The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-25
ARISTOCRACY in REVOLT
EMPEROR WILLIAM TOO DEMO-
CRATIC FOR GERMAN MOBILES.
His Liking for captains of Industry
Not elfshed-American Ideas Re
pugnnnt to the Barons.

BERLIN, April 24-Emperor William is
bitterly criticised in aristocratic drawing
rooms because untitled business men con-
stituted the majority Of his guests during
his recent excursion In the North sea on
the North German Lloyd steamer Kron-
prinz Wilhelm. So significant is the EN-
peror's graciousness toward these men re-
garded by the old aristocracy that newspa-
pers all over Germany with aristocratic
leanings have during the last two days be-
gun regular editorial campaign against
the policy introduced into court life.
While the German nobility have long noted
with apprehension his Majestys liking for
the company of the men who are making
industrial and commercial Germany, his
public entertainment of so many business
men is accepted as deliberate recognition
of that class at court.
The Leipsiger Neueste Nachrichten. of
Bismarckian traditions, describes Emperor
Williams guests on the Kronprinz Wilhelm
as follows: 'They were not the heads of
conservative noble families; nor represent
atives of real German citizenship; nor men
who can be characterized as guardians of
the spark of national idealism, but Bleich-
roeder, BALM and Loewe Herein lies a
certain danger for the representatives of
the old Prussan traditions who have been
standing aside for years. who have been
treated as rebels, and who, when they voted
against the canal heard many sharply CEN
surfing words. The indications are that the
tariff bill will create still worse entangle-
ment. The conservative elements feel
themselves more and more forced to the de-
fensive, the upholders of the traditions of
the past see that the sympathy of the man
who characterized himself as the first no.
bleman of Prussia is disappearing"
/ The Cologne Volks Zeitung says it per-
ceiVes that increasing the social position of
men of great capital will make the Amer
lean idea supreme in Germany. The paper
defines this idea the giving of the great
est hOnors in the state to the creators of
the greatest values and to the men who add
most to the national wealth. Emperor
William, of course has the right to select
his own company, continues the Cologne
paper. The public also has the right to
draw it's own conclusions and il is Justified
in inferring that his Majesty, if surrounded
continually by the princes of gold will be
influenced by their ideas. "Herren Vie
gand and Balm undoubtedly have the En-
peror'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
naturally, under the circumstances all
sorts of views reach the imperial ear. The
question now is which side will gain a pre-
dominant influence. II the conservative
agrarian element is pressed to the wall
and if men who have written on their ban
ners An Industrial State, World Trade
and World Politics get the upper hand
then Germany will face the mightiest in
ternal Transformation which modern his
tory records"
In this connection the Grand Duke of
Hesse a brother-in-law of Admiral Prince
Henry of Prussia. has been much criticised
for sitting at a table and drinking beer with
a prominent Socialist. 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 Mil
lerand. the French minister of commerce.
was decorated by the Gar. and that Prince
Henry shook hands with laborers while in
the United States