The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-12-09
GERMAN KAISER YIELDS
TO DEMANDS OF PEOPLE
Gives Pledge to His Chancellor
For Future Conduct.
Won BUEL0W WILL REMAIN
Emperor Surrenders His Personal
Policy in Government-Country
Rejoices That Crisis Has Been
Safely Passed.

Berlin, Germany.-By a complete
surrender to the Reichstag and the
people the Kaiser aVerted a clash
with the nation that seemed fraught
with prospects of disaster and caused
satisfaction and joy to Replacement
tered threats and grave discomfort IN
every part Of the German Empire.
After a conference with Chancellor
Won Buelow that lasted just forty
five minutes, in which the demands OF
the nation we're put before him and
the ultimatum of the Chancellor to
resign if he did not give UP his per-
sonal policy in Government affairs,
the Emperor yielded completely.
"It was the bitterest hour of my
life" Emperor William said YEARLY
after the conference had ended.
Another effect Of the Kaiser's his
tory making interview with Won 'Bue-
low is the effectual q%uenching OF al
most the last flicker Of the medieval
torch of divine right.
Bluntly, almost brutally, the Chan
cellor told William III. that he must
capitulate to the demand of the Ger
man race people, who required OF him
that he would in future refrain from
un~warranted meddling with the at
fairs of the State and practically leave
the conduct of the public business OF
the country in the hands OF his Minis
tiers and the Reichstag.
90 MI -~-qon1rn1 u,oc marianne rho
most momentous Of the katser's
reign. All Germany 'heaved a sigh Of
relief when 1t was announced that the
Emperor had yelled satisfactorily
and completely.
Had the Empe::o or stood firm, even
his fawning courtiers were afraid to
forecast the outcome, for it would
have precipitated a direct clash be-
tween the Emperor and the empire.
The meeting between the Chancel-
lor, who in this instance acted as the
tribune of the people rather than the
representative of his ruler, and the
Kaiser was dramatic in the extreme.
Worn and nervous and with none
of the old defiance that he used to
,la:h in every look, the Kaiser list
ened to the unvarnished' truth, boldly
and mercilessly related.
Public opinion everywhere applauds
the Emperor's decision and where
t%wenty-four hours ago there was gen
eraI revilement of him, he Is the OBJ
ject, of greater esteem than at any
other time in his life. The result is
considered a marvellous triumph for
Won Buelow, as great a diplomatic
victory as even Prince Bismarck, the
Iron Chancellor, ever achieved. =.
This meeting, which was watched
by the entire German people with the
most profound interest, is an, outcome
of the much-discussed interview"
with an E%nglishman published In the
London Daily Telegraph on October
%, in which the Emperor was cred
tied with a very frank statement
Of the world policy Of the German
Empire, and also with being a very
good friend with Great Britain. re
publication was followed by a furious
outbreak in Germany against the
Kaiser. He was most severely criti-
cised in the German press and in the
Reichstag for his indiscretion, his as
sumption of the royal prerogative
and for u~nwarranted, interference IN
the state affairs OF the. nation. Prince
Won Buelow replied to these criti-
cisms in the Reichstag, and said that
the Emperor in the future would re.
frain from a repetition of his mos
unpopular course Of action.