The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
KAISER MAY BRING ON EUROPEAN WAR 
 By Advising His Friend the
 Sultan of Turkey LIOJE YASOU 10 BE HEIR Emperor MeneIik of Abyssinla Will Is- sue Proclamation September IA
 Declaring His Grandson
 as Next King.
By MALCOLM CLARKE.

l Berlin. September By advising his friend the Sultan of Turkey. to grant a | constitution to his subjects, the Kaiser may provoke just what he tried to pre- vent-a general political conflagration in 1 the Balkan peninsula, which is almost l certain to cause the great European war which all the powers dread.
 | Recent dispatches from Serajervo de- scribe the situation in the two Balkan provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina as l fraught with great dangers.
 The example of Turkey has inspired a | strong popular movement to obtain repre- sensation in the Austrian parliament, a demand which Emperor Francis Joseph cannot possibly grant at the present l time.
 l The Austrian government Is taking the | strongest measures to quench the move | ment, and all newspapers under the l strictest censorship, but the movement Is daily growing and the people do not con- ceal their desire to throw off the Austrian l yoke.
 l A telegram from Vienna received here today says that undoubtedly preparations | are made with the greatest secrecy in | Bosnia and Herzegovina to partake in the | elections to the Turkish parliament. This, | in Austrian political circles, is considered l to be the most serious danger of the l Turkish revolution. The Austrian gov ernment in flooding the provinces wite troops which are ready to march on Sa- lonica at the first signal.
 On September IA, Emperor Menelik of 1 Abyssinia, will issue a proclamation ap- 1 pointing Prince Lidje Yasou heir to the l throne On the same day the prince will lr4xz ufa %< nt ftxao | title, King of Kings" Emperor Menelik l himself Is tired and sick and Is being at- tended by an American and an Egyptian 1 doctor.
 I have received a copy of the emperor's proclamation in which the following pas sages occur: 'rhe Lion of the tribe of Judah has conquered! Menelil1 IT., elect ed by God, King of Kings of Ethiopia, to his most beloved people-greetings.
 We thank God, all omnipotent, Who has permitted us to govern in peace and harmony. The pride of our reign is the | love that our people show us. We have | done all to put our country in the same position as the countries of modern civil ization. By the help of God our native country will be an example to all Africa. All the world has its eyes us. Let us l show ourselves worthy of its respect, 1 worthy of our past.
 But the care of a good king is not only to do good during his life but to think 1 also of the future. To consolidate what 1 God helped us to do we have decided to announce you the news that we have se- l lected as our successor to the throne our beloved grandson, Lidje Yasou. We have done all to instruct him in the love of the people, of law and of justice and will do more now that he is called by God All Powerful to govern you after us."
 
 celebrated his eightieth birthday, hon l ored by the whole civilized world, has | issued a challenge to the Czar and the l Russian government, who are trying to suppress his writings, though they dare not touch his person.
 "As long as I live,% he says in re- cent statement, T will not cease writing 1 and distributing my books The number l of people who consider distributing my books to be a good work is also increas- | ing more and more, the more they are persecuted for doing it.
 'Therefore 1t would seem evident that i the only reasonable way of putting an end to what does not please certain peo- l pie in my activity Is to put an end to me. 1 But to leave me in peace while only tor l menting the distributors is not only re- voltingly unjust, but Is also amazingly stupid.
 ..If 1t be true, as have been told, that i a certain minister had devised the plan of ] tormenting my friends in order to stop my activity, this plan will not at all at- l tain its aim.. It will not attain it, how ever painful my friends suffering will l be to me- for cannot as long as I live stop my activity, for in 1t I do not seek | any external aim, but fulfill what I can 1 not but fulfll-the demand of the will of l God. as I understand 1t and cannot help | understanding It..
 "An illiterate peasant may get drunk, roll in the mud, use bad language, fight, break a comrades jaw and steal horse, but I cannot imagine peasant in all 1 Russia who either, when sober, or even when drunk, would venture to say that l a man should be punished for circulating a book which says that working people | can only arrange their life well when they lead "godly' life, that is, live ac- cording to the gospel commandments-to kill no one, not to quarrel, not to live loosely not to swear, and that to live "godly" means to fear and obey God more than one fears the police, the gov ernor or the CZar, and that when po- lice officer, governor or Czar commands anything that God forbids. one must obey not police officer governor or Czar but God and that killing is for bidden by God.
 And yet it stands written down, seal ed and signed by a senator, that the man who spreads such thoughts must be pun ished, and this Is headed by an an- nouncement that all this Is done in Rus sia In 1908 by His Imperial Majesty's ukase.
 The great Esperanto congress recently held at Dresden with the financial as- sistance of the municipality proved great success for those who believe in the future of great International lan- guage
 More than 1000 delegates representing 25 different countries were gathered and no interpreters were required to trans- late the German speeches into English and then into French, and no vote of thanks required the painstaking trans 7 lation into other tongues.
 special feature of the congress was the presentation of Goethes famous drama, "Ifgen en Taurido," in Esperanto in the Royal opera house by special per- mission by the King of Saxony who hon. ored the esperantists by accepting the high protectorshp" of the congress. It is indeed remarkable success to which Dr. Farehop, the originator of Esperanto has attained To have given birth to an idea which has breathed new hope into many despairing hearts, to have created language which is already spoken by hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts and
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