The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-06-02
ALL GERMANY is AsTOUADED
An Astonishing Attack on the
Eccentric Emperor.
The History of Calisula Made tho Me-
dunn of a Covert Arrangement Of
the Enthusiastic Ruler of
tho Fatherlsnd.


BERLIN. May 2s.-Is Emperor Will
lam insane? Ridiculous MS this qucs-
ton isn Munich professor has suddenly
made himself the most notorious per-
son in Germany by asking and answer-
ing it. He is Ludwig Guide, and up
to a few days ago nobody outside the
Bavarian capital had heard his name.
He belonged to the great army of the
Bismarckian opposition. to be- sure,
only as u humble camp follower, but
yet in the gang of grnmblers who have
attached themselves to Count Herbert
~Bismarck's Allgemeinc Zeitung no
camp follower is too humble to equal
his chief in malice and pugnucity, if
not in intelligence ana cunning.
Qnidde wrote n pamphlet entitled:
'Caligula, a Study of the Madness of n
Roman Cesar" He got an obscure
printer in Leipsic to bring it ont about
two weeks ago. AT first everybody ig.
nored 1T. Then the social democrats,
who scour the earth for material
against the monarchy, spread
the report that the pamphlet
WAS intended to prove Emperor William
insane. The side street booksellers
began to recommend the sketch to their
customers as u great sensation" in the
whispered tone which they usually re-.
serve for sales of questionable novels
and pictures. The Kreuz Zeitung last
Sunday denounced the pamphlet as q
scandalous document. Two DAYS later
the Hamburg Generalnnzeiger was con.
tiscated for attempting TO publish a
criticism on Quidde's work. Other jour
nails have since been warned to ignore
it. Quidde himself has fallen into a
ticklish position and has been fright
ened into n declaration that "Caligula"
is u purely historical work which only
scandalmongers could distort into an
attack upon Emperor William. or
course this is u lie, told to save the nu.
thor from social ostracism and yawn.
ing prison doors.
Quidde's whole intention and convic-
ton as regards the emperor may be
gathered from the following %condensa
ton of his work:
G~ermanicus, Caligula's father, says
Quidde, was a liberal crown prince and
popular soldier, who suffered abroad
from an insidieus disease that event.
ually carried him off. This is intended
for a picture of Emperor Frederick.
When Caliguln succeeded to the throne
he was especially beloved by the army.
He was received with great enthusiasm
by the people. He opened his reign
with oil sorts of plans for reforming
abuses and helping the poor. Consum-
ing ambition, however, soon caused him
to abandon these plans and to dismiss
the great statesman, Marcus, who had
served his father and grandfather sue
On.cf,,l1r Dyl f. At -
paints Marcus MS the Roman
epilepsy, became n victim of insomnia,
and in his nervousness began TO turn
with mad haste from one subject to
another, from one task to another. un-
til in his mania for doing all acts of
government alone and unaided he upset
all of the beneticent institutions of his
father, grandfather, and Marcus. He
was forever posing before the people.
Pomp and wastefulness were his Gle
ment, and in one year he spent all the
so, 900, 900 marks which his parsimon-
ious grandfather had saved as his
private fortune, bringing himself to
financial straits and peculiar means of
obtaining more money. His head was
filled with plans for erecting great
buildings, such as temples and theaters,
and for restoring ruined castles. So he
wished to restore the palace of Poly
krates| and the walls of the temples of
tho gods at Syracuse. All these pecu-
liarities, rs they developed in swift
succession, marked the advancing do.
rangement of his mind. Quidde quotes
S%uetonius rs authority for all these
facts, as he does also for the equally
suggestive mes which follow.
The increasing insanity of the Roman
emperor was especially notable as his
desire for military display. for great
military shows, for numerous ranks.
uniforms and commands for himself,
for n reputation in military science, for
popular nicknnmcs like "Son of the
Barracks ana Father OF the Army"
Great army maneuvers, with theatrical
but impractical evolutions, We're his
delight. He wished also to appear as
lord of the sea and fitted out magnif-
cen vessels with luxurious furnishings.
These references to Emperor Williams
fondness for building churches and
monuments in Berlin, restoring palaces
in the Reichsland and the Rhine valley,
identifying Potsdam. conducting per-
sonally the summer and fall maneuvers
with special attention to the cavalry
charges, Il snlilDg out every summer
with his many adnirnl's uniforms
aboard the splendid yacht Hohen-
z~ollcrn, nre SO plain, even when un-
loaded on old Latin Snetonius, that
Quidde's hardihood in denying their
significance is absolutely appalling.
After quoting Suetonius to show how
Caligula's fondness for the theater and
circus grew with his growing insanity.
Qnidde says that even when his mind
was breaking down, Caligula wa dis
tinguished for a certain natural elo-
quencc which led him to speak often
in public" His speeches were remark
able for their keenness and the drastic
use of classical quotations. At ono
time he said, in citing Homer: .'Ono
only is Lord, only one is king at an
other he paraphrased Tiberius' famous
u%tterance thus: "Let them hate me,
if they only fear me-" Quidde's refer
ence in this case is to Emperor Will.
JAMS classical inscription in the golden
book of Munich: 1.-The kings will is
the supreme law; and his Latin words
on Il portrait presented to Caprivi: II
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