The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-12
KAISER WILHELM'S SPEECH.
AS an "AIter Herr" He Addresses
His Fellow Corps Students.

His Fellow Corps Students.
London Times.
At the Commers given in the emperor's
| honor at Bonn on April a. his majesty
replying to an address from Herr Won
Alvensleben, the president of Borussia
corps, spoke as follows:
For you, my dear young comrades
there is no need to make special mem
ton of or to dwell upon the feelings
| which stir my heart on finding myself
| once more in dear Bonn among its
students. There unrolls before my
minds eye the splendid glittering
| picture. full of sunshine and happy con.
tentment, which filed the period OF my
| stay here. Joy in life, joy in the peopla
old and young, and. above all, joy in the
young German empire, then just gather,
| ing strength. The wish, then. that fills
| my heart above all else at the moment
| WAen my dear son takes his place in
your midst is that as happy a student 5
| time may be granted to him as once was
mlne. And how could that well lie other
] wise? The lovely town CT Bonn is so al
customed to the doings of buoyant
! youths and is. as 1t were, creaF d by
! nature for them. Yet may the crown
! prince find memories of his ilIustrious
! Grandfather-a grandfather who could
! never forget Bonn, whose kindly eye
! lighted up whenever the name Of the
| SNHiA litell l4dh btEOIt 50 GEAR TO nm
was Newfoundland of the noble prince
consort-the life companion of that now
| glorified queenly woman who ever strove
FOR peaceful and friendly relations be-
tween her people and ours, VINO, indeed
are both of Germanic stock-and of so
many other noble German princes who
have here gone through their prepara-
ton for their later career.
But again. Bonn lies on the Rhine
There grow GU Vines, there eve Y old
castle and town speaks OF the past
Father Rhine, with his enchantment
must have mis- influence upon the crown
prince and upon you. And when the
goblet gayly passes and the merry song
resounds then must your Spirit rejoice.
full of the happy moment. and rise in IL
as BELTS buoyant German youths. Yet
may the source from which you draw
your JOY be sweet and pure as the golGen
sap Of the vine and as deep and ENDURING;
as Father Rhine. If we look around in
the delightful Rhilielani there rises be-
fore us our history in tangible form.
Yes, you must rejoice that YOU are young
Germans as you traverse the country
from Aix-la-Chapele tc Mayence-that
is. from Charlemagne to Germany's time
of spiendor under BarbarosSa. But why
did all that splendor come to naught?
Because the old empire was not founded
on Il strong national basis The uni
versal idea OF the old Roman kingdom
did not allow the German nation develop
mentS in German national sense The
essential Of the nation is a demarcation
outwardly corresponding to the PERSONAL
lty OF a people and its racial peculiarity
therefore, Barbarossa's Splendcr had to
fade and the existence of the old empire
cease because it was h,ndered by its
uniVersalism in the process of CRYSTAL
ization into a nation-that is. into a ma
a M ra,. 1yo.
came crystalized in the form of strong
municipalities and furnished the ground
work for a new structure of states But
unfortunately, as the result of this, they
and their chiefs were bound to come into
conflict With the emperor and the empire,
who were the slaves of universalsm,
and Internal peace was lost to the ever
weakening empire.
Unfortunately, above this phase in the
development of our German people must
be written the portentous words of Taci-
tuS, who knew Germania so Well-prop-
ter invidiam. The princes envied the
emperors their power as they once did
Arminius in spite of his victory. The
nobility envied the towns which had
become rich, and the peasantry envied
the nobility. What unhappy results:
what great evil has our dear beautiful
Germany suffered propter invidlam! The
banks of Father Rhine can tell something
of that. Now, what did not then sue
coed, God gave to some one to accom-
plish. Aix-la-C hapelle and Mayence are
to us historical remembrances, but the
longing to be welded together into one
nation remained in the German bosom
and the Emperor William the Great ac-
complshed it in the confederation of his
loyal servants. Then turn your eyes 10
Coblenz on the German corner to Ru-
desheim, and the Niederwald. The pic
lures teach, prove to you, that you are
now Germans in a German land, citi-
Gems Of a strongly defined German ma
ton, to labor for whose welfare and de-
velopment in the future you are all here
to be trained. Splendidly grown and de-
velOped the empire now stands before
you. May joy and grateful delight fill
you and may firm. manly resolve as
Germans to work for Germana. to raise
strengthen and uphold her keep your
hearts agloW.
1.-THE future awaits you and will need
your strength, but not simply to squan-
der 1t in cosmopolitan dreams or in the
service of one-sided party tendencies,
but to foster the stability of national
thought and our ideals which the German
race by Gods grace has been permitted
to bring forth from Boniface and Wal
Their Won der Vogelweide to Goethe and
Schiller They have become a light and
blessing to all mankind. We need them
now more than then. May you all
strive to become such. But how shall
that be possible? Who shall help you
to do so? Only one Whose name we all
bear Who died for US. Who lived for
our example, and worked as we should
work. May our Lord and Savior plant
in you moral earnestness that your
impulses may be pure and your
aims ever subj me. Then you VIII be
armed against temptations OF all kinds,
and above ali against vanity and envy. -