New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-20

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reformed the hospit Ills. But inasmuch as the
children of this gens. alton are forced to be
wiser than the old men OF that we may
reasonably hope that 81, Theirs will accom-
plish Though for his own Aake) reforms more
deeply based and more endm1 ing.
In Prussia the situation shows, as no politi-
cal change for twenty years mas done in
Europe, the irresistible though silnt iorce oil
the peoples claims. Caste lines haVe always
been more strictly defined and caste privileges
made more potent in Prussia than in EnSisnd'
because the people were more universally edu-
Gated, and theirleducation was invariably Hsed
to show them tho necessity of such lines and
privileges. The Prussian Bauer submitted
moro promptly TO his feudal lord than the
Yorkshire plOwman to his employer, pre-
cisely for tho same reasons that an educated
child is more apt to show respect to its father
than tho starving gamin of the streets. BY
this time however, the Baver is educated
little too far; he begins to suspect the whole
of this system Of feudal parentage, of being
gigantic sham and fraud; he begins to tire Of
seeing the father in this arrangement gobbling
all the bread, while the children take the
stones. The pressure Of resistance to the
feudal laws or Junkers, who compose the Up
per House in Prussia, has been silently aug
mented until it is more revolutionary in tenn
per and tendency than the popular opposition
to the House of Peers in England. We all
know with what clamOr of wrath the attack
on that body was made last Winter, and how
unwisely it was smOthered for tho time, to
break out, no doubt, with renewed strength
at some future time, when it cannot be either
curbed or guided. England has no Bismarck.
Whatever the Prussian king-maker lacks, be
has the cunning Of Talleyrand and the prompt
ness of Napoleon. Against the popular cry for
"self-gOvernment,n he declared, through Count
Gutenberg Ga cry which as yet had not been
uttered), "the Government neither can nor
will shut its ears.n The bill for Counties
Organization, which he caused to be intro
duced into the Upper Chamber last July, and
which the Junkers voted down in solid body
G45 to 18), was, in fact, the release Of the
burgher and peasant population from all domi-
nation of these feudal lords. Popular repre-
sentatiOn, popular education, the relations be-
tween Church and State, are all defined by
this bill directly OF relatively, and defined |
from the point of view favorable to the lower
class. The Emperor (who as usual, plays with |
Bismarck the children's game Of dumb
orator, making the gestures while the Prince
thinks and commands behind his back de-
clares that the bill must pass. If, after 1t
passes the Lower House, it is rejected in the
Upper the proposed remedy is the English
one Of swapping" - creating sufficient
number of new peers to outvote the old ones.
In this case it would require the creation of
at least $50 new peers. Bismarck, it is limited,
has another mode of subjugation in reserve,
more original and as effectual. One thing Is
certain: he will shrewdly minister to and
administer the power of the real Prussian
ruler, whether that be William or the people
Who will be king, he is Vicar of Bray"