Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1913 — WHERE KAISER IS SUPREME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHERE KAISER IS SUPREME

EmperQr's Power as Commander o( Germany’s Armed Force* Absolute.

Berlin.—While as to ordinary affairs the kaiser 1b subject to the law in the same manner as his humblest subject. there is one department in which his power is practically absolute —his poWer as commander in chief of the empire’s armed forces. His supremacy in this regard has just been reaffirmed by a Judgment of the Kammergericht affirming the judgment of a provincial court in an action brought to protect a patent right. Eight years ago the kaiser issued an order directing the introduction of saber carriers attached to cavalry saddles. A Berlin inventor declared the saber carriers to be an infringement of his patent, and that they

could not be used without his permission, and he brought an action for damages and an injunction against the carrying out of the imperial order. A provincial court found against him, and the Kammergericht has af* firmed this judgment. The Appellate court declared that, irrespective ol whether the patent be infringed or not, the plaintiff has no standing and that the kaiser in issuing any order concerning the equipment of the army is exercising his supreme military power, and hiß orders are not subject to any law, nor .can any court act in derogation thereof.

Kaiser Wilhelm.