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JOEL COOK is the financial editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the American correspondent of the London Times. PROF. JAMES WILLIS GLEED was born in Vermont, educated at Kansas University and Columbia Law School, and is now professor of the law of real property in Kansas University. He has written for the FORUM on Western mortgages. MR. JOHN L. WILLIAMS is a banker in Richmond, Va The Forum. JULY, 1891. THE EMPEROR WILLIAM II.-HIS CHARACTER AND HIS POLICY. I. GAMBETTA, who, whatever may be thought of his character, was a keen politician, once observed that the death of the Emperor William I. would be one of the greatest events of contemporary history. He was right, although, disappearing himself before that octogenarian sovereign, he could not anticipate that the heir to the Imperial crown, then in the prime of manhood, the noble and unfortunate Frederic III., would be carried away by a premature death after a reign of only 99 days. He was right, because the accession of William II. seems destined to mark a still more important and thoroughgoing difference from the past than the government of Frederic III. probably would have shown if he had lived to reign. As prince the present Emperor was a much-misjudged man; he was chiefly known as an ardent practical soldier and an eager student of military science. The so-called Count Vassili (now unmasked as a French spy, M. Mondion) in his interesting but libellous book, "La Société de Berlin," even credited him with the ambition of emulating the feats of Frederic II., and at the same time represented him as a libertine, which was absolute slander, his domestic life being a model of purity. In politics he was be Copyright, 1890, by the Forum Publishing Company. |