The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-25
WILLIAM Il AT BONN
ARTICULATION OF THE CROWN
PRINCE.
GIVEN A ROYAL WELCOME.
rur EMPERoR's ADDRESS TO THE
STUDENTS.

"a. speuks Feelingly OF HIS Young
DOxs mt the University and Prays
,,.. SON May Have as Happy n
ri,,e--TnIks to Them of the New
Germany and Compares 1t With
-. old Empire-He Makes an
,,,o~t Appeal to Them to Labor
r,.t They May Become Strong,
aud Able workers for Ger
many.
ponn April 4.-Emperor William and
crovn Prince Frederick William arrived
- this morning to attend the Crown
princes matriculation at the university.
THE matriculation ceremony took place
- the presence of a brilliant company of
..u,torv officers, civil officials, university
authorities and clergyman. Emperor
William and the Crown Prince stood at
table on which was the roll of the uni
,.rsitv and the Princes card of member
,b;n Prof. LaValette welcomed the EN-
neror and referred to the years His Ma
isstv spent at Bonn and the brill
;orcv with which he had fulfilled
tbe bright hopes of which he had given
nronise as a youth The strong arm of
the Emperor said Rector LaValiette Sc
cured Germany's frontiers and the Ger
man flag waved over all seas. Art,
science, trade and commerce fiourshed
under the wise protection of their genial
Emneror. Just as the Emperor as a stu
dent had won the hearts of all, so would
the Crown Prince soon learn how uuiy
and warmly all hearts beat in unison
with his.
The Crown Prince then entered his
name on the register and the rector
grasped his hand and greeted him as the
Youngest member of the university, at the
same time expressing the wish that he,
like his father would unite serious study
with the buoyant spirits of youth
Emperor Speaks With Feeling.
At the Grand Kommers given this even
ing in his honor Emperor William spoke
as follows:
For you, my dear young comrades, it
is needless to dwell upon the feelings
that stir my heart upon finding myself in
dear Bonn again and among its students.
There unrolls before my minds eye
splendid and glittering picture full of the
sunshine of my happy contentment which
filed the period of my stay
here There was joy i'll life,
joy in people, Old and young, and above
all, joy in the, young German empire
which was then just gathering strength.
The wish that fills my heart at the pres
ent moment above all else is that. as hap
py. a Students time may be granted my
dear son as once was mine. When we
look around the sunny Rhineland our his
hef IIS
must rejoice at being young Germans as
you traverse the country from Aix-la-
Chapele to Mayence that is from Charlie
magne to Germany's time of sp1endor un-
der Barbarossa. But why did all that
spendor come to naught? Because the
old empire was not founded upon a strong
national basis. The universal idea of the
old Roman kingdom did not
permit the German ma
tion to develop in the German national
sense, therefore, Barbarossa's splendor
he'd to fade and the existence of the old
empire to cease because it was hindered
BY the universalism from crystaliZing into
nation, and it developed instead into
number of strong principalities which fur
nlshed the groundwork for the new struct-
ure OF state. These, coming into conflict
with the emperor and the empire, internal
peace was lost to the ever weakening en-
development of the German people must
ne written the portentuous words of
Iacitus, who knew Germania so well:
Propter anvidiam "
turning to the task that God gave En-
peror William TO we'd the ma ton together,
the Emperor continued:
The Empire as 1t Is To-day.
The empire now stands before you.
May joy and grateful delight fill you,
ana may firm and manly resolve keep
your hearts aglow. Work for Garmania.
Ine future awaits you and will need your
strength, not to squander in cosmopolitan
dreams or one-sided party tendencies, but
10 roster the stability of national thought
ana ideals which the German race, by
uods grace, has been permitted to bring
Iorth from Boniface and Wlather Won der
'Oselweide to Goethe and Schiller. They
nave become a light and blessing to all
mankind, they worked universal and
were nevertheless in themselves strictly
exclusive Germans. We need such
men now more than ever, may
you all strive to become such men. But
now Shall that be possible? Who shall
p nvp you? Only one; He whose name we
un Dear who has borne our sins and
washed them away, who lived for our ex-
SS,HPie ana worked as we should work.
way Our Lord and Savior plant in you
mural earnestness. that your impulses
s 1iay ever be purer and your aims ever
sUohne Then you will be armed against
t.a n 'ehptations and above ali, against van
ana envy. Then YOU can sing end say
" Germans fear God but nothing else
~ the world. Then we shall endure in
@ e world, strong, spreading civilization
shall close my eyes in peace. If
-.S zee such generation growing up and
D'ieo around my son, then Deutschland
rou'sch!and, Ueber allies! Germany, Ger
,TTany' above alb. In this assurance I cry
-DnB MI I'VE the University of Bonn!"
r, ne toast was drunk amid prolinged ap-