The Kaiser in Trouble.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 99, 30 April 1904, Page 2

The Kaiser in Trouble.

A STHONO CONDEMNATION IN THE EEICHSTAO^ It has been a winter full of excitement for tho Kaisor, and oven if Ms health were as good as it Is officially stated to be, he would have every reason to take a temporary , vacation, cabied tho Berlin correspondent of a San Frn,ncisco pnpor on March 19th. His every act, no matter of what kind, has been critr leiped.tp . t\hc very limits 0/ Ut« stringent German laws.

From ono side ho has btocn accused of fostering ill-feeling between Germany and Russia, from another of making Germany "perform tyotIjlaek service for the Czar." Officers of noblo Wood have criticised him for stopping their practice of terrorising privates and non-com-missioned ofllcers, and showing illfeeling against officers of lower ex» traction ; oilicers of loss noblo bjood linve accused him of showing a too marked preference for aristocratic 'inmes for the general staff, and of'icers in general have openly shown :>nd said what they think of his iiinny changes in their uniform.

!>iit it is 1110 Koichstng which has given him Hie hardest blows, which •■Diild uul lie parried, because, unforlunuU'ly, there ia no law (o gag members of that body, who take full advantage of their liberty of speech. Kmpcror William will not noon forgot how ho was hauled over the coals during last week by a member of I lie Koichstng, Dr. Mueller, who accused him of duplicity in posing as a champion of tho privates in the army, anil at the same time summarily dismissing from military scrvice his own brother-in-law,' the Prime, of Saxc-rMoiningon, who had dared to call his attention to uAjUsca in (lie army.

And to make matters worm, the Minister of War, Lleutenant-Goncrai von Kinens, who loyally came to his war lord's defence, not only chose Ins words so poorly that ho only compromised the Kaiser still moro in the, eyes of Iho public, but was even driven to tho wall by Dr. Mueller, who made him admit that ho was unable to find any arguments in favour of tlio Kaiser, who was accused of favouring aristocratic officers.

Never Ims a (iiii'inan Minister ol War looked so thoroughly undesirable «s (leneral von Einens, whon ha spoke his last words in the debate. " Tiro Kaiser has shown preference in no class of officers, but if ho has I'cwnrded the services rendered by the nottility, nobody has any right to criticise Win for this."

It must have been worth listening. to the Kaiser when he. received his Minister immediately aftw his speech m the Reichstag, and people at Court are still laughing at the downcast expression of the General velum he left his august master.