Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-04-25
German ArlstOcrats Don't Like His
GraciOusuess to Untitled People,
CAMPAIGN AGAINST POLICY.
Newspapers win Aristocratic Lean.
ings Have started told Prussian
Traditions Are Endangered,

Berlin, April 24-Emperor William is
bitterly criticised In aristocratlc draw
ing rooms because untitled business
men constituted the majority Of his
guests during his recent excursion in
the North sea on the North German
Lloyd steamer Kronprln2 Wilhelm, So
significant is the emperors gracious
ness toward these men regarded by the
old aristocracy that newspapers all
over Germany with aristrocratlc lean
ings have, during the last two days,
begun a regular editorial campaign
against the new policy introduced into
court life. While the German nobility
have long noted with apprehension his
majesty's liking for the company Of
the men who are making Industrial
and commercial Germany his public
entertainment Of 50 many business men
is accepted as deliberate recognition
Of that class at court.
The Leipsig Neueste Nachrlchten, Of
Bismarcklan traditions, describes En-
peror Williams guests on the Kron-
prinl Wilhelm as follows
They were not the heads OF con-
servauve noble families not represen
tatives Of real German citizenship, not
men who can be characterized as
guardians of the spark OF national
idealism, but Bleichroeder, BALM and
Loewe. Herein lies q certain danger
for the representatives OF the old Prus-
sian traditions who have been stand
Ing aside for years, who have been
treated as rebels and who, when they
voted against the canal, heard many
sharply censurlng words
THE indications are that the tariff
bill viii create a still worse estrange-
ment. The conservative elements feel
themselves more and more forced to
the defensive; the upholders OF the ira
ditlons OF the past see that the SYM
pathy Of the man who characterized
himself as the first nobleman Of Prus-
STA is disappearing.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung says II
perceives that increasing the social po-
sltion OF men of great capital Will make
the American idea supreme in Ger
many. The paper defines this idea as
the state 10 the creat tors OF the great
est values and to the men who add
most to the national wealth
Emperor William, OF course, has the
right TO select his own company, CON
tinues the Cologne paper. The public
also has the right 10 draw its own con-
illusions, and 1t is justified In inferrlng
that his majesty, If surrounded fully by
the princes OF gold, viii be influenced
by their ideas.
"Herren Wegand and Balm un-
doubtedly have the emperor's ear" says
the paper. but they are not the only
ones. The emperor properly selects the
most varied intercourse; he wants to
hear every side for himself, and natur-
ally under the circumstances. all sorts
OF views reached the imperial ear. The
question now Is which side will gain
a predominant influence. II the con-
sentative agrarian element Is pressed
to the wall, and If the men who have
written on their banners An Industrial
State, World Trade and World Plan,
get the upper hand then Germany will
face the mightlest internal transforma-
ton which modern history records"
In this connection the Grand Duke of
Hesse, a brother-ln-law OF Admiral
Prince Henry Of Prussia, has been
much criticised for sitting at table
and drinking beer with a prominent So.
clalist, Deputy Ulrich, Of the Hessian
diet with whom the duke had a long
conversation on public questions. The
dukes apologists cite the fact that NJ.
Millerand, the Socialist French minis
ter Of commerce, was decorated by the
car, and that Prince Henry shook
hands with laborers while In the United
States.