The San Francisco call., 1906-06-24

bal reports to the monarch. When the
Kaiser is touring in foreign countries
his advisers must make rapid dasheS
across Europe in order to keep him
posted on the affairs of state. When
the Kaiser is cruising in the Mediter-
ranean, for instance, the ministers rush
from Berlin to Naples or some other
port, go on board the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern, submit their verbal re-
port, and rush back to the German cap
ital again without a moments repose.
1t is. in short impossible adequately
to describe the fearful strain to which
German statesmen are submitted owing
to the strenuous habits of their mon
arch. The Kaiser has been known to
order a Cabinet minister to go fox
hunting with him and to submit a re-
port to him while riding hard behind
the hounds. AS the minister in ques-
tion was a portly bureaucrat. with lit
tie knowledge of horsemanship, and
none whatever of fox hunting, his
agonies were pitiabIe.
The case of the unfortunate Prince
Bulow is a good example of German
ministers sufferings. When the Kaiser
is in residence in Berlin he is in the
habit of calling at Prince Bulow's off,
cial residence in the Wilhelm strasse
Immediately after terminating his
morning walk in the Grunewald For
est At this early hour Prince Bulow
must be fully prepared to lay before
his imperial sovereign a comprehen-
sive report on all current foreign and
home affairs The. necessity of havin G
this report ready in time for the EN-
peror compels him to interrupt his
nights rest at impossible hours in or
der to go through the latest dispatches
and acquire the information which he
must impart to the Kaiser
When important developments occur
during the day the Emperor must be
Immediately informed, and his Majesty
then frequently summons the Chancel-
lor in great haste to the palace in or
der to explain all the intricate details
of these developments. The Chancellor
must then abandon his pressing duties.
don his gala costume and dash off at
high speed to the imperial residence to
deliver his lecture and to be cross
questioned until his wearied brain can
cope no longer with the task
When important developments occur
in Berlin the Chancellor must be at
work still earlier in order to be able
to send the Emperor a Comprehensive
telegraphie report as soon after sunrise
as possible. The other Cabinet minis
ters, both of Germany and of Prussia
the chief Of the headquarters staff of
the army, the chief of the naval stafr
and a dozen other high officials are
subjected to the same strain While
bestowing sympathy on them in their
hard lot. 1t is impossible TO withhold
admiration from the marvellous man
who works others to death but remains
in full possession of his own mental
and physical vigor.
1t is not only hard work and constant
hustling that reduces the Kaiser's po-
litical servants to a condition of COL
lapse. Their social and ornamental du-
ties are quite as serious "a strain on
their energies as their administrative
and legislative activity.
POMP AT BERLIN COURT.
The splendor and magnificence of the
German Emperor's court have been un-
equaled for many centuries. The pomp
and display of oriental potentates are
nothing to the environment of majesty
with which William II surrounds him
self. One must go back to the ancient
Byzantine empire to find a similar de-
gree of personal subservience to the
monarch. All the satellites of the Ger
man court must in truth revolve round
the imperial sun. The Emperor revels
in gorgeous and luxurious display, in
which his ministers and exalted digni-
tsriao axs obliged - participate. Hard