Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-05-30

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RULERS OF EUROPE.
The Confusion That Will be Caused
by Their Deaths.
Although people In America, says
London letter to the Chicago Tribune.
have been brought to believe mon
archs nowadays are mere puppets,
passive instruments Of the will Of their
people, and ornamental figureheads
which are entirely superfiuous and In
no sense indispensable to the welfare
of the commonwealth, yet the fact re-
mains that in a number Of countries or
the old world the sovereign constitutes
to such an extent the kingpin Of the
situation as regards domestic policy
and foreign relations that his or her
sudden death at the present juncture
would give rise to an important and
possibly grave crisis at home as well
as abroad, a crisis to which the United
States cannot afford to remain in
different.
It Is only by the exercise Of the
most careful and skillful diplomacy
that the war in Manchuria has been
confined to Japan and Russia. Time
and again during the last fourteen
months have there been moments
when It seemed impossible to prevent
other powers from being drawn into
the conflict. Hostilities between Eu-
ropean nations may be said to have
trembled In the balance, and the sit
uation has been and still remains so
thorny that there Is no knowing the
extent of the trouble to which the de-
mise of one or another Of the rulers
Of Europe would give rise.
Kaiser Everything In Germany.
Take, for instance. the kaiser. The
foreign press Is fond Of portraying him
as the stormy petrol Of international
politics, and as a potenate whose un-
expected vagaries constitute con-
tinual menace to the peace of the
world. Yet try to imagine Germany at
present without the emperor. Even his
bitterest enemies and most unkindly
critics are forced to admit that he has
become to such an extent the moving
spirit not merely Of the policy and ad-
ministration of the empire but like
wise of every phase Of Teuton life and
activity, that 1t seems that were ne
to die suddenly the entire administra-
tive machinery Of Germany would
stop. ......
Absolutely nothing is known about
his eldest son and heir-for It Is i'm
possible to attach any Importance or
credence to the silly newspaper ar
| ticles ascribing to him infatuations for
actresses that have never had any ex-
istence save in the imaginary brains
Of their more ingenious than scrupu-
lous press agents. Our information
about him Ia limited to the fact that
he Is but 23 years Of age. that he Is
about to be married, that he Is de-
voted son, and that he has been train
ed in a measure under the direction
of his father; also that his life has
been singularly free from those scan
dals which constitute the Rembrandt
shading OF the portraits Of almost
every European scion Of royalty. But
we are quite in the dark as to wheth-
er he possesses the strength OF char
acter, the experience, and the energy
requisite to direct the policy OF Ger
many in these parlous times. Weare
ignorant II he will lean towards Rus
sia or towards the United States and
Great Britain in the concert Of great
powers, and as to whether he will be
able, like his father, to dominate the
other sovereigns of the Confederation
known as the German empire suffi-
ciently to retain In his hands the su-
preme control Of its international re-
lations.
| kaiser's Rule One of Peace.
In one word. the crown prince Is an
entirely unknown quantity, handicap
ped in any case by youth and inex-
perience, whereas Of his father this
at least can be said-namely: that In
spite Of all the predictions and appre-
tensions expressed at the time Of his
accession to the throne, now some
seventeen years ago, his reign has
been one Of peace, and, while he has
added to the territorial possessions OF
Germany, he has accomplished this by
statecraft and diplomacy instead Of by
the sword. Emperor Williams life
constitutes, judging by the past. a
guarantee Of peace, and thoughtful
people, students of the present and OF
the past, rather than mere specula-
tors of the future, will be disposed
to agree that his presence at the
helm in Germany just now is a sub
ject for congratulation rather than of
uneasiness.
If Francis Joseph Dies-War.
At Vienna the life Of Emperor Fran
els Joseph is even still more indis-
pensable to the maintenance of tran
quillity both at home and abroad. In
deed, there are many European states
men Of note who do not hesitate to
publicly predict that the death of
this sadly broken and cruelty be-
reaved monarch, now In his seventy
fifth year, will be followed by an out
break of civil war in his dominions
and by the disruption Of the Haps-
burg empire.
1t Is not alone that the Hungarians
are determined at all cost to be in
dependent of Austria. There are the
Croats as we'll, more than 100000 In
number, who are resolved to cast off
the yoke Of Hungary, their senti-
ments in this respect being shared by
nearly 100000 Roumanians in Hun
gary. They are all imbued with sem
timents of affectionate loyalty and de-
votion to the present emperor. But
they abhor the Magyars, and they
denounce the Hungarian government
as tyrannic. In Austria itself there
are some 100000 Bohemians and
about 100000 Poles, who are firmly
bent upon obtaining, If not full
fiedged independence, at any rate
autonomy Of the most far reaching