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The Many Sided Kaiser Eccentricities and Indiscretions of Emperor William of Germany, Who Has Been Charged by the Reichstag With TaJking Too Much

By JAMES A. EDGERTON. ERMAXY is in trouble, ami it Is all because the kaiser talks too much. Members of the reichstuu have taken it upon theruselves to criticise this imperial garru.‘lity in the most public aiul unprecedented manner. One sp^p^er went so far as to assert that i jjy one less than the ruler had been guilty of such an Indiscretion as the London Telegraph interview he would have been arrested ami tried for treason. Another wanted some assurance that there would be no more breaks in future. While the reiehstag refused to adopt any official resolutions on the subject, members of nH parties plainly showed their disgust with the latest turn of the emperor’s universal activity and received Chancellor von Ru- ■ low s explanation of the affair in the cohl silence of disapproval. Meantime. while the empire was seething, the kaiser was himself hunting foxes— or was it stags? Anyway, he was hunt Ing. The kaiser is the most famous royal huntsman la Europe. It is estimated that he has shot no less than 60,000 pieces of game in his life, which Is going some for one as irrepressible as William II. When it is considered that at the came time he has been doing all this claughtering of dumb creatures he ha:*

* knowing about anything whatsoever is not only leze majesty, but borders close

ly on treason.

Indiscreet Interview. The Loudon Telegraph interview, over which the recent turmoil has broken out. was written by a retired diplomat, a’-’d represented a talk he had hid with the kaiser. The object of the talk was to reassure England of William’s friendship. The features of it most criticised are that it was an unwarranted interference of the emperor in politics without consulting his government, that it stated a majority of the, German people are hostile to Great Britain, that it gave the purpose of Germany’s increase of her navy as intended to participate in the Paeiflc situation, thus offending Japan, and that in it the emperor had told Queen Victoria how to whip the Boers. The interview contained other indiscretions, but these are more than enough to set the world’s diplomats and the German reiehstag by the ears, all of which they very promptly did. Then it developed that these are not the only interviews given out by William. One appeared in the Century Magazine and was suppressed only after many copies of the edition had gone out. This Interview is said to be even more sensational than that In

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, also acted as arbiter of art, poetry. > the drama, religion, besides running an empire and making suggestions to practically all the other rulers on earth, the pervasive and ublqultons nature of his activities can be somewhat realized. Yet even this statement gives but a faint notion of the multifarious manner In which he gets his finger Into all the pies that are baked on this small earth. He writes poems and dramas, composes operas, takes part In theological discussions, looks after the commercial expansion of his empire, attends to the duties of his various ministers until they are little more than clerks, drills his armies, runs yachts, looks after the navy, lives In forty-nine different resi1 dences, suggests his wife’s dresses, handles the domestic life of his sons, makes of his court the most gorgeous and spectacular In Europe, goes over the heads of his cabinet and handles foreign affairs for himself, claims to have suggested the plan by which Lord "Roberts finally whipped the Boers, travels extensively and makes speeches In other countries, writes letters to cabinet members In foreign countries and gives interviews to foreign publications and generally looks after all affairs, public and private, domestic and foreign, artistic and Industrial, ecclesiastical and political, even to mixing In party politics, until he has been accused of trying to usurp the functions of Providence and of being the general regulator of all things, human and divine. Nor Is this the worst charge against him. In the recent reiehstag debate It was suggested that he not only talked too much, but did not know what he was talking about; that the experts of the different fields he Invaded laughed at him In their sleeves. ' This Is the most unklndest cut of all, according to the double superlative of Shakespeare—or was it Bacon? And If there were any more superlatives they should be added also. To accuse the emperor of not

