German Emperor's "Achievement."

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 13, 1913:
To the Editor of The New York Times:
    In Nicholas Murray Butler's letter in The Times occurs the following sentence:
    To be hereditary ruler, monarch, of millions upon millions of highly intellectual, industrious, and ambitious people is in itself at this period of the world's history an achievement of the first magnitude.
    I am unable to see the logic of this sentence, and why the fact that Crown Prince William became King of Prussia and German Emperor "by inheritance" is an achievement in itself.
        L.I., Brooklyn, N.Y., June 10, 1913.