The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-20
So Prominent Has Kaiser's
Land Become, "Swelled
Head Is Feared.
LOVE TALES OF TURKS
And the Persians Are Poured
Into Ears Of the Kais-
er's Statesmen.
~ STEVEN BURNETT.

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Berlin. Nov 19.--If Germans never
before we're In danger OF becoming
affected with what we Americans SO
appropriately cail'.the sweiled head"
the present time surely invites an at.
tack OF that diseases Never has the
kaiser's country TO such an extent
been the center of the worlds politics
as during the last month. With the
Mohammedan Turks and Persians
halIing the kaiser as the "truest pro-
teotor of Islam." with German bankers
preparing to take over the Turkish
loan refused by France. with the kais-
ar laying foundations for new friend
chip with Belgium. with the crown
prince speeding towards the far cast
on similar mission and with the
ears recent visit TO Potsdam, Ger
man press have every reason TO feel
elatcd ut all these signs OF the com.
raratIvely young empires greatness.
On the surface all these events have
been very pleasing. but to the states
men. they have not been source Of
unalloyed pleasure.
That the head men Turks and Per-
slams should have such touching, child
Hike confidence In Germany's most
Christian ruler that they felt con-
WINGED he would protect them against
tho dreaded Russian bear and vora-
cIons British lion and unicorn was Of
coarse very Aattering but the appeal
was very embarrassing TO the Ger.
man minister OF foreign affairs. who
would do anything rather than stir up
the anger OF England and Russia and
borrow trouble which must end, II
not In war. mt least in a very serious
cbeckmnte to the triple alliance.
They Failed to Forget.
No one knows OF course. what the
faiser himself thought when he read
the now famous telegram from Con-
stantinople. but II Is pretty safe to
suppose that his mental ejaculation
must have been Heaven preserve
me from friends with long memories"
Tho promise uttered at Saladin's
tomb years ago on the impulse of the
moment WAS certainly not supposed to
be dug up again at this time.
uUt uiAu EtSSS WuiCn oN III Oh
went into raptures over the telegram
therefore. very quickly realized that
II had mistaken it's cue, by the stony
silence of Wilhelmstrasse on the sub.
jcct and made a quick change OF
front.
Another point worth noting In Con-
stantinorlc and other capitals Is that
German tinanciers. while willing to
lend Turkey the money which France
refused her. are by no means in love
with the idea OF becoming Turkeys
bankers and are advancing the sum
required rather to 0blige a customer
tnan because the business attracts
them Germany with her nourishing
industries. can use all her capital at
home and indeed II the relations be-
tween the two countries permitted.
would herself be borrower in Paris.
A Curious Sect.
The existence Of the curious sect OF
the "Advcntists" In Germany was
made known the other day by the case
OF the soldier Naumann. The sect
looks for the temperance Of Christ
on earth in the immediate future and
follows the precepts Of the Bible as
literally as possible Saturday is re.
garded by them as the seventh day
which must be kept holy, and the sol.
dicr Naumann has frequently incurred
disciplinary punishment for refusing
20 do u stroke Of work between Fri
day night and Saturday morning.
AZ first he got few days cells. then
few months arrest. until at length
as the punishments Increased. he has
spent over five years In confinement