The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-17
Kaiser Believes in Divine Right.

Politically, it would be rather ad-
yantageous as exploding Russia $
dreams of imperial expansion which
cause England such anxiety and ex-
pense in India and the farther east.
No sovereign in Europe is more in
terested in the course of events in Rus
STA than the German kaiser. Every
item of news and every phase of the
terrible conflict have been eagerly and
anxiously pondered at Potsdam.
The kaiser is the only monarch in
Europe besides the car who regards
an incontrovertib!e fact, and the over
throw of divine right in St. Petersburg
would be a serious blow struck at di-
vine right in Germany. This the
kaiser would prevent at all costs. The
kaiser, like the car, has his power by
grace of God; in both cases it is no
mere form of words. "God is my ally,'
says the kaiser. "God is Russia 8
ally says the car.
The kaiser believes the surest sup
ports Of his throne are those mobiles Of
the provinces Of East and West Prussia
bordering on Russia, who are related
by marriage and partly by tradition
and sentiment to the reactionary boyars
kesi IN Russia ana OF wh9m nobRe
the nation,' the kaiser once told them
in an outburst of enthusiasm, evoked
by their medieval reverence for him
self. . ..
Czar's Sorrows Are the Kaiser's.
revolutionary trouble in Russia will af
feet the kaiser: First, the car and
he are regarded by him as bulwarks
reared by God against the inroads of
disorderly, irreligious ideas, and he pro
| fesses great personal friendship fol-
Nicholas; the cars sorrows are the
kaiser's. Secondly, blows at the sta.
: bility Of Russian autocracy are regard
ed by the kaiser as blows at the prin.
} ciple he, as well as the car represents
: Thirdly, the kaiser would also be dy.
} nastically affected. If the Romanoff
dynasty, hitherto so venerated by the
3 Russian people, be overthrewn, what
can prevent the overthrow of the Ho
t Turbulent elements exist in Germany
Of far greater force physically and in
3 tellectually than in Russia. and thell
8 chief aim is the abolition of the reign
s ing dynasty and the establishment of A.:
: more constitutional government. A
8 the present moment the kaiser is hold
D ing an army corps in readiness to eros
into Russian Poland the instant a rea
g revolution is attempted there, as ;
I warning to his own Polish subjects O.
8 what they may expect if they revolt.
:. Leopold Fears General Breakup.
. Brussels, Feb. S.-The collapse O.
: czardom would have, in the first place
a that sentimental interest for King Leo
+ pold which attaches to the downfall O.
n the effect would be nil, since the Belgian
n reigning family is no direct connection
q Of the House Of Romanof, and relation
t have been strained on several occasion
,, between Leopold and both Alexande
J. III and Nicholas II, but at the presen
= time the two courts are on friendly, i
= somewhat distant footing.
Politically, the ultimate effect Of :
change in government in Russia on Bel
GUM might be far-reaching., A revolu
= war, as in 17s9, might bring about
: complete transformation Of the balanc
a of power. Should a new grouping o
= = ward the incorporation Of smaller state
\ into larger, on a basis of similarity O
i race and language, as exempl1tied IN tn
unifcation Of Italy after 1850, and tn
= rise of the German empire as the out
;. come Of the Franco-Prussian war.
Q Serious Effect on Low Countries
q In such case Belgium would natural,
: revert to France. and Holland to Ger
< many. The latter eventually ~alread,
enters into the scheme Of the Pan-Ge1
:, mans, and for this reason the downfall
y of Russian autocracy would have al
!, equally vital influence upon the futur
5 5 distant connection between the Orang
t and Romanoff dynasties, tho the quee1
dowager Of Holland, and PERSONAL
I Queen Wilhelmina, is on footing Q
!. affectionate friendship with the famll
I of the car.
;, But the keystone Of the whole situaa
q ton lies in the power Of RUSSIA to Wor
Q out her own salvation without outsid
t intervention, as in the case of France
g and until events develop further
would be rash to prophecy any immedi
d