El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-02

: of the race. The German emperor
! would Germanize the world as the per
! sCral agent of God. The British en-
/ pire would Anglicize the world as the
chosen people. of God. William de-
claims that he has his crown from
God and is responsible only TO God
for his stewardship British lord
CurZOn dedicateS a book on British
cOnquests in Asia TO those who be-
lieve with me that the British empire
is under providence the greatest power
for good the world has ever seen
Both German and Briton believe that
III promoting their selfish interests
they are unselfishIy doing the work of
God. They really believe it, and it is
most comfortable faith since it
knows not the still small voice of con-
science. The difference is that the
British are impersonal while the Ger
mans are personal in their imperial
ambitions and appetites-
English King Could NOS Say These
Things.
OF course no English king could have
said the things that the Kaiser has
said, 1t would have been tantamOunt
to an abdicatiOn. But the Germans did
not seem to object, and as time went
on their emperor became holder and
holder in the assertion OF his personal
powers, and in his defiance of parIia
nlentary opposition. From the first his
was personal regime He did not
choose to rule, like William I, through
a chancellor. Bismarck himself. much
as he distrusted the people and much
as he revered the throne, said, of the
then prince William: In him there is
something of Frederick the Great, and
he is also able to become as despotic
as Frederick the Great. What a
blessing that we have a parliame nt2ry
government"
The EmPeror's Assumption Of Power.
Within six weeks after the young
Kaiser came to the throne the battle
winner Won SIOItke resigned his office
as the head of the army and William
succeeded him. 4 little later prince
Bismarck was dismissed. and since
that time the imperial chancellor has
been mere mOuthpiece of the emper-
or In taking up the active and per-
sonal control of his cabinet and gov
eminent, the Kaiser necessarily had to
consider parliamentary parties and pro-
cedure. He wheedled and coaxed and
cajoled when necessary, but never did
he admit that the parliament was any
thing other than wrongful lfmita-
ton upon his rightful powers. He
accused the members of the opposition
parties of treason and of enfnity to
their country. He declared that an
army officer or noble could not op-
pose the viii of the monarch. He made
himself the master OF the foreign Of /
flee and conducted it in accordance /
with his own personal ambitions. He
became the most poTe rful and eff !
cient monarch in the world. and it /
seemed that he had revived the potency I.
Of the seemingly dead efficacy of per- |
scnal individual0fuie.
But the Kaiser, blinded by his own
egctism. and deceived by the appar- :
ont willingness of his people to follow !
him TO any extent, was approaching !
the rude awakening The English .peo-
pie feared and mistrusted him His
naval ambitious f3es>sd >Str~airri- az
the overthrow of British maritime su-
oremacy- England remembered with
bitterness his telegram to Paul Kru-
ger, and was annoyed by his attitude
n every question of international Eu-
( 9ean policy.
The Famous London Interview
Late in November Of 1908 there ap-
1eared in the columns Of the Daily
Telegraph7Of London an interview with
he Kaiser 1t was perhaps the most