The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-28
HIS CLEVER PLAY.
Emperor Williams Deep
Purpose.
IN THEATRICAL FASHION.
Done as at Drama, but Well
Done.
v THEATRICAL FASHION.
ALL EUROPE WAS LOOKING ON.
The Reconciliation With Bismarck
Meant the Placating of
South Germany.

NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-Har0ld Frederic
cables the Times from London: Many
people try with varied success to enter
tain this wearied fin de steele European
audience, but really there is no other Sho W.
man fit to be mentioned on a level with
young William of Germany. He Is the
Henry Irving Of the Ola Worlds political
stage. He possesses the most spacious
proscenium and has the best stock COM
pany and the largest corps OF super bly,
drilled supers and the finest stock proper
ties. With all these advantages he unites
fine dashing genius for novel dramatic
sensations ana effects. and he has pretty
sentiment Of his own.
Considered from this point of view
nothing could have been more admirable
than this weeks sudden coup. In four
days the whole drama was over with.
With splendid swiftness one act succeeded
anothef-from Major Moltke's appear
ance al Fredrichsruhe with the case of old
imperial wine. which, witty Eugene Rich
ter says, was "Lachrym8 Caprivi.' to yes
terday'S exceedingly effective curtain of
the Kaiser in the railway station taking off
his helmet to kiss the venerable Bismarck
adieu. 1t was all very we'll worth seeing,
and Europe was glad TO suspend all other
operations and look 90.
The performance must indirectly exert
a considerable and helpful influence on
German public affairs. 1t does not at all
mean that Caprivi is going to fall, or that
the political course whice he and the En-
peror have been steering during the past
four years will be any whit altered, but
the German people, and especially in the
south. had grown sulky and from mere
peTsistency in sullennesss were getting
out OF hand. Things were drifting from
particularlsm into open talk about what
amounted TO secession very much as they
drfted in our South under buchanan The
fact that there was no grievance more tan
Glble than a general notion that Prussia
was getting TOO big and assuming too many
airs did not make this mutln0us spirit cas-
Ter o deal with.
Now, by single happy stroke, the NAL
contents for the most part have been put
in good humOr again. They have been
saving, aud perhaps had come really to
feeling, that what they chiefly objected to
was the Nay Bismarck had been treated.
1t is true that they had warmly hated Bis
arck when ne was in power, but that
hardly matters. His exile had grown to
be visible grievance. Very well. The
Emperor has smooihed dow the old mans
Tnfied feathers. induced him to come to
Berlin, paid him unique royal honors and
taken him in his arms, so that all the world
should see.
The spectacle has powerfully appealed
to German sentimentality through the
length and breadth Of the empire. 1t has
helped William and helped Germany.
Diplomatic observers 10 other countries
unite in a warning against the misconcep-
tion that the event will involve any change
in German foreign policy. They are
probably right in saying that the whole
thing was due 10 Williams private iB-
formation that Bismarck is not likely to
live much longer, and his feeling that if be
failed TO secure a reconciliation Bismarck's
grave would mark permanent and
dangerous chasm between him and large
section Of his subjects.
Those who saw the Prince agree that he
looked extremely aged and walked feebly.
He wore the familiar white uniform with
yellow facings Of the Seventh or SeidlitZ
CuiTassier5, TO the staff Of which he has
long been attached, and did not shrink
from the weight OF its ponderous helmet,
though Moltke in latter years went TO the
palace in a fatigue cap. The honorary
colonelcy of this regiment, which has been
vacant since the death of Duke Ernest of
CobureGotha, was yesterday conferred on
the eX-ChaneeIlor. Since every 81 milar
titular honor in the German army is held
by either a domestic or foreign sovereign
or by Prince OF the blood royal, it may
be assumed that Bismarck has consented to
take up his title of Duke of Lauenburg,
which was given him IL 1890.
1t is taken for granted on all sides now
that the Reebstag will be more manage
able and the Russian commercial treaty
will be- passed without much difficulty.
always assuming that Russia is sincere in
desiring it TO become law. There is a
certain vague suspicion that she imagines
the present war tariffs are harmlng Ger
many more than herself, and it would not
be exactly surprise ii she suddenly
raised some new obstacle in the way of
settlement, now that the parliamentary
way to it is cleared. The French Chamber
seems likely to raise the duty on wheat to
z or francs for 100 kilos. which will
mako il about IN nor cent al vaInrom