The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-25
They Fear That He Will Pre-
cipitate Some Terrible Ca
lamity-He Sets the Con
stitutiOn at Naught and
Attempts Personally to
Control Everything = So
cialist Issue Is Most Per-
picking to the Crown.
Special Cable to The Globe.

Special Cable to The Globe.
LONDON, Jan. 24.-Germany's pol
icy, international and imperial, is the
theme of commanding Importance in
Europe. Her course in the Caribbean,
the growing friction between the kaiser
and the independent states of the en-
pire, the Polish programme of Buelow,
with its oppressive and offensive mill
tary concommittant, and:-more per-
picking to the crown than aFy prob
lenl-the socialist issue, give rise to the
l5rgest conjecture. Trembling on the
lips of every thoughtful man who is
watching the tactics of the Berlin war
lord and his ministers is the question,
What is going to happen? What in
Venezuela? What anywhere else?" No
one knows, and it is useless to proph-
esy., .-.-.-
The complex character of the en-
peror renders all calculation mere
guess work. He is his own foreign and
his own home secretary. The individ-
uals who hold those titles register his
DEGREES with almost as much Servility
and scarcely more initiative than the
members Of the porte obey the Whims
OF Abdul Hamid. In the executive
branch Of the government he has by
degrees arrogated not only superin-
tendance, but personal control "Bue-
low may plant and Richthofen may
water" says the Morning Advertisers
Berlin correspondent, more Willingly
than reverently, but Wilhelm alone
giVeth the increase"
May Precipitate Calamity.
All the signs of the times indicate
that the German nation is beginning to
be seriously concerned lest the head
strong nature of the emperor should
precipitate some calamity. One dis
patch says the masses are "disgusted
with the unfavorable turn taken in
German American relations and anx-
ious to have the Venezuelan business
cleared away before irreparable injury
is DONE"
Even the colonial party, whose ag-
gresSiVeness in South Africa has re-
suited in such extensive colonization,
realizes that a bad mistake has been
made in the Caribbean. There is an
ill-concealed apprehension that the
kaiser, yielding to multifarious pin
the Castro imbroglio which will raise
tidal wave of feeling in the United
States" What Buelow calls the right
Of the emperor to give vent to his per-
Sonal opinions, like other Prussians,
is characterized by the non -Prussian
journals as a right which his majesty
should exercise as far as possible in
private"
The most striking fact-in the polit-
cal life of Germany today is the mon
arch's usurpation of an autocratic role
and the contrast between the self-re-
straint of Mr.. Roosevelt and the To-
quacity of Wilhelm or the contrast be-
tween international security and peril
NulIifies the Constitution.
German publicists, from Mommsen
down, concede the danger arising from
the emperors practical notification of
important constitutional provisions.
The risks in domestic politics are big
enough. In foreign affairs they dwarf
all diplomatic contingencies. "Curbing
the kaiser will be henceforth a fix
ture in the Socialist platform. The So
cialists regard the emperor's unofficial
utterances concerning themselves as
the best material to stimulate their
organization. In their case the pro-
cess Of "curbing" will be a mere pre-
text for batting the imperial temper.
They would be glad to find the inf1u-
ence of the emperor with foreign gov
ernments curtailed. They believe more
would be heard of great navies and
big armies If Wilhelm could be dis
illusioned on the subject of Germanys
eXtravagant mission among the ma
tions. They would be suited If the
emperor were to embarrass the Vene-
zuelan situation by excess of candor.
They don't want trouble with the Unit
ed States, but they do want trouble for
the kaiser. The Vorwaerts refers to
him about as the Irish press does to
the British government.