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diff --git a/43666-h/43666-h.htm b/43666-h/43666-h.htm index 73b9c34..9f066e8 100644 --- a/43666-h/43666-h.htm +++ b/43666-h/43666-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The German Emperor as Shown in his Public Utterances, by Christian Gauss. @@ -236,47 +236,7 @@ em.gesperrt </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of The German Emperor as Shown in his Public -Utterances, by Christian Gauss - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The German Emperor as Shown in his Public Utterances - -Author: Christian Gauss - -Release Date: September 11, 2013 [EBook #43666] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMAN EMPEROR--PUBLIC UTTERANCES *** - - - - -Produced by Norbert Müller and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43666 ***</div> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 378px;"> <a id="Illu_Front" name="Illu_Front"> @@ -471,7 +431,7 @@ has amounted to collaboration.</p> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_9">The Czar at Berlin</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Berlin, October 11, 1889.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">50</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_10">On Board an English Flag-Ship</a><br /> -<span class="toc-subtitle-section">The Piræus, October 30, 1889.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">51</td></tr> +<span class="toc-subtitle-section">The Piræus, October 30, 1889.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">51</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-chapter-number">III</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-chapter"><a href="#III"><span class="smcap">After Bismarck</span></a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-chapter">May 6, 1890—June 21, 1895.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">53</td></tr> @@ -545,7 +505,7 @@ has amounted to collaboration.</p> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_42">New Boundary Posts</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Berlin, February 13, 1900.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">157</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_43">Seaports and Cannon</a><br /> -<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Lübeck, June 16, 1900.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">159</td></tr> +<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Lübeck, June 16, 1900.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">159</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[xiii]</a></span><a href="#Sect_44">The Ocean Knocks at Our Door</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Kiel, July 3, 1900.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">160</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_45">Open the Way for Culture</a><br /> @@ -577,7 +537,7 @@ has amounted to collaboration.</p> <tr><td class="toc-section"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[xiv]</a></span><a href="#Sect_58">Scholarship and Religion</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Berlin, February 15, 1903.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">216</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_59">Frederick the Great and His Army</a><br /> -<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Döberitz, May 29, 1903.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">225</td></tr> +<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Döberitz, May 29, 1903.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">225</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_60">The Future of Germany</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Hamburg, June 20, 1903.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">227</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_61">The Reasons for Japan’s Victory</a><br /> @@ -592,7 +552,7 @@ has amounted to collaboration.</p> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_64">The Great Ally</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">September 8, 1906.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">242</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_65">Optimism and Literature</a><br /> -<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Münich, November 12, 1906.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">247</td></tr> +<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Münich, November 12, 1906.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">247</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_66">Twenty-Five Years of Labor Legislation</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">November 17, 1896.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">253</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-chapter-number">VII</td></tr> @@ -601,7 +561,7 @@ has amounted to collaboration.</p> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_67">Imperialism versus Social Democracy</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Berlin, February 5, 1907.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">256</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[xv]</a></span><a href="#Sect_68">The Necessity of Faith</a><br /> -<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Münster, August 31, 1907.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">259</td></tr> +<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Münster, August 31, 1907.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">259</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_69">English Journalists</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">London, November 16, 1907.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">264</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_70">Alsace-Lorraine</a><br /> @@ -615,7 +575,7 @@ has amounted to collaboration.