The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-05
LATTER DAY SON OF THUNDER.
COMMENTS ON EMPEROR WILL
IAAI'S RECENT RHODOMONTADE.

! The People of Germany Disposed to
Resist His Claim to a Divine Right
to DO He VIII With the Father
Iand-Fhe Passing of Chancellor
HOhenIObe-HiS Probable Sue
cessOr-An American Robbed in
Berlin.
| Copyright 1897, by the Associated Press.)
Berlin, Sept. 4.-Emperor Williams cob
lentz rhodomontade has been received
abroad with derision. Even the Roman
press cannot swallow the emperor's vice
regency of heaven, and is describing the
blast at Coblentz as the blaring of a war
horn Of the ancient German gods. Aus
tria may manifest considerable uneasiness
on the subject and throughout Germany a
more significant note of danger has been
sounded.
The emperor's speech is generally inter
preted as meaning that his majesty is de-
termined not to yield to the wishes of
parliament, and the newspapers, though
hardly daring to say SO openly, clearly in
innate that the emperor's idea of his mis-
sion does not agree with his constitutional
position. While his majesty may be re-
sponsible to nobody but God, it is added
| the responsibility for the emperor rests
upon the ministers, whose work the ma
ton intends to control, no matter how
| omnipotent or omniscient his majesty pro-
claims himself
The thoughtful and liberal minded in
| Germany feel much abashed and naturally
the conservative whole of the reactionary
press are loudly accaiming the speech
| The liberal newspapers are hosting the
danger signal.
The Vorwaertz on Thursday drew a
! parallel between the Roman emperors of
the Byzantine period and the "Other half
mad autocrats," saying: "The emperor
evidently contemplates, for the good of
the Fatherland, to reign hereafter in vio-
lation of the peoples constitutional
rights" Even so loyal and moderate a
paper as the National Zeitung, guarded
| ly, but decidedly, takes the emperor to
task, reminding him that. under the con-
stitution, his own duties and prerogatives
and those of the cabinet and the Reich
stag are bounded by certain limitations,
which no one can transgress with impun-
| unwelcome confirmation of the rumors
which have been current for months re-
| garding the emperor's intentions"
A number of the leading papers protest
that these imperial speeches and politi-
| cal toasts have been becoming altogether
too frequent Of late, and they further hold
! that they are injuring the authority and
| dignity of the crown, the Tageblatt de-
| claring that his majesty is reintroducing
| the mental unwisdom of Frederick Will
| lam ".
In spite of the flood of criticism. the
| emperor is said to be preparing to make
| another speech in the exchange of toasts
between himself and the King of Italy at
Homburg, as a counter blast to the Cron-
stadt glorification and as a fresh consoli-
dation of the dreibund.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press understands on good authority that
the time for Prince Hohenlohe to step out
of office has been fixed for October soon
after that the emperor will no longer try
to hold the prince, since the latter, on
July 2, declared through the North Ger
man Gazette his inability to accede to any
bill for the reform of military procedure
which Is not in accord with the chancel-
lor's promise to the Reichstag, namely, in
ccnsOinance with modern ideas of justice
and humanity. But it is lust as possible
that his majesty may change his mind at
the last moment. His present intention is
TO make Baron Won Buelow the next
chancellor and in political circles the i'm
preston prevails that Baron Won Theil-
mann, the late German ambassador at
Washington and present secretary of the
treasury, will be made secretary of state
for foreign affairs.
At the national convention of German
Catholics just held at Landshut, Bavaria,
resolutions were passed regarding the re-
strictions of the temporal power of the
ed from all parts of Germany.
The military excesses of the past week
or two have been much commented upon.
At Carlsruhe, during the course of an
orgie held by the officers of the One Hn-
dred and Eleventh Regiment, First Lieut..
Knoll was suddenly assaulted with a sa-
ber by Maj. Won Jacobi the cause being
a toast. A general fight ensued lasting
an hour.
Two non-commissioned officers of the
guards artillery regiment at Spandau
wantonly attacked and nearly killed with
sabers two civilians with whom they quar-,
relied in the street.
Lese majestic trials have been very
prevalent recently. There were three at
Dusseldorf during the past week.
At Madgeburg a socialist editor was ar
rested for speaking disrespectfully of the
pantaloons worn by the emperor at tho
unveiling Of a monument there.
]. G. White of St. Paul, who has been
stopping at lotel in Baden Baden has
had two letters of credit amounting 10
$40, 600, and $4,000 in cash stolen from him.
The German authorities have seized $50
pounds of trichinoied pork, which they
claimed are of American origin, at AK.
Lah-Chapelle. The United States consul
there, acting upon hint received from
the United States embassy, investigated
the matter and demonstrated that the
pork had been packed In American pack
ings already cancelled, and that the meat
really came from Belgium
Sedan day was observed indifferently
this year in Berlin and elsewhere, some or
the newspapers advocating its discontin-
uance.
BUNDX MADE A BREAK.