The Berlin _Post_, directly
inspired by the Emperor, tells us exactly what is his object in so doing--
"England and Russia will not help France to settle her difficulties in
her colonies. These two Powers are far too pre-occupied with the
struggle for supremacy in Asia. France is, therefore, reduced to looking
to Germany as her sole support. If France consents to work together with
Germany, Africa will be won for civilisation, and for the best
civilisation of all, the Franco-German, but so long as France pursues
this task single-handed, she will not attain her end, and will find in
Africa nothing but disappointment."
Such evidences of effrontery remind us that William II is the pupil of
Bismarck. We are, therefore, justified in concluding that the Germans
realise that it is not Aristides the Just who has been exiled, but a
master rogue, whom his pupil now imitates.
April 29, 1892. [23]
William II continues to expel from Berlin all unemployed workmen, quite
regardless of the cause of their temporary or continuous idleness. He
sends them back to their native parishes, without caring in the least
whether they will find there the work which they are unable to secure at
the capital. The "Workmen's Emperor" compels an emigration into the
interior of all the most discontented, the most irritated and wretched,
thus sowing throughout all the land the evil seed of the most dangerous
kind of propagandist. The spirit of Germany is full of surprises for any
one who takes the trouble to observe it carefully, and it is not only in
the acts of the Emperor that we perceive its contradictions.
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