</p> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_74">Review of the Fourteenth Army Corps</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Karlsruhe, September 11, 1909.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">278</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_75">Emperor by Divine Right</a><br /> -<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Königsberg, August 25, 1910.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">279</td></tr> +<span class="toc-subtitle-section">Königsberg, August 25, 1910.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">279</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_76">The Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Berlin</a><br /> <span class="toc-subtitle-section">Berlin, October 11, 1910.</span></td><td align="right" valign="top">285</td></tr> <tr><td class="toc-section"><a href="#Sect_77">The Emperor in Brussels</a><br /> @@ -714,7 +674,7 @@ the rising of another sun, in workman’s garb, with the axe upon his shoulder, he goes forth as woodman or laborer on his own estates. At home he was regarded as Benjamin Constant regarded -Madame de Staël. He was the “<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bel orage</i>,” the +Madame de Staël. He was the “<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">bel orage</i>,” the beautiful storm which had come upon Europe in the dull and piping times of peace of the last decades of the nineteenth century. He cleared @@ -724,14 +684,14 @@ activities, as Renan had been of antiquated heresies and harmless, outworn systems, and to him Fate seemed to have given the future as a toy. Such, at least, was the view of the famous Portuguese -poet Eça de Queiroz, who cast his horoscope in +poet Eça de Queiroz, who cast his horoscope in 1891.</p> <p>A quarter century of peace had removed much apprehension. After the dismissal of Bismarck he had shaped his own policy and gone his own<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> way. To his great advisers he had seemed to -say: “<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ôte-toi que je m’y mette.</i>” Yet his career +say: “<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Ôte-toi que je m’y mette.</i>” Yet his career had ceased to disquiet, and the youthful exuberance had given way to mature and conscientious labor. With unshakable confidence in himself and @@ -777,7 +737,7 @@ these words that he closed his brilliant study of the youthful Emperor and King:</p> <p>“William II runs the awful danger of being -cast down Gemoniæ. He boldly takes upon +cast down Gemoniæ. He boldly takes upon himself responsibilities which in all nations are divided among various bodies of the state—he alone judges, he alone executes, because to him @@ -812,7 +772,7 @@ make them slow and lengthy!) this youth, ardent, pleasing, fertile in imagination, of sincere, perhaps heroic, soul, may be sitting in calm majesty in his Berlin Schloss presiding over the destinies of -Europe—or he may be in the Hôtel Métropole +Europe—or he may be in the Hôtel Métropole in London sadly unpacking from his exile’s handbag the battered double crown of Prussia and Germany.”</p> @@ -861,7 +821,7 @@ force even to-day.</p> <p>When, therefore, in 1878, by a curious coincidence, two attempts were made upon the life -of Emperor William I (one by Hödel, an irresponsible +of Emperor William I (one by Hödel, an irresponsible person of diseased mind and body, who had been dismissed from the Social Democratic party; and another by Nobiling, who was not a Social @@ -870,7 +830,7 @@ seized this occasion to crush Social Democracy and increase the imperial power. He dissolved the Reichstag, and in one month the law-courts inflicted no less than five hundred years of imprisonment -for <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">lèse-majesté</i>. Within eight months +for <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">lèse-majesté</i>. Within eight months the authorities dissolved two hundred and twenty-two workingmen’s unions, suppressed one hundred and twenty-seven periodical and two hundred @@ -927,7 +887,7 @@ an authority as Bismarck might still easily be changed without consulting the people, we may gather from the fact that the Great Chancellor frequently debated the question of limiting the -suffrage. “The blind Hödhur<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> [the German elector] +suffrage. “The blind Hödhur<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> [the German elector] does not know how to manipulate in his coarse hands the Nuremberg toy [the Reichstag] which I gave him, and through his voting he is ruining @@ -937,7 +897,7 @@ returning to the old Bundestag.</p> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> In Norse mythology Hödhur was the powerful blind god who +<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> In Norse mythology Hödhur was the powerful blind god who slew Balder.</p></div> <p>The late Price Collier, an enthusiastic admirer @@ -999,7 +959,7 @@ labor in the penitentiary, with loss of civil rights.”</p></div> <p>It need, therefore, not appear as startling as would otherwise be the case if on occasions which to us would seem peculiarly appropriate (as, for -instance, the famous Königsberg speech, August +instance, the famous Königsberg speech, August 25, 1910) the Emperor makes no mention whatever of the Constitution. The sources of his power and the sanction for his authority he finds not in @@ -1023,7 +983,7 @@ by immigration from other German states.