Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1890, Page 8

8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. WHERE COUGHING IS A CRIME. Tourists When on the Continent Should be Very Oareful, LOOK OUT FOR EUROPEAN ROYALTY. Protecting Monarchy From Insult—A Count Sent to Siberia for a Thoughtless Utterance at nBall. Tho recent trial and acquittal of a New York merchant, Meyer Jonasson, in Berlin, Germany, on a charge of snecring at or about Emperor William, and the arrest of the editor of the Gotha Tagblatt for a disrespectful remarlk cerning Prince F inand of Bulgaria, call attention to the risk which Amer- feans traveling abroad incur, who fuil to acquaintthemselves with the lawagainst the peculiae offense known lesa majestas, or literally, the wounding of majesty. Mr, Jonasson was accused of simply sayin “I cough at yourem- peror He had not said it, but 1t cost him eral hundred doliars, and2some unpleasant experience in a pol prove that he did not have a cough on the oceasion In question. Had he been found guilty he would have been sent to fail for o number of months—porhaps a year—and life ina German jail, especi- ally for any one who has metaphorically coughed or spit at hisimperial majesty, is not on tho Ludlow streat boarding house plan, says the Chicago Herald, The discipline is mostsevere and torture is permitted for the subjection of refrac- tory prisoners. The American who travels abroad should be careful, there- fore, not to have a spasm of coughing when any specimen of German royalty happensto be around, and as German sovereigns are quite numorous and blessed with numerous siste cousins and aunts, it is well to be exceedingly careful of tongue and throwt while traveling through the kaiser’s domin- fons. The prosecution of the editor of the Gotha Tagblatt has added new and ap- palling terror to the doctrine of lese majestas, Heretofore it has been sup- posed that only the sovereign and his immediate family were within range of the law; but th otha editor happened to say somothing unpleasant about Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who is only second cousin or something of that sort to the dulce of 3 burg-Gothay and presto, he was uled before the court on the charge of wounding the ma- jesty of the reigning family. Now it ap- pears that the house of Gotha is velated, by blood or marriage, to nearly all the ruling houses of Europe, and, in fact, all those kings and queens and emperors 1 together in such a w would be considered, in ord nary life, us one connection, For in- stance, the queen of England is grand- mother to the German emperor; she is also mother-in-law to o sister of the Ru r, and sister-in-law to the duke She is related, move or less, ngs of Belgium, of Denmark, of Grecee, to vhe royal house of Sweden, through Denmark to the Austrian court, through the widowed Stephanie, and to the king of Portugal, through some round-about con- neetion of that house with the Coburg while her grandson, the ser, h some relationship to the king of Hol- land, or at least to the prince, who, upon the death of the Dutch king, would be heir apparent to Queen Wilhelmina, Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria and the hereditary prince of Saxe Meiningen are also among her relations, as well as other of the lesser reigning princes. Dom Pedro, the ex x-cmperor of Brazil, as a kinsman of the Coburgs, should e included, and the comte de Paris, claim- ant to the throne of France, is father-in- law to the king of Portugal, So all theso royalties are so mingled through inter-marringe that Europe may aimost e said to be ruled by a number of fami- lies united in one and forminga far more powerful dynastic combination than ever sted” in the world’s historys for in olden times kings and queens often chose their consorts from among their subjects, and each v honse main- tained its distinet individuality, Now when one looks, for instance, at o pic- ture of the young German emperor, ho sees George IIL starting from behind one side of the canvas, and the late Kaiser William from the other side, The distincti Hohenzollern features have a given place to a mongrel of Hanoverin and Prussian, with a strain of the ancient Sthart, As Europe, therefore, is virtually ruled by one family, the man who dares to joke on Iluropean soil about any mem- ber of the family incurs a serious risk. Two Frenchmen were traveling ve cently through the teritory of a Ger- man princeling when one of them marked that the prince, who was taking a walk avound his kingdom to get up an appetite for breakfust, had a large nose. #O no,” replied the other, “it s com- mun’” (common). *You mean ‘comme deux’ (like two),” the witty reply. The jole W rd and cost the jokera weelk's incarceration, Inanoth- instance, Anderson Heelis,an In- shman, made a remurk in Munich v in regard to the Il\mlllll‘ of King Otto of Bavaria. Otto is not_only insane, but under confincment as o luna- tic, and allowed to indulge in the mur- derous pleasantry of,us he supposes, shooting phet s from his castle wall, countrymen being trained and well paid to drop at every discharge of his actual- ly harmless weapon. All this is well known, yet to allude, except i distant and delicate manner, the royal malady is a criminal offense as Mr. Heells learned when he was confined for a day and nightin tle cells occupied by suspected thieves and other law-break Only the energetic medi- ation of friends saved him from a worse fate, Nor is it safo to speakill of a prince beeause you ave some distance from the dominions of his i family, As above stated, the