The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-21

necessarily mean that this country must
skimp itself on meat. 81 y
The KAISER SERMONIzING
A-dispatch from AK -Chapelle states
the Emperor William delivered an address
there on Thursday of a strong religious
quality, giving it the dignity of ser
mon as, indeed. appears from the extracts
cabled. 81
The emperor is a very good preacher
and he Is no novice in that art, for he,
not infrequently; as head at the Lutheran
church in Prussia, mounts the pulpit and
delivers religious discourses. At Aix-La-
Chapelle he was inspired by the historic
environage, for it was there that the old
emperors Of Germany were crowned dur 4
ing nearly eight centuries and Charlie
magne was born and buried there and
made Aix-La-Gh Ghapelle the capital of that
portion of his empire north of the Alps. q
The sermon, of !. William breathed the
very spirit of1that dogma of divine right
ism so strongly affirmed by his grand
father, and in the ninth century by the
Emperor Charlemagne head of the ''Holy
Roman Empire" That empire, built up
by the conquests of Charlemagne as the,
resuscitated westerns Roman empire which
had passed away, was dismembered soon
after his death, Italy retaining the titu-
lar supremacy, as it contained the ancient
seat Of the Roman empire. The eastern
and western divisions preserved their In,
tegrity as France and Germany, while the
central portion, extending from the North
sea to the north boundary Of the italian
peninsula, consisting of small provinces,
became the bone Of contention among the
stronger, until Otho revived the imperial
title in the tent h century AS the Emperor
William said in his sermon, the SUCCESSORS
of Charlemagne did not have the strong
personality to enable them to hold the
empire together and they, striving to- up,
hold the world wide imperium, forgot the
cause of Germania, so that, little by lit
tie, the German land and people .decayed
and the Roman empire of German ma
tionality fell, to pieces , 2 The so-calledS
fGerman empire which terminated in 1906.
by the obtrusion and conquests of Ma
poleon, was an; zimperium but in name,
while claiming universal dominion, its
pretensons extending to every province
| on the continent. It was dominion
largely imaginary, It passed away and
| the confedeFation 5of> the Rhine. followed,
and, when. the: map Of Europe was re-
adjusted after the Napoleonic wars the
T. r cto 1So y, ia
Germanic federation, which was absorbed
by Prussia into the new empire created
by the old Kaiser. Wilhelm and. Bis
marck. ~ sTA ,aac t3lG III. 80 :~.a& ~
The emperor, in his sermon at. Aix-La-
Chapelle, 4dwelt Upon the, task .ot. the pres
ent empire. =, He first, dwelt upon, "the
mighty army1of Germany as the sole sup
porter ,of peace in Europe and then as
sober second thought declared that he had
placed crown, people and army under the
protection Of God, and said that the ."sole
! aim should be- to uphold and strengthen
the fear of Gods and reverence for relig-,
ion:" s It woulda appear that. this strong
| confession Of religious belief was put
forth to contradict the many reports In
! Germany that the kaiser was abandoning
| the faith of his fathers. !, s-nS
| After lauding the army and the COM
mercial enterprise Of Germany he, .re-
ferred to such progress as "the world
wide imperium after which. Germanfc. gen ;
| ius strives This may be taken In two
ways. Germany's world wide imperium
may be an imperium of the arts of peace
with Germany's- swords turned into farm
ing implements, or It may be an imperium
Upheld by arms and gunpowder. The
kaiser does otsIose sight Of the mighty
German army" It would seem to be re-
garded by him as an essential adjunct to
keep we'll in hand ready for use.
| "A curious part of the emperor's dis
course is his Difference to Pope Leo, who
4 sent him a. message to the effect that
Germany was 1the country in Europe
where the church could live. the infer
ence being that Germany is the only coun-
8 try In Europe where the church Il( the
\ popes church, can live. The pope can
/ hardly forget: however, that there are
remnants of the disturbing Falk laws Of
1894 still on the Prussian statute
boooks and that the banished Cardinal
Ledowchoffsky is yet in Rome and that
4 the echoes of his predecessors curses.
laid upon the protestant Hohenzollern
dynasty, still vibrate. The emperor, in
I dead, talks as If he is nearly ready to
take up his line of march to Canossa.