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Show KAISER IS CRITICISED German Papers Aston-ished Aston-ished at the Claim of Divine Right Berlin, Aug. 26 Tho speech delivered de-livered last night by Emperor William Wil-liam of Germany before the provincial provin-cial banquet at Koenlsburg in which he emphasized his belief lu tho Divine Di-vine mandate by which be ruled, referred re-ferred to tho Prussian crown as lie-stowed lie-stowed by God's graco and not by parliaments or people's assemblies, and laid a lance against the present movement for women suffrage, is tho political sensation of the hour. The leading organs of the German press devote extended comment to It, generally criticizing the emperor's utterances and there are Indications that the discourse will have a deep political cuTect upon the country, nearly near-ly all the Berlin papers discussing the subject In connection with the political politi-cal crisis of November. 1908, when tho publication by the Iyindon Dally Telegraph Tel-egraph of an interview with tho emperor em-peror aroused a storm against tho uncontrolled un-controlled public speaking of tho emperor. em-peror. The Yosslehe Zeltung. the Tage-hlatt, Tage-hlatt, the post and other papers point out the constitutional character of the kingdom of Prussia In the era pi re and inquire whether the chancellor, chan-cellor, Dr Von nethmann Holwog. was privy to the emperor's purpose of delivering such a speech. They predict that It will lead to a renewed discussion of the emperor's constitutional constitu-tional position when the Reichstag reassembles re-assembles in November. The monarchist Tagelelche Rundschau, Runds-chau, the favorite journal of army officers, of-ficers, says: "This speech means a storm. Never Nev-er before has Kmperor William set Into such clear relief his romantic, medieval idea of his non-responslbll ity to man's Judgment, of his not be-lug be-lug bound hy the const It utlonal cooperation co-operation of the people, and of ruling by God's freo grace, against all thrso convictions and feelings which today determine our existence as a state. "Why should the emperor choose this moment to emphasize his ruling by God's grace and his own right when It will nourish an antl-monarch-inl agitation and good monarchists be thrown Into a condltlou of tragic disruption?" dis-ruption?" The organ of the landed nobility, the Deutsche Tages Zeltung thoroughly thorough-ly approves of the declares of the emperor. em-peror. The Lokal Anzeigor lays stress upon up-on the desire of the emperor that the people co-operate with him and points out that the emperor delivered the Fpeech ln the castle where the Prussian kings were formerly crowned. crown-ed. He said in the same hall In May, 1890: ' We HohenzollerriB take our crown from Heaven alone," and In I tho same place on September C, IS91, he quoted the words of his grandfather, grand-father, William I. about ruling hy Dl-! Dl-! vine right and added: "So. too. do 1 I take my kingdom by God's grace." The Tngeblatt affirms that, although prices did not falter on the exchange, trading blackened and brokers appre-I appre-I bend an unfavorable Influence of tho I speech upon markets at home and j abroad. I London, Aug. 2C. The Times In an editorial today dealing with the speech of Emperor William, says: "History is not likely 'to regard It as an accident that the figures, whoso eloquence reached faithest In the world of their day, should have insisted insist-ed In language so similar in Its directness di-rectness and force on the simple human hu-man obligations which men and women wo-men were seeking to escape. Emperor Emper-or William and Col. Roosevelt did not preach from the same text but tho moral of their preaching is the same." I |