sovoreigns of Europe are at least cousins to each other and are vigilant in protecting cach other from vulgar criticism, It is difii- cult foran American to imagine, for in- stance, the condition of affairs that makes it a crime to say that prince or this princess is not half sosmart us he orshe might be; or duke somebod witha long name and short bank count, is u fussy and pompous individual, Yet it is the actual situation on the con- tinent of Europe. The law of lese majestas follows the travel m Calais to the uttermost bounds of Siberia, and however much monarchs may differ on questions, they ave united s to isdom of enforcing this gag on freedom of speech, One of the most cruel instances of the enforcement of this arbitvary law was in relation to the late Prince Rudolph of Australia, the beir apparent to that crown, who shot himself or was shot by au ungry husbund in consequence of nl as | Dries disgraceful affair with a womn. The rrlnws who was noted for his lack of honor and ser Y]r\m such matters, chose n peasant girl of Styria for one of his vietims, He encountered the girl while shooting chamols nerzbeg and caused her to be lured to Vienna, The girl's father, an honest mountaineer, of the abduction and in his anguish called down the malediction of heaven on the princely reprobate, To get rid of him he was arrested on acharge of in- sulting royalty, put through a mock trial ay to the Galician mine many months, however, dissipation’s led tohis mys: death; and the old Rudolph's terions and tragic mountaineer was avenged, The present kaiser of Germany was a bosom friend sociate of Rudolph,nnd they often innocent and, perhaps, other rts, To this doy he will per- mit no disparaging utterance regarding his dead companion and he not long ago gratified the Austrian emperoe by the prompt court martial and degradation of a German lieutenant who was made to make offensive allusion to Rudolph’s demise, In Russia the law of lese majestas has reached its highest BEuropean develop- ment Indeed, inthat country, to make lisparaging remark about the ezar is son and punished with the knout, if the offender is a person of low degree, and Siberia if the prisoner is of resp able condition. In either caso the penalty is death, the punishment of the lknout being quicker and perhaps more terrible, The instance of Count Galking i is one of the most noteworthy in recent Russian history, While at a ball in St. Petersburg he was overheard to make a remuark, intended to be {u«'ulm: about the late czar and Princess yolgorouki. Nothing was said to him that night, but the following day the count disappeared. carrisge had called for him at h dence; he had gone on urgent business, and that was the last knownof him by his family. Application at the police office elicited a shrug of ignorance. As a matter of the regular police were ignorant of his fate, although they had evidently re- ceived o hint from o gquarter not to be disobe, \..\I that it was none of their busi- as in the hands of the police, that body of political agents more terrible than the spies of the Venetian Council of Ten, because the power behind them is 8o much more far-reaching Itis the head of thisforce, General Shekedo, wl has recently been promoted by the to a_seat in the imperial senate in reward for his utterly unscrupulous subserviency to tho autocrat of all the Russias, Where Count Galkine-Driesen was temporarily immured is not known, for he never came baclk to tell the story. His faith- ful wife died of grief and” anxiety, and his youthful son, frowned on by the authorities, but always without any ex- planation us to the cause, sought to drown his recolleeti in Parisian dissi- pation, A few ye: after the count’s disappearance, and when the present czar had arrived at the throne, some- thing of the truth came tolight. An escaped Siberianexile broughtts Zurich, with the story of his experience, word of a noble Russian whom he had seen in the chain gang at Tomak, and who im- parted to him that he the Count Gulkine-Driesen, punished for no cause that he could think of, unless it was a thoughtless remark to his partner of the dance at o ball in St Petershurg. The two exiles were interrupted before the count ad time to tell_his story. A day later, for some alleged act of in nation, the count was drafte Suglien mines,and that, the eseaped Siberiun said, meant the best one year more of mortal existence. In Rus- 5ia no one who regards his liberty of life dare breathe an utterance that might scem derogatory to the autocrat who holds the lives and fortunes of more than one hundred million in the hollow of his hand and whose predecessors have had their despotism tempered only, us the sination. ecretpolice report directly to ezar. Their operations are irre- ‘tive and independent of the regular tribunals, and if an offender arrested for political veasons is oceasionally tried be- fore an ordinary court it is only as a matter of form and to concedesomething to the public opinion of the rest of the world, for there is no public opinion in Russit. As a rule, whena person sus- pected of hostility to the government is arraigned for trial under the provisions of law applying to general crimes it is after the secret police have satisfied themselves that they have made a mis- take and that their suspicions are en- tirely groundless. Then they bring the victim before & court as o most conven- ient method of discharging him with some appearance of regularity. In Russia, it may be added, the law of leso majestas is broadly lnlcl'pl’l't«,d as applying not only to the imperial family