</p> traditions with regard to his house, he never mentions the old shoot in the genealogical tree of an elector which carries us back to one of the fugitives -who fled from Troy with Æneas. For our +who fled from Troy with Æneas. For our purposes, it was not until 1273 that a count of Hohenzollern first came into prominence, when, after a fortunate marriage, he became burgrave @@ -1265,9 +1225,9 @@ to attack even on very slight pretexts and in the case of Silesia without the formality of a declaration of war. Like William II, he was a patron of the arts and sciences and invited noted -littérateurs and scientists, especially Frenchmen, +littérateurs and scientists, especially Frenchmen, to his court. The scientist Maupertuis and Voltaire -were his protégés, and the exiled Rousseau +were his protégés, and the exiled Rousseau for a time found refuge in his domains. He himself wrote in French. It is probably because of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span> his French sympathies and the fact that he was, @@ -1328,7 +1288,7 @@ his brother, largely through the tireless activity and wonderfully successful diplomacy of Bismarck, that this great aim was to be achieved in the lifetime of the present Emperor. It was in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span> -the chapel at Königsberg that William I arranged +the chapel at Königsberg that William I arranged for and held his coronation. He cannot be said to have been crowned; for although his brother had granted Prussia a constitution William himself @@ -1343,7 +1303,7 @@ father, he succeeded to the imperial office; and it is this legacy and this tradition which, in fairness to the Emperor, we must remember in reading such seemingly strange pronouncements as his own -address at Königsberg in 1910.</p> +address at Königsberg in 1910.</p> <p>The later events in German history and the subsequent policies of the empire are touched @@ -2108,8 +2068,8 @@ which had arisen in the Rhenish and West<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" coal districts between the miners and their employers. He personally received delegations from both sides. The miners’ delegation -consisted of Schröder (spokesman), Siegel, and -Bunte. In answer to Schröder’s speech, the +consisted of Schröder (spokesman), Siegel, and +Bunte. In answer to Schröder’s speech, the Emperor announced:</p></div> <p>It goes without saying that every subject, when @@ -2300,15 +2260,15 @@ ancestors, I am determined to foster.</p> <p>The Czar replied in French, as follows:</p></div> -<p><i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Je remercie Votre Majesté de Vos bonnes paroles -et je partage entièrement les sentiments que Vous -venez d’exprimer. A la santé de Sa Majesté, +<p><i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Je remercie Votre Majesté de Vos bonnes paroles +et je partage entièrement les sentiments que Vous +venez d’exprimer. A la santé de Sa Majesté, l’Empereur et Roi—Hourra!</i></p> <h3><a name="Sect_10" id="Sect_10">ON BOARD AN ENGLISH FLAG-SHIP</a></h3> -<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">The Piræus, October</span> 30, 1889</p> +<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">The Piræus, October</span> 30, 1889</p> <div class="blockquot"> @@ -2818,7 +2778,7 @@ Empress descended at the German embassy very quietly and had received promises from several artists, when her presence in Paris became known to the League of French Patriots and to the germanophobe -Déroulède, who immediately started +Déroulède, who immediately started a violent agitation and demonstrations against Germany. The artists withdrew their promises under the pressure of outraged patriotic opinion, @@ -3481,7 +3441,7 @@ fought, and whence death and destruction were brought into the land of the enemy. Thou shalt bear the name of this great and mighty god. Mayst thou prove thyself worthy of it! So do I -christen thee with the name of <i>Ægir</i>.</p> +christen thee with the name of <i>Ægir</i>.</p> <h3><a name="Sect_21" id="Sect_21">VISIT TO BISMARCK</a></h3> @@ -3924,7 +3884,7 @@ emigrants who were induced to settle in the province since 1870, took part in the opposition. In a recent haphazard list of the “real leaders” of Alsace-Lorraine, we find the following six names: -Wetterlé, Preiss, Blumenthal, Weber, Bucher, +Wetterlé, Preiss, Blumenthal, Weber, Bucher, and Theodor. Of these the last five, at least, are wholly or in part of German descent. Yet the most serious demonstration in Metz since its annexation @@ -4669,7 +4629,7 @@ since that time.</p> <p><a name="Footnote_17" id="Footnote_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> It is interesting to note that the Emperor here himself explicitly makes the distinction between commander of an army, -<i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Heerführer</i>, and war lord, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Kriegsherr</i>, a title which can only be bestowed +<i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Heerführer</i>, and war lord, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Kriegsherr</i>, a title which can only be bestowed upon the Emperor.</p></div> <p>Seldom has so difficult a task fallen to the lot @@ -4867,7 +4827,7 @@ King and Queen and passed on by way of Messina and Constantinople. They reached Jerusalem<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span> on October 29. During his stay at Constantinople the Emperor obtained the rights to a piece of -land, the <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dormitio Sanctæ Virginis</i>, and turned it +land, the <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Dormitio Sanctæ Virginis</i>, and turned it over to the German Catholics in Jerusalem. On November 4 they began their return journey via Damascus. Though the dedication of the Church @@ -5130,7 +5090,7 @@ expect from them a higher degree of loyalty and understanding. For them he felt a particular kinship. His personal pretensions are, therefore,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span> set forth in these speeches and in those to the -Prussians, as for instance in his Königsberg speech +Prussians, as for instance in his Königsberg speech (August 25, 1910) with less reserve than usual, if we may speak of reserve in one who shows but little and who is unusually frank and personal @@ -5139,7 +5099,7 @@ speeches have occasionally been severely criticised by his South German subjects, as for instance by Doctor Liman in his “Der Kaiser.” This address was delivered by the Emperor at a banquet which -was given by Doctor von Achenbach, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Oberpräsident</i> +was given by Doctor von Achenbach, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Oberpräsident</i> of Brandenburg Province and Minister of State, to the members of the Provincial Assembly. The wording is taken from the “<cite lang="de">Reichsanzeiger</cite>.” @@ -5354,7 +5314,7 @@ to his Majesty’s initiative.