The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-29
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RIsmarck's Change 0f Frent-He WIN
.F0rsake Liberalism. ami Try the OPP
pOsi,e Tack In the Interest nj German

Unity.
New YoRK. April 29-From the latest for
eign papers we CLEAN the following Advices
from Berlin state that Chancellor Bismarck
has determined to throw away the liberal
crutches upon which he has leaned for the
last five or six years, and to walk alone upon
a path which. in the opinion of men who be-
lieve Themselves to represent the constitution
and the will of the ma inrityof the German na-
tion, Is bound to lead that nation to disaster
and ruin.
Roughly and briefly stated. the main argyll
ments upon which Prince Bismarck bases
his contemplated change of front are rs fol-
lows: German unity, the snmmum bonatn,
which have resolved to realize, cannot be
achieved as long Us the conscences of several
millions OF Germans are at odds with their
loyalty to the Imperial crown, and with the
potentality OF their obedience to the laws en-
forced upon them by parliamentary major
tiles, consisting of men who hold their re-
ligious tenets in abominaton.
Il have tried the experiment, and 1t has
failed In truly lamentable manner AS
nothing is SO stupid and futile as to persevere
in any special course OF conduct simply be-
cause one has once adoUted 1t under errone-
GUS Impressions. propose to withdraw from
a coerclve policy as far as the German Pa
pists are concerned, thereby removing the
one solid obstacle TO their cooperation with
me in the achievement of German unity.
Moreover, have given free trade u fair
the country commercially, industrially or
financially, am overwhelmed with lamen-
tatiOns respecting the decline of trade and
the decay OF manufacturing enterprise, and
with assurances from the people, for whose
Judgment in such matters I entertain the
highest respect, that partial and moderate
protection will remedy these evils as If by
magic. Therefore | also propose to give pro-
lection chance ameliorating the condition
Of the manufacturing and operative classes,
and of tightening the load which the budget
unquestionably lays on the shoulders of the
nation.
"As certain of the ministers with whom
have hitherto worked on my former platform
will not range themselves by my side in my
new plan, | must rid myself of them and get
others in their places who will carry out my
resolves. The National Liberal arguments
are equally clear and convincing, regarded
from their point Of view.
The influence of the Roman Church recog-
nized and tolerate by the State, is incompat-
ible with the very existence of German unity.
Coming to terms with the Papacy is equva-
lent to digging mine under the German en-
pire which will blow it into fragments one of
these fine days. The Holy See is our best
Fri nd and our worst enemy; ergo, we must
crush it or it will crush us.
10 return to protection from free trade is
to go back to barbarism from civilization.
Free trade may be apparently obnoxious to
certain class interests, but it is beneficial to the
eena III tHnftt IT large. II German industry y
suffer through it that is not the fault of free
trade but of German industry itself, which
is not enterprising, intelligent and active
enough to compete with foreign industry"