The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-24

ANA lori,y in the German riechstag OF
~ me :ssbers would be laa. On the face OF
tine re:srns thus far the government has
not obtSined majority. Up 20 the de-
feat o.;,he army bill las; May the govern
ment, tiat is, the ministers Of the crown.
have laid working majority in the
reichst1g. For fourteen years from lssl
10 1884 bismarck held a majority by IN
aIiiancn between the Prussian Conserva-
iives. sandholders. government officials
and men Of rank. and the National Liberal
and Rssiical Liberal parties. representing
the mlGdle class vote ali over Germany.
This alliance was broken in 1854, when
Bismarck turned antI-Socialist. By max
ing confessions to the Catholics and re-
pealing;.hc Faik laws Bismarck obtained
majority made up Of the Prussian Conserve
tive we've and the Catholic or Clerical
party III Bavaria, the Rhine Provinces,
silesia ind part Of Poland This majority
the gov lrnment held in 1857 and $780, But
this ali :ance Was broken last May over the
army bill.
The slowing party in Germany il the
Socialist. In the election preceding that
Of The 18th inst. this Socialist party polled
1,3li, $50 Of the 7. o6i, G4 votes cast, and
elected ahirty-six members. In the cleo
ton just held il Is estimated they have
elected between sixty and seventy men,
bers and polled probably 100000 votes.
or from; one-fourth to one-th,rd Of the en-
tire vos}. The Socialist vote. while 1t is
solid aGsinst the army bill. has no affilia-
ton VITA the National Liberals and the
Radical Liberals. which represent the Ger
man middle classes. Ths growth Of the
Sociaiis. party. which has majority in all
the GERMAN cities through the labor vote.
may heEp the government by persuading
oil the divisions of the anti-Sociaiist vote
to support the government. under the be-
lief thas imperialism Is better than social
ism. The greatest obstacle to tins fusion
Of oil tho snti-Socialists in support OF the
govsrns,s is the personal odiousness Of
Emperor William.
II the present emperor Of Germany had
the temper and temperament of his grand
father or his father he could easily COM
mand & majority in the reichstag, but he
repels support by his egotism. his vanity,
his imperfect intelligence. his impulsive-
ness. his instability. Emperor William
has tirsless energy Of mind and body;
great capacity for work, but his energy
has . certain restless insane intensity
about = that marks an eccentric rather
than NJ. able man; he seems to be kind of
An imperial crank: he IL an ''all sufficient.
insufacssnt, sslf.sufacient God" kind Of
q creasurs In whom seems to b repro
duced the insane faint Of his race.
The 3ather Of Frederick the Great was
with dsfIiculty prevented from executing
his so,,, and was 20 brutal that he is
classed with Charles the Twelfth Of Swe-
den. Peter the Great and Paul of Russia as
q creature of insane quality. His son. tho
great Frederick, had genius for war and
government. but he was very eccentric
man, who left his wife tho first week of his
marris g.
With the exception Of William. the
grandfather. and Frederick. the father of
the present emperor. no member of the
Hohenzollern family since Frederick the
Great has been a man of sound. robust
mind or body. The king Of Prussia, who
was conquered by Napoleon at Jena, was
singplarly stupid, sulky. hypochondriac
creature; his son. Frederick William tho
Fourth. was insane for several years be-
fore his death, and several other members
of the family have been imbecilc in mind
and diseased in body. The whole race
seems 20 be saturated with scrofuls. The
disease. OF the ear which Is gradually
DESTROYING the intellect of the present en-
peror Ct Germany is the same disease that
affected his grandfathcr's brother, Fred
erfck William the Fourth, and reduced
him To- insanity. 1t is quite likely that
within five years EmperorWi William will be-
come incapable of government and il will
become necessary to appoint n regen. of
Germany.
/, was great misfortune for Germany
that Emperor William the Firsi's gifted
son. Frederic q ed within a few months
after his accession TO the throne Under
his RUE Germany would have been wisely.
firmly and !ieerslsy governed. He agreed
with Bismarck in treating his able sub
iects cf Jewish faith and lineage with dis
;inguishei consideration. and under him
there would have been no Jew batting"
and small growth of radical socialism.
The itiiirmiiies o: the present emperor in.
v,,c tse growth of political movement. not
favorable 10 length OF days 10 imperialism
ia Gs:many
The: ruerile intellectual quality of the
emperor If Germany Was shown when he
absolutely ignored Bismarck in his speech
at ,h' recon, anveiling of the monumen,
20 William the First al Goerii,x in Silesia.
/ Bismarck was no, invited 10 be presen. a.
/ the unvcil!ng OF this monument En-.
| percr Wi.liam described William the f1rs,
! a. sns creator o; German unity. liberty
| and aisnisy." bat never recognized BY 4
! word;,Ae existence o. bismarck. the rea!
architect Of imperial Germany. Every in,
! se!!is,ns German must have despi.ei sas
emperor f.. sha. speech and for his failur,
! 20 invite Bismarck 10 Re present
In Ruiysgt Ktplings famous Ballad {,
the Clsinpherdown. the heavy battle
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