the London paper, and as some of the magazines containing It are in the hands of correspondents and diplomats the thing Is liable to bob up at any time. It is now stated that a third indiscretion has come to light in the form of a letter written by the kaiser to Queen Wilhelmlna of Holland during the Russo-Japanese war In which rather ominous threats were made if Holland did not fortify her ports against England. Hew many more of these imperial letters and Interviews will bob up In the various chancelleries and newspaper offices of the world is the thing that Is now interestesting Germany. It must be said on William’s behalf that he talks rather freely to newspaper men and others, but on the pledge of secrecy. The president of the United States, to whom the German emperor has been likened, does the same thing. If anybody dares to quote Mr. Roosevelt after having been told not to do so, be is promptly called a shorter and uglier name. William might do the same but for the fact that both he and his ministers approved the London Telegraph interview before it went out. Under the circumstances he can hardly get out by enlarging the Ananias club. A New York newspaper years ago printed a list of the kaiser’s indiscretions, and they occupied nearly an entire page. Now they are occupying the whole of Europe. There is nothing that will grow like the indiscretion habit if assiduously cultivated. Pulled Bismarck's Mustache. The first of, William’s breaks occurred when he was five years old. It was then he grabbed Bismarck’s mustache and held on till his grandfather had to pry him loose. His second blunder is now a chestnut. It occurred but a little after the Bismarck episode. A governess one day had to punish William severely and after It was all over said tearfully:

‘•It huris me worse thail If does

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“Perhaps so,” replied the sobbing lad. “but not in the same place.” The third indiscretion occurred when Prince William was made colonel of a regiment. One of his first acts was to try to regulate the uniforms of his soldiers. They thereupon complained to Emperor William L Calling In his young grandson, the aged kaiser re proved him for interfering with the uniforms of his soldiers. “Am 1 colonel of this regiment?” said the prince. “Certainly.” “Then your majesty must permit me to look after my command without interference of anj* sort; otherwise I throw up my commission.” Another indiscretion occurred after William became emperor. One day be entered tjie schoolroom at Potsdam and began to scold his children till both they and the governess were in tears. “I will be obeyed! I am master!” he was saying. Just then the empress happened in and settled the matter by saying that be was master in his kingdom, but she was mistress

here.

At a later time he designed some dresses for the empress, but was nonplused when she asked how she was to get Into them. He had failed to provide a way. No Vassalage For Them. One of his greatest bulls, however, was in seeking to be made emperor in fact over all the German states. At present the princes of these states in a way are Independent, at least In name. In pursuance of his plan for increase of power 'William called all these princes before him. He made a speech, and as they seemed to fall in with his suggestions he waxed bolder lu outlining his desires. In an unguarded moment, however, he made the break of referring to them as “vassals.” Instantly one of them replied: “No, sire, not your vassals—your allies, If you like.” On another occasion he wrote in the “Golden Book” of the city of Munich this inscription: “There is no law other than the royal will.” Below it the Prince Regent Luitpold, not much of a friend of the kaiser, wrote this: “The supreme law Is the Interest of the state.” A further indiscretion was committed by the kaiser in attempting to interfere In the succession in Bavaria. A judicial court was finally compelled to decide the case adversely to his man. He has also Interfered In partisan politics on several occasions, a thing no hereditary ruler Is supposed to do, and thus gained the 111 will of several groups, notably the Poles and the Socialists. Some of his military maneuvers have been secretly laughed at by old officers of the army, one of them having been characterized by General Stulpnagel as “a species of military tomfoolery.” All the world is familiar with the way the tfmperor has Interfered In matters of music and the drama and has tried to write poetry and to paint. Among his international breaks prior to the present one was that in which he wrote to Lord Tweedmouth concerning the British navy, raising a storm throughout Great Britain, and that in which he suggested that the American ambassador to Berlin should be a millionaire. Clamor Against Personal Government Considering all these unfortunate occurrences and many others not here catalogued, the storm that has broken about the kaiser's head because of his latest Indiscretion need not occasion surprise. What the end may be no one can tell. There is already a loud clamor throughout the German empire that personal government shall cease. It is somewhat surprising that the German nation, which is in advance of the world in most lines of thought —In art, music, science, philosophy and even certain phases of politicsshould be behind the leading countries In this important respect. No other great nation except Russia tolerates personal government. Intelligent Germans keenly feel this fact and have long clamored for a ministry responsible to parliament rather than to the whim of the sovereign. The present crisis may bring this sentiment to a head and force the settlement of the question In accordance with the popular demand. As recently pointed out by a celebrated German statesman, no change in the constitution or the law Is necessary to establish the dominance of parliament. It can be done, as it was in England, by refusing to vote revenues, This power, which is lodged with the people’s representatives, is sufficient to bring any king in Christendom to his knees. The German parliament is rapidly getting into a temper where it may use this ancient weapon. There Is another side to the character of William, however, which is much more pleasing. In his recent speech in explanation of the emperor’s 111 starred interview Chancellor von Bulow said the kaiser is an idealist, and the truth of this is borne out by William’s utterances and his acts. For one thing, he is sincerely desirous of the world’s peace. This has been proved over and over again. He Is ambitious for his country, but in a commercial way. In measuring the German emperor one other fact most ever be borne in n»ind. Whatever may be his eccentricities, he still remains, as he has been for many years, the ^pvershadowIng royal figure in Europe. No other king measures with him In energy, In intellect or in mastery of affairs. He rules as he hunts. Spectacular he may be. yet be manages to bag his share of the game. He may have his royal finger in all pies, but the world Is at least conscious of bis presence through every day of his reign.

