The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24
Breakdown of Won Bulow
Due to Exactions of
the Emperor.
Forced to Be in Attendance
at Any Hour of the
Day or Night.
Ruler Looks to All of His
Ministers for 1ireless
Activity.
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.

low. who sustained an apopletic stroke
in the Reichstag on April 5 and is now
broken in health and spirits. well as
for the fate Of two or three other
German Cabinet ministers who were
unable TO cope with the enormous task
imposed upon them. For example. the
German Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs. Baron Richthofen. died from q
paralytic stroke at a comparatively
early age at the beginning of this year.
and Prussia has lost her most efficient
administrator by the premature death
OF General Budde, Minister of Rail-
ways.
The statement that the Kaiser is re-
sponsible for the collapse of his leading
political advisers neither contains nor
infers a reprOach on his Imperial Ma
jesty- The fact is, the Kaiser is a
man Of such inexhaustible energy and
.UntiTing industry that he is simply in
spable OF understanding the inability
Of men Of weaker constitutions TO per-
form an equal amount Of physical and
mental labor day after day as he him
self gets through. The activity of the
German Emperor is extraordinary, and
must be understood in order to realize
how difficult il is for his ministers to
keep pace with him.
The Kaiser is the biggest hustler of
the century, and no smart American
can show anything like a similar
record. The organizers of the gigantic
American trusts. whose activity is
strenuous enough. are luxurious idlers
in comparison with the mercurial mon
arch who controls the complex affairs
OF the mighty German empire with its
sixty millions Of inha abitants.
The Kaiser rises at 5 o'clock in the
morning and goes to bed at l o'clock
al night. his regular hours of sleep
during the night being thus reduced to
four. During his long day of twenty
hours there naturally occur intervals of
leisure. These intervals the Kaiser
utilizes IN order TO obtain snatches of
sleep wherewith to recuperate his
energy and TO enable him TO maintain
his strenuous life Of unbroken activity
He possesses the happy faculty of be-
ing able 10 fall asleep anywhere and at
any time.
If he throws himself in full uniform
on sofa he can be sound asleep within
sixty seconds, and this quite unusual
p anility 10 exploit even the shortest in
terVals Of inactivity for the beneficial
purpose Of obtaining rest has contrib
uted more than anything else to the
kslser's success as champion hustler of
the world Without these intervals OF
repOse snatched from his multitudinous
pursuits il would be impossible for
him TO keep hustling day after day
and year after year. AS il is, his ad-
mirers fear that his hyper-strenuous
activity will one day necessarily result
In sudden collapse such as has over
thrown his Chancellor and other promi-
nent political advisers.
EARLY MORNING REPORTS.
The Kaiser, it must be remembered.
holds the reins of government in a
tight hand. He retains control of the
details OF administration in all its
hTa rrhaS & he conTrolc sho
federal affairs Of Germany, directing
her foreign relations and holding the
supreme command of the army and
navy AS King of Prussia he is abso-
Lutte monarch Of the predominant fed
eral state within the empire, and in
this capacity he runs Prussia, TO use
colloquialism. No houses, for instance,
may be built in the Inter den Linden
in Berlin until the Kaiser has approved
the plans. II is thus clear that the
Cabinet ministers and high state off,
cials whose duty it is TO keep the
Kaiser informed regarding all the de-
tails Of civil. military and naval ad-
ministratiOn in Germany and Prussia
have a tremendous task. His Cabinet
ministers devote quite as much of their
time 10 preparing reports to their i'm
perial master as TO directing the actual
affairs Of their departments.
The Kaiser, moreover, has a terrible
OF listening reports at all
times Of the day and night 1t is as
likely not that he will order a Cabi-
net minister to present a report to him
as soon as he rises at o'clock in the
morning. The reports submitted to the
Emperor. 1t should be added, are in
variably verbal The Cabinet minister
or high state official must prepare in
point of fact, an elaborate lecture for
delivery TO an audience consisting of
this imperial hustler.
The lecture must be perfect in form
and logic and in language. The En-
peror is a severe critic, and shows no
mercy TO those who cannot explain
matters TO him in straightforward, cor
rect language and in a manner which
enables him TO grasp all the essential
details OF the subject When the Kaiser
fails TO understand any particular
point he interposes terse questions in
his rapid, nervous manner, and the re-
porting minister must be alberto reply
TO them with dexterous celebrity.
The Kaiser receives a vast number
OF such verbal reports every day, and
arranges TO listen to them in all sorts
of odd places. One report will be de-
livered to him while he is dressing, a
second while he is breakfasting After
breakfast he dashes by motor car to
the Grunewald Forest on the outskirts
Of Berlin. where he takes his morning
automobile he will listen TO a third re-
port, and fourth will be submitted to
him while he is promenading in the
forest A fifth viii be heard during the
ride back 10 the palace. and a sixth
while he is changing his uniform So
the process goes on hour after hour
until the ministers and officers and
civil officials are weary to the point of
collapse
When the Kaiser travels by train he
frequently listens 70 reports all
through the night The unfortunate
ministers who have been working hard
all day must remain vigilant and alert
throughout the night hours in order to
supply their imperial master with the
copious information for which he is lit
orally thirsting.
Won BULOw OvERWORKED.
When the Kaiser is in residence at
his hunting lodge. Kadinen. in the ex-
treme northeast OF Germany, or at his
charming country seat at Wilhelms-
hohe, in South Germany, the Cabinet
ministers and chiefs OF departments
must make long and frequent railway
journeys in order to suhUtk their ver-