New-York tribune., 1901-10-20
CAPITALS AND LOYALTY.
THE TRADITIONAL INTERMEDIATES
BETWEEN BERLIN AND ITS REIGN
ING FAMILY HAS PARAL-
LEI CASES IN OTHER
COUNTRIES.

from Europe to the effect that the municipality
of Berlin has passed vote TO refrain from
sending the customary address of congratula-
tion and good wishes TO the Empress on the oc-
casion OF her birthday. and that the City Fathers
Of the Prussian metropolis have also declined
to submit TO the Emperor's wish for the with
dTawal Of the name of Herr Kaufman, who is
their virtuany unanimous choice as second Bur-
gomaster The i'll will thus manifested between
the Athens on the Spree-as Voltaire wont
TO describe the city of Berlin-and the reigning
house of Hohenzollern does not date from yes
terday. 1t has prevailed with more or less in
tensity ever since Prussia converted into
kingdom, with Berlin as its capital. Indeed. II
may be said TO have originated at a still more
remote epoch, in the times of the Electors of
Brandenburg, whose high handed methods and
tyranny in connection with the building Of the
huge pile known the Royal Palace led to
many sanguinary conflicts between the citizens
and the royal troops.
Berlin is by no means the only capital 10
maintain an attitude of what its citizens de-
scribe as spirited independence" and what the
Emperor denounces as shameless disloyalty"
toward it's ruler.
There IS hardly crowned head In Europe
who feels at home and among friends when in
his capital It seems TO be sort OF accepted
axiom, indeed. that the metropolis should always
head. and that this condition of affairs is not
confined TO monarchical states. but likewise
extends TO republics, has been strikingly demon
etrated within the last few weeks by the ex-
traordinary action of President Loubet and the
Waldeck- Rousseau administration in preventing
the Gar and CZarina from visiting Paris dur
sng their stay in France, in consequence OF the
open enmity prevailing between the ultra-radi-
cal municipality and the Cabinet, whose cause.
IL he has heen
pute by the Chief Magistrate.
Whether the President is wise thus TO inten-
sify the bitterness prevailing between the metro
politan municipality and the State is a question.
For IL is the city of Paris az whose gates must
be laid the responsibility for every one OF the
numerous revolutions that have taken place in
France Indeed. Gallo history literally teens
with stories Of bloody conflicts between the
crown and the populace of the capital OF at
tempts on the part of the latter to force the
hand of the monarch of the day, who in several
instances reduced TO the most ignominiOus
expedients in order to escape. like some bounded
fugitive, from the people OF his capital. 1t was
for this reason that the Bourbon kings estab-
lished their residence at Versailles, in the ex-
pectation of being able to maintain there
greater degree of independence toward the tur-
bulent Parisians than at the Palais Royal, the
Tuileries any other royal abode within the
city walls These hopes. however. We're belied
when the Partisan populace at the end of the
eighteenth century marched out to Versailles,
brought the King and Queen as prisoners TO
Paris. and, after forcing them 10 make all sorts
of popular concessions, eventually sent them TO
the scaffold on discovering that they were in
triguing with foreign powers with a view TO
their deliverance from the people of their capt.
tai. 1t was the Parsians who overthrew King
Charles X in 1880 when he attempted to cur
tail their prerogatives, and in the way
they drove his successor, King Louis Philippe
into exile eighteen years afterward. 1t
they, and not the French people at large, who
established the republic in place of the empire
after the battle of Sedan, and when the war
with Germany was they more took
arms, this time against the very republic which
they themselves had created in order to OBJ
tain larger degree of autonomy, civic inde-
pendence and popular rights
For the first five or six years following the
overthrow Of the empire neither the President
of the republic nor the national legislature vent
ured TO trust themselves within the city walls,
but established their headquarters at Versailles,
like the old Bourbon kings, and even 10 this day
when a chief magistrate has to be chosen, the
election by the two chambers. sitting Con-
stituent Assembly, is held at Versailles rather
than at Paris, in order to avoid the danger OF
any pressure or coup de main" on the part Of
the people of the metropolis. Napoleon III never
felt safe at the Tuieries, and always hap
pier at St. Cloud Compegne Fontaine-
bleau while the peculiar construction of the
metropolitan boulevards by his orders so
arranged to facilitate the sweeping of the
main thoroughfares by artillery fire in the event
of any struggle with the populace. And at the
present moment President Loubet and his min
listers are TO such extent open with
the people OF Paris that they have just appoint
ed the strongest man and the closest friend of
Loubet as military governor of the metropolis,
and have placed upon the latter the affront Of
keeping the Emperor and Empress Of Russia, the
allies Of France. away from Lutetia because
they did not care to expose themselves to the
manifestations OF animosity and disrespect which
might have fallen to their share had they ap-
peared in the capital the hosts of the i'm
perial couple.
Emperor Francis Joseph began his eventful
reign at olmutz not at Vienna, which at
the time in the hands of the populace that had
forced the kindly old Emperor Ferdinand to fly
for his life and had massacred several OF his
ministers. notably Count Latour 1t was only
after a full hedged siege and bombardment,
sultng in a capitulation, that Francis Joseph
could secure possession OF the metropolis of his
empire, where in spite of all that is said to the
contrary, there is even to this day less loyalty
toward the imperial house than anywhere else
in his dominions. The late Empress knew this,
and cordially disiked both Vienna and the Vien-
nese and IL is only since her tragic death that
they have manifested any kindly feeling tow
ard her. The municipality. with the anti-Semite
leader, DR.. Lueger, at it's head has become such
a force in national politics that it has several
occasions been able to impose its VIII upon the
government Indeed, DR.. Lueger was elected