Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-02

"HicIls IN MS MIND, means the ciyiliZatiO
which God intends for the salvation of
mankind. This belief that he is under the
special protection of Divine Providence is
the same thing that, in one fashion or
another. has possessed the souls of i'm
perators such as Alexander, Caesar,
Cromwell and Napoleon.
This is the faith that builds empires.
1t is to be found in one form or another
in every imperial
Faith That Helps nation In Ger
to Build Nations. n mrny y Is con
person Of the monarch In Great Britain
1t exists In the incorporeal spirit Of the
race. The German emperor would Ger
MAMIE the world as the personal agent
Of God The British empire would An
giicize the world as the chosen people of
God. William declaims that he has his
crown from God and is responsible only
to God for his stewardship. A British
Lord Curzon dedicates book on British
conquests in Asia ITO those who believe
with me that the British empire is under
Providence the greatest power for good
the world has ever SEEM
Both German and Briton believe that in
promoting their selfish interests they are
unselfshly doing the work of God They
really believe 1t. and IT Is a most COM
Portable faith. since II knows not the still
small voice of conscience. The difference
is that the British are impersonal while
the Germans are personal in their i'm
pertal ambitions and appetites.
OF course. no English king could have
said the things that the kaiser has said.
1t would have been tantamount to an alb
to object. and as time went on their en-
peror became holder and holder in the
assertion OF his personal powers and In
his defiance OF parliamentary opposition.
From the first his was a personal regime.
He did not choose to rule. like William !,
through a chancellor. Bismarck himself,
much as he distrusted the people and
much as he revered the throne, said of
the then Prince William: I'm 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 parliamentary govern |
ment!'
Within six weeks after the young kaiser
came to the throne the battle winner
Won Moltke re-
Takes Up Active signed his Office
Control of Cabinet. the srmv and
William succeeded him. A little later
Prince Bismarck was dismissed, and since
that time the imperial chancellor has been
a mere mouthpiece of the emperor. In
taking up the active and personal control
OF his cabinet and government the kaiser |
necessarily had to consider parliamentary /!
parties and procedure. He wheedled and
coaxed and cajoled when necessary. but
never did he admit that the parliament |
was anything other than a wrongful linn |
itation upon his rightful powers. He ac-
cused the members Of the opposition par
ties Of treason and OF enmity to their |
country. He declared that an army Of |
fcer or q noble could not oppose the will i
OF the monarch. He made himself the |
master OF the foreign office and con- |
Quoted 1t in accordance with his own per- |
sonal ambitions. He became the most |
powerful and efficient monarch in the |
world and 1t seemed that he had revived |
the potency of the seemingly dead eff |
cacy Of personal individual rule.
But the kaiser, blinded by his own ego |
ism and deceived by the apparent willing |
ness Of his people to follow him to any |
extent, was approaching the rude awak- |
ening. The English people feared and |
mistrusted him. His naval ambitions APP |
peared to aim at the overthrow Of British |
maritime supremacy. England remember |
ed with bitterness his telegram to Paul |
Kruger and was annoyed by his attitude |
in every question OF international Euro |
pean policy.
Late IN November Of 1908 there ap-
peared IN the columns Of the Daily Tele-
graph Of Lon
Interview That don an inter-
r,s view with the
LII oAA@se~ AAA kaiser. It was
perhaps. the most remarkable utterance
ne tha kind known to the history Of mod
ern International politics. II was designed
to panify the English. but it, result was