Face to Face with Kaiserism

blind us to the fact that he is the centre of the system which has brought the wo

applause that they fail to hear the great, long drawn wail of agony that echoes around the world. His eyes are so blinded with the sheen of his own glory that they do not see the mutilated corpses, the crime, the pestilence, the hunger, the incalculable sorrow

menacing? On each side of them, lining a vast plain that fades in the distance, lie the dead-stiff, cold, grey, reproachful;-yet all the victims of those conquerors, as well as all their battalion

articular country. Like conditions produce like results. The career of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," for instance, whose wars and extravag

de his ex-waiter and ex-groom marshals and his washerwomen duchesses ape the manners and customs of the old régime

le ages. What is lèse-majesté but a survival of feudalism, a kind of slavery to inviolable tradition-the immuni

ASSY STAFF, BERLIN: M

k slightingly of royalty in Ger

e records of the lower courts, the decisions of which may be reversed, but from th

ng chiefly of sympathisers with the socialist cause, made th

arty, the gauntlet which means a combat for life and death. Well, then, so far as the insult concerns our Pa

ach word carefully before he had made the speech, and that i

ds and tried to evade prosecution, he must be adjudged guilty, because his au

as derogatory of the authority, of the Kaiser it is equal

up of people considered unworthy by him to be called "Germans." Without doubt the editor was alluding to the Kaiser's speech, made at Koenigsberg to the newly enlisted army recruits, in which he called the socialists "vaterlandslos

f the defendant to discredit the "House of the Hohenzollerns, and that the Kaiser by implication, being the living head of the Hohenzollern family, was thereby insulted." The Court further states that the defendant's article c

mpelled to take their "cures" in some country other than Germany, for in one case it was held that an America

ce over any treaties engaged in by the Grand Duchy of Baden and the United States and "that the fact that the defen

cked and ridiculed the propositions and proposals made by His Imperial Majesty. The defence pointed out that the Kaiser's speech was not an act of the Kaiser's own personal will, but only an act of govern

Reichstag is always to be regarded as a criticism of the Kaiser's person, and that the plea that

to criticise or ridicule any proposition

e five, jail awaits the subject who dares to

ers, when discussing the Emperor at their favourite table or "Stamm