</p> <p>My honored Baron, my wish includes the hope that the two tried and experienced statesmen, -his Excellency Baron de Staal and Count Münster, +his Excellency Baron de Staal and Count Münster, may succeed in their efforts and that they may conduct the conference on the old, established tradition which unites my house to that of his @@ -5517,7 +5477,7 @@ an added significance if we remember that it was made nine days after the Boer ultimatum which began the Boer War had been despatched. In this connection it is well to read the telegram sent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span> -to President Krüger, printed with the <cite>Daily Telegraph</cite> +to President Krüger, printed with the <cite>Daily Telegraph</cite> interview (October 28, 1908).</p> <p>William II had in 1889 divided the admiralty @@ -5806,7 +5766,7 @@ $550, and after the twelfth year $600 a year. A captain receives from the first to the fourth year $850, from the fifth to the eighth year $1,150, and the ninth year and after $1,275 a year. Of one hundred officers who join, only an average of eight ever attain to -the command of a regiment. In Bavaria and Würtemberg promotion +the command of a regiment. In Bavaria and Würtemberg promotion is quicker by from one to three years than in Prussia. In Prussia promotion to <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Oberleutnant</i> averages 10 years, to captain or <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Rittmeister</i> 15 years, to major 25 years, to colonel 33 years, and to @@ -5881,16 +5841,16 @@ maturity under the protection of God! Hurrah!</p> <h3><a name="Sect_43" id="Sect_43">SEAPORTS AND CANNON</a></h3> -<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Lübeck, June 16, 1900</span></p> +<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Lübeck, June 16, 1900</span></p> <div class="blockquot"> <p>The opening of the Elbe-Trave Canal took -place at Lübeck in the presence of the Emperor. +place at Lübeck in the presence of the Emperor. He again took up the question of the development of the German Empire.</p></div> -<p>On this day I congratulate the city of Lübeck +<p>On this day I congratulate the city of Lübeck most heartily. First of all I offer my heartiest thanks for the wonderful reception which you prepared for me. I have seen in the attitude and the @@ -5903,7 +5863,7 @@ in any way of their expectations, and I am convinced that it will not do so. You see, as you look upon the completed work, how significant it is that a united German Empire now exists. -Its past glories Lübeck owed to the German Emperors, +Its past glories Lübeck owed to the German Emperors, and its present glory it owes to the German Empire, so I hope that everywhere in the empire and among the people the conviction may grow @@ -5915,7 +5875,7 @@ impossible through the unfortunate lack of union of our ancestors.</p> <p>I hope that in the future, under my protection, -Lübeck may continue to develop. I could not express +Lübeck may continue to develop. I could not express this hope with the same satisfaction if I did not now stand before you joyously buoyed up by the hope that we to-day have the prospect of at @@ -5924,7 +5884,7 @@ last possessing a German fleet.</p> <p>An Emperor can only undertake to protect a seaport when he is in a position with his cannon to protect her flag, even in the farthermost corners -of the world, whether it be that of Lübeck, or of +of the world, whether it be that of Lübeck, or of Hamburg, or of Bremen, or of Prussia.</p> <p>May it be granted us to maintain peace outwardly @@ -5971,7 +5931,7 @@ is immortalized in a picture upon my yacht <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Hohenzollern</i>.</p> <p>The descendants of those princes gave each -other assistance at Mühldorf,<a name="FNanchor_30" id="FNanchor_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> where the Hohenzoller +other assistance at Mühldorf,<a name="FNanchor_30" id="FNanchor_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a> where the Hohenzoller won the battle for Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria. Just as at that time the houses of Wittelsbach and of Hohenzollern fought side by<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span> @@ -6020,11 +5980,11 @@ that in this course I have the German princes and the German people firmly behind me.</p> <p>It is of great significance that precisely at this -time, when Bavarians and Würtembergers, Saxons +time, when Bavarians and Würtembergers, Saxons and Prussians are going into the far East in order to re-establish the honor of the German flag, your Royal Highness should have accepted the -honor of the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à la suite</i> position to the naval battalion. +honor of the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à la suite</i> position to the naval battalion. Just as the house of Wittelsbach took up arms in 1870 to fight for Germany’s honor, for her union, and her imperial dignity, so I hope that @@ -6033,7 +5993,7 @@ of this noble race.