The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-24
EMPEROR WILLIAM
STIRS Up SENSATION
Places Responsibility for the
Recent Assault on Him.
BLAMES ENTIRE NATION
DEPLoREs CONDITIONS THAT
CAUSE DISRESPECT.
BLAMES ENTIRE NATION

Berlin, March 2S.-1n the lower house
of the diet today President Won
Kroecher communicated the result of
his audience with Emperor William
yesterday when the officers of the
reichstag and diet expressed the in
dignation expressed by the members of
their respective houses at the recent
outrage at Bremen. His majesty said
to President Won Kroecher that he
was sorely panied by the outrage be
cause It convinced him that since the
death of Emperor William / respect for
the authorities had decreased among
the people, particularly among the
youth.
The emperor thought that everybody
without distinction should share in the
blame for the present conditions He
considered that the press should be a
potent instrument in upholding the au-
thOrttieS and he was confident that the
deputies of all parties would do all in
their power to see the necessary steps
taken to assure the full measure of
respect for the authorities
lively debate followed President
Won Kroecher's declaration, Diet Herr
Richter contending that such admit
tedly unauthentic statements of the
emperor's words spoken without the
presence of a responsible minister were
unconstitutional and had never hap
pened before during the past thirty
years.
When Herr Richter began sharply
criticizing the emperor's words Presi-
dent Won Kroecher called him to order.
Herr Richter said this proved the truth
of his contentious.
Creates a Sensation.
The reply of Emperor William to the
Prussian diets congratulations of yes
terday in which his majesty ignoring
the officially established facts that
Weiland, the man who threw a piece
of iron al the emperor at Bremen,
striking him on the cheek, is a life
long epileptic and for years was an in
mate of an asylum and on the day of
the attempt was under medical treat
ment for recurring fits. threw harsh
blame on the entire nation for the con-
ditions breeding such attempts is the
sensation of the day. Everybody is
discussing the matter. The Vossisehe
Zeitung sharply criticizes President
Won Kroecher of the lower house Of the
diet for drawing a parallel, when adj
dressing the emperor. between Nebil-
lingS' and HoOdelS' murGerOuS attempt
upon Emperor William /. and the deed
OF an undoubted lunatic, pointing out
the enormous difference between the
cases, as shown by the court evidence.
The LOkananzeiger points out that
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political difference and criticism as
sumes in Germany today has much to
do with the bitter fanatical PARTISAN
ship everybody shows
The Tageblatt takes Emperor Will
liam smartly to task for thus general
izing his deprecatory remarks about his
own nation and disputes his majesty's
right to do so. The paper asks how
the emperor justifies his reproaches
which generally speaking are not war
ranted. 1t intimates that his majesty
is Systematically and wrongly informed
by those surrounding him and adds.
Emperor at Fault.
Assuming that the Emperor's criti-
cism is true is it not also the govern
ments and the emperor's own fault if
the authority of the crown has suf-
fered greatly since his grandfather's
death?''
The Voerwaerts ironically puts a
number of questions for Emperor Will
liam to answer, among them being:
why has the crowns authority under
his reign diminished" and concludes:
The emperor really has no grounds for
blaming the German people since the
people have done about all he has
asked including countenancing the
policy of adventure. But perhaps the
emperor is moroser because his latest
adventure. namely, the Chinese venture
is turning out poorly.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press is reliably informed that yester-
days unusual precautions when the
imperial couple visited the mausoleum
of Emperor William /, including the
strictest shutting out of the public
from the whole Charlottenburg castle
and park an hour before Emperor WI
liam's arrival, forms part of a regular
programme mapped ous for all public
occasions by Police Chief Won Wind
heinz and approved by his majesty.
The reinstag Wednesday was inter-
esting because after Herr BebeIs mo-
ton to declare legally free all chill
dren born of domestic slaves in the
German colonies had been rejected with