Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-12-09
"Camarilla" Rule in Germany.

n bankrupt and the Liebenberg Round
II Table will not bear an elbow upon It.
81 Yet in the nature of things another
Il "camarilla" will succeed.
The constitutions of Prussia and
Y the empire have given the emperor
a king executive power more truly au-
tocratic than that which the czar can
Y WELD. 1t is more, in fact, than a
man can bear, and the kaiser cannot
~ be blamed for a human desire TO
share his burden with those to whom
Il he can approach more nearly than
he can to the minister on the other
\ side of a council board Therefore,
\ we may look for a new "camarilla'
4 to crystalline in due time.
Doubtless It will be a "camarilla"
n with a horror of political wire pull
q ing. without envy OF chancellors and
n dignitaries in office. without the
a fancy for tampering with alliances
or adventuriug in Morocco. Prob
n ably its members will have solid
n qualities; they will be good sports
men or agriculturists, economists It
4 may be, or men with a sound taste
3 In history or science.
& Il is likely that amateur musicians
4 and artists will not be among them,
4 and, without doubt, the group will
consist OF men against whose morals
4 there is no messroom gossip or whis
Z .perlng in beer halls.
Z But It will be n "carmarilla" none
the less, and its influence will surely
be felt. For the "carmarila Is a nee
essary attachment to an autocracy.
The eastern monarch, at whose
word q vizer's head topples off his
T. shoulders, has n 'camarilla" behind
him, even though n cook and bar
Der have formed It. All the world
knows that a "camarilla" of grand
dukes and wonder workers sur
rounds the car. A cabinet wltn
constitutional power in its hands Is
the once force which can surely slam
the door against Piers Gaveston, n
Buckingham or Eulenburg. Re-
member that when English kings
were governing in person cabinet"
was a word offensive as "camarilla."
Something may be said for tho |
point OF view OF those who believe |
that the nnsavory pictures of the
Harden case will weaken the power
OF that noble caste which still mo-
nopolizes in Prussia almost all Offices
worth the holding. The names scan
dallzed during the Harden trial are
almost without exception those OF
old and great nobility. -
But other forces are undermining |
the strong places OF these jack
booted Brahmans, forces that will
hardly be FASTENED by last weeks
Revelations" The Socialists, II
goes without saying. have filed away
Items for future reference, but their
press has refrained from overmuch
commenting on a case that has ended
In a triumph for one of Blsmarok's s |
"repltlle" editors.
Lastly, 1t may be taken that the
morals OF Berlin will not be mended
by this open disgrace of noble !
houses. German life, with its some
what barbarous simplicity. has beea
too suddenly flooded with the new
luxury let loose by the new CONNER
cial prosperity.
This moral rout comes in time to
most great states, and we believe
that the strong Temton will rid his
system of the poison.
Nevertheless old ideals and old
faiths have been oyerset, and the
friends of Germany can well look
with dismay on the men who follow
i'm camp and court such honest and
T gentle souls as old "Unole Chlodwig"
\ lfohenlohe, and that Moltke whose
! birthday eommemoratlon was pushed
aside last week. Correspondence
London Mail.
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