</p> <p>As a representative of this noble house I greet your Royal Highness with the wish that the close -connection which the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à la suite</i> position to my +connection which the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">à la suite</i> position to my navy now gives you will always maintain your Royal Highness’s interest for our fleet.</p> @@ -6060,7 +6020,7 @@ of the German troops for China. This particular one was delivered to the troops at Bremen in the presence of the Empress, Princes Eitel Friedrich and Adelbert, Chancellor Hohenlohe, -Secretary of State von Bülow, Minister of +Secretary of State von Bülow, Minister of War von Gossler, and Lieutenant-General von Bessel. Various versions of this speech exist and in many of them the harshness of the Emperor’s @@ -6218,7 +6178,7 @@ citadel has arisen again like a phœnix from its ashes. It is a testimony to the Roman power, a link in the great chain which the legions of Rome built about the powerful empire which, at the bidding -of the Roman Emperor Cæsar Augustus +of the Roman Emperor Cæsar Augustus alone, forced its way upon the world and opened<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span> the whole world to that Roman culture which fell so fruitfully upon Germany especially.</p> @@ -6533,7 +6493,7 @@ longing to be brought together into a single nation remained in the German breast, and Emperor William the Great, in union with his faithful servants, achieved it. So cast your eyes from -Coblentz to the German Eck and from Rüdesheim +Coblentz to the German Eck and from Rüdesheim to the Niederwald! The pictures teach and prove to you that you are now Germans in a German land, citizens of a definitely bounded German @@ -6578,7 +6538,7 @@ else in this world.” Then will we stand firm and spread culture through the world, and I shall close my eyes in peace if I see such generations growing up and gathered about my son. Then -“<i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles!</i>” With this +“<i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles!</i>” With this prospect in mind I call out: Long live the University of Bonn!</p> @@ -6610,7 +6570,7 @@ Ballin, of the Hamburg-American Line, had acquired for twenty-five years most of the landings of a Chinese navigation company. The Emperor’s<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span> speech was delivered in reply to one by Burgomaster -Mönckeberg of Hamburg.</p></div> +Mönckeberg of Hamburg.</p></div> <p>I offer my heartiest thanks for the eloquent address of your Magnificence. I express to you @@ -6681,7 +6641,7 @@ markets for them.</p> <p>As head of the empire I therefore rejoice over every citizen, whether from Hamburg, Bremen, -or Lübeck, who goes forth with this large outlook +or Lübeck, who goes forth with this large outlook and seeks new points where we can drive in the nail on which to hang our armor. Therefore, I believe that I express the feeling of all your @@ -6726,7 +6686,7 @@ naval matters under the Emperor we may judge when we remember that before the Franco-Prussian War there were in Germany no construction bureaus and no wharves in which cruisers -could be built. The first armored cruisers, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">König +could be built. The first armored cruisers, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">König Wilhelm</i>, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Kronprinz</i>, <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Friedrich Karl</i>, were bought from England and France. In thirty years Germany has here achieved not only complete @@ -6874,7 +6834,7 @@ Let the monument be unveiled!</p> service in the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Guard on the completion of his eighteenth year. On this occasion, in the presence of many princes, -officers of the army, and military attachés, the +officers of the army, and military attachés, the Emperor turned over his son to the regiment with the following words:</p></div> @@ -6946,12 +6906,12 @@ William IV were particularly gifted on the artistic side. The present Emperor, whose versatility is amazing, has taken a particular interest in things literary and artistic, and has himself occasionally -assumed the rôle of creative artist. +assumed the rôle of creative artist. The symbolic picture, representing the coming of the “Yellow Peril,” which he is said to have painted for the Czar, caused much comment, mostly unfavorable.<a name="FNanchor_36" id="FNanchor_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a> He has, however, assumed -a prominent if not a decisive rôle in direct<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span>ing +a prominent if not a decisive rôle in direct<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span>ing sculpture, painting, and drama in his capital. Just as he has directed modifications in battle-ships, so also he has directed modifications in @@ -7011,7 +6971,7 @@ and the drama, he has very little sympathy with the modern German tendencies. Klinger and Stuck, Ludwig von Hofmann and Thoma have found no favor, and no attention was paid to -Böcklin. His literary preferences will become +Böcklin. His literary preferences will become more evident after a reading of his talk with Ganghofer (November 12, 1906).</p> @@ -7184,7 +7144,7 @@ the development of the world.</p> magnificent remains from the old classic period we experience the same feeling. Here, too, an eternal, unchanging law rules; the law of beauty -and harmony—of æsthetics. This law was expressed +and harmony—of æsthetics. This law was expressed by the ancients in so surprising and powerful a manner and in so complete a form that we, for all our modern perceptions and our power of accomplishment, @@ -7208,7 +7168,7 @@ Through the much-misused word “freedom” and under her flag one often falls into indefiniteness, boundlessness, conceit. However, he who cuts loose from the law of beauty and -from the feeling for æsthetics and harmony which, +from the feeling for æsthetics and harmony which, whether he can express it or not, every man feels in his heart; he who thinks the chief thing is to turn his thoughts in a certain direction toward @@ -7326,7 +7286,7 @@ so that he who bites upon it may lose his teeth!