Emperor William and the Liberal Press.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 3

Emperor William and the Liberal Press.

By his recent answer to the Berlin civic officers, in which he complained bitterly of the license allowed to the Liberal press ia discussing- the late Emperor's policy as compared with his own, the Emperor has drawu a hornets' nest about his ears. The Liberal journals are justly indignant at this covert attack on their privileges and retort that the Court newspapers are allowed full license in their virulent attacks upon their opponents. The ' Boersen Courier ' writes : 'It was not we who asserted that, supposing the Emperor Frederick's alleged diary to be a forgery, its publication was to beregarded as an insult to the memory of the dead. It was not we who said this, but Prince Bismarck, who gave out that Kaiser Friedrich, when Crown Prince, had to be kept aloof from esoteric affairs of policy, as it was feared that he might commit the indiscretion ' (of betraying state secrets) ' to an English court full of French sympathies. It was not we but Piofeesor Treitschke, who called the reign of the Emperor Frederick a sad episode. It was not we who described the Emperor Frederick as the greatest obstacle to the unification of Germany, but the Conservative 'Post.' It was not we who characterised the Emperor Frederick as a political Parsifal, but the Cologne 'Gazette.' It was not we who spokeof aßattenberg marriage, of 'petticoat (Frauenzimmer) policy,' and Anglomania, bub the extreme Conservative and Cartel press. We should never have dared to say and do such things, not from fear of punishment, which would assuredly have overtaken us in particular, but out of respect for the wearer of the crown, who remains sacked and unapsailable for us even during mortal illness and after death as well. Our opposition has to do with the Government, not the sovereign.