The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-05
KAISER HAS
 BUSINESS EYE
The German Ruler Has Made His Nation A Commercial
 Giant.

dorse the prophecies< Of Baron won Wofterhausen. the faNous professor of Strassburg. This man has written book on our trade supremacy and how the Germans should confront 1t. In this book he prophecies that American capital state. municipal and industrial securities, He shows that we will buy all the good stocks and become Europe's great creditor: Then the host of the Euro pean manufacturers and the most skilled of their worlmen will emigrate to Ameri- e.; there will be less and less employ ment for labor, and the financial and military strength of the European nations
 HAt the same time," the learned baron professor continues. ''the United States will gain in political might. They will scahss scuniTs 'cei Colonies. % They Will cali the Pacific ocean their own, and realize their own ideas of international arbitration by being themselves the arbitrators." As a preventive against such pos i. sibility the professor wants the European states to join together in a tariff combina- ton against us. to have free trade as far as possible among themselves and to sup port each other in any and every tarin war against the United States.
 The Kaiser Studying Our Trade. There Is no doubt that the kaiser Is studying the situation and the evidence is that he looks upon our success as a | foregone conclusion. At any rate he IS doing all he can to get into ourcommer- | cial band wagon. He is advising the manufacturers to copy American methods and is sending his officials across the water to learn what they are. Prlvy | Counsellor Goldberger, who recently visit | ed the United States and upon his return wrote a book treating of our industries, | was received with high favor at court. | The emperor decorated him and advised other officials to go forth and do like. wise. As a result there is deal of | quiet investigation of the United States | going on at the present time. and the kaiser is collecting news from all soHrGes who comes to Berlin is irxer- viewed by the Emperor or his officials. | Pierpont Morgan was recently made much of by His Majesty, and an entertainment which the Kaiser gave to prominent Americans at Kiel was probably actuated l by a desire to cultivate American trade.
 They Worship the Kaiser. l All this has materially increased the standing of Americans in the eyes Of the | Germans. American travellers are better treated and American goods are more l popular 1 have shown you how our styles are la ,gely supplanting those of Paris and London and how the trade mark made in the United States" ranks above made in England or made In | Germany.
 | Indeed, the Germans are very proud of their Emperor and they follow his
  | They copy his manners and dress. rake, for instance, the ugly green felt hats | with feathers in them which you often see on the streets of Berlin and other German cities. sNo American would wear one. but the German patriot is proud to do so because the Emperor wears such hat when out hunting l will not say that when the Kaiser takes snun all Ger many sneezes, but there is no doubt that it is due to his example that the most of the Germans curl their mustaches so
 that they tickle their noses. The Kais-
 CTS schnurrbart or mustache has made
 the fortune of many a wax maker here
 and patent mustache cerlers are adver-
 tised in the papers. His Majesty waxes
 his mustache so hat its ends turn out
 like a bow, and every young German, of-
 ficial and commoner, does likewise.
 Some men carry combs in their pockets and you can see them syly arranging thelr mustaches in the street cars, hold ing their hands over their faces as they
 do so. Every one gives his mustache g twist at odd moments, and all, from the hotel waiter to the highest military of
 ficial. are proud If they can preserve the
 kaiserly curl.
 The Kaiser is a good business man. One of the chief manufacturers of Frankfort on the Main thus expressed 1t to me the other day:
 He is the business head of this bus. mess nation. He knows more about oul , German industries than any other man , and he does more than anyone else tC l } us alive by his brains and farsightedness } The trouble is he has no money anc the country is poor If he were King oi England or had country like the United States he would make t boom and 1T
 time he would commercially conquer tho
 earth. As 1t is he is manacled by lacl of resources and lack of capital. Wha
 he wants is more land and more money and for this reason he Is anxious to have colonies"
 Said Consul General Gusnther of Frank fort:
 ; A Business Emperor.
 5 "The Kaiser is not appreciated in Amer ] ica He is genius. not only from { , business standpoint, but from almost ev , cry other standpoint. He can do many l things well. lie can paint, write poetr! e and compose music. He Is great think CT and in everything a leader l hav' , never known a man to work as he does s He frequently comes to the watering , places near Frankfort for a vacation 7 At such times he gets up at 6 o'clock anC 2 goes to work. He keeps at it all da! ] and often far into the night. The neX ! day he Is up again at as bright as {
 dollar"
 In many of the factories I visited
 throughout Germany I have often beer told that the Kaiser knows all abou 5 them and that often visits the industria centers He had close connections witt