New-York tribune., 1900-05-27

and 10 incline his activity in the direction best
calculated TO sive play TO all the fine and gen
srous qualities Of his character.
Although there has always been a disposition
ID the part q Germans to concede nothing but
a secondary role 10 their women, yet there are
few countries in Europe which owe SO much to
vetticoat influence. II was the heroic Queen
Luise who was the principal factor in the lib
Grafton Of Prussia from the harsh and bitter
thraldom OF the first Napoleon. Empress Au-
guste. as befitted a Princess who in her child
hncd had been a pupil of Goethe. contributed to
the Intellectual development of Prussia during
& reign that was more especially occupied by
military matters and by sanguinary wars.
Moreover, throughout her husbands reign she
opposed the d-spotic tendencies of Prince Bis
narck in such a manner as TO temper their ap-
pIication. while il is no secret that she enjoyed
in this respect the valuable cooperation of her
English born daughter in-law, the now widowed
Empress Frederick, whom the old Chancellor ad-
uitted to be a foe worthy of his political steel,
and who eventually brought about his downfall.
was the Kaisers mother who placed his
hrmer tutor H.ntzpeter in his way, well know
ing the influence he was likely to exercise on his
expupil
1t was the Professor who induced the En-
peror TO refuse his assent to Bismarck's demand
for the continuance Of the anti-Socialist laws,
and 10 summon the international labor confer
ence at Berlin which Bismarck SO bitterly op-
posed that the Emperor ended by dismissing
him The failure Of the labor conference to
achieve the expected results and the increased
hostility and Development Of socialism caused
the Emperor before two years were past to SEND
the Professor back to his books. and to saddle
him with the responsibility of the failure OF the
policy which he had recommended. But mean
while the Empress had become reconcIled TO her
eldest son. and her arch-enemy Prince BIS
marck who boasts in his memoirs Of having
caused her to shed many bitter tear. had been
disnissed while few save the Chancellor real
lied who it was that had really engineered his
downfall.
Both Spain and Holland have prospered TO
FAR greater degree under feminine rule during
te last fifteen or twenty years than when the
reins of power were held by masculine hands.
In the Netherlands the dynasty of Orange is
more popular than ever before, while ii may
safely be asserted that no one save the sagacious
md admirable Queen Regent Christina would
ever have succeeded in plotting Spain through
such war as that with the United States with
out q revolution a dynastic upset and loss
Of something which the Span.ards prize far more
rhan mere territory. namely, their honor.
It is unnecessary TO speak here of the in1u-
.ce exercised by the late Queen Louise of Den
mark which had the effect Of converting Copen-
hagen - orc moment into the centre of Europes
political gravity. OF the power exercised by
royal anl imperial harems in the Orient I have
written in these columns at length. This will
serve, however. to show that petticoat influence
IS neither 50 new nor yet SO injurious as the
English newspapers insist at the present mo-
nent- On the contrary the world is the better
-of its existence. EX-ATTACHE.