A Decadent Liberalism.—One of the decisions handed down by a German court, declares that lese-majesty pertains not only to criticizing a reigning monarch, but that monarch's ancestors. And that is one of the series of late decisions, the Literary Digest tells us, of the same tenor. The Welt am Montag of Berlin, we are told, voices well the feelings of its colleagues when it says that press freedom with a gallows beside it is the ideal in Prussia to-day. The constitution is supposed to grant liberty, article 27 declaring that "the freedom of the press is only limited by those restrictions which are now in existence," but the papers above referred to tell us that "from the lowest to the highest judicial body the press is denied the right to expose public corruption and evils. Indeed the attitude of all the courts toward the press and freedom of the press is the quintessence of animosity."