The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-04
BISMARCK'S REVENGE.

Berlin dec 20) correspondence of London Telegraph
The 1876 winter session Of the German Parliament
having proved sngulary unsatisfactory alike to
Prince Bismarck its own members and the country at
large has to conclusion, and the Rechstag will
not its labors until the third week in January
There can question that for the first time since
tho reconstruction of Germany Empire, the
Bismarck administration has suffered a real and
REVERSE.
What makes this disagreeabe fact especially vexa-
tous to the Chancellor is that the has been
hced upon him by his political admirers and steades
supporters 1t may, perhaps, IN some slight degree
mitigate his annoyance to know that the national
liberals are quite as much put out about
one cannot help asking ones SELF "Why did he
drive them INTO such tight cornerS" The most
plausible TO this query appears to be- in the
opinion persons who intimately acquainted with
His Hghness that he could not be brought TO believe
the possibility of the national liberals resistance
his will being carried out TO the extent OF an adverse
Parliamentary vote upon measures with which
he was, in public opinion, personally
identified and which, indeed, he took the
trouble urge upon the acceptance of the house with
peculiar earnessness, and that long they should
make his statutes law by working the established con-
stitutona machinery to that end he cared very little
what sort Of reckoning they might be subsequently,
called by their constituents. AT the PINCH however,
they failed TO realize his expectations and he finds
himself in the unaccustomed predicament Of being
pLdntS "a
UNDER DEPRAr.
To do more than simple justice the Reichskanzer,
IL must admitted that he bears his disappointment
debonnarly enough and has taken OCCASION since the
s'indiarubber paragraphs" thrown out good
humoredly TO admOnsh his victors that they have
made great mistake in vanqushing him, even tenn
porarily. He had already warned them in the House
itself that II they should choose to reject these statutes
their dong would merely be pOstponement OF the
legislation without which be considered the government
could be carried on at least under his guidance
that the said would be asuredly brought for
ward again by the Cabinet and would be sooner OF
later as assuredy sanctioned by tho House i am told
that at his last Saturday Parliamentary soree he OBJ
served 10 leading member of the liberal party ''that
social democracy had OF late made progress
In Germanyar greater progress than the liberal
bers had any notion oand that the next general cleo
ton yield results Of the startling character
to all lovers Of order and uphodcrs OF the rights Of
property"
"A few years hencen Prince Bismarck is reported to
have further said, ''thc respectable classes of this
country will be their knees to the government
treating that repressve legislation, of much serner
character than any which | recommended TO the
House, shall be youchsafeG to them, and lanenting
that they were blinded enough TO rejoice over the
rejection Of measures which l hold not only to be
salutary and desirable, but urgently and imperatvey
necessary We are drifting toward perilous times and
those who guided by abstract principles and amiable
political theories refuse just now to strengthen the
hands Of the Executive are, with the very best nten
tons doing their country a most evil service. Al
present your convictions differ from mine by and by
you will all agree with me Let hope II will not bS
when too late to recover lost ground"