<a name="FNanchor_37" id="FNanch <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_37" id="Footnote_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> A phrase of Frederick the Great which Count Bülow had used +<p><a name="Footnote_37" id="Footnote_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> A phrase of Frederick the Great which Count Bülow had used in the Reichstag January 8, 1902, in speaking of the English Colonial Secretary Chamberlain’s attack on the German army.</p> @@ -7373,13 +7333,13 @@ was here that Charlemagne erected his throne, and the city of Aix shone in his reflected glory. So important, so imposing was the figure of this great German prince that from Rome the dignity -of the Roman Cæsars was bestowed upon him, +of the Roman Cæsars was bestowed upon him, and he was chosen to enter into the inheritance of the <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Imperium Romanum</i>—certainly a splendid recognition of the capability of our German stock as it appeared for the first time in history. For the Roman sceptre had fallen from the hands of -the Cæsars and their successors. Crumbling and +the Cæsars and their successors. Crumbling and decayed, the Roman edifice was tottering to its fall, and only the appearance of the victorious Germans with their virtuous dispositions made @@ -7461,7 +7421,7 @@ is true equally of Catholics and Protestants.</p> bring to the leaders of the church who are here represented a bit of news of which I am proud to be the bearer. Beside me stands General von -Loë, a faithful servant of his Kings. He was sent +Loë, a faithful servant of his Kings. He was sent to Rome to the jubilee of the Holy Father, and when he delivered to him my gift and my congratulations and in private conversation had explained @@ -7470,7 +7430,7 @@ the Holy Father answered him that he was happy to be able to say that he had always thought highly of the piety of the Germans and of the German army; he said he could even go further and -commissioned General von Loë to report the following +commissioned General von Loë to report the following to his Emperor: The German Empire is the only<a name="FNanchor_38" id="FNanchor_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> country in Europe in which training, order, and discipline rule, in which respect for @@ -7537,7 +7497,7 @@ The Emperor had tried to introduce repeatedly subversion acts which would have made for the persecution of this the largest political party in his empire. When, on October 13, 1895, a manufacturer -was murdered in Mülhausen by a workman +was murdered in Mülhausen by a workman who had been repeatedly convicted of theft, William II telegraphed to his widow: “Another sacrifice to the revolutionary movement engendered @@ -8039,7 +7999,7 @@ lines; whoever wants to may read them.</p> <h3><a name="Sect_59" id="Sect_59">FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS ARMY</a></h3> -<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Döberitz, May 29, 1903</span></p> +<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Döberitz, May 29, 1903</span></p> <div class="blockquot"> @@ -8348,7 +8308,7 @@ as my eye wandered over the masses of people to think that the former Prussian Crown Prince, subsequently the first Crown Prince of the German Empire, and, finally, second Hohenzollern Emperor, -should be fêted in a free German city just +should be fêted in a free German city just as though this were his home. It is a proof that his figure, as well as that of his great and illustrious father, has become a common possession of the @@ -8458,7 +8418,7 @@ did in Hamburg.<a name="FNanchor_41" id="FNanchor_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41" seas; we have material for crews. The eagerness and the spirit are the same as those which filled the officers of the Prussian army at Hohenfriedberg, -at Königgrätz, and at Sedan; and every German +at Königgrätz, and at Sedan; and every German war-ship which leaves the slips is one more guarantee for peace on land. We are correspondingly more powerful as allies, and our opponents @@ -8630,15 +8590,15 @@ the support they gave Frederick William III in Divisions of patriotic volunteers, “free corps,” were organized in the province, who, not being Prussians, could not serve in the Prussian line. -The best known of these was that of Lützow, to -which the poet Theodor Körner belonged. It is +The best known of these was that of Lützow, to +which the poet Theodor Körner belonged. It is from one of his most famous war-songs that the quotation in the Emperor’s speech is taken. The manner in which he speaks of the coronation of his grandfather “by the will of Heaven” and with no mention of the Constitution, is to be found in several of his speeches, notably the address at -Königsberg (August 25, 1910). Most of these +Königsberg (August 25, 1910). Most of these speeches were made in his hereditary provinces, Prussia, Silesia, and Brandenburg, and aroused considerable protest in other parts of Germany.</p></div> @@ -8692,7 +8652,7 @@ Hohenzollern King, Frederick William III, when he encountered the ardent enthusiasm of the first volunteers in Breslau, when the first raising of troops took place here, and when the “wild, dashing -Lützow hunters” started in their career against +Lützow hunters” started in their career against the enemy at the Zobten. And so it has been ever since. The sons of Silesia have fought whenever it was a question of coming forward and sacrificing @@ -8754,7 +8714,7 @@ faithful Silesians.