The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-26
A REPUBLIC FOR GERMANY.
From the n. Y. Times.

From the N. Y. Times. gs.e
The successes of the German armies in the
present war may undoubtedly tend to increase
the popularity of the House of Hohenzollern
for time; but there can scarcely be any
doubt that a republic, and not an empire is
the form of government towards which the
people are gravitating. 1t is impossible that
united Germany can long remain subject to a
monarch who still clings to the principle
which cost Charles his life The German
people are now too powerful to be held in
leading strings, and the degree of culture
which exists among them is too high to
admit of repetition of those despotic
measures which Count Bismarck has SO
often put in force. Count Bismarck has,
indeed, been made an instrument for
the accomplishment of great y ork.
but his usefulness will have passed
away with the close of the present war.
From that time the German people will have
freed themselves from external enemies, and
they will be enabled to apply their undivided
energies to the task of constructing govern
ment calculated to develop the liberal ideas
which really animate the nation. The war
has not only paralyzed the only formidable
foe which stood in the way of Germany, but
it has obliterated sectional differences. The
grand idea of ''unity' was never so fully
realized by our own people as during aud
Germany has had similar effect upon the
minds of the German people. They see
plainly enough that their own political diff
ferences are unimportant compared with the
necessity of presenting an unbroken front to
the world. They will soon see that in re-
public lies their surest guarantee of future
prosperity and power, and it is not too much
to hope that Austria will one day form an in
tegral part of that republic. aa rIia r.if 800.
In that fha txuo ~
in the world will challenge admiration as the
direct work Of the peoples hands. Under
republic, there need be scarcely any limit to
the progress of Germany. No one can doubt
that she would at any time be prepared to
repel assaults from without. Republics
always know how to defend themselves. The
existence of the House of Hohenzollern is
now an anachronism. 1t is the indomitable
spirit of great nation which has waged the
present arduous contest, not the genius of
king or his advisers. Whatever may be the
plans of Bismarck, we do not believe
that the German people intend this
war to be one of aggrandizement or
spoliation. The only want Germany
for the Germans, to cause it to be under
stood by the world, once for all, that Ger
many must not be put up as prize for I'M
perial or political gamblers. Bismarck's ana
bition has thus far exceeded that of his
him that with the accomplishment of Ger
man unity the great bulk of the people will
be fully satisfied AS Minister, he is still
far from being universally popular-as the
fact that be has been obliged to suppress
sixty-seven newspapers in North Germany,
for making disagreeable comments sufi-
GENTLY aftests 81 have no love for
the preaching old drill-sergeant who
is called King of Prussia, writes
German to a foreign journal, ''or for the
audacious conspirator who pulls his wires.
This conspirator and his rival conspirator,
Louis Bonaparte, stand in my affections
pretty much on q par Both play their own
game, and are obstacles to better things
am republican. l desire a republic for
every country in Europe. believe no coun-
try of Europe is 80 fitted to be republic as
Germany" That is the true idea, and it will
govern the future of politics in Germany.
Under a republic the nation itself, aud not
kings or ministers would reap the advan-
tages of the vast sacrifices il has made Let
us hope that the present generation will wit
ness the displaoement both OF the Hohe zol-
lerns and the HapsbuTea t I