Arizona republican., 1899-07-03
WAIVED HIS RIGHT
 TO THE THRON E

It is owing to the dlspotism usurped and .axera;sod by the kaiser over the rsigring families of the non-PrUEs an
 sovereign staiss of the German en- rtre that the d1za of Corl7ugEt, after having been. solemnly proclaimed heir to hs brothers throns of 5axe-CCburg
 and GotIha. has rec0n5} }5eIe1 h s ac-
 ceptance of the heritage, and daIar-
 mined upon w2rving rot only h:s cwn rights thereto, bat likewise those of lis son, Prince Arthur. wno is now at Eton. in favor of h,ls naphsw, the fath- erleels young duke os Albany, son of thel late Prince Leopold, who was the youngest son O. Queen Victora. The duke of Connaug.he found that if he accepted the position of her 10 ths b Ati16ne of Saxe- -Coburg and Gotha, he.
 Would not only be obliged to sever his cCnneotion with the Eng,ish army. and to establish his permanent residence in Germany, but he would Nkew-Sa Ee subject to all the capr-cas, as wall as to the manifestations of autccratIc 2uthority and bad teEnE5r on thsi para of tLs other nephew, Emperor Will liam. Worse than ths, hsi ascertainei daat he would pIi4ctlcag-y ba obliged to surrender to the kaiser all control of his only son, Prince Arthur, whose education would be thencef1Tth entire ly directed by the emperor without any regard for the wishes of the parents of the lad, wilo is a 1ypiCal English S'chccd boy, ana who, as such, e-lter- taflls a very hearty dislike for the kai- ser.
 Empilror W-5ita-n wizl5 50 ulfoItu- nate n the management aul guard l3nl4hip at Berlin of Prince Alfred OF CoEurg and Great Britain, only son of the 1i-igIing duke of Saxe-C1 burg-.hs lad committing suicide last winter to escape 9 worse fats in the shape Of di5honor- that the duke of COnnaught Tery naturally Gid noJ relish the. idea of exposing his bcy to q similar fate, and finally came to the conclusion that the game was not worth the czn- dAe, and that his life, as we'll as that of his son, a.5 princes Of the blood in Eng land, and members of the British army c2lrie1 with u hl0rei adva nt2gcs in the Way of personal fr-1d0m, .hdepend- elI-e and nappi1gE5 than the imperial ltyTanly to which he would be slab- jecuad as 9 petty ruler in Germany. So he haSteEed back to Ca5aal thi9 0th5q. day, saw the 6mpeIJr, and +lllCrnl-1 him that he had resolved to remzia an EngHshman in pI'-Ge1ancs to bacom tng a German.
 Tla dukes decision gives universal satisfaction in England. where he is exceedingly popClar, and where, in the course or time hsi $ certain Of re- ceiying the commander -in-ch.sf Of the | sdmy. In addition to this he draws, as a son of the sovereign, an income l of S125,0 ,000 from the na,IJoaal treasury, | and as his wife .s quite rich, having | an incOmsi in her own right of about i $100,000, and he is likely to be ons. of | the principal hsirs of the private for tune of the queen, the financial in ducemenJ5 tn connection with Saxe- Coburg and Gotha do not carry much | weight with him.
 It is different with the young duke | of Albany. He IS a 14-year7oId lad, ! with no father, and with a German | mother. Moreover he has absolutely [ TO fortune, his mother being entirsly | dependent on the civil annuity of S30.- | 900, which she receives as the widow of an English prince, and upon what