New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-27
CHANCELLOR CAPRIVI OUT.
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asssnea for retiring the rr"Saby
ship and the prussnn bat he rea vany to
effect a reconciliation between the two Ministers
The "Tageblatt." in an editorial. says tnat me me
resignation affords the cearest proof OF the me-
cessity that the highest positions in the Empire ana
Prussia be combined.
THE Times's' correspondent in Berlin says;
In political circles whether friendly unfriendly
to Count Caprivl there is absolutely no ex-
PLANTATION obtanable of the reasons which led 20
at present on the consequences | am assured on
good authority that the issue was purely personal
s rav Sse resas ana f hfsP Se
the Emperor was the guest OF oo4 NISSAN Pre-
mier and the Marshal OF Ceremonies 1t might
to the influences of the Euienburg family. with
whom he always has been n nmanbrp pI hardly
There is reason to believe that the Emperor's
tween the TWO Ministers of the causes
that determined his momentous decision. but 1t Is
something more definite is known Of the precise
cause Of the crisis The uncertainty ana anXlet
from which the public mind In Germany has SUI
fered in recent years Will hardly be allayed ~
such startling manifestation Of instability In the
supreme conduct Of the state
The resignation Of Chancellor Caprvi launches the
German Empire upon the sea Of ministerial instabN
ty and II indicates that the individual states OF
that Empire are no longer willing to submit with
out practical protest. the dictation OF the Ber
lin Government. II there is man quite content
to-day in Germany 1t is Bismarck who sees his
successor compelled to resign, after having tried 20
apply a political system different from that practised
successfully by himself For twenty years the Iron
Chancellor. supported by the prestige of the i'm
mense services he had rendered TO German unity
was permitted to govern the country as II II were
centralized politically and adminstratvely, as "eh
as morally and nationally. He went out OF power
lust at the time when the particular states recov-
i.aet Of hpir
that nomcn, It could be predicted that the Prime
Minister Chancellor OF the Empire would be con-
tinually assaed by the requests OF the states ana
be exposed fall under the assaults OF treiess
opposition. General Caprvi resisted for four years
those attacks. which hardly felt during the
twenty wears Of Bsmarck's rule. and 1t Is likely
that none Of Capriv successors viii remain IN
power even long as he did -,.., f..
The outgoing Chancellor was nerceiy attaCKeu III
1891 on account OF his commercial treaties signed
then with Austria Hungary. Belgium and ltay iils
the great landowners. renewed their attacks as
the project Of treaty OF comme.ce , "aod
an echo in the Hamburger Nachrichten, a paper
devoted to Bismarck and also In me Kreu] E zg,
peror William II supported his Chancellor IN NE
latier's liberal commercial pole and also IN nh, ms
States. Unfortunately. in that regard me youn,s
aulck ,enper and his somewhat absolute ideas OF
Imperialism. General Caprvi must have been EN-,
by his vivacous and petuant master He mus,
have regretted also the attempts Of william II AZ
controlling IN the smallest particular the Or
ganIzation and administration ~ the army IN me
Federal States Wnrtemberg especially protes'e1
against that unwon;ed interference. ana, ,"o dnys
ago In the Bundesrath. the representatives, 81 ba.
varla and Saxony declared that they cou.h hot
adopt the repressNc measures against the 5ocla.ts
advocated by the Berlin Government Ihey o.
cared that the laws OF their own states W.rc pul'e
sufficient to guard against what - called tne so
cnl peril" OF course. those measures were pro
posed by Chancellor Caprivl upon the Emperor
nrl.rs Bat, a. he was defeated he became AFRAID
OF being compelled 10 continue to follow reaction
ary policy which nigh; en1anger. not only MS own
prestige. but German unity itSe.l 'h''c'''e Nv ~
signed