The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-14
GERMAN UNITY
HAS BEEN SHAKEN
Opinion of the National
Zeitung on the Moscow
Episode.
PRINCE LUDWIG's RAGE.
Has Caused Intense Sectional
Feeling Throughout the
Fatherland.
HE INsULTED PRINCE HENRY,
But Emperor william Dared Not
Quarrel With the Future King
of Bavaria.
BE 1NsULTED PRINCE HENRY,


dent which occurred at the banquet OF the
Deutsche Verein in Moscow upon the &C.
casion of the festivities in connection with |
the coronation, causing Prince Henry of
Prussia, brother of the Emperor and His
Maiesty's representative at Moscow, to
leave the banquet hall. has raised great
particularist Storm throughout all the
southern states OF Germany. The origin
of the trouble was in the fact, which has
already been cabled, that at the banquet
given to Prince Henry and the other visit
ing German princes the chairman, In
toasting the guests, alluded to the minor
German princes as member OF Prince
Henry's suite, whereupon Prince Ludwig
of Bavaria arose in rage before the
chairman's speech was finished and point
ing to the table said:
I'VE are not part of Prince Henry's
suite, nor are we vassals of the German
Empire. We are the Emperor's allies,
otherwise am an independent represen-
tative of Bavaria"
All Southern Germany is exercised over
the affair and the newspapers lament the
indiscretion of the chairman or condemn
the hasty actions of Princes Henry and
Ludwig. The incident created so much
public excitement that it naturally led to
a demand on the part of the Kaiser that
the two princes should explain the matter
in detail, and this, it is understood, has
been done.
| According to the North German Ga
zette, Prince Ludwig anticipated the En-
peror's request for an explanation, stating
the exact words of the president of the
banquet in proposing the toast to Prince
| Henry, in which speech he mentioned the
| German princes as having come to Mos
COW a members of Prince Henry's suite.
AgaiAst this Prince Ludwig protested to
the Kaiser explaining, as he had declared
| to the chairman of the banquet, that he
and the other princes alluded 10 were not
yassals, but allies, of the Kaiser. All Ger
mans, Prince Ludwig added, besides full
! filing their duty to the Fatherland, ought
not to forget the duties they owed to their
own particular countries.
| Prince Ludwig is man of so years of
age, and apart from the fact that he is the
future King of Bavaria he is of a much
wei ghtier presence than Prince Henry.
Upon the occasion of his declaration at the
banquet he is said to have spoken with
great impressiveness and in manner
wherein his meaning could not be miscon-
strued. In concluding its article upon the
subject the Gazette CURLY states that "the
incident is closed"
Other semi-official newspapers, how
ever hint that the Emperor found nothing
in Prince Ludwig's remarks worth quar-
reling over, and intimated that Prince
| Henrys resentment was childish. These
! papers also state that the Emperor saw
! Prince Henry in regard to the matter and
probably rebuked him, as the Prince left
| Berlin for Kiel on his return from Moscow
without staying in the capital over night.
Apart from the official and semi-official
newspapers the other Berlin journals are
severe in their comments upon the action
of Prince Ludwig. The Tagebatt takes so
| serious a view OF the matter as to advocate
| the recall of the Prussian Minister from
Munich.
! The National Zeitung expresses sorrow
at the spectacle which a prince destined
to be King of Bavaria has afforded to
| foreigners of the enmities among the Ger
mans. The action of Prince Ludwig in
invoking the idea of particularism, the
paper declares, has already shaken Ger
man unity.
The Vossiche Zeitung recalls the fact
| that Prince Ludwig ignored the fetes upon
the occasion OF the celebration of the
Frankfort treaty of peace, but throughout
| southern Germany the words uttered by
Prince Ludwig at the Moscow banquet
and reiterated to the Emperor are fervldly
acclaimed by the press and public.
| The Stuttgart Beobachter, in an exhaus-
tive article on the subject, says:
| cit was great political act and protest
against Prussianism. Prince Ludwig ex-
pressed the sentiments of the whole South
! German states, and his words will find
echo from the forests of Bohemia to the
Rhine. 1t is well that Berlin should know
| that we will not allow ourselves to be de-
graded in the role of Prussia's satellites"
The speeches made by Prince Alexander
Won Hohenlohe, son of the Imperial Chan
cellor, in the Rechstag last Monday. in
which he attacked the clause of the Gov
eminent trades bill forbidding COM
mercial travellers to transact retail busi-
ness, has found support in remarkable
address delivered by the Minister of
| Finance of the Grand DuchY of Baden,
DR.. Bucheuberger, to the Baden Chamber
of Deputies.
He said in the course of his speech:
eve live, politically and economically,
in a period of transition, and we are not
vet able to accommodate ourselves to the
new order of things: hence so many out
cries for more laws, and new laws are bad
and make the people believe in the magical
effect of legislation. Self-action must re-
main superior to State protection"
Following the Parliamentary election
last week in the towns of Ruppin and
TempIin, near Podsdam, in which the
Conservative and Agrarian candidate,
Herr Won Arnim, was defeated by the Rad
ical candidate, who had majonty of 1900
votes, the Agrarians have met with an
other signal defeat in Ausbach and
Schwabach, the freisinnig candidate
heading the poll by a majority Of 100.
The Fremdenblatt asserts that Dom
Pedro d'Alcantara, the pretender to the
Brazilian throne. has been appointed a
lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment OF
| Uhlans.
The Emperor has emphasized his salts
faction at the appointment of Marquis de
| NoaiIles as the successor of M. Herbette
| bv granting the new French ambassador
an audience without delay. The MARQUIS
| arrived in Berlin Wednesday night and