</p> <h3><a name="Sect_65" id="Sect_65">OPTIMISM AND LITERATURE</a></h3> -<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Münich, November 12, 1906</span></p> +<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Münich, November 12, 1906</span></p> <div class="blockquot"> @@ -8763,7 +8723,7 @@ has been particularly delighted to honor and in whom he sees one of the glories of German literature is Doctor Ludwig Ganghofer, who is certainly not more than an able writer of the second rank. -After a performance in the <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Hoftheater</i> in Münich +After a performance in the <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Hoftheater</i> in Münich the Emperor expressed the desire to see him, and the following conversation took place which was reported in a confusing combination of direct and @@ -8894,7 +8854,7 @@ Empire and of the German people.’</p> <p>“Many times also I meet with pleasant experiences—and most often on these very journeys which are made such a reproach to me.” So the -days in Münich would remain an untroubled joy +days in Münich would remain an untroubled joy to him which he would never forget. The warmth and heartiness in the behavior of the population as well as the beautiful picture, gay with color, of @@ -9053,7 +9013,7 @@ more rapid policy of expansion. Mr. Barker is authority for the statement that leaders of the imperialistic agitation had gone so far as to recommend that if the Reichstag did not vote the -credits necessary for doubling the fleet, a <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">coup d’état</i> +credits necessary for doubling the fleet, a <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">coup d’état</i> should be effected by the government and that it should levy the taxes and govern in case of necessity against the will of the Reichstag or without @@ -9131,7 +9091,7 @@ in the play and do not occur in this order: <h3><a name="Sect_68" id="Sect_68">THE NECESSITY OF FAITH</a></h3> -<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Münster, August 31, 1907</span></p> +<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Münster, August 31, 1907</span></p> <div class="blockquot"> @@ -9339,7 +9299,7 @@ which, here as in Metz, the people of Alsace-Lorraine have given so telling an expression of their love and loyalty. My heart also bids me thank you once more for the restoration of the old -castle of Hohkönigsburg, especially the people of +castle of Hohkönigsburg, especially the people of Lorraine for their patriotic attitude and the donation of the charming Lorraine Room in the castle. For more than thirty-seven years you have now @@ -9394,7 +9354,7 @@ interview in the <cite>Daily Telegraph</cite> of London. German sympathies before and during the Boer War had been strongly pro-Boer. On the third of January, 1896, the Emperor had telegraphed to -President Krüger: “I beg to express to you my +President Krüger: “I beg to express to you my sincere congratulations that, without help from foreign powers, you have succeeded with your own people and by your own strength in driving out @@ -9425,7 +9385,7 @@ journalist who had written certain flattering articles about the Emperor. As for the text, it was admitted that it was substantially authentic; it had been shown to and had practically received -the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">visé</i> of the German Foreign Office. The Emperor’s +the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">visé</i> of the German Foreign Office. The Emperor’s Chancellor, however, had not seen the interview and under the storm of criticism offered his resignation. This the Emperor did not @@ -9447,7 +9407,7 @@ and dismissal of Chancellors and declarations of war, and for introducing a law to bring about ministerial responsibility. Nothing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[269]</a></span> came of these, however, and we shall see from the -Königsberg speech (August 25, 1910) that the +Königsberg speech (August 25, 1910) that the chastening which the Emperor had received on this occasion had no particularly lasting effect. Although both the interview and the telegram are @@ -9504,7 +9464,7 @@ had been consistently hostile to her. German opinion, he admitted, was hostile—“bitterly hostile”; but not so official Germany. In fact, while other European peoples had received and -fêted the Boer delegates who came to solicit European +fêted the Boer delegates who came to solicit European intervention, he alone had refused to receive them at Berlin, “where the German people would<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[271]</a></span> have crowned them with flowers.” His Majesty @@ -9581,12 +9541,12 @@ same side in the great debates of the future.”</p> <div class="blockquot"> -<p>With Prince Fürstenberg the Emperor journeyed +<p>With Prince Fürstenberg the Emperor journeyed from Donaueschingen to Manzell in order to be present at a flight of the dirigible Z-1. Count Zeppelin received the Emperor and conducted him in a -motor-boat to the dirigible hangar. Prince Fürstenberg, -Admiral von Müller, and General von +motor-boat to the dirigible hangar. Prince Fürstenberg, +Admiral von Müller, and General von Plessen ascended with the count. The Emperor did not make the flight. After the landing of the airship he bestowed upon Count Zeppelin the order @@ -9613,7 +9573,7 @@ which certainly all your guests gathered here share with the entire German people, I bestow upon you herewith my high Order of the Black Eagle. [Then followed the investing by his Majesty and -the head marshal, Prince Fürstenberg.] Now +the head marshal, Prince Fürstenberg.] Now allow me, my dear count, to bestow unofficially upon you the accolade! [Embraces him three times.] His Excellency, Count Zeppelin, the Conqueror @@ -9768,11 +9728,11 @@ which the citizens of Karlsruhe have offered us.