The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-15
GERMANY.
Max Muller in Championship of the Nation
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Max Muller in Championship of the Nation
The German people in general and Count Bis
marck in particular, have found a champion in Mr..
Max Me @ Wn0 in letter 20 the LONDON qh T
Premier has done nothing to forfeit the good
opinions of England. 1t does follow that he ap-
proved Count Benedetti's proposals because he did
not instantly repudiate and make them public.
foreign Minister is not like private individual.
country. An advocate may refuse to hold a
brief for any particular client bat having once
accepted it he is bound In honor to think of the
interests of his CLIENT and to leave 1t to the ether
side to discover and lay open the weak points OF
his case. A foreign Minister Is bound by the SIM
ples rules of prudence not to disclose many secret,
Of which, as private person, he might decline to
become the depository. He has to listen to propo-
sails of compromises, and for arguments sake, to
take into consideration eyentualities which, as
man OF honor he might Indignantly decline to en-
tertain. "Do you suppose" Mr. Max Muller asks,
'that Lord Palmerston had never to listen for mo-
ment TO suggestions about Turkey and Egypt, about
Savoy and Nice and was he driven from offlce by an
indignant people?" But Prof. Muller goes further,
and says that unless Sir Harry Verney in reply TO
whom the letter is written) can produce crush
Sir Harry and against everybody, that since 1866
Count Bismarcks policy has been patriotic and
peur. Germany had to be united; everybody who
had tried to unite it had failed Bismarck succeeded.
lar, but 'there in the history OF all countries
great convusioDs which one cannot criticize accord
do not Criticize that darEen heaven
and earth, strike down palaces, and carry off the
harvest of peaceful villages. We stand in awe While
they last, but know that Nature cannot do with.
out them, and that when they are past the air will
be purer and we shall breathe again more freely
than before" Count Bismarck has believed war
to be inevitable since the battle OF Sadowa, but
he has constantly exerted himself to put
turn up in Frahce Ft which Would avert the necessity
"He did not by abruptly refusing to listen to any
more proposals wish to drive the Emperor to a de-
c!ded policy. We can well imagine with what bitter
scorn 10 his heart he said smilingy to Benedett If
you must have something to quiet the people of
France, why there is Belgium, there Is England, or
SPAIN Why do you not take them? Did he pro-
mise to help in these adventures? Did he oind him
self to furnish one single soldier? Did he be-
tray Belgium by thought, word, or deed, or act
dislOyally towards England?n Mr.. Max Muller
refuses to believe that England and Ger
many can ever be at enmity. "If Germany
conquers a new OF peace will dawn on
Europe; for Germany, If once united, would tole-
rate no war OF conquest An army in which every
second man is the father Of family is the best guar
antee for the peace OF the world. There need be
formal alliance between England and Germany.
The two nations one in all that is essentlal-in
morality, in religion, in love of freedom, in respect
for law. They are both hard workers, hard think
ers and, where it must be- hard htters too. In the
whole history Of modern Europe, Germany and
England have never been at war; feel convinced
they never will be- they never can be.N