The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-25
Recalls His schoolboy Days and
Paints Picture of the
Sunny RhincIand.
DISCUSSES HIS GREAT TASK
AND URGES HIS AUDITORS TO AL.
WAYS WORK FOR GERMANIA.
Warns Against vanity and Envy, and
Predicts Great Future for
the German People.

BONN, April 24.-Emperor William and
Crown Prince Frederick William arrived
here this morning to attend the crown
princes matriculation at the university
They drove to the Schaumburg Palace amid
the cheers of the populace and the ringing
of the church bells.
The matriculation ceremony took place
in the presence of a brilliant company of
military officers, civil officials, university
authorities and ciergymen. Emperor Will
liam and the crown prince stood at a table
on which was the roll of the university
and the princes card of membership Prof.
La Valette welcomed the Emperor and re-
ferred to the year his Majesty spent at
Bonn and the brilliancy with which he lad
fulfilled the bright hopes of which he had
given promise as a youth. The strong arm
OF the Emperor, said Rector La Valette
secured Germany's frontiers, and the Ger
man flag waved over all seas. Art, science
trade and commerce fourished under the
wise protection of their general Emperor.
Just as the Emperor. as student had
won the hearts of all, so would the crown
prince soon learn how truly 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 express
ing the wish that he. like his father, would
unite serious study with the buoyant spirits
OF youth The rector concluded with call
ing for hochs for the Emperor, which were
vigorously given. The Emperor shook
hands with the rector and greeted several
other persons. His Majesty, the crown
prince and the suite subsequently joined
in procession to the gate of the university
and left amidst the hochs of the towns
people and students.
SPEECH AT A KOMMERS.
AT the grand kommers given this even
ing in his honor Emperor William spoke
as follows:
For you. my dear young comrades. II
is needless TO dwell upon the feelings that
STIR my heart upon finding myself in dear
Bonn again and among it's students. There
unrolls before my minds eye a splendid
ana gnttering picture, full of the sunshine
OF my happy contentment which filled the
Ieriod of my stay here. There was joy
In life, joy In people, old and young, and
above all joy in the young German en-
pire, which was then just gathering
strength. The wish that fills my heart at
the present moment above all else is that
a happy students time may be granted my
dear son, as once was mine. And how
could that we'll be otherwise in this beau
tl1ul town or Bonn, so accustomed to the
doings OF buoyant youths? 1t Is as if il
were created for them by nature Yet
may the crown prince find here memories
or his illustrious great-gra ndfather whose
kindly eye lighted up whenever the name
of Bonn was mentioned. OF his grand
father. the noble prince ccnsort and life
companion or that glorif1ed and queenly
woman who ever strove for peaceful and
friendly relations between her people and
ours, who, indeed. are both of Germanic
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friends who here prepared for their later
careers But again. Bonn lies on the
Rhine, and there grow our vines. there
even the old castles and the torn sack of
the past, and there is Father Rhine. with
his enchantment. These must all influence
the crown prince and yourselves, and when
the goblet gayly passes and merry song
resounds then must your spirits, full of
that happy moment, rejoice as BELTS
buoyant German youths. May the source
whence you draw that JOY be as pure as
the goldeSt sap of the vine and deep and
enduring Father Rhine. When we look
around the sunny Rhineland. history
rises before us in tangible form. You must
rejoice at being young Germans as you
traverse the country from Aix-la- -Chapelle
to Mayence that is, from Charlemagne to
Germany's time of splendor, under Chief
Barbarrosa. Yet why did all that splendor
come TO naueht? Because the old empire
was not founded upon strong national
basis.
OLDEN TIME WEAKNESS.
"The universal idea of the old Roman
kingdom did not permit the German ma
ton to develop in the German national
sense, therefore Barbarrosas splendor had
TO fade and the excellence of the old en-
pire had to cease, because ii was hindered
by its universalism from Christianity into
a nation. and it developed in a number OF
strong principalities. which furnished the
groundwork for the new structure of state
These, coming into conflict with the En-
peror and the empire, internal peace was
lost TO the everweakening empire. I'm
fortunately. above this phase OF develop
ment of the German people must be writ
ten the portentious words of Tacitus, who
knew Germanla so We'll: frOpter Anvil
oiam.
powers. as they one did Arminius in spite
OF his victory The nobility envied the
towns which had become rich, and the
peasants envied the nobility. What unhappy
results and heavy misfortunes has our
Gear beautiful Germany suffered-propter
Anvindiam. The banks of the Rhine can
tell you something of that.
Then turning to the task that God gave
Emperor william, TO weld the nation to-
gether, the Emperor continued
1.-The empire now stands before you. May
Joy and grateful delight fill you, and NAV
firm and manly resolve keep your hearts
aglov Work for Germania. The futur.
awaits you and will need your strength.
rot to squander I'm cosmopolitan dreams
One-Stded party tenuetlclt>s bui ~ FOSTER
the stability OF national thought and ideals
which the German race, by Cod grace. has
been permitted 10 bring forth, from Boni-
face and Walther Won der Vogelweide 10
Goethe and Schiller. They have become a
light and blessing 10 all mankind; they
worked universal and were never in
themselves strictly exclusive Germans. We
need such men now more than ever. May
you all strive to become such men. But
how shall that be possible? Who shall help
you? One-only He whose name we all bear.
who has borne cur sins and washed then,
cway. who lived for our example and
worked as we should work May our Lord
and Savior plant In your moral earnest.