The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-09
Bismarck,s Revenge.

berlin dec. 2O) Cor. Of London Telegraph
The 1875 winter session of the German Pal
lament having proved . singularly satisfac
tory one alike to Prince Bismarck, its owl
members and the country at large, has com
to conclusion, and the Reichstag will not re
sumo its labors until the third week in January
There can be no question that, for the frs
time since the reconstruction of Germany a.
an Empire, the Bismarck administration ha.
suffered real and severe rebuke.
What makes this disagreeable fact espe
cially vexatious to the Chancellor is that the
reverse has been inflicted upon him by his
| political admirers and steadiest supporters
1t may, perhaps, in some slight degree miti
gate his annoyance to know that the National
Liberals are quite as much put out about
their victory as he is about his defeat One
can not help asking ones self, "Why did
he drive them into such tight corner 2" The
most plausible answer to this query appears to
be, in the opinion of persons who are init
msteIy acq TAINTED with His Hlghness, that he
could not be brought to believe in the posi-
bility of the National Liberals resistance to
his will being carried out to the extent of an
adverse Parliamentary vote upon measures
with which he was, in public opinion, person.
ally identified, and which indeed he took the
trouble to urge upon the acceptance of the
House with peculiar earnestness and that, SO
long as they should make his statutes law by
working the established constitutional ma
chinery to that end. he cared very little what
sort OF reckoning they might be subsequently
called to by their constituents. At the pinch,
however, they failed to realize his expecta-
tons, and he finds himself in the unaccus.
toned predicament of being pld,ate Ia.
To do more than simple justice to the
Reichskanzler it must be admitted that he
bears his disappt intment debonnairly enough
and has taken occasion. since the India
rubber paragraphs" were thrown out, good.
hamoredly to admonish his victors that thew
have made a great mistake in vapquishing
him, even temporarily. He had already
warned them in the House itself that if thew
should choose to reject these statutes their
doing so would merely be postponement of
the legislation without which he considered
the government could not be carried
on, at least under his guidance that the
So me sure would be assuredly brought for
ward again by the Cabinet, and would be-
sooner or later, as assuredly sanctioned by
the House. l am told that at his last Satur-
day Parliamentary soiree he observed to a
leading member of the Liberal party, 'that
social democracy had of late made enormous
progress in Germany-far greater progress
than the Liberal members had any notion of
and that the next general election would
yield results of the most startling character
% all lovers Of order and upholders of the
lights of property"
"A few years hence" Prince Bismarck is
reported to have further said, 1.-the respecta-
Die classes of this country will be on their !
knees to the government, entreating that re- |
)resslve legislation of much sterner charac-
er than any which l recommended to the
House shall be vouchsafed to them and re-
'retting that they were blinded enough to re-
dice over the rejection of measures which l
lold not only to be salu.ary and desirable,
'ut urgently and imperatively necessary. We
re drifting toward perilous times, and those
vho, guided by abstract principles and anna
lie political theories, refuse just now to
trengthen the hands of the Executive, are,
nth the very best intentions, doing their
ountry most evil service. At present your
onvic.ions differ from mine, by-and-b by you
ill all agree with me. Let US hope it will
OF tie when it is too late to recover lost
round"