The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-29
WON BETHMAN-HOLL-
 VEG, GERMAN IMPERIAL ,
 CHANCELLOR, 5S TODAY

French and Jewish blood, as well as German, flows in the veins of Dr.Theo- bald von Bethmann-Hollweg, for more than five years the Imperial Chancel- Tor of the German Empire. AS the head of the cabinet at the outbreak of the war, he has been charged with re- sponsibility for the unreadiness of Ger man diplomacy which led to the coali- ton against the Kaiser, but to those versed in ''we1tpohtik'' this is a. joke, for the Emperor has been his own Chancellor. and Bothmann-Hollweg has been but the imperial echo.
 The Imperial Chancellor was born nfty-eight years ago today, and comes of. q. family which has long been noted for it's allegiance to royalty and it's opposition to democracy. 'I will not permit the government to be dragged under the chariot wheels of a Demok- ratismus!" acclaimed Bethmann-Hol1- veg but long ago, when the rabble' was demanding a reform of the Prus- of inequalities faxoring the wealthy and the noble. As a defender of au- tocratfc government and the divine right of his impera1 master, Beth opponent of the social democrats and of all parties which would restrict the powers of the Kaiser.
 The family history of the Bothmann- Hollwegs goes back to a Frankfort Jew Rethmann who accumulated a fortune and married his daughter to scion of the Prussian noble clan of Hollweg. The son of this pair adopt ed the name of Bethmann-Hollweg This son, the grandfather of the I'm periaI Chancellor, dedicated. his life and fortune to the service of royalty, and none were more bitter than he in his denunciations of the democratic aspirations of the common people, One of his sons married a daughter of the French noble family of de Rouge mont Of this union of a Prussian- Jew and a. Frenchwoman the Chan cellor was born.
 At Bonn Bethman-Bethman became the intimate Of the future enporer. The young prince found his fellow student a man after his own heart and when Wilhelm ascended the inn perial throne he did not forget the chum of his college days Through
 minor posts Bethman -FIollWeg rose to be Minister of the Interior, Vice Chan eellor, and then Chancellor of the Empire A little over five years ago he was called by the Kaiser to the high post of Chancellor, a position, however, which has carried little pow 1 CT since the days of Bismarck and the accession to the throne of the present en1porer. Bethmann-Hol1Heg Is the fourth to hold the office since the passing of the Iron Chancellor. His predecessor, Prince von Beulow, retired after vainly obJecting to the tactIess and undiplomattc speeches and Inter views of the Kaiser.
 -HoIIyveg, although almost a giant in stature, has been but @ pygn1y in the hands of the Kaiser. When the latter, in an address, as- serted that he ruled by divine right, and that he was responsible only to himself and God-Gott being an after thought and mentioned secondhand the social democracy of the empire threatened revolution, Bethmann-HoIl-. iweg firmly defended his master. Tn ] a memorable address he asserted that the people had noN power over the 1 Kaiser. and that t'the idea of the SOW to the organization of the Prussian state.
 .sThe kings in their relation to the people are rulers in their own right he declared. The Democratic tendency to treat the, King as the official of the people is wrong, and the King of Prussia Is within his rights when he asserts that he is not subject to popu- lar sovereignty. The independence and personal sponsibi1tty of the sovereign in his monarchia1 rights are Supplemental principles -of our polfti- i cal life,
 The ChanceIIor's wife died only short time before the beginning of the war-died, rumor has 1t, of a broken heart because of the indiscretions and vast expenditures of their eldest son.
 who travelled a. pace which set all Berlin agog.