The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-03
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

 VUTHEN Cousin William Hohenzol- A Tern goes a-cattin' he goes a-cat- W tim He has just turned him self loose again. Always interesting pie | turesque and heroic. he is often impress sive and wise. We are proud of Cousin William Hohenzollern and the family con nection which traces back to Adam through Cyrano de Bergerac on the ma ternal, to Goetz von Berlichingen on the paternal side. including Charlemagne. Robinson Crusoe, Theodore Roosevelt and Joan of Arc.
 The Kaiser has Been making a tour of eastern Germany. In connection with his visit to Posen for the dedication of a new castle there, he took occasion to deliver a very suggestive and martial speech at the provincial banquet. Tn this speech he urged the necessity of union of all the people with him in his work | for the welfare and defense of the na- ton. Taking for a text the character and career of his noble and beautiful great-grandmother Queen Louise of Prus- sia, during the Napoeonic wars, he ex- tolled her virtues and pointed out how | the memory of her had fired the valor and l efficiency of the Prussian soldiers and saved the day, when all seemed lost.
 What does the lofty figure of Queen Louise teach us?" he asked. Tt teaches us that we men should cultivate the mill itary virtues and be willing to use them in defense of the country Above all else, it teaches us to maintain the equipment of our army in view of the enormous strides made by our neighbors. for only on being prepared for war does peace depend"
 | It was in closing that Cousin William took occasion to drop hint touching | 'Meinself und Gott," which he phrased as follows:
 Considering myself as the instrument of the Master, regardless of passing views and opinions, go my way, which is sole ly devoted to the prosperity and peaceful development of ourf fatherland." In other words, recalling his farewell speech on the occasion of the departure of his brother. Prince Henry, for South Africa, some ten or a dozen years ago, he reiterated the doctrine of right di- | fled by the author of Kaiser & Co.," originally printed in Canadian newspa- per and wired for publication in the New York Herald. but made famous by the late Admiral Coghlan, who, by the way, was Kentuckian:
 | "Tn dimes of beace, prepare for wars; | l bear der helm und sphear of Mars, | Und care not for den dousand Czars. l Meinself-und Gott!
 "In fact I humor efery vhimm, l Nit aspect dark and visage grim, | Gott pulls init me und I init him,
 Meinself-und Gott!'
 | We are told that the leading organs of the German people are all agog. They devote extended comment to an outburst so pregnant and unexpected generally crticising with more or less of surprise and cholor the Emperor's utterances. In- deed, there are indications that the dis course will have a deep political effect on the country nearly all the Berlin pa- pers discussing the subject in connection with the political crisis of November 1908. when the publication by the London Daily Telegraph of an interview with the Emperor aroused a storm againsti the uncontrolled public speaking of our To- quacious Cousin of Hohenzoilern.-
 Apropos of Queen Louise, the Kaiser took whack at the suffragette move ment, reminding the housewives of the empire that in his not very humble opin- ion. they should rule the universe from the firesde and the cradle. and, inciden- tally mentioning, as sop. perhaps to feminine vanity, that women should fur nsh the inspiration for national poetry and heroic song and dance.
 German women. said the Emperor. should learn that their duty does not He in participating in public meetings and societies. nor in attaining supposed rights ldn which they may be able to do the same things as men, but in quiet work at home and the family Bully for Cousin Billy. They should train, he said, the young. before all-things. is obedience and respect toward age. They should make it clear to their children and to their children's children that they do not strive to live at the cost of others nor at the cost of their fatherland, but on the contrary that they should have fhe fafhsrla ,1d alma fin mind davoffnQ