Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-25
FOREIGN MOTIFS
AND COMMENT

The English royal family is in the
thTces of another domestic .feud. This
time it is tie duchess CT Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, CHly sister of the late car,
daughter-in-faw ,cf Queen Vio5crIa, and
once the favorite aunt Of the KAISER,
who has quarreled 50 bitterly with her
English relatives and With the court
OF Berlin that sh5 has declined all CT
feTs TO visit England, and has gone to
Russia, with an intinaticn that it. will
be many a long day before she returns
to COburg. The source CT her bitter
ness toward her English relatives and
against the kaiser must he sought IN
their attitude at the time CT the so
tragic death Of her only son. She
holds the kaiser altogether responsible
for the unSaTOry circumstances which
led to the poor lads suicide, while she
resents in the most cruel fashion the
marked absence of sympathy of all the
English royal family at the time eff her
bereavement. 1t is true that the queen
made less profession Of sorrow at the
demise of this grandson Of hers than
She is wont to manifest at the death OF
any of her dOmestics, and in the Court
News she carefully av3idad the expires
SIGN of grief such as she displayed 1T
llI1i I11446 u LIE QttIH IL t4lG duke OI
Clarence, and mersly said that the
blow was a very hard one for his poor
parents.
Grand Duchess Marie is woman Of
strong character, and the
only member of Queen Vict0rias fam
lily who has at all timss maintained
a very independent attitude She has
never taken the CT1uble to conceal her |
opinions, has CURLY declined On nu-
msHous occasions TIE queens interfer- |
ence in her domestic affairs, especial |
Iy regarding the marriage CT her |
daughters, and has of late expressed |
t5rself with SO much vig5r about the |
cruel sights to which her dead boy |
had been subjected that relations be-
tween the court CT Co0urg On the enc
hand and those CT Berlin and St
James On the other are extremely /
strained.
The duke OF Coburg has spent al
most the eEtire summer in England,
seeing but little of his consc1t, who
1otntedIy left Coburg for Russia only
few hours before the arrival from
England OF her sister-in-law, the wild
Jwad duchess of Albany, whose 10
year-Old s3n has been proclaimed heir
o the thrones of Saxe-COburg and
5Ctna- in the stead cf the late Prince
Albert. In so big !. family as that OF
lueen Victoria it is inevitable that
here should always be soma quarrel
rg in progress. But few people save
he English and German private sacrs-
aries Of her majesty and CT the prince
f Wales have an idea of the extent to
which the queens time and energies
re taken up by the straig hten.ng out
# family conflicts of this kind.
1t is, indeed, q singular ccnditiun OF
fairs that the kaiser, the mos auto
ratio c. all m0rarchs, should have
zen led by the co15T'cvetsy in con-
ecticn with the inter-riv5r canals in
ieTmany to ally himself with the lib
rails, and even with the radicals.
gainst these very MISUNDERSTANDING
yE0 have hitherto concisitUted the
rilcipal champions Of his desp3tisnl.
hey were willing to support the lat ,
ar as long as it merely affected the
rdinary people; but from the moment /
he kaiser's imperial will was eX- ,
rcised in Connection with a vast en-
srpG Use CT immense. value to the com
but which was calculated
} impair their financial Interests. they
lrned against their lord and master,
heir loyalty stepping short at their
uTse
The fact Of the matter is that the
obstruction CT the elaborate system
canals, which viii place all the
reat waterways of Germany in aquat
communications with me another S
ill net only be CT vast strategic and '
2mmerc.al value, but will likewise