To-day, as I scanned the citizens of Bremen, I saw the old and the young standing next each other--the old with their medals and their crosses, comrades in battle and in deeds under both the great leaders whose statues stand in this city, and before them stand the youth who shall grow up to the new empire and its tasks. What will these tasks be? To develop steadily; to shun strife, hate, division, and jealousy; to rejoice in the German Fatherland as it is and not to strive after the impossible; to hold fast to the conviction that our God would never have taken such great pains with our German Fatherland and its people if he had not been preparing us for something still greater. We are the salt of the earth, but we must also be worthy to be so. Therefore must our youth learn to give up and deny themselves what is not good for them, to put far from them the things which have slipped in from foreign peoples, and to preserve their morals, good conduct, reverence, and religion. Then some day may we write over the German people the motto on the helmet of the 1st Regiment of my guard: "_Semper talis_"--"Ever the Same." Then we shall be looked upon from all sides with respect and in a measure with love as a safe and trustworthy people and can stand with our hand on our sword-hilt and with our shield grounded before us and say: "_Tamen_, come what will." I am sure that my words will fall upon good ground here in Bremen. Earnestly I hope that the golden peace which up to the present with God's help we have maintained we may preserve still further and that under this peace Bremen may grow green, may bloom, and prosper. That is my innermost wish. Long life to Bremen--Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! VI ON THE EVE OF MOROCCO MARCH 31, 1905--NOVEMBER 17, 1906 THE MOROCCO QUESTION TANGIER, MARCH 31, 1905