Show GERMANYS ACTION william of germany has been try ing very hard to impress Ina his empire with the he idea that the rulers will should be the nations actions law this has been the great burden of his hia speeches on important occasions until bin bi expressions pres have been positively nau seat ing to the democratic democrat io ideas which prevail on OD chist side bide of the ocean the defeat in the reichstag the past week of two bills bill which received reo elved the special and urgent endorsement of the kaiser Is an evidence that itself Is alno no longer a believer in the divine right of king to rule at will and perhaps william way may now move forward a top stop to be up with the nations nation s fl program pro grea the no doubt are impressed imp reMd with the fact sot so BU often called to their attention by the emperor that it was wa by grace of she divine ruler that william 11 II at the bead of the german empire they have shown hown by their action that they also realize that it is ia by the same eama grace that they are themselves a idoler in the germon german nation and are under the sacred obligation of preserving the empire from the emperors absolutism under ordinary circumstances the chancellor would have passed out of 0 office but so an it waa wa the emperor more than the ministry which was waa defeated prince Hoben lohe consistently conform to die kalver kaler 4 request to in office of the abe two bills billi rejected the antl anti revolution mil bill wall wal we the more important it gave to the monarch extraordinary powers powen in the be moe case of any elp tenton of opinion on the part of the people it if any person in the empire should coald arild olas cise certain religious relle fous teachings bione tione or customs in 1 a way ady which the emperor might regard sp ar on au insult the offending party parly was milade made liable to three years yean imprisonment any attack upon marriage marr laKe the family institution or property or remarks remark which could be construed as such by the kaneer brought similar illar punishment thus thua the free discussion of public and social questions in a way that might disagree die agree with the emperors empe rora views view was made criminal it was a peculiar and galling izal lioK system of slavery elavery that william was wai seeking to enforce and was repressive of that everit of free inquiry of which the germans have boasted tor for centuries looking at the situation from this thic distance diat anoe it appears BB as it the gorman german statesmen have done their ruler almost the greatest favor within their power to grant by defeating his pet scheme if they bad adopted it there to strong probability that in a very short bort time the ranks of those oppressed by the would have been so 0 o augmented that the anti revolution law would have become the most moat powerful of revolutionary pro facea and the germans germane would have firisen almost en massis masse for the over throw of the ruling dynasty the defeat of the two measures which the emperor had bad submitted to the reichstag indicate the abe progress pro gregs of democratic ideas ideal io in germany the failure of the anti revolution bill is evidence that the german legislators were on the occasion more capable guardians of the hoherz elern dynasty ys interests in teresta than was the abe emperor himself |