THE PRUSSIAN JUNKER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 8

THE PRUSSIAN JUNKER.

his views a>;d prejudice. "THE EXCLISH RACE IS DYJYC Ol r T." A correspondent, writing in The Times Jn 'v 4 ,> S' Vl '« an inUii-cstiuf, sketch of the modern .Junker, whose * lews uml prejudice, peiHmpg "mofe tainn, ;ho-e of any other clasn in. th« German Empire, have dictated the poliev which lius forced Kui'ope into war. He is renreseirted a.s a Sovereign in liis o\Vii small wty, lording it wHi undisputed sway over hi-, few hundred peasants. Ti)p tflitirrh in which he worships j s | )ra . tically lii.i privalte chapel. "Seated in a high-backed wooden I'ilair, Donnerwetter listens every Sunday to a sermon upon Divine, or the destiny of Prussia; the choir is recruited froini his kitchen, and his .stables; while the coii<rre£attion and iwsltor hi' rules with Sir Holer's rod. and '.allows no on ■ to .sleep ill chnri'h, except himself. "But it is a mistake Uj suppose that he liven too nwieh in live pasi, or too .liiuvh anions riuctioiMritt). Tllie Siukilist and Radical comie newspapers are fend of depidtins' him. whip in hand, anil hi heavy rid ins boots, roncoctui# wil'i a dark anil frowning piiest, fresh schemes to still" progress. Tile two crcnies are together over the cni died corp.-o of .some free trader, some peace prophet, or some daring advocate of "Inici't••." >io picture eouhl be more misleading. Kar rcniovcd ihmyh he is from the no;-" and i-aioke of great Koine. Donnerwetter is bv no .means a simple i:■ 1.1 Tory fainter, but a imiu of a flairs in the foi'-l'ionl, of politics and roimiie.ree. He is frequently ill Berlin, not .merely to hobnob \vi(i H fellow ■I linker-and retired generals, biu to ncpniate a 'ailway cou.-ern in fome distant colony and to -py openings for llis capital. He makes business journey.-! to Con-.tan'tinople and inis a keen eye upon the outside w.-rhl -at, .present «i very keen eye upon Anatolia aii'l upon (lie Pi>!"tiiynei-e po-'s"ssions in Africa. Tie has niiistercd all the trii-ks ol' modern politic.-, and knows well when to rliitt with liberalism, and when to flatter the 'bourgeois.

Ik is nl-o a lender, and I'l'nm I In" works i f <*l■■ ■ L-niii!i -.( y-, and of KnolisJinicn ;ili-a'd I'm Kn.aland. known well that England is ntimiatcly duojncd. Hp. is not a very iVi<erimiii.U,nf; olislTvor. fTe is still linnly convinced "li.it (here [has been an irrevocable imitinv in the iiritish Army. that Jwliii is falling ironi [('Hi- crip, Hlid limit Utrcula flirts urned iter thick rpiiii t!i" Moiiicr IVuntn. "He lrtr> nniny obsen ion On.' is tka.t the 'Knpjish rat*' is dving ««t. •tnd th.ii f. wc jiiv 11 w :it I lie mcivy nf (Vltic impulse ii car Ouvoiw ami Movd (leottjes. Am■;hf-v is lliat wc '«l.nl! lir-i 1[• to |«iv for or tmn fin " tctv s'.uji-, Antit!:--r that 11 mau' i.s a man who docs no work. (It.licvs, too iniini runs and dn-p-MVllcd to 'i.( dealt with. rcl'cr to the Boer \vUr."