KAISER'S MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 6

KAISER'S MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE.

"FREDERICK'S SPIRIT." The subjoined proclamation by the Emperor William was gazetted on January 30:— "On tbo occasion of my entry into a new year of life and of tho preceding 200 th anniversary of the birth of Ivmg Frederick tho Great, numerous congratulations and greetings of homage reached mo from the German lands and from abroad. These ranifold demonstrations of staunch fealty have filled mo with sincero joy and gratitude. In our quick living time, dominated as it is by political and economic interests and antagonisms, national anniversaries havo a particularly beneficial effect, for they make it Decenary to pause for a moment in the hurry of workaday life and to cast a glauco at the past. What undrcnml-of development has been vouchsafed to our Fatherland and how grateful wo must bo to the groat men who showed themselves in earnest times to be true leaders of the nation and mado it cnpable of fulfilling the great tasks set it by Providence. "What my ereat ancestor achieved for tho Prussian State by his life-work, and what influence his unattained osamo.o of self-control, industry, fidelity to duty, and devotion to the Fatherland had upon the character, development, and cdw-uion of our people, has during the Ins., tew davs been pictured to us with lively colours in speech, writing, and picture. The cerdia' participation and scntimints ot gratitude which the memory of ;he gm.t fed has called forth in young nnd c,d tlroughout tho country is a miarpteo tna° in spite of the many uncrtityr.il? of ideal and mntonal possessions u men hn« come 'lowa frnm him. Ihe ..i?"i-..i:i raV would rally round ihe-r prir.™ oblivion of all. (hpmwlvps to be guided only by '.V < •■•<> Frederieian idea-all for the latherland." ~