Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-20
THE EMPEROR WILLIAM

The Atlantic cable companies have
been constantly employed of late con-
veylng intelligence to the millions OF
Republicans in this country of the
movements of his royal nibs, the En-
peror William, while on visit to his
| English grandmother and her numer-
Gus progeny. Ordinarily, and beyond
the limited circle in Eastern cities OF
some thousands of Unbalanced and
proud funkies who banker after
titles and worship those tattered rem
nants of royalty that occasionally visit
US IN the guise OF counts and princes,
and the like, the great bulk of Ameri-
can citizens feel the smallest imagin-
able concern in the comings and going
OF Europe's crowned heads. 1t is other
wise, however, with the Hohenzollern.
who for several days has been gracious
ly exhibiting himself in all his magnif-
cence to the beef-eaters of England.
Whether leading triumphant pro-
cession from Buckingham to Windsor.
reviewing the military, speech-making
or what not, every movement and every
word ne utters is faithfully chronicled
as though he were some stray visitor
of exalted wisdom and superior car
rage, coming with letters of credit and
an important message from far-dis-
tant planet 1t is not that William has
said or done anything that divers 9TH
ers in the queens OR his own realm.
might not have said and done far bet
ter. 1t is simply the glamour and the
of royalty, coupled with the |
vanity and fea-like activity |
of the man that has excited the Curl
osity of mankind in his movements.
Two hundred, or one hundred years
ago even. the claim which royalty
made confidently to divine right to
do as it pleased, or as Bob Ingersoll
says, to do wrong. impressed the
common herd in z way no longer felt.
Louis the XIV, Phillip II, Henry VIII.
Elizabeth and Catherine awed and ter
'orized men as well by their supposed
as by their power and regal
To-day the illusions en-
rendered by the theory of divine right
10 longer blind men to the actual char
cter of kings and queens. All they
lave left to impress the public is their
'rincely trappings. their crowns and
obes and kingly retinue with what
yer of brains and intellect nature has
them. AS rule she has not | :
Exhausted her powers in supplying {
hem with brains, and William is no :
reception to the rule. In this respect {
hey are as unfortunate as the propa-
ators and expounders of the sub
fake.
William imagines himself a states
ian as well as soldier. He talks with i
ne air of a philosopher, and appears |
, know everything better than any C
ody else. Neither Gladstone or Bis c
larck would state a proposition in j
'ience, ethics, law or government with II
nything like the eX-Cathedra posi- i,
veness of the emperor. His equal on a
lis side of the water in boldness of as h
rance, and cool assumption can not fl
, found, if we pass over Tom Ochil- p
zee or DR.. Macune. People are con- p
nually wondering what eccentricity u
speech or conduct William will in N
ulge in next, and hence the morbid Ia
riosity felt in his movements. He al
IN put aside an honored tradition W
18th the same ease and sang froid with a,
hich he sent Bismarck to the right m
out, and has no more regard for the o.
customs and maxims of an n;
luity than he has for the rawlings of is
e Socialists. His eccentricities make f,
m famous or notorious, as you please. al
Native Sons of Texas