The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-11
Criticism of Kaiser Wilhelm
Has Gotten Upon His Nerves
~ STEVEN BURNETT.

Especial Cable from the international
News Service)
~ STEVEN BURNETT.
Berlin. Sept. 10.-Accordins to those
who get into close touch with the
Kaiser. His Majesty. who returned
from his Norwegian cruise. tanned.
alert and in the best of humor. has
entirely changed and occasionally
gives way to fierce bursts of temper
which makes his surroundings tremble.
His recent speech in Koensburg which
causes such adverse comment, is
thought to have been caused by his
over wrought nerves.
Many reasons are given for the Kali
ser's present bad humor. After his
trip through Norway, where he is i'm
mensely popular. and where he is
greeted everywhere with unmistaka-
bly, spontaneous enthusiasm by the
people, the disappointment OF his re-
cent trip to Posen, where he went TO
take over his 5sth palace was doubly
keen. and the sullen behaviod of his
Polish subjects grated terribly on his
sensitive nerves.
That the people Of Posen have no
love for their German oppressors, he
well knew, but he counted strongly
on their love of display and on his own
personal magnetism to arouse at least
temporarily a certain amount Of en-
thusiasm or at least some pretense OF
good will. With lavist hand he scat
tered decorations and money, but no
response came from anybody but the
German officials. He gave 100000
marks in a lump to the nurses home
at Posen, but the Polish papers either
did not mention the donation at all
or publish it without any mention
whatever, and when he left the city he
is said to have declared that he would
never put his foot there again except
during military manoeuvers. and the
immense castle which cost millions,
and which was intended as a residence
for the Croynprince. will stand empty,
a glaring monument of German i'm
potence to conquer the stubborn pa
triotism.
That the expenses of the trip and
the wasted donations have left the
Kaiser's privy purse in rather slim
and exhausted condition, is probably
another reason for the Kaiser's re.
ported attack Of spleen.
The Christiania correspondent of the
"Berliner Zeitung" writes his paper
that he has reliable information that
the Kaiser is to be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Mist likely the report is true. for the
people of Norway and Sweden are
anxious to give the Kaiser some ma.
terial token Of their love and admira.
ton Of him, and now that it has been
settled beyond all doubt that the Kai.
ser personally prevented the outbreak
of great European war, of the anexa'
ton of Austria and Herzegovina, the
Scandinavians think that there is al
least as much reason for awarding the
prize to the Kaiser as there was fol
giving it to ex-president Roosevelt
who after all. did not prevent any war
but only promoted a peace conference
between two nations-that were near
ly down and out-one from lack OF
men and ships, and the other from
lack of funds.
1T is a question. however, whether
the Kaiser would be able to accept the
prize even If it were awarded to him
first because it would prabably be be
low his imperial dignity to give pub
lie lecture from the rostrum of Ccan
dinavian university, and second be
cause his acceptance would create 9
storm of protest among German mill
tarists and jingoes, who have already
made it knawn that in their opinion
the acceptance would expose the Kai
ser to the danger of being thought {
peace at any price" man. greater in
suit than which they cannot imagine
Herr MAMMALIAN Harden, editor o
die Zukunft," and DIR. Carl Peters
the founder of Germany's African EN-
pire, have aroused the wrath of tn,
Kaiser by stating publicly that the in
habitants of German-South-West Afri
ca are so discontinued with German
rule they contemplate abandoning thu
German flag and joining the British
South African Federation. These colo
nists are dissatisfied, presumably
with the bureaucratic control which
is exercised over them by the officials
many of whom 60 straight from Ber
lin without any real knowledge of, o
sympathy with colonial lofe. One Ger
man Colony contains more Govern
ment officials than white Inhabitants
and it Is q matter of common know