The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-24
THE GERMAN EMPEROR.

Generally Known.
 We have recently heard much about the German Emperor, but the informa- ton we have acquired is monotonous His majesty has a side to his character which has not been presented. Granted that his speeches are not in the best taste, sounding perhaps to English ears trifle profane and that the rhodo- montade about the mailed fist was silly and premature, we ought to remember that they were addressed to Germany, and that, for all we with our insular prejudice know, they may have suited their audience. Now, although our press follows the public movements of Emperor William almost, if not quite. as closely as it does the movements of our own royal family and public men, the information it vouchsafes about his private movements, his taste and his entourage is meagre in the extreme. What is the result? The English pub lie, the most ewspaper-reading public in the world, except the American, form their ideas of one of the most prominent figures of the day entirely from one side to of his character, and that the least attractive side. If the principal English journals had been able to send correspondents to Kiel last summer about the time of the Queens s Jubilee, and these correspondents had faithfully transmitted all that they saw and heard, they would have done much to clear away misconceptions concern ing the Emperor's feeling toward the English.
 The Kiel Regatta, which has now been instituted for some years, comes off annually toward the end of June, and last year His Majesty, with the two-fold object of giving fillip to the regatta-it is great scheme of his to make it approximate in some degree to our Cowes week-and of doing honor to ! ol,r Queens Jubilee, announced his in- l tention of giving prize to be com peted for by English yachts only, the 1 course to be from Dover to Heligoland. | From the moment the English yacht 1 hove in sight the Emperor was on the l alert to show the competitors and their l friends every politeness in his power. l It is no easy matter to make fifteen or l twenty Englishmen-most of whom did
 not know single German present, and | the majority of whom had never seen | each other before-feel at home in a strange land; but the German Emperor did it. and that quickly. He gave no | one any time to adopt the usual "noli
 me tangere' attitude which is so easy | to assume and so hard to shake off. | That attitude would be absurd in the | presence of Emperor William when he has thrown off his official entourage I and is enjoying well-earned rest on his own yacht. He is so alive, his l laugh is even catching; and the small | jokes thrown in from time to time all
 combine to make the ordinary mortal
 abandon whatever reserve he has come prepared with.
 His Majesty, Knowing that the com 1 r itors had either missed altogether pr Lltailed to great extent their par
 ticipation in the Jubilee celebrations in l England, most kindly gave a large state dinner party on his yacht, the | Hohenzoliern, in honor of Her Majes- l tvs Jubilee, to which he invited all the | Englishmen who had sailed over the | coarse for his cup. Next day there were
 races in the Baltic, for which His Ma | jesty had entered his own yacht, witt | special prizes for the English yachts
 as they were all cruisers and could not l compete with the modern racing 1 yachts. In the evening His Majesty | presided at "Kneipe' or grand beer.
 drinking, which was held at a restau rant at a small village on the Baltic 1 where all the Englishmen were agair
 made welcome, and special attention
 was shown to them. Not only were al the entertainments carried out in thu
 most elaborate and successful manner
 but also all details about tugs to tow the yachts, moorings and such minutiae which insure the comfort oi
 yachtsman were thought out before | hand, down to the slightest particu-
 lars; and these arrangements, I believe
 all emanated from the German Elm. peror himself.
 l I have given this very slight sketch of the German Emperor'S reception o1
 contingent of English yachtsmen al
 Kiel merely in order to point out thai
 there is a side to His Majestys char
 acter of which we at home hear anG
 see too little. We got rather into the
 habit of thinking that the Emperor is
 always either sending telegrams or
 matters which do not concern him, or purpose to rouse up friendly nations
 or else dispatching ironclads, with nc
 definite object, amidst a shower o
 winged words of questionable taste