The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-04
BISMARCK AND THE PAPACY.

Niles OF LIBERTY AND GOOD GOVERNMENT
AN EXCITING SCENE IN THE PRUssnN
PARIIAMENT-'wnH GOD, ron KING AND
FATHERLAND."
[Berhn March III Correspondence OF London
Telegraph
This was In every respect great field day Ia the
Prusslan Diet. House, galleries. LOBBY. doorways
were crowded an hour before the great topic or
the day was preached, and the Prince Chancellor
received an ovation. The manner OF 1t was thus -
Rechensperger nad spoken somewhat tediousiy
against the Dlsestabehment biIl and Fax, Tor
Minister somewhat too coarsely in its
favor. Then folowea Won SyDel, always an able
end interesting speaker who had obviously
crammedn number OF facts and actions highly
damaging to the Romanist cause, and expounded
the same in an exceptionally fecitous manner,
unmIstakably carrying the House with him. He
was In the middle oil lively sketch OF q new pub
LEGATION, by Conrad Won Bolanden now being
largely circulated In the Roman Catholic provinces
OF the empire, and called s'Tne Enemies OF the
Realm,u when his words gave rise to such DEM
onstratIon as ], Tor one, have never dreamt OF
witnessing at SO solemn and staid an Assembly as
the Prusaian Diet. He sald:-
This work contains description OF the persecu-
ton under Notwithstanding similar to
which IS indlested as going on at ths
weakly gentleman; but he has Minister.
Marcus Trebonius, who Is always called 'Markn
native Province, the .sMark OF Branaenburg,n
produced sensation In tue House.) This Minis
ter is, indeed, horrid fellow, VINO persuades the
Emperor to commit all manner OF abomlnaDe ac-
tons; bald-headed man. SIX feet hlgn, OF devil
ish grmuess. (Roars oil aughter) AT last, how
ever, the virtuous Emperor is made acquainted
wn sae real state o. ass aaq snas
run away, but tumbles INTO bog.
BIsMARCK's SPEECH.
Then Prince Bismarck rose like tower; the
smile had long since left HIS iace which set in
even more than Its usual sternness. Let me
endeavor to give you his own words as nearly AZ I
can in English tnus:-
/ do not intend to answer the last speaker In q
general manner, but only TO repy 70 particular
expression OIL his; and indeed only this because
fear that no other speaker VIII repeat that
sentence, for IL has been all eady too often
peaIed, and the honorable member is. perhaps.
the last man who Will repeat IL And yet tnis
sentence must be answered, and In way
that has not hitherto come TO pass. 1t s the
false interpretation OF phrase in itself correct
one-"You shall obey God rather than manu-
The last speaker has known me long cnough-he
has himself often sai1 80, indeed-to be wei
aware that rec gnize this axiom In It's absolute
correctness, and that believe am obeYing God
wnen serve my Klng-whom ne also formerly
seryed-in virtue OF the motto with God for
King and Fatherland.u 1t seems that Tor him the
three lac ors IN this motto nave broken asunder,
and mat ne contempates God apart from King
and Patherlanu. | cannot follow him thus
path. (Stentorian cneeriug) l believe that
am serving my God when l serve my King ia
protecting the Common wealth. whose monarch
ne Is, by Gods gIace-he, whose duty II Is, I'M
posed upon MIN ny Coz. 20 irse Ills people rom
pendence against Romsh attacks-in tho iulnl-
ment OF which duty serve the King prolonged
aud enthusiastic caeering.l The last speaker
himself must, II he be perfectly frank (Which he Is
not Obliged 10 be IN the orators tribune but ne
will possibly be honorable enough to acknowledge
Ii privately. admit that we do hot believe In the
divinity OF state idolatfy; but nevertheless
mis- deductions 20 base themselves upon this
perverslon Of the truth, making out that we
VINO sit here believe IN neathenish state deity.
lie should have gwen q taougnt TO his eighty
years he maze such an assertion. He falls
Into the same error with winch he reproached
the Roman emperors VINO allowed themselves to
lie delned, saying, zine fellows themselves were
lar from believing thereinn-and so Is he-iar rom
believing IN what ne said; he only avsIled himself
OF the Illustration t. praise tner rule at the ex-
ss eject ~ ns ound - neessnary 10 u
as being heather. But the axiom have referred
70 Is not the one really IN question; the real qles-
Ihan the KIngfn tRoars or applause.l For me
there exists very appreclahle difference.
BETWEEN THE POPE AND GOD;
and so there did, heretofore, fOr the honorable
member. Here. Tor US, the question Is not, Snail
you or shall you not serve God more than manW
but simply, s.Sha we serve the Pope IA worldly
matters winch have nothing whatever 10 do With
tue welfare Of our souls more than we serve the
kIngSn Before 1926 we lived under the rule OF the
Landrecht which went little further than We
the Cenrrej VINO pretend that they are lnJu, ed by
the May laws, which don't no a. lar As toe Land
fataers very honoraDy went to glory tseIf0 oe,oor-
DEM under that regime. Those are matters which
come unoer the same category - vac aualrs Of
VINO make rs II they believed what ihey said
honorable Christians. such as We, are mallgned
uttered not IN reality spoken In order that tt
might be heard here, or that It might convince
yOu, gentlemen, Dut IN order that IL might
be printed. Everything that has come out OF
tue last speakers mouth IN TINS room-whlch,
printed with impunlty. Tnls explains the
extreme iruitiulness Of your speeches here
eject upon your audience. ana you viii certainly
not obtain by your speeches any other sort OF ms
which you 40 not already possess. (Great laugh
teri The last speaker taunted the Cntus hin-
admire that; and venture 70 ask han, As he
bestOws laures In one direction without any oon-
sheraton, whether tney nave been merl,ed OF
behavior OF the bishops mas materially benefited
the Catholic Church, lshouts OF Yes" frOm
What hypocrisy would that be, how
we are vlilned before all Europe, as enemies q
the CBurch. as men STRIVING 10 Rnnlhilate the
Cnurch-now would these Lamentations be even
i'm Imaginable, ii mad really done your Churcn so
much good as you say havef Que OF two things
is ABSOLUTELY certain, therefore-eitner the accu-
satIon against US o. pcrsecuEIng the Church Is
sheer nypocricy land Will keep tnis IN mind
no successes al all. But either way matters
nothing here. We are Dotn AZ one. not In
the endeavor TO- achieve success bu. IN
that OF doing our duty; b0tn desiring 10
serve God rather than man. each in his own way.
as he understan Is AZ. You believe tnat you are
more Intimately aud correctly acquainted with
Gods viii tnan we we believe the same hing or
ourselves as lar as you are concerned. 4. Tor my
part, Defteve that know what the Will OF God ~
more accurately than the last speaker does. He
mad better take 70 heart tue following rule -
NOT SERVE
more than man, but to serve God more than the
man, MIR. &c rlach. II ne wishes to serve God and
NOBODY else his best way 70 do so will be
70 emancpate himself from the yoke OF that
tyranL You see gentlemen, II y not ques-
ton Of success or results; this law viii bring
aD0ut none worth mentioning. The Pope - 100
rich. ana the ORDER OF yesu.ts ten times more so,
20 care anything about tie loss Of TINS paltry sum
OF money. say advIscdy, the order OF Jesuits
ten times more than the Pope; moreover, they
can put at his disposal methods Of taxation which
have heretofore done them good service 90 not,
therefore, expect any great resultsj but we are
simply doing our duty In protecting the lndepend-
ence OF the state aud OF the nation against these