but toall public officials, For a Jew es- pecially itis a high crime to fail to salute a Russian oflicer of any authority, ligh or low, and withina few weeks an official who lllu\lghl thata Jew did not show him proper respect had him tied up and lashed so cruelly with the: knout that the official’s own wife begged him to spare the man, who, but for this in- torcssion, would have. Pn >rished under tha blo This is one of the many well- authenticated instances of horrible cru- elty toward the Jews in Russia, The proverb says that a cat may look at a king; but a Jew may not look ata 1(\x~~|.m official except in the humblest wa, pect is Dur- ple the i Turkey, also, the utmaost re oxacted for the sultan’s maj ing the late riots in Constant Armenian patriarch narrowly escaped with his life, and several persons were killed and m]\uml but the only act of the rioters deemed worthy of io.uth was, that they had torn down & picture of the sultan, To American minds this doctrine of lese majestas is very repugnant and very strange, and yet it1s considered as one of the main props of European thrones. Once made ridiculous by the biting tongue and caustic pen, the emperors, kings and kinglets would soon find their thrones slipping from under, 1t is the glory of our free republic that we can malko all the fun we like of our magis- trates without losing due respect for the offices that the sovereign people havebe- stowed on its selected servants. “prlces Bakin Powdtzg Deed o Mullons of Homes— 40 Yoars the Standard. learned | BISLICAL FIGURIS, The Prominent Part They Play in Modern Novels, The last generation, to go no farther back, has witnessed an extraordinary collection of books, centering about the chief origin to this great intellectual activity, says the Atltantic Monthly. Any one who will compare such a book ’s “Lifo of the Savior,” ar's or Kdersheim’s “Life of will see at a glance the differ- ence in the attitude of the writers, Now it was inevitable that when the art, as dominated by Protestant thought and relieved of formal church patronage, shoild again approach biblical subjects, and especially the central subject, it should ress itself in more exact terms, whether the form was pictorial or literar, Not merely the education of the artists, but the education of the .rnhlhnn has compelled Mr. Holman Hunt to make his *‘Christ in the Tem ple,” his “*Flight into and hi **Wounded in the House of Friends- rupulonsly exact ul'l'h::-nln;_vi.'.‘«ll}. Mur, Madox Brown, if he essayes to por- t mite's son, does not fora moment think of disclos: i ml of a \I ane I|n'~lv' act the part of T or Florentine, o b sors in the sar ield might have done, mutatis mutandi But nowad not pictorial art, it is literr is likely to |)||~\ itself with \nl.qu{ partly because the whole drift of training for painters is in other di- rections, but more because the literary artist is surer of an audience than the painter is of spectators. The first form of lite art to feel the influence of which we have been speaking was the poetic and dram Longfellow’s HChristus i i v of Browning’s and Story’s poems occur at once as examples. But a8 there are a hundred successful novels to one succersful poem, though there probably are nearly as many persons who in secret think they can write poems at there are who openly profess an ability to write storics, tho form of fiction is that which wmay be counted on as most likely to engage the attention of those who lay hold of that great body of materinl which lies in and about the bible for the purposes of their art. The way has been made 1 by the abundant biographical studies which have appeared. These have accustomed the reading public to a treatment of the subjects detached from a strict biblical form. From alife of the Christ which builds up a conjectural youth out of two or three toxts of Seriptive for a founda- tion and wst amount of Judaic lore for a superstructure it is but a step to a story which imagines the same period without the necessity of a constantly guarded “From our knowledge of other Jewish youths we may suppose,” etc. There have been several stories of late which, with more or less boldness, oc- cupy this field of New Testament life and character. We took occasion upon its appearance to speak bricfly of the one which was most in the public eye, General Wallace’s “Ben Hur,” Proba- bly the success of that nc ad some- thing to do with the multiplication of its class, but we have tried toshow that some such manifestation was to be looked for in the premises. It is notice- able that, so far, these books refrain from making the central figure of all humanity the central figure, convention- ally, of & piece of fiction, For so much reserve let us be thankful. But what the novelist gains in decorum by such a method he lc in art. There can be no middle choice between a deliberate converging of all lines toward this cen- ter, since center it alv is in the reader’s mind by an i istible force of association and n mere allusive treat- ment, The author of **Ben Hur,” with a correct instinct, clearly had this in mind, and strove to di- minish the actual presence of the Christ as a character in his story, leay- ing him rather an influenc 5o, too, th a somewhat similar purpose, e dently, boks, in his story, “A Son of 50 ! scarcely introduces the Christ ul Mll though many of the scenes take place about him, and now and then he appears as an_ actor, Rev- erence is the soul of great , and no one can miss it out of his own nature and expect others to find it in his work. 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