The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-28
surns Down Picture OF Election crowd
Because His Portrait In Made Too
Prominent--Artiat VIII Have To
Begin Again.
BY WALTER DuNKrRK.

Berlin, April 27.-(Spectal 1.-The
Raiser has again been coming out
strong as an art critic, unpleasantly
surprising an artist who had done his
very best to please him, and who I am
quite sure, had looked for a cross or
Q star as a reward for his snobbish
ness.
The Kaiser's critical sense exerted
itself the other day on a large his
torical painting which he had COM
missioned from Professor Skarbina, de-
picting the scene outside the royal
palace. Berlin, when the result of the
general election showed a great vic
tory for the Kaiser's party, and thou
sands of citizens to cheer his Majesty.
His own figure, observed the Kaiser,
had been given too much prominence,
and he suggested that "a grey daub
with helmet on top" would have been
sufficient to indicate his figure at the
palace window.
The Kaiser went on to say: 'The
whole thing appeared to me quito diff
ferent. More people, far more people,
must be seen in the picture: masses
Of people as far as the eve can reach.
and all of them in agttated motion. The
sight was so impressive that I had to
rouse the Empress from her bed. She
could not have missed 1t, so she came
to the window in fur and a shawl,
which she had just thrown around
her.
Eyes, the picture should be painted
looking down from above. just as j
had It before my eyes, and undulatins
sea of faces. broken by waving arms
and hats. Even the two equestrian
statues at the gate bristIed with men.
and 1t was very odd how small their
figures looked against these masses of
bronze. AS ] said. more people-far
more people"
Professor skarbina will have to be-
gin an entirely new picture to please
the Kaiser.
Germany's Military Status.
Is Germany making herself ready to
20 to war with Great Britain in a not
very far future? is a question often
asked here.
The remarkable growth of German
industry during the last decades, which
makes 1t necessary to find new mar
kets for German products, Is apt TO
get the Kaiser's government into hot
water.
All the countries of Europe having
already been flooded with German
goods and the American tariff prevent
ting expectation on large scale to the
United States. Germany has marked
down Persia as the place where Ger
man manufacturers may unload their
goods to the pest auVdHtaSes
Now Great Britain and Russia are
today the only European powers with
extensive interests in the domains of
the Shah and they have reached an
amicable understanding whereby North
Persia has been recognized as the Rus
sian sphere of influence and South
Persia as the British.
For quite some time this arrange
ment between England and Russia has
been a source of great annoyance to
the Kaiser's government which desires
to further its own ends in Persia.
1t is significant. however, that the
commercial development now begin
ming is to be confided to South Per-
STA, and carefully excluded from North
Persia
In plain words this means that the
German government Is willing to pat
ronize an invasion by German mer-
chants of the British sphere of influ-
ence while carefully avoiding any ac-
ton that could give offense to Russia.
German protestations of friendship for
England cannot conceal the fact that
the scheme now begun In Persia with
the consent and knowledge OF the Ger
man government is an effort to gain
a footing in country adjacent to
Britains' indian empire.
A wear ago the German Orient Bank
was founded to promote German en-
ternrises in Eastern countries. 1t has
a capital of 1000, 900 and Is backed
nv three of the most powerful fnan-
cial institutions in Germany. One of
its directors is now ct Teheran, the
capital of Persia, for the purpose of