The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-11
KAISER'S PARLIAMENT
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by the extreme liberals as the begin
ming Of a long contest between the
crown and parliament that may end
in Germany's having ministry re-
sponsib,e to parliament, and not to
the crown alone.
When Herr Basserman, the nation
al liberal leader a friend of Chan
celorg Won Btieiow and a specialist in
foreign. affairs, began the discus
sion OF the incident, there was
hardly a vacant seat on the members
benches, while the galleries were
brilliant with the uniforms Of officers
and the costumes of women.
In the royal box were Prince Chris
tian OF Schleswig-Holstein, Duke
Ernst. Guenther, a brother of the en-
press; General Jacoby the imperial
adjutant and General Won Moltke.
chief of the general staff while on the
raised platforms sal members OF the
Bundesrath, including the resident en-
voys of all the German federated
states. Some 80 foreign newspaper
correspondents were in the press trlb-
une.
Herr Bassermann was followed by
Herr Weimer, Radical and he in turn
gave way to Herr Singer, Socialist,
who declared that If any other ser
want of the state had sdone such a
thing as Emperor william, he would
be. brought before an imperial court
for trial. 4. &c..
Prince Won Buelow said in part;
~ must weigh my words because
of the effect they will have abroad.
| do not wish to add fresh preju-
dice to the damage already caused by
the publication in The Daily Tele-
graph. I assume that the details
given therein are not all correct
and / am certain that the story of a
detailed plan of campaign to end the
Boer war is not right This plan
consisted merely of some academic
ideas concerning the conduct OF war
in general which the emperor con-
veyed to Queen Victoria IN the course
of their correspondence.
"We must defend our policy during
the Boer war against accusation and
equivocation. We gave timely warn
ing TO the Beers that they would be
alone against England.
fConcerning the statement attrib-
uted to Emperor William that a ma
jority of the German people is hos
tile TO Great Britain, tine expression
used by The Telegraph is too strong
Serious and regrettable misunder-
standings have arisen. but the Ger
man people desire peaceful and friend
ly relations with that empire.
Too. great stress also is laid on
the point in the interview dealing
with our interests in the Pacific
ocean, which are incorrectly repre-.
sented as inimical to japan. We new
er thought about East Asia except for
the purpose of botaining a portion of
the trade arising from economic de-
velopments.
For 20 years the emperor has
striyen to improve the relations with
Great Britain, but the peoples of both
countries occasionally have attacked
each other without real Justification.
| The emperor's idealistic thoughts pur-
poses and efforts, often without rea-
! son, have caused doubts to arise
We wish TO avoid anything like the
currying favor abroad or ANYTHING
| appearing to SAVIOR of our insecurity.
"The recognition by his majesty
Of the unjustifiabe Misunderstanding
OF his utterances with reference to
Great Britain and the excitement and
regret aroused thereby in Germany
will, am convinced, lead the en-
Doror. in future private conversations
to exercise that reserve which in the
interest OF a uniform policy and tie
authority OF the crown is lndispen-
sible. III this proves not to be so
neither nor any one OF my sue.
cessors could take the responsible
ity accepted the blame for the
publication of the article in The Daily
Telegraph and Offered my resignation
and 1t was the most difficult task IN
my official life to resolve to remain
In office. How long will continue
there | do not know. but consider
n my duty at this difficult period to
continue TO serve the emperor and
the nation.r