The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-24
PUTS HIS FOOT IN If AGAIN.
Emperor William Arouses the Wrath
of the German Press.

BERLIN. March 2S-The reply of EN-
peror William to the Prussian Diets con-
gratulations yesterday, in which his Majes-
~, ignoring the officially established facts
that Weiland, the man who threw a piece
OF iron at the Emperor at Bremen, strik-
ing him on his cheek. is lifelong epileptic
and for years was inmate of an asylum,
and the day of the attempt was under med
ical treatment for recurring fits, threw
harsh blame on the entire nation for the
conditions breeding such attempts, is the
sensation of the day. Everybody is dis
cussing the matter.
In the lower house of the Diet to-day
President Won Kroecher communicated the
result of his audience with Emperor Will
liam His Majesty said to President Won
Kroecher that he was sorely panied by the
outrage, because it convinced him that
since the death of Emperor William / re-
spect for the authorities had decreased
among the people, particularly among the
youth. The Emperor thought that every
body without distinction, should share in
the blame for the present conditions. He
considered that the press should be a po-
tent instrument in upholding the authori-
ties and he was confident that the depu-
ties 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.
A lively debate followed President Won
Kroecher's declaration, Herr Richter con-
tending that such admittedly unauthentic
statements of the Emperor's words, spoken
without the presence of a responsible min
lister, were unusual and had never hap
pened before during the past thirty years.
When Herr Richter began sharply crit
icisng the Emperor's words President Won
Kroecher called him to order. Herr Rich
ter said this proved the truth of his con-
tentions. To-night's papers are full of
references to Emperor Williams remarks.
The Vossische Zeitung sharply criticises
President Won Kroecher for drawing a
parallel when addressing the Emperor be-
tween Noeblings and Hoedefs murderous
attempts upon Emperor William 1 and the
deed of an undoubted lunatic, pointing out
the enormous differences between the cases
as shown by the court evidence.
The Lokal Anzeiger points out that the
unreasonable character which every polti-
cal difference and criticism assumes in Ger
many to-day has much to do with the Bit
ter fanatic partisanship everybody shows.
The Tageblatt takes Emperor William
smartly to task for thus generalizing his
deprecatory remarks about his own nation,
and disputes his Majesty's right to do so.
The paper asks how the Emperor justified
his reproaches, which. generally speaking,
are not warranted. 1t intimates that his
Majesty is Systematically and wrongly in
formed by those surrounding him, AMI
adds: Assuming that the Emperors criti-
cism is true, is it not also the govern
ment's and the Emperor's own fault IL the
authority of the crown has suffered greatly
since his grandfather's death?"
The vorwaerts ironically puts a number
of questions for Emperor William to an
swer. among them being: why has the
crowns authority under his reign dimin-
ishedg' and concludes: THE Emperor
really has no grounds for blaming the Ger
man people. since the people have done all
he has asked including countenancing his
policy of adventure But. perhaps. the EN-
peror is morose because his latest adven-
ture, namely. the Chinese venture, is turn
ing out poorly
The correspondent of the Associated
Press is reliably informed that yesterdays
unusual precautions when the imperial
couple visited the mausoleum OF Emperor
William l. including the strictest shutting
out of the public from the whole Chariot
tenburg Castle and park an hour before
Emperor Williams arrival. fo-nngers. AZ