The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-19
CHANCELLOR SACT
IS CALLED STUPID
Kaiser and Liberals Are Angry
at His "IIalf-llcartcd'
Compromise,
CATHOLICS ARE PLEASED
Proposed Visit Of Crown Prince
to Rome Causing Dissatis-
faction.
CATHOLICS ARE PLEASED
ny rnEDEnicK WERNER.

Especial Cable to The Times Dispatch.l
| Berlin. March iS.-Whcn the CHAM
| oclior Bethmann IIolwcg some tins
ago decided that the German Crown
| FRINGE. and not the Kaiser. was to
attend the great festivities at Rome
| in honor Of the fttictli anniversary OF
| Italian unity. he thought he had
| solved very happy problem. which
would please everybody and hurt no
| todys feelings: but the people Of three
| countries are now busy informing him
that just the oppositc'is the case.
In Germany itself the Liberal and
Radical press plainly asserts that the
chancellor could not POSSIBLY have
/ committed greater stupidity if he
| wanted to lose the respect of all par.
| tes than by announcing the official
visit Of the German Grown Prince and
| Crown Princess TO Rome to congratu-
| late the King and Queen OF Italy. The
| chancellors decision is u half-hcartcd
| compromise, the act OF political COW
ARD. the papers say. who darcs do
| things only by halves. surely enough
| Of the "Germania" and other Catholic
| papers IN Germany are delighted that
! the Kaiser will not lend splendor to
i Il festival that celebrates the downfail
! OF the Popc's worldly power but the
Kaiser. who had wanted to 20. is an
/ ~ The easily excited people of italy
| who see in the chanccllor.s act an In
and the Ill feeling against the sly '',c-
| descoes' may not be without effect on
| the Triple Alliance, especially as the
! Italians are much more attracted to-
! ward France, and the Very festival they
| are about to celebrate will bring barl,
| 70 memory In the most lid way the
imPortant part taken by the people OF
| france IN setting Italy free, ana the
| poor way in which italy has shown her
srautude, being now actually allied
| With her own arch enemy Austria and
GermanE, which crushed France only a
nttie more than decade after the time
| When Italians and French fought
| shoulder to shoulder
| n vienna. too, the Chancellor's de-
cislon has aroused astonishIncnt and a
! certain feeling of uneasincss II IS
reared In Austria that the relations
between italy on the one side ana
! Germany on the other will UNDERGO q
further slackcning During the delib.
Grafton of the Austro- Hungarian
delegations at Budapest reference
was repeatedly made TO the mistrust
that would be awakened in Italv by
me enormous military and naval anna.
ments now In prepare ton. and several
~ me delegates expressed this opin-
ION very plainly. 1t was also indi-
Gated that the government has failed
! 10 oppose the utterarices made by ,hc
| vienna Clericals with sufficient force
and more especially the speech made
i! ny vice. Bureomaster pr. Porzer. who
addressed political meeting in favor
or renewal OF the ccclesia steal
! State =. 80 a.
The decision Of the German chan
| ceilor Just at this juncture increases
me anxiety Of those who look upon
italEs presence in the Triple Alliance
as a necessity, and from whom tho
utterance OF the pregnant words
81 4 ,n,,
or her enemy" originates. At the pres
/ ent moment these difficulties, which
have not yet found actual expression
! are increased by the question, now
become Of immediate Importance or
whether the Austrian court will alb.
stain from visiting Italy this year.
and. out Of respect for the Pone ro
frain from sending any member Of
| the imperial family to Rome. This
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand is orted
| 10 have declared that although he will
] not go to Rome, he intends to travel
| TO the Turin Exhibition, and TO pro.
coed from there 10 visit the King and
queen or italy at Racconigi. No con-
| hrmation of this statement has vel
| been received Should 1t be contra
/ dicted, 1T is certain that 1t will in
crease the III hulnor already existing
| among the Italian people towards
/ Austria.
| y PORTION OF the press gives loud
utterance to its misgivings with re-
gard to Germany's and AustrIa,s in
tention to ignore the italian festivi-
ties. The Zeit writes in leader that
the triple Alliance has again Sustained
breach that Will not be easily
mehded The Montagazeitung, whose
important political position is we'll
| known. says il is much to be regretted
| that Kaiser Wilhelm should retreat be-
fore the Pope, and prophesies serious
! consequences.
believe however, that these need
not be considered for the present but
| complications between Italy and her
| friends Of the Triple Alliance have
! commenced, and 1t is not difficult tc
predict to what result they will lead
| one day.
The effects of the fall OF the BRAND
Cabinet in France three weeks ago
are still being felt In practically all
! the important continental capitals The
German people who always had a Ger
tain amount Of affection for the
French government, which broke of
relations with the Catholic Church, feel
that the accusation brought against
NJ. BRAND or being too lenient in
carrying out the separation Of church
and state, was absolutely unjust lust
now they would have rcjoiced I'm n
Chancellor with Brands determine
ton and firmness. The opinion is also
/ finding more and more believers hero
that Brands fall was not caused by
his ecclesiastic policy, but far more
! by the general Misrepresentation felt in
all political circles throughout France
for some time past In regard to i'm.
portant questions connected with for.
eign policy. Some of tho Vienna
papers express this opinion. and desig.
nate the opposition in Parliament ia
NJ. Brands church policy as only
pretext behind which turks the deep
dissatisfaction felt in France since the
Potadam Interview Therefore, argue
/ several papers. the BRAND Cabinet is
the victim of the Potsdam interview
, which caused the detection OF Russia
. from her allies.
u Nobody pretends TO know what the