Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-05-17
Comes to His Position Mature in Years,
with Broad Experience.
AS PRINCE OF WALES MEETS MANY MEL
Acquires Thereby Broad knowledge of the
Worlds Affairs.
MEASURING UP TO HIS OPPORTUNITIES
Natural Disposition as = COnciIiato1
Leads Him to Take = Hand in
Transvaal and Irish
Questions.

NSopytlBht, lvOd, by Press PubuShing Col
LONDON, May 16-(New York World
Cablegram - Special Telegram.) IT. p.
o'Connor. Irish member Of Parliament and
writer, leads the number OF his
M A. p" MAINLY About People) with a
significant article on '"rhe King as a New
Force" signing it with his initials, ''T. p,
that there should be no mistake about
authorship. In this article he says;
THE world is beginning TO realize the
king. 1t took some time to do SO. The
king as prince of Wales had a freedom
which he could never have enjoyed IL he
had come 10 the throne at an earlier age.
Indeed. many of the qualities which he
has exhibited since he came to the throne
have ben made possible only by the fact
that he was so long prince OF Wales. In
that position, exalted and yet private, the
king had the right to go among all sorts
p and conditions of men. The position was,
in some degree, a private position. free
from the responsibilities, the terrific
etiquette and the numberless restrictions
which still surround and embarrass the
occupant OF a throne. And thus II came
20 pass that when the prince of Wales be-
came king he had had an experience wider,
more instructive, and, in sense, more
democratic than II he had. like SO many
in the stiff. snervating and marrow atmos-
phere OF courts.
AT the council board of the hospital at
the public dinner or charity, at the bazaar,
on the race course, in the theater, the king
has mixed with men as a man, and hence
1t is that whatever faults could be urged
against him nobody could ever say that he
had anything of the side which, even In
monarchical circles, sometimes dlstin-
guishes the king who is a rounder from
the king who is gentleman. Indeed. one
of the things about the king, as to which
everybody is agreed, is his perfect manners.
This Is one OF the secrets of his great
success
~ Immense Opportunities.
''AnS,asx great advantage of the freedom
of thTsss 3 as prince OF Wales is that he
has tsole to travel 50 much. and. when
on ms travels, to mingIe so freely with
. men of all parties and creeds. Just think
what all this must have~meant during the
thirty to forty years the king was prom
inent as prince OF Wales. 1t meant that
he had the opportunity of making the
personal acquaintance of every political
and social parsonage OF every country on
the continent.
Ministries come and go. but the monarch
remains, holding in his hands the threads
OF a hundred different negotiations, situa-
tons, difficulties, and any foreign minister
who has the advantage of such knowledge
and such counsel would be foolish II he
neglected to take full advantage of it.
zone OF the advantages the king has had
In dealing with foreign statesmen and
monarchs is his very fine gift as a lnguist
Three languages are perfectly familiar to
him-his own, of course. and French and
Germsn-which to him are almost mother
fongues.
There are some other things about the
\king which make me think this will be q
memorable reign. He has a desire, IL might
almost be said a passion. for composing
difficulties. Indeed, sometimes during his
days as prince of Wales he went very near
getting himself in difficulties by his well
meant efforts to bring about reconciliation
between his friends who were estranged.
II attribute the position which he is
said TO have taken up with regard both
Z 10 the Transvaal war and the Irish land
Hquestion TO his desire TO find a means OF
Vreconciliation where other men would be
TOO careless or too cynical TO interfere
And add TO this that the king is, according
to all appearances, an ambitious man
ambitious in the good sense Of the word "