The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-26
POLITICAL VIEW
 OF THE KAISER The Relations Between Ger
 many and France THE MOROCCAN AFFAIR Terrible Instance of the Miscarriage of Justice Comes to Light in Ser lin-How Innocent People
 Suffer.
BY MALcoM CLARKE.

BY MALCOM CEAhkE.
 Berlin, July 25.-What may be consid- cred the Kaiser's personal view of the Europan political situation. and espe- cially the relations between Germany and France, has just been expressed by Dr. Theodore Earth. who is very close to the Kaiser. When interviewed by the editor of the Paris Matin, pr. Earth said: "A positive conflict between the interests of Germany and France does not exist If the diplomats were not so busy pulling each others hair over the Morocco question, nobody would ever have given much thought to Morocco. but when a lot of dogs are fighting about bone, the idea naturally arise that there must be some meat on it.
 The idea of isolating Germany is more than foolish-so' foolish that it cannot be seriously entertained either by France or King Edward. A country with a pop ulation of 65,0O0,00O people, which at any time can put an army of 100000 men in the field, is not so easily isolated.
 If the word isolation were not a mere empty phrase. it might mean war, but it is nothing but a phrase. The health jest policy would be a friendly under standing between England France and Germany, and France would be the nat ural agent of such an alliance. France would have to give up neither her al liance with Russia nor its intentions of serving the interests of all powers in the Macedonian question. The more France would do in the interest of the peace of the world the more prominent her politi- cal position would be.
 For the first time in his life Herr Bal lin, president of the Hamburg American Line and intimate friend of the Kaiser, has come out of a fight second best.
 For years there has been an exciting contest for the control of the German Levant line between Herr Ballin and Prince Christian Hohenlohe and contrary to all expectations, Herr Ballin has been routed by the Prince, who will henceforth control the line.
 When Herr Ballin sometime ago pro- posed to advance s750,OO0 for the reorgan- that he should control its affairs. Prince Christian Hohelohe began an organized agitation against the scheme with the result that he and his supporters secured control of the company.
 A terrible instance of the miscarriage of justice has come to light here.
 Nearly six years ago a wealthy land- owner named Hermann Lichtensten of Pastenburg, Prussia, was charged with setting his house afre with the object of defrauding an insurance company, and his wife was charged with aiding and abetting him.
 Both strenuously protested their inno- cence but they were found guilty. The man was sentenced to six years penal servitude and the woman to two years.
 Lichtenstein's sentence would have ex- pired next year. A peasant named Hein- rich Meyer has confessed, however, that he set fire to the house and deliberately allowed Liechtenstein and his wife to be condemned because he had a grudge against them.
 Iichtenstein's immediate release has been ordered, but he is completely broken by six years of convict life. Frau Lich- tenstein, who was released four years ago, has suffered severely from being ostraclzed by her neighbors, who insulted and mocked her.
 Because she owned a phonograph and liked to listen to this invention of the evil one rather than visit church. young girl of r. Marie Dorn of Kaltern Tyrol, was some time ago expelled from the church and declared by the priest of the village an immoral woman unfit to asso- ciate with.
 The girl always went to church regu- larly on Sundays, but instead of attend ing the weekday services she preferred to listen to the photograph and organized a dancing club.
 The priest of the village warned her that the instrument was an invention of the devil and complained of her to the deacons, who decreed that the girl was an immoral person, expelled her from the church and forbade her to show her self in the village street after sundown.
 Furious at this the mother engaged lawyer, proved by an examination by the district physician that her daughter was a pure girl and is now suing the priest and deacons, so the court must now de- eide whether the possession of a pho nograph gives a church right to excom- municate one and ruin ones reputation in the year 1908.
 Leopold Woelfing, Former Archduke Leopold of Austria has been in rather hard luck since his divorce from VII helmina Adamovics and subsequent mar riage to Marie Ritter.
 He had intended to make his home tn the town of Zug, Switzerland, but the | people drove him out.
 Now he has finally, after many diffi- | culties, received permission to settle ! down in the village of Rengensdorf, near | Zurich.
 | dispatch from Belinzona states that the members of the village council were | nearly all opposed to allowing the former | Archduke to make his home among them, but they finally gave In when he promised instead of 150 francs to pay 800 | francs into the village treasury and pay an extra tax of 500 francs year. If he | tires of his present wife. as he did of his | first. he will have to leave the village +ha ,,,opaant he takes stems to get A di-