Show Frederick III to Ills People BERLIN March 12An extraordinary edition of the Official Gazette contains the following proclamation from Emperor Em-peror Frederick To My PeopleThe Emperor has ended his glorious life In the much loved father whom I bewail whom my royal house with me laments in deepest sorrow the faithful Prussian people have lost their famecrowned king the German nation the founder of its unity and the newlyrisen empire its first German Emperor His illustrious name will remain inseparably bound up with all the greatness of the German Fatherland Father-land in whose new creation the strenuous strenu-ous labor of the Prussian people and princes ha met with its most splendid reward while King William raised the Prussian army to the heights of its earnest vocation By the nevertiring care of the naions father he laid the sure foundation for the victories which were afterward gained by German arms under his leadership and out of which sprang the national unity He therefore there-fore secured to the Empire a portion of the power such as up to that time every German heart had yearned for hot had sonrrelv dared to honA fnr I and that which he won for his people in honorable deathbringing fight he was destined to strengthen and beneficially bene-ficially increase by the long and peacelul toil of his laborious years of government safely resting upon her own strength Germany stands forth esteemed in toe conncil of the nations and desires only to enjoy in peaceful progress that which she has won That this is so we have to thank Emperor William In his neverwaver ing devotion to duty and his indefatigable indefatig-able ability consecrated to the welfare of Fatherland he was supported by his reliance re-liance upon the selfsacrificing devotion devo-tion of which the Prussian people had given unvarying proofs and in which all the German races shared all the rights and duties which are connected with the crown and my house and whhh for the time that according to Gods will may be allotted me to ral I am resolved to faithfully preserve the name now parsed to me Imbued with the greatness great-ness of my misson I shall make it my whole endeavor to continue the fabric in the spirit in which it was founded to make Germany the centre of peace and foster her welfare To my faithful people who have stood by my house throughout the history of the whole century in good as in evil days I offer my unbounded confidence for I am convinced that on the basis of the nn breatcable bond batween the sovereign and people which independently of every change in the life state forms the unalterable substance of the house of HohenzMiern my crown rests henceforward as securely as it does upon the devotion of of the country ta the government by which I am now called and of which I solemnly promise to be a faithful king both in happiness and in sorrow May God grant meH s blessing and strength to carry out this work to which my liCe shall henceforth be devoted Signed FREDERICK BERLIN March 12 1888 |