El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21

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''the flower of German nobility under
William der Einzigs has sunk into q
| condition that prevailed in France when
dtgn1tartes of the crown fought among
themselves as to who should have the
honor to hand his msjest y . clean shirt
or remove his dirty boots" Not only
must every loyal subject offer his game
to be slaug htered, but he must ester-
tain the emperor and his suite on a.
scale that often impoveriehes tho
luckless honored one for years. But
the worst feature of the Kaiser's social
proclivities is his visits to his various
army corps.
himself to dine at intervals at military
ests blishments, insisting upon paying
ten marks for his entertainment. A
regiment being notified that the EN-
peror is to pay it visit, it's officers
mortgage their pay for months ahead
to buy the choicest wines, meats and
game. The reception of the Emperor
having RECALLED himself, he will take
bis leave, remarkipg to the colonel:
"Y GU see ten marks is quite enough
for anyone to spend on his stomach: I
have had very good dinner indeed
| for that amount"
Countess Won Eppin shoven tells an
| instance of distracted mother who
sought an audience with the Empress
to petition her to keep the Emperor
away from her sons regimeptal mess
because the young mans pay (the mag
nifcent sum OF $35 month"; was being
swallowed up by assessments on &C.
count of his sovereign's visits and the
bad to contract for his own clothes and
food. This is not less than pitiful, and
of the same nature is another incident,
the occasion of fancy dress ball when
the Only One, furious at q reminder
that some of his guests could not robe
themselves as gorReously as he re-
quired, declared: "If it is necessary
| 20, 600 marks to help to pay for costumes
for my imPecuniOus friends" OF
course the "impecunious friends"
spared no expense and the affair was as
gorgeous as William had desired. And
then be promptly forgot about the
| 20, 900 marks.
Emperor Williams cousin, the mad
pretentions to quasi-divlnity by COM
polling his lackeys to scratch at his
door instead of knocking. indicating
thereby that compared with their
master they were no better than dogs.
This manifestation sof his insanity
developed into q belief that his voice
was too good for his subjects to hear,
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his orders on slips of paper and, spit
ting upon them, he pushed them under
the door for those waiting outside to
pick up.
William may never 60 so far as this,
but we are told here that he wrote his
brother Heury's famous speech In
which he spoke OF the emperor's
now speaks of his 1000 ill-paid menials
in snowy livery as q Contemplate
theiving ho-de''-''rascals whom to
know by name would be to honor
them.'' Another insane notion COM
mon to Ludwig and William Is the
ia superior to the restrictions of time
and space. William-der-Plotzlic
(William the Sudden, as he is nick
named about the court), will turn
abruptly to an orderly and say that his
yacht is to be ready in three or four
hours, or that this or that castle is to
be ready for occupancy in a similar
sponsible If the yacht or castle is not
ready at the appointed time!
The prosecutions for lese majestic
are OF course a manifestation of Will
lism's belief in his omnipotence. We
have heard of many absurd and some
cruel punishmeuts for s"guying" the
Emperor, but 1t 1s amazing to read
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q large number of persons for CRITICS.
ing the Emperor's ridiculous "Song to
Aegir". amounted in 1894, 1895, and
1896 to 81 years and months, and the
fines imposed aggregated 5000 marks.
This is on the authority of an employe
in the ministry of justice who inform
ed Countess Won Eppinghoven of the
com putation he had made.
In short William II ia following in
the footsteps of Caligula, Nero. and
Ludwig. If he stops where he is, he
will be called eccentric and egOtist!
cal: If he goes on, as he declares he in
| tends to, some harsher terms will have
to be employed. II it be thought that
the comparison with Caligula and Nero
is far fetched. read this: 81 have
killed my fifty thousandth head of
game. When l thing of the number
of animals in my forests 1 feel like
Frederick the Great at Kolin when he
shouted to his squadrons: Dogs, would
ye live forever? I hope to double or
trouble my shooting record in the next
ten years. If king cannot go to war,
he must be content with practising in
his forest.'
And then read this statement OF one
of the late King Ludwig's ply siciaus:
81 was not surprised at the Emperor's
infatuation for slaughter Of game. It
portends an unmistakable craving for
| OlOOu. DIS COuBthut TeleTeuCSs W WhT.
his incessant admonition to the army
that 1t must die for him, his abomin-
able, oft-reported summons to his sol
diers to hold Themselves in readiness
to slaughter thoir parents, brothers,
and sisters, If need be, are aualogues
to the rawlings 1 have heard from the
lips of Ludwig time and again"
And speaking of Frederick the Great
William began by worshipping him,
but the admirer has grown into an imi-