ard fasting. Therefore, / bid you go and do
your duty.
The Princes present military rank is Colonel
Commander of the IIussars OF the Guard. He
is popular with the army and has undoubted
" the stuff in him of which they make soldiers
and great Generals. lie is said to be anxious
to prove himself, as his grandfather wished
him to be, a second friedrich the Great He
married Princess Augusta Victoria.
On the 9th of February at the Brandcn.
burg dinner, he endeavored TO smoothe matters
over in q speech, in which he appealed strong
~ 10 the military spirit Of his counlrymen.
"Iknow that section Of the public imputes
to me a careless and thoughtless longing for
war for the sake of glory. God preserve me
from such criminal giddlness. am a soldier;
all the Brandcnburgrrs are soldiers. | con-
clude with the words uttered bv Prince Bis
marck I'm the Reichstag, which showed the
grand obstacle Of popular representation 90
ing locked hand in hand with the Government,
] adapt 10 Brandcnburg the sentence: ''We
Brandcnburgers only fear God and nothing
else in the world
Such is the character OF the man who will
soon WELD the destines of Prussia. II will
be recollected that on the occasion of the
Queens Jubilee his soldierly bearing and
military appearance evoked the applause OF
the London populace.