THE KAISER

Evening Star, Issue 14515, 5 November 1910, Page 10

THE KAISER

IJIIKAKS OL'T AGAIN. ■■ ' RKGAIcI) IMYSKU'' AS THF 1N",iTIU)Mi:X']' OK TJIK J.01U)." At ;i banquet at, Koenigsbeig mi August, lb', tlio i-wufK-'roi", proposing the toast of "Tho Province of East Pru.-.Kia," expressed his pleasure al t-lio ein.husia.stie welcome he hud received from tho laithn:l lioval i-ilv ami province, which, weru bound'bv elo.se tie* to tho Po.val "Here/'" f.:'ul JI is .Majesty, "the great Kiector by his own right made himself Sovereign IJukis in l'mfriii. Here his son si.t the Iloyal crown on his head. Frederick Wil.l'iam 1. established hero hi.-> authority liko a 'rock of bronze.' I'jid'-r Frederick the. Great the province shared the joy and the .sorrow" of his reign. Then (.'.unci a haul lime, of trial. II," I'Vtvit soldier Kmperor of the French ,<- .sided here, and made tlio town a:i<l Hie country fee! the weight of his pitiless hand. * It was here, however, that the idea of the uprising and liberation of 11:-.■ Fathorki.:;d fust came to realisation, and here, again, my grandfather by his own right placed on his head the liuyal t;iow:i of Pm.ssia, once again declaring with emphasis that it was bestowed on. him by God's giaco alone, and nob by Parliaments. National Assemblies, or the popular voire, so that he regarded himself as the chosen instrument of Heaven, and as .such performed lilts duties as. a ruler. Adorned with this crown he went into the held of battle, to win the Imperial crown. With the remembrance of the time of our uprising the thought of Queen Louise is inseparably associated. Koenigsberg in Fast Pniissiu .--aw this angel in human form wander through the streets. Our people have, constantly homo her in yra.tot'ul i.emembranee. But there is one ihi'ig upon which too much stress cannot be laid, and that is that in tlio general prostration of tho Fatherland the Queen was tho only person who never for a moment eniertainod a. doubt as to tho future of the Fatherland, and when the exalted martyr had passed away, art id old. and voting rushed to arms to drivo the oppressor from tho land, she marched in spirit before their bajuicrs. —Tho Martial Virtues.— "What shall our women learn from Queen Ixmi.se? That tho chief duty of German women consists, not in. attending meetings and. joining organisations, but in tho placid work m the house and the family, that they should bring up the young generation in obedience, and that they should make it clear to their children, that it is not tho object of existence to enjoy lifo at the expense o f others, hut to keep tho interests of tho Fatherland alone in view. F.veryone, without distinction of person or place, should co-operate for thy welfare- of the Fatherland. For me, too, the lifo of tlio exalted dead shall bo an example. Looking upon myself as tho instrument of the ]/ord, and regardIces of tho views and opinions of the hour, I shall go my way, which is devoted solely to tho well-being and pcaoef ul development of tho Fatherland. Hut in this, I need the co-operation of everybody in the land. I raise iny glass, confident that this spirit wil always prevail in East Prussia. 'Tho Province of Eaet, Prussia!' Hocki"-