The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-04-19
ST. FRIXGSjILIE, LOUISIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL la ly7y,

ter to fight, and in series of speec|
3 es declared that the Catholics, VIII
had, OF course, a right to a religion
policy, were allyiug themselves wit
enemies Of the empire under til
preteSt OF religion, and threatcnet
the Poles with the extirpation O
Their language, denounced Her
Windthorst us a foe to GERMANY. an,
declared that he would not stop ~
any constitutional expedient to carr,
his reforms. His bold, and even an.
d' clous language met with an imme.
dlate response outside Parliament
and after a fight Of several days he
carried his bill by Il n,ajory of TWEEN
ty.
This was sufficient to make him
safe in Parliament, but by 10 means
made him safe in the Palace. whort.
ne had to carry very strong meas-
nrc lndeed--nothiny less than the
coercion of the upper house, mea-
sure to which the Kings of Prussia,
who use that engine to resist the
lower house when necessary, with
cut at the same time greatly respect
ING it, are usually disinc.ined. We
can not Of course affect to know the
secrets Of the Kings Cabinet, but it
seems to be understood that the
Prince met with much resistance
and that he might, but for three
causes, have been defeated-minlt
nave been compelled to resign pow
CT. One was that the sovereign de-
slrcs to avoid u new contest with n
farila!nent now most tractablc
another was the instructive dislike of
the great Protestant house and the
third was the hearty support accord
ed to Prince bismarck by the Grown
Prince, who does not love either hin,
or his policy, but is on all these sub
jccls u man of modern IDEAS,
TIE PRINCE FINALLY TRluMpIED,
receiving authority to create the
needfnl number of peers alld the
upper house will either yield or be
swa'nrcl--probtbly the former, as
it has no hold upon outside opiuion
and the new cluca ionul policy
wiil be established. Il is not !, scc,,-
policy, but one based on the
Did Irussiln i,lea so se.iuously and
successfully incufcatcl by Frederick
.ie Great, Chat the State is in all Sc
,ular matters, including education,
. be abovo the creetis. Tho effect
If the entire incident will, VIC ilnag-
ne, be greatly to increase the vital
ty, and therefore, the power, of the
parliamentary system i'll Prussia, and
indeed, in Germany. 1t is clear that
/ Prince Bismarck had been in great
|anger of falling. The members of
he Diet therefore felt that they had
IL their hands serious power, a
'ower Of European moment, and
'othing strengthens Parliament
Ike the consciousness Of power OF
hat kinl--real power-power to
islliss I. man considered almost in !
ispensable. At the same time, y
'rince Bismarck triupphed in the c
>iot, and that mainly by his own
hility, and nothing strengthens the t
king Of a statesman for any grand Il
lstrument Of power like conscious Il
bility to weld it. Without suppos- t
'g a very arbitrary man to have q
cen converted all at once to consti- L
,tional ideas, it seems certain that S
rince Bismarck will tend to rely L
lore and more upon Parliamentary t
lpport, and q minister who relies on a
IS Parliament is sure to shape his o
olicy more or less by the ideas Of II
le Parliamentary majority. G
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