Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-13
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ne young German emperor seems to
h4rs put his foot in IT again. 1t is not
eaF rising that the suspicion has been
tsi ed in London journal that Wilhelm
nag be little wrong in the upper STORY.
a S,onth ago he WAS trying to conciliate
ia Socialists and FEeisinnigists by posing
o. she particular friend OF the massos.
Tar. slseiious showed that the ruse did
ms work. At first the emperor, prob
stst under the restraint of Bismarck,
con ,ealed his chNgrin and announced that,
2sst pugh the masses had disCredited his
staserity, he was going to convince them
In t1e long run that he wss the genuine
hand and leader OF the whole people,
r-apoatents and ell. But in his Brand
eatlrg banquet speech OF last week he
ssRu off the Bismarck muzzie and gave
nm peevishness full utterAnoe. He in
tbnaed those present and through the
pev@ report of his speeoh, the German
nfxSsn, that he meant TO bs boss and, if
tia reichstag didn't like this, so much
s@o worse for the reichstRg; that he,
3MTsr Wilhelm, was responsible to God
aR'ss for his methods Of govern
mans. he had been entrusted with
q talent VIII ON according 20 the
sCStltural injunction, he would SO use as
70 hing him many other talents. "Thcss
wess stand by pae," he exclaimed, II
gEsa1 with hearty welcome; those who
oppose me I will smash to pieces,
(Deaenigsn die "a mir atehsn heiszs Ion
heshAich wiilkonnen; dieieuigen welche
sieh mir entgas .nstellen, zerschmstiere
Ica.s
he wonder thht Buoh declaration at
sush time las aroused deep feeling
Throughout Germany, and enkiudled I'M
esihlress in all EHrope. II is interpreted
as threat that the emperor will, il ne
dare, restrain constitutional liberty by
military forcsI though the semi-ctticial
organs are explaining that the utteEance
doss not go that far and is not to be &c.
oet&l as directed against "moral oppo-
Bition" but against possible physical
resistance to lawful governmental
authority. Whhtever it's meaning it can
not bat be construed as very ill-timed
and ill-tempered challenge to fling In the
face ofanew parliament to which the voters
of Germany have returned majority
hoetFp to the administration. Such word
must Make Bisnsrck's Cancellation of tn,
CeR4Iists more difficult and his meta
phcripal journey to Canossa more humili
ating, besides reviving among thu
disconnected political elements unplsas
ant memories Of 1S49. when Fred
egiek Wilhelm ~. felt his thron
shaking under him because of NOR,
moderately expressed insistancs on tbs
divine right OF Rutocratio rule. The
elections nave shown the German repub
hcanB their numerical strength and til,
monRrchists, and both elements hav
witnessed within few months the start
ling suddenness with which demOoEac
supplanted the infinitely less objection
able government OF an emperor in Brazil
The German army IL nearer 10 the psopl
than 1t Is to the kaiser; the men whom b
speaks OF smashing to pieces are kinsme
and nsighbors to the men who carry III
rifles and cartridge boxes and when til
army, or any considerable portion o. j
makes up its mind that TIE time Id
come for change Of government ii
foolhsrdy royal would.be dictator will b
likely to find that, ia American parlanc
he ''has bitten cf more than no ca
chsw,"