</p> <h3><a name="Sect_75" id="Sect_75">EMPEROR BY DIVINE RIGHT</a></h3> -<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Königsberg, August 25, 1910</span></p> +<p class="subheader"><span class="smcap">Königsberg, August 25, 1910</span></p> <div class="blockquot"> -<p>It was at Königsberg that the coronation of the +<p>It was at Königsberg that the coronation of the Emperor’s grandfather took place, or rather, it was here that William I crowned himself King of Prussia. This express disclaimer of any responsibility @@ -9797,7 +9757,7 @@ feel on finding ourselves again within the borders of this beautiful country and on having been received with such enthusiasm by the citizens of our loyal city and of the province. The sentiment -that finds expression now in Königsberg proves +that finds expression now in Königsberg proves that it is an entirely unique bond which joins the city and the province to our house. And, in fact, if one looks back upon the history of the country @@ -9841,7 +9801,7 @@ anew the Prussians and, I may truly say, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ whole German people. It is not possible to think of the time of our collapse and our revival, without remembering the figure of Queen Louise. The -people of the city of Königsberg and the province +people of the city of Königsberg and the province of East Prussia likewise saw this angel in human form wandering among them and they were influenced by her and helped her to bear her @@ -10531,7 +10491,7 @@ armament and higher taxation, Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg had earnestly urged all parties to unite against the Social Democrats. His efforts were not nearly so successful as had been those of -Bülow in 1907. One hundred and ten Social +Bülow in 1907. One hundred and ten Social Democrats were returned. It is perhaps significant that at this session the Reichstag voted a bill creating a German oil company, which was to @@ -10681,7 +10641,7 @@ always expressed himself most freely with regard to his personal pretensions that he ruled by divine right alone. The two speeches which have been most criticised in this respect are the ones delivered -at Breslau (February 3, 1899) and Königsberg +at Breslau (February 3, 1899) and Königsberg (August 25, 1910). They served, unfortunately, to accentuate the differences which existed between the subjects in various parts of the empire @@ -10694,7 +10654,7 @@ even conservative critics, referred to these ideas of “<i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Gottesgnadentum</i>,” grace-of-Godism, with touches of what was at least irony. After the unfortunate crisis following the <cite>Daily Telegraph</cite> -interview Chancellor von Bülow had felt constrained +interview Chancellor von Bülow had felt constrained to request the Emperor “henceforward to observe, even in private interviews, that reserve which is indispensable both to the interests of a @@ -10702,7 +10662,7 @@ consistent policy and to the authority of the crown.” As we have seen, in spite of the Emperor’s seeming acceptance of this necessity, it had not modified to any particular extent the tenor of -his speech at Königsberg in 1910. It may be that +his speech at Königsberg in 1910. It may be that by this time (1912) he had taken the admonition to heart, for it will be noticed that, though we have the customary reference to Frederick of Hohenzollern @@ -10743,11 +10703,11 @@ blood of any other German stock; and for that reason we do not wish to be regarded as minor brothers, but as brothers with full rights and privileges.” So, too, it is said that the King of -Würtemberg left the Emperor’s side in anger and +Würtemberg left the Emperor’s side in anger and withdrew from the army manœuvres in 1894. It will be plain to any one who reads the Emperor’s speeches that very few of them are made in South -Germany. Münich, Leipzig, and Stuttgart have +Germany. Münich, Leipzig, and Stuttgart have been visited by him less frequently than certain foreign capitals. This is due in part, no doubt, to the fact that the reigning sovereigns of these @@ -10759,7 +10719,7 @@ to him at Breslau and Berlin; for, if the Emperor is warranted in expecting a particular loyalty from his Prussians and Brandenburgers, so, too, are the hereditary rulers of Bavaria, Saxony, -and Würtemberg warranted in expecting a particular +and Würtemberg warranted in expecting a particular recognition at home, which must necessarily be deducted from the possible tribute which can be paid the Emperor, who is likewise a rival King and @@ -10930,7 +10890,7 @@ reserve in extending the reach of the German flag where many perhaps would have desired and longed to see it. I have allowed myself to be guided by an old Hanseatic proverb which stands in -significant letters over the town hall at Lübeck: +significant letters over the town hall at Lübeck: “The little flag is easily tied to the staff, but it is difficult to haul it down with honor.” Now, gentlemen, I believe that I can say without fear @@ -11046,7 +11006,7 @@ This year his yacht <i>Meteor</i> was to win the Hamburg prize. The banquet at which he ordinarily delivered his address was to be held on board the <i lang="de" xml:lang="de">Victoria Luise</i>, and the president of the -association, Doctor Schröder, who made the address +association, Doctor Schröder, who made the address preceding the Emperor’s, alluded to the disaster to the Z-1 and the destruction of that boat off Heligoland. He followed it with a discussion @@ -11401,384 +11361,6 @@ typographical error.</p> </div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The German Emperor as Shown in his -Public Utterances, by Christian Gauss - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMAN EMPEROR--PUBLIC UTTERANCES *** - -***** This file should be named 43666-h.htm or 43666-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/6/6/43666/ - -Produced by Norbert Müller and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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