Litchfield enquirer., 1879-06-12
The Real German Tyrant.

If there were any brains in the German ty- rant killer, of which we see few indications, he would have singled out Bismark, whose latter life seems utterly irreconcilable with German liberty, and not respectable old Kaiser Will helm, whose existence threatens nobody. Even if the tyrant-killer were not, from time imme- norial the stupidest of mortals the process is one which, however plausible itnay appear in theory; never works well in practice. Those most belauded assassins of old Roman history, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, and the rest, most treacherously slaughtered a very noble tyrant to make room for much more cunning and dangerous successor. Their experience has been the experience of succeeding assassns. If one of this spurious breed of martyrs set France right for a few years by killing as con- temptible tyrant as ever sprang from the contemptible House of Valois. his good work was soon undone by another assassin in re- moving Henry ", at the very time when he alone could apparently have prevented the horrible Thirty Years War;
 Modern history, at least, seems controlled by tendencies, rather than by individualities. Bismark is the type of great military, con- trolling caste, which took it's present form un- der the iron tutelage of Frederick the Great which redeemed Germany from the tyranny of the Great Napoleon in 1913; and which de- molished the Little Napoleon in 187O Back of this military caste stands an industrious, in- telligent, patient people, much persecuted by military and civil officers of the most arbitrary habits known to European government, and sorely hampered by red-tape and over- protection from accomplishing that great and peaceful destiny to which their race shows such man. | ifest tendency. Were Bismark to die tomor- | morrow, no doubt Junkerism would find fit- ting successor for the man whose harsh hand I has done so much for, and 80 much against Germany.
 With all his marvellous luck, indeed, Bis mark, closely viewed, seems Prussian of the Eighteenth rather than of the Nineteenth cen- tury. He has carried into full accomplishment the designs with which Frederick the Great undertook his aggression on the old Austrian Empire of Maria Theresa The times were not then ripe tor making Prussia the imperial state of Germany All that Frederick could wrest from the able woman who then sat on the Austrian throne, was the province of Sile- sia Then followed the Seven Years war, through which Prussia and her great captain hung on the very ragged edge" of ruin; and the chief work of his later life was recupera- tien. The part played by Prussia in the great struggle with Napoleon 1 was defensive. Bis mark, in luckier times, with greater diplomat ic skill, and equal military boldness, has play ed out the great game which Frederick left unfinished. In consolidating Germany, we believe that he has accomplished a most valua- ble and necessary work, for which history will unquestionaUly give iin due credit.
 Turning lroul Dishark's triua4pL.int foreign policy 10 his domestic government, what wonderful lapse is obvious even to those most disposed to admire the greatness of the man. There have been times when Bismark seemed about to break the shell of Junkerism and grow Into as great master of the domestic policy as he had been of the foreign policy of his country. But each effort has only proved renewed failure, showing the hopeless inca pacity of the actor for so great part. Abroad, he is the ablest diplematist, the boldest and luckiest soldier, of our generation. At home, he is the mere martinet, with no worthy poli- cy of his own, impatient of every policy better than his own, still more impatient of any op- position to measures harsh and crude almos: to absurdity. He lacks even the shrewduess in domestic administration which half atoned for the untempered dospotien of the great king of Prussia he 80 much resembles in other res- poets.
 One object only seems steadily before the eyes of this remarkable man. He found the bunker aristocracy half beaten in Prussia; and he meanS, at whatever cost, to restore that most odious species of Conservatism to the full control of United Germany. His persecution of the Catholics had this end in view. He proposed not only to make Germany conserva- tive, but to be himself the guiding spirit of that conservatism. Plus Ninth could consent to no such control of German Catholicism Leo seems to have given up the contest, at
 
 tism of the Empire to coalesce with the Jun ker Conservatism of Bisnlark, with the latter as the civil head of the combination The CO., alition has given Bismark, almost for the first time in his history, full control of Conserva- tive Parliament. That the liberty hitherto al- lowed the people of Germany can be perma- nently crushed out by any contrivances or combinations of its bunker ruler we do not believe. Yet it is in his power to do great temporary harm, and we lsok for a German tyranny under this ominous conjunction of bunker and Catholic that shall exceed anything heretofore experienced in the new Empire. Ellsworth.
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