The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-27
8lcK NUMBER IS BISMARCK.
~yr KAISER DON'T CARE A RAP
FOR HIS OPINIONS.

Uhe Old Chancellor never SOhsuAteu
,o,v About the Governments For
ion PoIicy-The old Statesman
Condemns the EmperOrs Course In
Wedding in the Turkish Situation.
He Thinks Germany should Have
ueld Her Hands on and steered
,-lear Of acknowledgements.
Perrin. Jan. 26.-Three times within the
-ss. week rumors We're in circulation in
Is-Ifn that Prince Bismarck was dead.
rtase reports had the effect to cause a
-rs1 of inquiries to Freidrichsruhe TO
lsarn the truth. Among the large number
p. ,rsitors whom the prince received per-
son3Ilv and with such courtesy and ac-
tiy.+v of movement as to dispel the last
,esrIga of anxiety concerning his health,
ese an old and esteemed friend and CO.
yorker in the political arena who has Civ
., 10 the United Press the substance Of
sr interesting conversation he had with
4 .se ex-chanceilOr and which serves to cor
roof certain impressions upon the public
mind in regard to Prince Bismarck's rela-
lions with the kaiser. Not once since his
resionatiou Of the Office of chancellor,
Prince Bismarck said to his friend had
Il the emperor spoken 10 him upon the sub
ieet of politics, not even on the occasion
of The kaiser's visit to Friedrichsruhe on
March %. last when his majesty came to
tho ex-chancellor's residence with Gen.
C,unt Won Maldersee. The emperor was
al the time very angry about the vote IN
the Reichstag refusing to pay the united
resppcts of that body to the prince. upon
the occasion of his birthday. Prince Bis
marck admitted to his friends that he was
well able 10 90 to Berlin on Jan. lo When
the 25th anniversary of the founding or
ira wa
20 because he emphatically declined 10
iend his name as flag ins for
which IS being directed by the kaiser upon
lines which the ex-chancellor regards as
radically wrong, and of which he pro-
f fouudly disapproVes. 1t was a move OF
y rare cleverness on the part of the en-
ppror the prince said, to make a spon-
N janeous call at Friedrichscruhe recently
thereby creating at home and abroad the
: impression that the imperial policy had
Il the fun approval of Prince Bismarck or
AT least his tacit assent Nothing OF lHe
kind was true, however. Ihe recent moves
of the kaiser he said, were grave mis-
takes. Germany had no business wnat-
ever TO meddle in foreisn comphScauonis
unless German interests were directly
mcnaced or assailed. If the powers have
grouped themselves definitely either ior
or against certain causes, what or II
Germany has still time to decide TO Wnat
extent her interests are involved.
The rash actions which the emperor has
sometimes indulged in, the United Press
Informant said, must De credited to the
fsef -tlsat fRe kaiser's state of health Is
mol always normal His irritabiity, eaus-
ed by worrying and frequent violent heaG-
aches had quite often accounted for quick
word or deed on his part. 1t may be add
ed, too that he sleeps very httle' IN Iact,
not at all sufficiently to enable MIN TO
maintain his health. The present govern
ment of Germany is deprived OF all lnJa-
tive in the management or direction OF
politics. The emperor directs eVerythlns
personally and his ministers ana secretar-
les of state are merely his executive onh-
cals Among his many irresponsible coun-
selors it is always the last one having
the ear of the kaiser, who is charged TO
see that the ideas Of the emperor are car
Prince Bismarck's personal organ, the
Hamburger Nachrichten, prints articles
almost daily giving pointed expression 70
some of the foregoing views: IN an arti-
Gle published i'm the Nachr1chten last
Thursday, commenting upon the kaiser
aiming to stamp Germanys character as
that of a Weltmacht-a power so nlSnty
as to REQUIRE a large increase in the
navy-the paper says: The natlon must
receive better information than IT has
now before accepting the new position OF
II pursuing an external policy OF might IN,
stead of a policy of interest IN nauonaaI
development. The country, the arucle
says lis not ambitious for foreign eAISl TI
priSes in order to acquire prestige. ne
wisest policy is that of conserving Ger
man interests" ,,
sympathy in the press generally, oHlclai
and unofficial. The tide of popular Ieei-
ing continues to run strongly IN ; Ine tbe qia
rectiOn of AnglophObia. Anything tne
kaiser could say to satisfy TINS Ieellh6
would receive the hearty acclamatl0h VI
all classes. The Hamburger NachrlchtG1n' 1 H.
81 although attacking the attitude OF tne
Il emperor in assuming control OF the IoI-
egn affairs of the empire, expresses H1Pe %
that England may ere long receive a | mo 10
rough lesson in regard to her lsolatIon do
~ d state and her limitations as a power:
A case affecting Germans Decoh4ns
III American citizens has just been decIueu si
h.. Trpf of
Leipsic. F. w. BOehme, druggist IVlhs
10 Brooklyn n. Y, and native OF Eelp-
sic, was sentenced by a lower court 70 70
pay fine of 200 marks Tor eIl IiitS q, u y
d foreign country without having tulnIleu
his military service. He appealed. me ne
supreme court in rendering aus decisloil' ISL. l.
# upon the appeal, finds that Boehme, as a
Xxi duly naturalized citizen of the UhlIeu
States, could not be punished Tor an act
committed through his emlgrallohi 20 20
America, but that he could pc pullisneu
for any act committed prior to his emlsra-
ton The court, therefore, reversed e tIle
decision of the lower tribunal II b0enIile 1T,
mad left the country to escape HlIfIdIS
service the Judgment of the supreme couI
would have been different.
Hans Priemer, manager OF the FIinscis -
paper mills in Berlin, mas absconueu 70
America with $1,000 marks OF ms EN-
ployers money. Besides his defalcatloH
ne was a leading witness against Baron
Won Hammerstein, the absconding eX-
EDITOR of the Kreuz Zeitung, who was
recently arrested in Athens by commls-
Sary of the German police. 1t IS suggested
mat Hammerstein will now take adVant-
ase Of Preimer's absence to blame hlnl
lor the forgeres of which Baron Hammer
S'eln rs accused.
Herr Woeltfur, the socialist leader OF
Solmar and until recently the editor OF
NE newspaper Der Sammler, published IN
s' town, has committed suicide py
NoaJirg himself with a revolver.
Misses Rose and Ottlie Sutro, the Amer
Ddh musicians have abandoned their con-
IJ which was to have taken place IN
" Berlin academy, owing to a death In
ner family. and have started for their
A0Ines in California.
ENTIMENT OF 10000, 900 FREEMEN.