FIGHTER OFGBi Record of Francis i. ror to Corruptioi WAS ATTACKED ONCj

8an Francisco Prosecute Escape From Death at a Tucson (Ariz.) “Ca^f . , Specially Made Pistol Poekat.

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Francis J. Heuey, chief prosecutor in the San Francisco ^raft cases and assistant district attorney, who was recently shot in the head by Morris Haas, has become famous inffthe west us a tighter of graft and g^aij|ers, and he has had one oilier iKtijrS' escape from death. He ntrraeiAl tAio attention of United Stales Attorney General Knox in 1‘jOI, when Heuey was defending Lnited States Juage Noyes before the supreme court of the United States when the judge was Involved in the Nome ring scandal. Heney’s argument so impressed Mr, Knox that

Historical Sketch of a Great Organization in America Beaches 65th Anniversary and Shows Remarkable Progress While singing the praise of the Order at Atlantic City and holding for a continuance of the growth in America among the Necroes, the Supreme Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in America, among the whites, who seceded in 1820, on account ot the Negro being a member, pissed an order at its meeting held at Denver to prevent the Negro from using the name, emblem and regalia of Odd Fellows though the courts. This order was fathered by one Mr, Monroe Me lurg of M issiesiopi. The question n >w is, who has the right, the one

he offered him an appointment as spe- that seceded or one that has kep faith

and union with the parent, or the one that rebelled and set up for them-

.. . . , i selves and assumed the rittat tu use the appefamnout and:.. , , “ „ irrafters in ihe lilud I‘be name, emblem and regalia?

cial prosecutor in the Oregon land fraud cases. Ileney was then thirtyeight years old and had a fair prac-

proseeuted the grafters in the laud fraud cases so successfully that when San Francisco awakened to the realization that it was graft ridden he was called upon to act as a special prosecutor there, and a fund of $100,000 was contributed for him with which

to begin work

Francis Joseph Ileney, the son of an Irishman, was born in Lima, N. Y., on March IT. 18C9. His family moved to San Francisco in 1SC3. and there he lived his boyhood in the south of Market district, known then, as now, as the rendezvous for wild gangs of youngsters who knew no fear or limit to their deviltry. The biisky youngster learned to fight befone he learned to read. Later, when he knew bow to read and was < ramming his head full of preparatory stuff for tip? matriculation examinations at the University of Cali-ornia. he did not fcjrget how to fight. He entered the university at Berkeley with the class of ’82. Heuey i:< ver knew what fear meant and was always ready for trouble. As a young man, after beh|g graduated from the University of California, be practiced law In Tucson, Ariz. He was of such fighting nature in his practice that he made enainies of tbe evil types of Tuesonites, so be bought hinnmlf a modern maga^te revolver, had a ?:>e la! pockW sers for it. co that he ’Would not be hampered by bis coattails in bringing it Into action, and pursued the even tenor of his way. Y*'h?n he first began to follow the trail of Ruef and Schmitz and the other San Francisco grafters the charge was widely spread that Heney was a murderer. This charge was based on Honey’s Tucson experience. A Tucson man, known as a "bad man,” went about the town boasting thai there was no lawyer in the town who would dare handle the suit of bis wife

for divorce.

