The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-09-02
EMPEROR WILLIAM SAYS he
RULES BY GODS GRACE
Declares Independence Of Parlias
.ments and Assemblies.
AGAINST VOTES FOR THE WOMEK

Martial and Militant Address BY the
Emperor at the Provincial BANQUET
at Koeningsberg - Doctrine of the
Divine Right Of Kings Is Sharply
Set Forth BY Him-ae quotes the
Words of His Grandfather William
l.. In Regard to the Crown. ~
ses Berlin tSpecialls-The speech deliver
ed by Emperor William of Germany be-
fore the provincial banquet at Koenias-
burg, in which he reiterated and emu
phasized his belief in the divine mandate
by which he rules, referred to the Prus-
sian crown as bestowed by Gods grace;
and not by parliaments or peoples as
semblies, and laid a lance against the
present movement for women suffragessis
the political sensation of the hour.
The leading organs of the German press
devote exteEded comment to it, generally.
criticizing the Emperor's utterances, and
there are indications that the discourse
will have asdeep political effect upon the
country, nearly all of the Berlin papers
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 En-
peror aroused a storm against the uncon.
trolled public speaking of the Emperor.
Fhe serious Vossisehe Zeitung, the
Tageblatt, the Post and other papers
point out the constitutional character Of
the Kingdom of Prussia in the empire,
and inquire whether the chancellor, DR..
Won Bethmann- Hollweg, was privy to the
Emperer's purpose in delivering such
speech. They predict that it will lead
to renewed discussion of the Emperor's
constitutional position when the Reich.
stag reassembles in November.
The strongly monarchist Taglicbe
Rundschau, the favorite journal of army
officers, says:
This speech means a storm.
Never before has Emperor William set
into such clear relief his romantic, medi-
eval idea of his non-responsibility to
mans Judgment, of his not being bound
by the constitutional cooperation of the
people and of ruling by Gods free grace
against all those convictions and feelings
which today determine our existence as
state"
Why" asks the Tageliche Rundschau,
Should the Emperor choose this moment
to emphasize his gnling by Gods grace
and his own right, when it will nouYish
an anti -monarchical agitation and good
monarchists be thrown into a condition
of tragic disruption"
The organ of the landed nobility, The
Deutsche Tages Zietung, thoroughly APP
proves of the declarations Of the EN-
peror.
The Local Anzeiger lays stress upon
the desire of the Emperor that the peo-
pie cooperate with him, and points out
that the Emperor delivered the speech in
the castle where the Prussian kings were
formerly crowned, He said in the same
hall in May. 1890: Eve Hohenzollerns
take our crown from heaven alone" and
in the same place on Septemhers6, 1894,
he quoted the words of his grandfather
William about ruling by divine right,
and added $50, too, do take my king
dom by Gods grace"
The Tageblatt affirms that although
prices did not fall on the exchange, trad
ing slackened, and brokers apprehend an
unfavorable influence of the speech upon
markets at home and abroad. sss