The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-07-15
kAISER'S LATEST MOVE
DEEMED SIGNIFICANT
His Visit to the French Warship
lphigenie Causes Talk Of
an Alliance.
CHANGE OF SENTIMENT IN FRANCE
The Masses Appear Ready to In,
dorsc any Action of the Gov.
eminent That Will
Insure Peace.

Paris, July 11.-Nothing has hap
pened for a long time more conducive
to the peace of the world than the visit
of the German emperor aboard the
French school cruiser Ipnigenie at
Bergen. 1t required courage on both
sides to carry out this interchange OF
courtesies. 1t was u stroke of genius
that devised the conditions under
which the visit took place.
ION the one hand the kaiser ran the
risk OF some hare-brained demonstra-
ton that might have given trouble to
the diplomatic agents of both coun-
tries; on the other hand by welcoming
the emperor on board a French war;
ship the government laid itself open to
attack and insult upon the part OF
the ~irreconcilable press.
AS far as the emperor was concerned
all fears were groundless. His majesty
was received with a perfectly correct
ceremonial, if not cordially. Every,
thing pissed of without a hitch.
More than IN paper asks what this
visit of the kaiser means, and almost
all refuse to believe it is II merely iso.
lated incident, without significance or
Importance. The fact is that the ma,
ton, taken as a whole, longs for a def
mite deliverance from the mcnaces oil
war. Now as always the French-~that
is the citizens, workingmen and peas
ants-are on the side of Ii govern
ment if that government has only the
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to merit confidence.
Conditions ut present bear a strong
similarity to those obtaining upon the
eve Of the coup d'etat of 1851. Nov,
as it was then, it is an invertebrates
faction opposed to firm rule. but with
this significant exception that the
whole nation is ready to fall into stcE:
with the ruler of that regime that will
hold the reins of government with .
steady hand, for while the Anglo-saS.
ons pride themselves upon being sell
governed, the French seem always to
ask to be governed by others.
In 1851 the country welcomed Louis
Napoleon because he showed strength
of will and energy enough TO carry
out the nations wish for peace. To
day, as it did then, the nation is ready
to back up. heart and soul. any gov
eminent with definite aims. deter
mined to carry out those aims and
willing t. work for the peace, pros
perity and rcnown of France.
Significant proof of this is found in
the fact that the only papers of the
Paris press that find anything dis.
agreeable to say about the emperor's
visit aboard the lphigenie are the
Gaulois (royalist), La Patrie and lie
Soir. both rabid supporters Of De-
roulede, whose real object in his
demonstrations are regarded with
doubt and suspicion by the republic
ans. and Rochefort. who is bound t.
use any weapon against the govern
iment. 7t |
because of it's attitude with regard
to The Dreyfus affair, lie Gaulois has
not even frunkness enough to como
out boldly in opposition t o this visit Of
tile kaiser. for it knows the govern.
ment has the country at its back. LIE
Gaulois therefore prints an interview
with an anonymous diplomatist.
.On every side" he says, lis heard
a rumor that n campaign is about to
begin against the Franco-ltusslan al"
l;ans. We must be informed upon this
point. The present cabinets duty Is
to provide the country with a COM
nlentary upon the reply that the CHIEF
of our government has sent to the EN-.
ncror and tell the nation in clear
terms what Interpretation is to be
placed upon it."
LIntransigeant, Rochefort's paper
heads its comments upon the incident
..At the Feet of Germany" Its tone
may be Judged from one paragraph,
where after stating that by President
Loubet's orders, the sailors of the
Jphigenie saluted the kaiser. the pa
per says: "One must have drunk
deeply of every form of shame to i'm
pose such a humiliating spectacle up,
on the country