Arizona republican., 1914-02-08

of Von Reuter- and his fellow -hotspurs. Nobody desired their blood. It is the system which the nation is thinking about. Men higher up" than the late autOcrat of Zabern and institutions much deeper-rooted than the barracks cellar into which civilians were flung are the paramount issues.
 The gallant colonel, the personifica- tion of his caste, insists that the word of a Prussian king" no matter how antiquated, is Holy Writ. Ger mans at large, in consequence of the revelations to which they have been treated at Strassburg, are of a de- cidedly contrary opinion. The army will realize that. as time goes on, civilians can no longer be regarded by military officers as second class passengers in the ship of state. Za- bern has changed all that. No son of Mars, sword begirt, will sWagger in Germany hencefOrth with quite the sovereign assurance he affected, and could affect, a few brief weeks ago. A miracle has been wrought. We of the present do not, cannot, measure it's real magnitude. It will be the historians task. not in a chapter, or a volume but in a whole literature, whose name shall be How the Kaiser's People Put the Army in It's Proper Place"
 [ The late MT. w. T. Stead once re- marked that when the crown prince came to the throne Germany would enjoy a much needed rest, What the cynic meant to say was that young Frederick William had inherited lit tie or none of his ebullient fathers temperament or capacity for incl dents" Were MT. Stead alive and cbservant today he would need radi- cally to alter his judgment of the future kaiser.
 Impulsiveness, interference and in- trusion are obviously not to fade from the Hohenzollern category of characteristics when William III is no more. Morocco, Brunswick and Zabern, the three great upheavals of German times within the past three years, are here to prove the con- trary. The crown prince, in the case of Morocco and Brunswick, revealed what people had begun to think a commendable and instinctive divin- ing the popular side of a national controversy. His already enormous popularity was enhanced by his in dependent action on both those oc- casion. His applause of Colonel Von Reuters conduct at Zabern seems | likely, at this moment, to cost him much, if not all, of the esteem which has hitherto been his in the hearts of the people.
 | Hitherto Frederick William had contrived to make the country be-
 lieve that, though every inch a sol dier. he was "human,' too, with a distinct leaning to democracy. His 'GO-fOr them and Bravo" tele- grams to Zabern opened people, eyes. Unless their erstwhile idol can effectually clear himself, he has done
 his personal reputation irreparable
 damage.
 The number of directorships aban- 1 doned by the J. P. Morgan X Co
 partners in New York is insignificant |
 man bankers The Dresdner bank
 announces that it is represented on
 the boards of more than 200 com panies, with an aggregate capital of $650, ,000, 600. Herr Hagen, Cologne banker, helps to direct A corpora
 tions; Baron Oppenheim of Cologne
 belongs to the boards of 41; Dr l XVa1thar Rathana1I of RprIin tO 56.
 and any number of men prominent
 in finance and commerce to as many l as 30 or 8. It is a common prac-
 tice in Germany for banks to lend big sums to industrial corporations
 and then put in their own directors
 men who do their bidding, to take an active hand in management
 The crown prince of SaXOny has just come of age and today takes
 his place in the upper chamber o
 Dresden. Since the ill-fated. day
 when their mother left the palace
 the crown prince and his brothers
 and sisters have been brought III
 in strict seclusion. seeing few people
 and never reading a newspaper be- fore it has been carefully perused by
 their tutor and governesses, lest i
 should contain any allusion to ex- | Mme Toselli or Countess Montig-
 ncso, as she is now generally known The Crown Prince George is a keen
 sportsman and often shoots with hi: father.