| Show WILLIAM IS DEFEATED the dispatches a aa far as received at this thie writing indicate the defeat of the government in the elections for the german varlia parliament ment it la is not shown or foreha dowed that th the minority in which the eup portera of the em derora military P JOY will find and them ives elves when the organization takes place will be considerable or even decisive indeed so BO far as an way may be b do de from p resent advich advices ad vices it is 19 K de ia th talat at the prime pria minister way may able to effect a majority combine tio the on 11 favorable ravo rable to the array army bill out ot parties partied represented to the jut just what tactics william will res ort to known next no one per hapa pa not even himmell hime elf he is confronted by a confusing not to SAY aay humiliating condition of things in the fatherland his ancestry his instinct his big training and his surroundings have all caused him to look upon himself as an absolute ru lerone agai agabi t plainly defined and expressed will not even the imaginary constitution itself could stand for an instant on his bis former trial of strength with the peopled representatives he was brought face to face for the first time with a rude and angering reversal it was in the nature of a painful awakening from a dream of undisturbed dominion of continued empire e m pire for the first ala time in his hia life 1 he ke was WA made to realize that the rule instituted I 1 before the century was born that the consent of the governed in ii a factor of government not to be entirely over looked had bad not paled upon the world but had bad taken root grown and pread to all landa his hie own included it was also a note of warning to him that while he may have stood still in the midst of the mighty yet tranquil revolution that has baa been going steadily on his big subjects have ad danced with it and beyond him it may not threaten his bis throne because everything truly progressive comei cornea by easy and reg regular u lar stages and the german movement has baa not yet reached that point As to how soon boon it way may reach it or whether it reaches it all in the present emperors day depends largely upon himself we should ray pay if he be accepts the inevitable and chokes down the choler which bis irascible nature must cause to rise as he be contemplates the peaceful yet powerful sway of the common people he be way may lever be disturbed in his bis regal tor for even an instant and if he would inaugurate a war upon himself rather than upon russia or france and beat down and drive out those which keep him aloof from and on stilted relations with the loyal commoners who constitute his nations nation 19 bulwark la ba war and its sustaining power in peace he might pass into history as the best beat loved monarch of nil germany since the time of frederick the great |
