The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-24
PRINCE HENRY

PRINCE HENRY
The young and bumptious defendant of
bluff old Water Fritz, otherwise Frederick
II. of Prussia, arrived in New York yester-
day, and the boom of guns and the shout
ings of welcome from a multitude OF
threats broke the Sabbath stiffness and
sent the Fourth Commandment out of
sight and out Of mind for season.
Prince Henry of Prussia stands for the
persistent militarism which Water Fritz
introduced into the center Of Europe in
the eighteenth century, and which has
struck successfully at every fighting
power in Europe, and which, finally,
through a quick revenge upon France for
the excuses of the Napoleonic ambition
of the Uncle and Nephew, made Prussia
flower into the great German empire,
which has done more to maintain the
peace Of Europe than any other cause.
The sovereigns of the house of Hohen-
zollern, nine in number, have not been
possessors of much surplus wealth until
the empire was brewed by Bismarck out
Of Prussian material. The Emperor Will
liam and Prince Henry command the lux
uries of the world, thanks to Bismarck
who was rudely dismissed from the chan
cellorship by William. These gentlemen
would astonish Water Fritz by their at
tire, for the old hero loved to go about
with dirty military boots on, wearing a
rusty cooked hat and snuff impregnated
nv pl1t ir,ooS hoIyo
| changed with the Hohenzollerns. The rep
| resentative of military despotism is sent
by the emperor to witness in his stead
the launching of his American built yacht,
to be christened by an American maiden,
the daughter of the president of the
greatest republic of all history, which is
still the breeding place Of free institu-
lions, notwithstanding all the predic-
| lions of Europe, and, Notwithstanding the
exploitation, in the name of liberty, at
home, Of the most vicious vagaries which
themselves would undermine the founda-
| lions of our system.
| Yet the greatest power of the new world
may properly greet the imperial delegate
| from Germany, for the two nations are
! upon friendly terms and it is desirable
| that these relations should continue.
! There are Americans, like the BLACKBOARD
| Tillman, who with his colleague whom he
had attacked W the charge of corrup-
tion,- INDUCED in a pugilistic collision in
the sacred precincts of the senate cha1n-
her on Saturday, who are sorely grieyed
because of the official recognition by the
| administration Of the coming of the
Prince of Prussia. There are Americans,
| like Wheeler of Kentucky, who make alb
surd spectacles of themselves by explor-
ing the vocabulary of slangwhangery to
find contemptuous epithets to throw at
the president, the prince and our COM
missioners to the coronation of the King
of England These men are stupid enough
| in their neutrality-suspicious. to favor the
breaking Oft of all diplomatic relations
with monarchies and autocracies. They
are advocates of, policy which would
! isolate us, injure our trade abroad and
remand us to the category of unprogres-
sive nations. Meantime, the prince will
be appropriately welcomed Americans,
| Whatever luey udy piOteSL, yearly love 10
see royalty. When the Prince Of Wales
was in this country in the sixties, even
Americans who declared that they would
not walk across the street to see him, -
nearly broke their necks to see him, and
the girls who didn't get chance to dance
| with the prince, felt like retiring from
| society.
! The young man will, no doubt, enjoy
himself He will learn much, if he opens
the eyes Of his understanding, and he will
no doubt, take back with him some
knowledge which will make his imperial
brother more anxious than ever to still
the excuses of reichstag agrarian abuse
of our country, which, however, we don't
take very deeply to heart, since we have
the stuff which Germany wants and does
not produce at home, and which she must
have. The prince and his encourage
while here, will probably revise the old
German song and sing it america
America, uber allies" 1t would be nice
7 little bit of International comfy for then
to do this.