Heney took the crit. and the husband came after him to kill him. He threw himself on the youug lawyer to cliche him to death, as he had threatened. but he did not succeed. He then reached for his pistol, but llency’s specially made pocket, well In front of his trousers waistband, emptied itself, and the “bad man” dropped dead in bis tracks. Heney was engaged to run down the Sun Francisco grafters as the result cf a remark he dropped in a club in that city. He said that with $100,000 back of him he could clean up the city politically. Wealthy] citizens who had been bled and who bad been discriminated against in franchise matters because of the free use of bribes put np the money, and Ileney began work. He was soon oil the trail ot Ruef, who showed up i as the arch corruptionist of San Frapcisco and In whose hands Mayor Schmitz was a tool. He secured the confessions of supervisors who had voted at the com mand of Ruef aud Sebnlitz and for money and then brought about the arrests of the big,men. Ruef until his arrest following the shooting of Heney was under bail of $1,500,000 to answer seventy-eight in dictments for bribery and various forms of municipal corruption. Mayor Schmitz, removed from office and ruined In so far as his career in his home city was concerned, was tried and sentenced to five years, but this trial was upset by a higher court, and he was admitted to bail. Ruef had one trial on one of the indictments against him, and the jury disagreed. Both men have been fighting bitterly to ward off final conviction and jail sentences, while Heney has never let up in his fight to land them for long terms behind the bars. When Honey took the task of uncovering the land frauds he stipulated that be should have a lump sum from the government for bis work in order to cover his loss in private practice. This was agreed to, and Heuey gave all of his time to the work. Later an assistant attorney generalship was offered him, but he declined it. In the present cases he says that he is not looking for any special fee in his work, but is working for the good of his city and its people and will keep at It to the end. \ Heney is forty-nine years old. He has gained a reputation in the west second to no lawyer in the matter of vigorous attack. He has used in the San Francisco cases William J. Burns, iartnerly of the secret service of the United States, w£o' worked with him in the Oregon land fraud cases.

The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows wa.s first introduced in America by William E, Chambers, Debember 23. 1806, in New York with white aud colored members. The lodge closed and another was (opened in Baltimore in 1819, which became the mother of the Independent Order, and ceased to .receive the colored members by saying only white persons would be received; notwithstanding the persistent effort of the colored man to be allowed to form themselves into a Lodge, They were treated with contempt and set a adrift. How significant, after 88 years the B M. C. adjourned tobavethelfith B. M. C. to meet in Baltimore# were

they were set adrift?

The Negroes in the free States found it necessary that something must be done to care for their sick and bnry their dead. They finally asked Brother Peter Ogen, who was a member of Vic tor Lodge, No. 448. Liverpool, England, to asa that a lodge in connection with the English Order be opened among' them. His application was accepted by bis Lodge, and on the 1st of March, 1843, Philomathean Lodge,

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Owing to the few members that could read or write, the first A M. C. recommended that evening and other schools may be established, when practicable, in the Lodge rooms of this Order, for the instruction of members or their children, at reasonable tales. SOCIALISM

What It Offers to the Colored Voter

Makes No Specious Pledges but Seeks |to Give Equal Opportunity to All Evening New York Call. A correspondent (evidently not a Socialist) send to the Call an article clipped from the columns of The Gnar dian, of Boston, an organ of the negroes, giving an account of their or ganizition for race-revolt from the political domination of the Republican party. Accompanying the cutting is the following inquiry: ‘‘Can you inform me whether the Socialists are trying to secure this vote? It is the party into which many of these negroes wish to go, but they are not sufficiently rare of their reception.” In reply, it should first be said that directly, the Socialist party is doing nothing to seenre the Negro vote. Socialism makes no bid for any body of bolters from any party. Such method is a phase of old party tactics, and is no part of the Socialist program. The Socialist party does not vote its supports ia blocks. It could not be benefited by any such wholesale delivery. Contrary to the teachings ot the capitalist press, Socialism, Instead of destroying initiative, develops individualism and enconragesimen to think and vote and otherwise act for themselves. It is essentially a propaganda movement; its mission is to make socialists, the vote being a consequence. Socialists realise that in a politial as well as in an architectural fabric a foundation must be laid before a safe superstructure can be reared. Therefore does it concern itself first with fundamentals. Any other procedure would be an adaptation of the illogical capitalist plan of

