Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-07-03
GERNANY'S MAD RULERS.
declares the Reigning
Kaiser to be Insane.
-, rautonic Emperor Has Lost His
Head Through Greatness
Like the Roman.

NV yxILrz CASTELAR,
MI. -.ceut acts Of the young Emperor of
lIs are those of downright mad
1ri-l''' Nowadays one dares not express
l.l" +oo strongly. for every act out of
-.-ss Common is straightway attributed
h. medical men and the public gen
A5 nervous affection. According
a.I! naw physiological psychology every
-osf scientist, artist or orator Is a
gT75, - do not think that that is so
5.I5o think that the position Of an alb
D-. .-,onarcb is calculated to induce
SOU SUI In medicine, the vertigo caused
l'.., heights is well known. 1t re-
strong head to look down from on
.Lp' ritbout turning giddy. Among the
l-.-rian, the eccentrlelty OF Maxlmlllan
/ "a. mt down to weak head. The ayowed
-i5s.s Of Charles the Bold, that of Don
mana. Of CASTLE. Don Juan, of Portu-
| I anil Don Sebastian are cases IN point,
| s,nlajns alike the retirement TO Juste
: LI treat Spanish Emperor and the re-
| ~. ,r5gic death of Archduke Rudolph in
! 4. ,s.f'a at Meyerling. But the enemies
| IA rirals of the Austrians, the princes Of
~ House Of Brandenburg, have little to
INV them. We except the marvellous
-.r;o. Of Frederick the Great, acknowl"g
4 nv an men. But his father, when he
-sr.sslted him DESPITE his genius, and
gfsr /, coupled the Pomeranian Gren-
hon. with robust countrywomen in order
4 n obtain generation of gigantic soldiers,
was De not madf
And mad. too, was the great-grandfather
n me present German Emperor, Frederick
William III. who insisted on uniting the
Protestant churches and celebrating the
i rr;7p. then called the Evangelical Union.
A man Of greater learning than talent,
rebsr in religious ideas than in political
3pttnie. O theological writer devoted to
rrb5.hing works on transcendental prob |
s5. Of theogony, proud Of his absolute
rtb5rify and bent on turning it into a |
.1iritBsi instrument. he worked incessant- |
4 for the prosperity of the traditional re- |
iyi6u. and Cor the Union of the two |
Protestant churches, divided by an UNI |
hh5mabIe gulf Of enmlty. lnconsiderate, |
He al dsmented persons, he rejected as |
worthless the natural scruples of the |
srgy and the faith Of the believers, IN |
sting f5oishly on a close bond between !
h5 churches, drawing up codes and |
tar.ie, which be first essayed in private |
vu1d. and afterwards introduced into the |
qntrs smods, but without reflection, |
without sense or judgment. He even |
composed a sort Of religious programme, |
allied BY him the royal liturgy and made |
|lp0f scrap, from the old church litera- /
-l-s
Blta step further went Frederick VIII |
lam IT, brother of the late William ! /
hi, was d positive case Of atavism, when |
BE- tried 20 win over the minds of the /
nHa. pautheistical school, represented |
He4e0 tJ the mystical school represented |
>eleHuug. having recourse TO rescripts, /
el,au- persecution of some and protec- /
o If others, DIS IL he were back in the /
mss In which a rescript Of Julian Con-
H'iue and IheodOsius suiiiCed To change /
mi-lug, creads of the entire universe. /
Now, iD tle same way that King Of /
r.~la coupled his grenadiers with the I
n.l girls, and a another Prussia /
philosophy IF Hegel with that of /
r.nE-'he reigning Emperor wants to /
AIRY ,hs socialism Of the chair with the |
a4.sm b, revolution. Such an under /
-al- r simply the result of the madness /
Inspired uva throne Proof enough, and /
iue. ha> the Emperor given during
short lifetime Of a dlsordered intellect.
l'4f u mind the cruelty of his conduct /
."rds M, llustrlOus and unhappy father;
De mania of rushing hither and thither;
lowe ot medieval, warlike religious !,
'-m..Me,. resembling those that the
'a'ar.a1 hlng, Louis, engaged in to the
una 1t Wagner S music: the lncoherent |
It-.a-, IN which eccentricity is combined
'- y1,glrity the fits of frenzy in the
"'i4ht nights or on the sparkling
al the propensity for mysticism
-,4ea with hl, prediction for Russian
..i4smi the habit of DOMINIC a hundred
Inherent uniforms, affecting as many
-'ie' and forms as the antique gods in
DIR I uetamorphoses.
at Tins explains the recent Labor Con-
-Etaea n search of social uniformity in
lal9.e with laws which regulate the
inverse Easier would it be to give a
-'leTu.y mild climate to all countries, to
--rl'fate all zones in one and the same
X. taal 10 render uniform the conditions
'41A ln the burning tropics and the
-aF..e-, TO impose The same condi-
u sa labor to confound the workman
'--a.,a. bathed in ether and the scent
..lASs blossoms, with the Westphalian
-v.. stepped in the black and chilly
'-' ~ the earth This sort economic
-is is conceivable in The apostles of
-.-a peace, corrollary Of the dogma
7-'a.9nal arbitrage. of the abolition
.s''4l'n: but spoken by those who
"asnd the most destructive war of
N.o retain Alsace and Lorraine;
bantam a general armament under
sht the whole Of Europe bends,
. 70 me blasphemy and a
ar how one day Napoleon the
.' agitated Europe with his So
~. military innovations, conyoked
49,. establish the foundations of the ,
Of Europe, and how nobody
.Hae Of it. A similar rebuke
4erlted at this hour by the
trFtoriansim, Anti. Semitism.
.... ana Aaterialism spread over our 5
-a. banks to the hateful and hated !
-ea economy. T
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