Show AN EMPIRE FOR A TOY THE impetuous young emperor ol of germ germany ny has much to learn before he acquires the art of reigning over any intelligent portion of the civilized inhabitants of the world to is this progressive and iconoclastic nineteenth century when the haughty and magnificent ent french potentate laconically declared lefao moi moc his hie remark caused even in that day a shudder among the statesmen who surrounded his throne and who felt the sure intuition that mankind was preparing to throw off its irksome fetters later events in the french nation have shown how weak is the arm of autocratic power and the epigram we quote is today remembered chiefly because the imperious assumption it asserts is so ridiculous in the light of modern intelligence and human rights but the youthful kaiser likes its spirit whether or no 1 I and my army is the way he puts it one alone is master in this country and it is I 1 IJ the change in the language to is immaterial the purport is the same the bumptious descendant of a line of kings has read history poorly he feels but imperfectly the swelling pulse of forty millions of thinking men he realizes but slightly that though arrayed in all the gorgeous paraphernalia of his rank and with his army at his hie back he still walks upon a shaking crust cru st beneath which discontent and revolution are seething his aged grandfather learned this in his bis old age his father knew it when for a few short weeks he occupied the throne william 11 II may be slower to heed the warning signs but the longer he lives the more to them win will he be become |