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give him. No man can rise above the level of his personal worth; but always by endeavor can be elevate that plane. And his accomplishment is exactly in proportion to his ability. Bnt Socialism will give the Negro equality of opportunity. He will be enabled to expand with his enlarging capacity and to develope the best that is in him. We are all creatures of environment. Under the present aystein, man is what conditions have made him. Under Socialism he will be what he may make himself. What Socialism has to offer the Negro, or the members of any other race, is found in these words of French: ‘‘A white man’s chance to each and all.”

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Race Gleanings The Negroes of South Carolina own control more thsn 1-3 of the farms of that State and pay more than 1-2 of the schpol tax. Mrs. Vera Webster Jones, a pretty white widow of Aurora, 111., is in jail for stealing $100.00 to help support Albert McBoon, a negro, with whom she had been living. J. G. Groves the well known Potato King of Edwardsville. Kan , has established his daughter, Miss Ida, in the read estate business, in that vicinity. The Negroes of this country own and manage abont 45 banks. The Negroes of Mobile, Ala., and vicinity are arranging to bold a fair in October, November and December, 1909.

Thesouthern white man lynches one poor Negro and a train comes along, wrecks and kills nine, as in New Orleans, a few days ago; 9 to 1 does very well.—The American Citizen.

Colored folks see knives and forks, cups and saucers, crepes and laces, machines and cooking utensils, but not one in a bundled ever think of finding out how they are made and raise one penny towards the manufacture or production of even one of the many millions of utensils so necessary to onr civilization. To send a people without this vital information to either Africa or to the North 'Pole would be a criminal absurdity.—Richmond Planet.

thorized representative of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in American. The members thought anthority of the members of the Lodge be a committee, so applied and a warrant was granted by the Committee of Management, England. A resolution passed by the Committee of Management, the 19th day of December, 1843: 1. That the rhilomathean Lodge. No. 646, be emplowed to form a Sub Committee of Management, subject to resolutions and under the control of the Committee of Management of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, England, of eight oast officers if possible, to carry out the extension of our Order, in granting dispensation, etc., across the Atlantic, until the A. M. C. in 1844, viz- G. M , D. G. M., G. S and five directors. 2 That the Sub Committee of Management in New York shall be under the same laws as the Committee in England, as regards fines, etc. 3 »Tbat the Sub-Committee shall send a report of its proceedings every three months to the Committee of Man ag?ment, England. The first Sub-Committee was composed of the following brothers: Ulysses B Vida', Grand Master; Geo. T. Downing, Deputy Grand Mas ter; Jas. Fields, Grand Secretary. Directoro—Edward V Crosby, Henry Williams, Tbo*. Hoffman ana Ellis Fetter. The headquarters of the S. C. M. in America continued at New York City until 1849. when it was moved to Pniladelphia, Pa. The following were the Lodges:— Philomathean, No. 646, New York, 1843; Hamiton, No. 710, NewYork,1844 Unity. No. 711, Pennsylvania, 1844; Philomathean, No. 712, Albany, New York, 1844 and Jacobed, No. 811, Penn sylvania, 1845.

man a Socialist and you aro certain of his vote. Merely seenre his vote and you have gained nothing. And experience has proved that it is easier to acquaint a man wPh Socialist econo • mies before he has cast a Socialist ballot. Once he has voted the ticket, he supposes himself to be a Socialist;

later he changes his mind.

This difference between Socialist tactics and old party methods is due to the fact that in Socialism politics is merely a means to an end, with the old

parties, it is the END.

Progress is the process of improvement and improvement depends upon understanding. So, whatever the extent of the Socialist vote, we never can have Socialism until a majority of men are Socialist—until they have gained an intelligent conception of the Social ist philosophy and can interpret its

vital siguificence.

