The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-24


lions: commanded tga. tie royal bill of
fare should no lengyr TO- menu. put
| speitsekarte; issued stlrr"lgn orders le-
| sarding the stockn4- - ms gentlemen
and appointed his grandmother colonel
Of the Dragons. ..r
For the love Of GI." said Louis
| \NJII to his n,;pi,r.ts Don't make
me ridiculous" Said William to his
editors, ..If Won VIA, your liberty
| don't try" No effCrl Us their part was
necessary. He Wa .lup& it beautifully
himself. After hara0.,uJns solutions, he
| lectured provinces. aru' after the other
at that. and so spa "uSIE zoo tnat a
| Petersburg paper ,..-rJtulated Prus-
| STA on the fact thai e ANr Is provinces
already he had exhqusjrd II. No Won
| der the poor chan fsught-and said
| that editors should ir 'uu2zled.
| 1t was at this tim that the distem-
| pers, mentioned ahulr, Logan TO be dis
| cuSSed. To the Duiurnt OtOrrhOid-a
| recurrent disease ~ lh' canvas at
| tributed his inability to sit still. To
the imperialists W. JsrNlbed certain
| vagarieS which re, .Ifr,l hose of the
young emperors o. OK Rome. With
that for cue a journalist wrote a
pamphlet In it he mpared the kaiser
to Caligula.. For hi rains he was sent
to jail. He might have been sent to
school.
About Caligula WIS magnificence
that enthralled. Til .dstes OF Caesar
Germanicus are Absolutely spartan. Cal
igua sometimes fright ned. The kaiser
has indeed done tnut Rut Caligula al
ways dazzled. Til" kaiser smokes
three cent cigars. Caltgula was poet
in love with the moun Caesar Ger
manicus is poseur III love with him.
self. The private lii Of Caligula can
not be told except in Latin. In the pri-
Vate life of the kais-I. DR.. Parkhurst
would find nothing to Condemn. One of
Caligula's many diversions was killing
his people. Let M he hated" he said,
but let me be feared" The kaiser's
one recreation is work Such slaughter
as he has effected consists in 26,304 head
of game, including one sea- beast
Whatever that may ue. The career of
Caligula was horrible. YET analyze the
horrible and you Will find the sublime.
me career of the kajs-r has been the
atrical. and analyze the theatrical and
you find the absurd. The only parallel.
between the two lies in the fact that all
young emperors are hJisted on a peak
SO lofty that do they look below, verti-
go rises, while from above delirium
comes. There is nothing astonishing
in that. That on his peak the kaiser
has maintained an equilibrium of any
KIND is, in view of mis- belief in the di-
vine right and absolute power of kings,
more astonishing still. 1t shows him
OH not merely as an actor, but as an
acrobat also. That is what he has done
1t is all to his credit. Added up. the
sum total is Interesting. But the things
Whlch he has not done are more inter-
esting still. Istthat not natural enough?
Inc things we omit tC do are go much
a no tn
don't
The kaiser, for instance. might have
etfaced France from the map, beckoned
Austria back into the diet, generally
demolished geography and set it up
anew. That would be worth reading
about. Instead of which, with the ex-
cepsion of two bowling assinitias-the
invitation to KingiHumbert to promen-
ade with him through Strasburg, and
the telegram to President Kruger of the
Transvaal-swith titSse Aeswceptions he
has exhibited a regard for International
etiquette which has been absolutely i'm
maculate and wholly, unreturned In
recompense for oVertures to France he
has been snubbed. In recOmpense for
others to Russia ha+has been ignored
Neither Austria nor Italy love him in
the least. He has weakened the triple
alliance. alienated England and lost his
place. When in the FURNISHED helmet
and burning red cloak iheg leaped erect
on azthrone and proclaimed himself a
monarch specially Ordained by God.
was preponderant yThat position is
Russia's to-day.
The bayonetS meanwhile have not
grown rusty, though perhaps the emet-
les have turned stale. Last month he
expressed his sympathy for what he
termed the magnanimous proposal of
his dear friend, the tsar. That proposal
was to disarm.
In the next breath he asked the reich
stag for more bayonets. That in itself
is delicious, yet less so perhaps than
his description of the tsar. A man is
not friend simply because he does rot
knock you down. Were it otherwise,
friendship would be more burdensome
than it is. Beside. the tsar is not the
kaiser's friend. AS tsarovitch he passed
twice through Berlin for no other our
pose apparently than to kick his heels
al the station, and in any event without
affecting to remember that there was
such a person as az HohenZollern on
whom he might leave a card. In de-
scribing him, therefore, as dear friend
the kaiser showed himself quite fOrgiv-
ing-to his superiors. That is very COM
mendable. it proves, too, what we
never suspected. that what he lacks in
brains he makes up in tact.
Meanwhile having shown himself
also disciple of Aaron. who was in
love with peace, what does he want
with more bayonets? What, indeed.
Caesar Germanicus is 40 years old.
At that age a man may and usually
does and without looking for IT, either,
ind beneath his mattress the key to
another life. That we assume William
has done. Had he had the power
which he always denied-to return the
title deeds of Alsace- Lorraine, ana had
he had the ability-which others nave
denied for him-tO cOalesce with France
and Russia against England, he would
have realized the dream of the first Ma
poleOn and become war lord in fact. AS
it is, failing in an effort to initiate
Frederick the Great, he has decided to
be business man. Entirely honorable
that decision is well worth applauding.
Well worth applauding, too, is the pill
grimage to Palestine. Jerusalem las
seen many strange things, but none 50
commercially piOus as that. In days
less unitarian the veil of the temple
would have rent at the spectacle pre-
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