The age-herald., 1897-09-05
REVIVAL OF DEAD HISTORY
Is His Declaration That He Is the Vice
 Regent Of Heaven
AND A WARY Si NOTE IS SOUNDED
unwisdOm O' -sderick William ReintrOduced in His : entz Speech-Declares, in s 5ofcriticism, That He'll
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Copy Shted. 1897. by the Associated

Copy >hted. 1897. by the Associated Berlin, Sept. 4.-Emperor Williams Coblentz Rhodemonta has been received abroad with derision. Even the Roman press cannot swallow the emperor's vice regency of Heaven, and is describing the blast of Coblentz as the blaring of a war horn of the ancient German gods. Aus tsia man.fes.s considerable uneasine sson the subject and throughout Germany a. more significant note of danger has been sounded.
 The emperors speech is generally in- terpreted as meaning that his majesty is determined not to yield to the wishes of parliament and the newspapers, though hardly daring to say so openly, clearly intimate that the emperor's idea of his mission does not conflict with his constitutional position. While his mai esty may be responsible to nobody but God. it is added, the responsibility for the emperor rests upon the ministers whose work the nation intends to con trol no matter how omnipotent or om- niscent his majesty proclaims himself. The thoughtful and liberal-minded in ~Germany feel much abashed and nat urally the conservative and the whole of the reactionary press are loudly acclaln- ing the speech Tha liberal newspapers are hoisting the danger signal. The vor- waertz on Thursday drew a parallel be, tween the Roman emperors of tha Byzanttnum period and "other half-mad autocrats" saying:
 'The emperor evidently contemplates for the good of the faJtherland to reign hereafter inviolable of the peoples con- stitutional rights.''
 Even so moderate and cautious pa- per as the National zeitung guardedly but firmly takes the emperor to task reminding him that under the constitu- tion his own duties and perogoratiyes and those of the cabinet and reichs+ag are bounded by certain limitations which no one can transgress with impundty. adding:
 His latest speech is unwelcome con- firmation of the rumors which have been current for mon'ths regarding the em- peror's intention"
 A number of leading papers protest that these imperial speeches and inn peiial toasts have been becoming alto- gether too frequent of latte and they further hold that they are injuring the authority and dignity of ths crown. the Tageblatt declaring that his majesty is re-introducing the mental unwisdom of Frederick William ".
 Tn spite of the flood of criticism the emperor is said 10 be preparing to make another spsech In the exchange of toas,ts between himself and the king of Italy at Homburg as counter-bIasIt to the Cronstadt glorifcation and as a fresh consolidation of the driebund.
 The correspondent of the Assoc,a,ed Press hero understands on good author- tty that the time for Prince HoIlsensoa,s to step ont of office has been fixed fou October soon after the bundesraeh re- sumes its session. and that the emperor vii no longer try to hold the prince since the latter on July declared through the Norlf German Gazette his Inability to acede to any bill for the reform of mill itary procedure which Is not fin accord with the chancellor's promise to the rclchstag. namely in consonancs with modeIm ideas of justice and humanity. But tts ie just possible That his majesty may change his mind al the last mo- ment. His present ntensiop Is to make Baron von Bulow the next chancellor. and in political circles the impression
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