As to what Socialism has to offer the Negro, it offers him exactly what it offers any other member of society. Its spirit is universal, and so are its effects. It does not take into account race, color nor religious belief. The elemental constitution of the Socialistic philosophy makes economic discrimination impossible. Whst is given to one cannot be withheld from an-

other.

Socialism is frank with the Negro. It tells him that in the Socialist movement human nature is not different what it is elsewhere. Some Socialist have a personal prejudice against the Negro. Perhaps their number is not relatively great aud proesibly their prejudice is less pronounced for every Socialist is to some degree a philosopher, and prejudict is not a part of philosophy. But these men are not the Socialist movement. Nor does Socialism make the Negro any specious pledges It does not promise him equality. Equality is some thing which only his own efforts can

It is when adversity stares a man in the face, that he shows the metal that is in him, and now when things seem to be going against us that we ought to pat our heads together and do what is necessary to make something out of ^faat we have at hand—Newport News Star. ;

The negro Knights of Pythias seven story steel building at Gravier and Saratoga is getting well along towards completion, the exterior being now about closed in. It will be one of the most handsome buildings in the city. —New Orleans Picayune.

THE MOST POPULAR MINISTER CONIES! ONE Vote REGULAR BALLOT, NOV. 21 Name of Minister “ of Church City or Town Name of Subscriber. Address Date 1908

The Indianapolis Recorder is conducting a voting contest to decide who is the most popular minister of the race in Indiana. Ballots will appear weekly and are good for one vote, if received at the Recorder Office before the first of next month. Special Ballots will be given with all subscriptions as follows; 1 year, 100 votes 6 months, 50 votes; 3 months, 25 votes. A $50.00 suit of clothes will be presented to the successful minister by the Recorder. Watch the vote each week.

No disfranchisement law, no “Jim Crow” law. no Supreme Court decision, no discriminating laws of any Wind can keep the Negro down unless be himself decides to stav down. He can, if he will, rise superior to them all and become a factor that the whole country will have to iecon with; but be will have to do it himself; no man can do it for him. There is plenty of opportunity, if not in one place there is in another, only let him stand on his feet and decide, once for all, that he is going to be a man, and that in the fullest acceptance of the term.— Afro-American Ledger. Standing In The Most Popular Minister Contest. Rev. Lemuel Stokes, city 3304 Rev. R. D. Lenard, Union Tabernacle Baptist Church ....3061 Rev. Chas. Hunter, Presiding Elder...2945 Rev. G. W. Ward, Mt. Zion Bap. churchajzg Rev. G. H. Shaffer, Bethel A. M. E. Church 710 Rev. G. C. Sampson, Allen Chapel Church 605 Rev. H. J. Callis, Jones Tabernacle... 476 Rev. James Roberts, Antioch Baptist Church ' 225 Rev. Chas. Johnson, city 225 Rev. G. A. Martin, Corinthian Baptist church ’ 177 Rev. H. L. Herod, 2d Christian church. 152 Rev. K. Warren, Olivet Baptist church 133 Rev. J. S. Bailey, Simpson Chapel ch’rch 129 Rev, H. H. Hinton, M. E. Church, Con ville ' 125 Rev. J. C. Patton, ShilohBaptish ch’rch 125 Rev. Chas. Williams, Cavalry Baptist church 75 Rev. White, Witherspoon Presbyterian 80 Rev. C. E. Hardmon, Franklin, Ind ... 75 Rev. Morris Lewis, Presiding Elder A. M. E. Church 5° Rev. B. F. Farrell, Mt. Paron Baptist Church 5° Rev. Mitchell, Metropolitan Baptist church 5° Rev. J. Francis Robinson 50 Rev. J. C. Campbell, City 5° Rev. J. P. Wallace, Terre Haute, Ind . 50 Rev. N. A, Seymour, New Bethel Baptist church - 5° Rev. W. M. Winfield, Penick Chapel.. 55 Rev. Patterson New F he Baptist 25 Total Votes . . . 1T J *5376 . ala* sue/

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