The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-10
HIS TOUR.
Kaiser's Tri-
urnphal March
ON JERUSALEM.
Europe Sees in 1t a Coloni-
cation Scheme.

to hail the German emperor next week
as the worlds greatest benefactor. He
offers two-months' respite from
weary wranglings over China, Africa
and domestic troubles. He will supply
grand spectacular entertainment
which will fifty succeed ressimistic po-
litical problems.
His journey to Jerusalem will begin
at o'clock on next Wednesday MORN
ing, when the emperor and empress
will leave Potsdam. More than one
hundred retainers of high and low de-
gree, including the foreign minister,
the chancellor of the Order of st. John,
Jerusalem, bishop; military, marine,
and Oriental painters, photographers,
secretaries. soldiers, writer's, and cour>
fers combine to make o picturesque
cavalvade like the medieval Crusaders.
They will arrive at Venice at o'clock
on Thursday afternoon. After a voyage
Of four days they will reach the Bos-
phorus and enter Constantinople at IL
O'clock on Monday, the 18th inst, That
will be the first picture in the piano.
rama. The emperor will ride into the
city on a pure-bred Arab stallion, the
the harness will be Of pure gold and
silver.
The emperor will remain in the Turk
ish capital for five days, anc during his
sojourn there secret conference will be
held between the emperor and his
friend. the sultan. The l1hedive is watt
ing there hoping for an Introduction.
The Crusaders will depart on Oct. %,
and expect to disembark at Haifa on
the 25th inst. and thence traverse the
road to Jerusalem, partly on horseback
and partly in carriages. They will en-
camp before the holy city on the af-
ternoon of the 29th and make their trl-
umphal entry at 800 p. m. on the same
day, and proceed afoot from the Jaffa
gate to the Sepulchre Church, where
religious services will he held. The
Mount of Olives will be visited on the
S0th, and the browning ceremony will
be the dedication of the Church of the
Redeemer on the 31st, the anniversary
of the date when Luther nailed the
theses to the church door at Witten~
burg. On the same date In 1898 the
cornerstone of the church was laid,
and within the stone a document was
deposited which had been written by
the present emperor, eloluently extoll-
ing the desire of my royal GRANDPA
Their to accomplish what IL only now
possible" plainly suggesting a parallel
between King David, who was not per-
mitted to build the temple, and King
Solomon who was permitted to do so;
and also declaring that it shall stand
as a monument to the faith, opened to
evangelical Christendom through the
reformers and as a visible witness to
the unity of faith in which the evangel-
ical churches of Germany are bound
with each other and all outside
The busiest preparations have for a
long time been making for the visit.
The roads throughout the Holy Land
are being repaired and new ones con-
structed. The ancient mule track up
Scopus and over the Mount Of Olives,
which served Titus and his warriors
and along which King David fed from
Absalom when he was stoned and
cursed by Shemei, and which has been
climbed by generations of Jebusites,
Jews, Romans, Moslems, Christian
knights, pilgrims and tourists, is being
replaced by q modern carriage road,
built at the wish of the German en-
press, so as to be able to reach the
sacred site without fatigue.
All the preparations point to the en-
peror's popularity among the sultan's
subjects Even the fellaheen of the vii
lagos and the boatmen Of Jaffa gladly
pay two dollar tax each toward the
new road that is building.
The emperor may be depended upon
to outvie even DR.. Talmage in using
the occasion and its surroundings for
all they are worth. But what Europe
expects from him is the unexpected.
Nobody knows where he may bring off
sensational coup, but he is sure to
have successfully startled the world be-
fore he returns.
The belief is credited by many that
Emperor William is now bent upon the
fulf1llment of a fixed idea of his life,
which is German colonization in re-
gions where the climate VIII be toler-
able for Germans. He Is aware that the
German possessions in East and West
Africa are hardly worth keeping. He
had for a time the idea of creating a
German empire with the aid of the
Beers in South Africa. That scheme
was abandoned. Then he turned his
eyes to southern Brazil, where German
colonists are already powerful but the
dread of fighting America weighed
heavily upon Berlin. The question of
the possibility of permission to acquire
Cuba elected an angry negative Wash
ington has been asked to concillate
Germany with a share of the Philip
pines. The emperor would like Samoa,
and is even anxious to regenerate
Crete, but there are insuperable OBJ
stacles everywhere except on the west
ern division of Asiatic Turkey. Russia
consented to divide Poland. Why should
not the Ottoman empire give up a
slice Of Asia Minor from the Aegean to
Arabia to suit Germany, and yet leave
broad, fertile provinces to satisfy Rus
STA? There is room there for 10000, 900
Germans, and German colonies are al
hready hourishing in Syria.
1t must be confessed that the fore
going is regarded as being outside of
immediate practical politics by serious
Germans, but that is no reason why
the emperor should not proclaim it as
his policy in the fioweriest imperial
rhetoric.
Many of his subjects are outspoken
in their uneasiness over his prolonged
absence while Prince Henry Is in dis
tant Asia, and with the foreign minister
/ accompanying the emperor, during the
| present disturbance in foreign politics.
The reichstag viii be in session during
part of his absence, and the socialist
leaders already express angry defiance
Of his threatened anti-strike legisla-
ton.
In order to maintain the privacy of
the imperial camp, Mr.. Cook, the great
English tour conductor, who Is manag-
ing everything, has had number of
bronze medals specially struck Nobody
win be permitted to go inside the cor
don of guards unless he produces or
wears this medal. Inqulsitive American
and English journalists are not to be
honored with the Medals