Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-11-07
4 Great Contrast = Bismarcls's
Pitiful Policy.

1t is somewhat surprising to note the
! unmistakable hostility of Bismarck to
the United States during the past two
or three years, II Is not very long
time since supplemental treaty was me-
gotiatsd by Minister Bancroft with the
German Empire, which was paraded,
with great flourish of trumpets, as
cementing anew the bonds of friendship
! between the two countries. That was
during Grants administration. In that
treaty the German Chancellor consented
to modify very materially the iron rules
by which the question of German-Amer-
can citizenship had heretofore been
hampered. The German who, prior to
that time, had expatriated himself was
liable TO find, on his return to his own
country, very embarrassing claims of
military service and allegiance set up,
resulting in his frequent arrest and seri-
Gus inconvenience. BY that treaty at
least a modified acceptance was formally
conceded by the German government to
the doctrine that man could sink the
German in the American citizen. Since
then the Prince OF Blood and Iron has
evidently regretted his spirit of oonces-
sion. He has seen. with dismay, large
numbers of the most athletic and enter
prising Of the German youth embarking
for the American III Dorado, where such
multitudes of them have attained wealth
and station. This spectacle seems TO
have excited the animosity of the prin-
cipal adviser of the Emperor William
His hostility first took the shape Of a
peremptory edict against the introduc.
tion OF American pork, on the ground
that it was full of trichinosis. Though
II was felt, in the United States, that
this was an insincere pretence, our gov
ernment, not being possessed. in any of
its departments, with arbitrary powers,
has been obliged to submit OF course,
it is an open question as to whether or
not the Congress of the United States
may think it worth while to retaliate
in kind, through our customs duties.
The operation of the old nursery rhyme,
Tit for tat, butter for fat,
You kill my dog, kill your cat.
Can be made to apply against Germany
as against any other nation. A per
emptory and absolutist edict of the
German Chancellor might be met by an
equally prohibitory constitutional en-
actment of an American Congress.
But while we could very well have
afforded to treat with contempt
the perhaps childish spite involved
in this pork interdict, the Amer
lean hog being the principal
party insulted, with his ramifcations, as
an exportable proposition, mainly cen.
tered in Chicago and Cincinnati Bis
marsk's malice has taken new and ma
lign form, which threatens to dep i've
the people of the United States OF the
myriais of young and able.bodied Ger
mans who, in the past, have done so
much to develop the new lands an the
waste places of this country, in the
shape Of the Teutonic immigrants. Reg
ulations have emanated from this i'm.
perial bureaucrat which will make the
egress of any ambitious emigrant from
Germany hereafter impossible, unless he
is loaded up with coin, or shall have
passed the best years OF his life in some
military camp.
What will be the result OF this concen-
tric tyranny, which throws all the ener-
gies Of the superb German race TO a
focus, there to Tester and perhaps ex-
plodef Where are the men of 4Si Has
Democracy absolutely perished odt of
the German land!
Certainly no such test of German for
bearance has ever been made in the past.
1t will bring the blush of shame to the
cheeks OF all freedom.loving German
democrats in all quarters OF the world.
1t seems to us that it will act as a boom
erang, and give new vitality to the
democratic spirit, which is not dead,
but only sleepeth, in Germany. The
men who despise and hate kingeraft
have certainly not diminished in number
since the year Of grace, lS4S. On the
contrary, with the progress of intell-
gence, the arts and sciences, they have
multiplied indefinitely.
1t is probably the part of wisdom that
the venerable old Emperor and his per-
emptory and choleric Chancellor should
be allowed to go to their graves in
peace. The hour which shall ring the
knell of Wilhelm will also sound the
doom Of Bismarck, for the Crown Prince