The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-31
OPINION IS DIVIDED
Emperor William Given
Cheers by the Ger
man People.
SCOFFED BY THE PRESS.
He Is Told to Read History
Before Treating With Prince
Bismarck.
sCOFFED BY THE PRESS.
CONSERVATIVES WITH HIM
Radicals Doubtful About the Sword
Being an Unfailing Weapon for
Princes to Handle.

BERLIN, GERMANY, March 3O.-Ihe re-
fusal of the majority of the Reichstag to
celebrate Prince Bismarck's birthday, En-
peror Williams bitter comment thereon
and the scenes which occurred at Fried
rlchsruhe during the past week, have al
together put the Germans in feverish
condition, and public opinion is expressed
much more generally and outspoken than
is customary.
The Conservative and National Liberal
press vigorously denounces the Reichstag
majority, one paper in Leipsic going to the
extent of saying that "they ought to be
buried like SO much carbon"
So far as the spontaneous utterances of
popular feeling are concerned, the vast
majority of the German people certainly
disapprove of the Reichstag's decision, a
significant sign of this being the fact that
throughout the week, whenever the En-
peror appeared publicly, both in Berlin
and elsewhere, he was the recipient of
popular ovations. Thousands of people
lined Inter den Linden on Monday and
cheered him, and this has been repeated
every day since. On the other hand, the
Centrist, Radical and Socialist press have
taken the Emperor to task in unequivocal
language for his telegram to Prince Bis
marck and because of sundry passages in
his addresses at FREDERICKSBURG.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung, the chief Or
gan of the Center party, in series of
prominent articles, critized the Emperor
sharply, saying that while it is the En-
peror's right to change his mind or con-
duct toward Prince Bismarck, it could not
be disputed that it was the right of the
Reichstag majority, and the Centrists es-
pecially, to adhere steadfastly to their old
opinions.
sit could be disputed still less" the
Volks Zeitung proceeds, chat the Reich
stag has the right to demand to know
whether the politics of the empire are to
whether the present Chancellor is counted
for something"
Herr Rlchter's organ, the Freisinnige
Zeitung, pointedly compares the relations
between the Emperor and Prince Bismarck
and those which existed between them a
couple of years ago, and asks whether the
Reichstag has gone as far in refusing to
share in the present celebrations as the
monarch did in 1892 when he forbade all
recognition of Prince Bismarck, and the
friends of the latter were officially ostra-
cized.
The Vossische Zeitung speaks in similar
terms of the Emperor's attitude and denies
that he has the right to ''thus insult the
Reichstag in defiance of constitutional
government"
The passage in the Emperor's address to
Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe, when
his Majesty presented the ex-Chancellor
with the sword on behalf of the army, in
which he referred to the sword as an I'M
failing instrument in the hands of Princes,
is likewise severely criticized by certain
section of the press. Several of the Radi-
cal organs ask the Emperor to study his
tory for proof of the fact that the sword in
the hands of Prince is no wise an unfail-
ing weapon, being two edged.
The Socialist press, notably the Vor-
waerts, is more outspoken and calls upon
the Reichstag to rebuke the monarch ut
terances respecting their vote, and claims
that Herr Won Levetzow and the Conserva-
tive minority were instigated from Fried
richsruhe in provoking last Saturday s
stormy scene in the Reichstag, and that
the Bismarck clique is aiming to dispiace
the present Cabinet.
The Vorwaerts yesterday stated that
Baron Won Bouel Berenberg, President of
the Reichstag, in a letter in which he re-
fused to submit to the House the Socialist
motion regarding Emperor Williams tele-
gram to Prince Bismarck, declares the mo-
ton had nothing to do with the discussion
of the estimates, during which it was in
troduced. Moreover, the Baron is said to
have added, the telegram was not signed
by the Chancellor, and therefore could not
form the subject of a resolution in the
Reichstag.