New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-30

things But n paper which can speak OF Juhius
who wrote in epigrams as " dltfuse, must nave {
private standard of style, and may be expected to
say though not TO know anything. G. VS.
PRINCE BISNARCK-IRISH PCLITENESS AM
ENGLISH LOYALTY-COPIRIGH
rFRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LONDON. March H.
Prince BIsmarcks speech of Yesterday 10 The
Reichstae is telegraphed to the London papers in full
or nearly so. and doubt to you also. lrreSpect-
lively of the merits of the Lasker case, the speech IL
one of the most characteristic ever made ~ the
German Chancellor. In its mixture of frankncss
and adro;tncss. of calculated statement and ont
bursts of irrepressible wrath Of respect for eti-
quette and swift searching into the heart OF the
whole business. it IS a speech which nobody but
Prince Bismarck could make. 1t has turned the
current of opinion here, which was rather against
him. in his favor He seems TO have charmed away
even the austere disapproval of The Times CORE
spondent at Berlin and of TIC Times itself here IN
London and this journal expresses itself with much
freedom on the subject of the House of Representa-
tiyes at Washington. That august body, 1t Is now
seen is no great adept III the art OF paving grace
full and acceptable compliments Its Lasker reSo-
luton though well meant, was ill-advsed and
clumsiIy expressed and il is a little too apt to
measure the merits of other representative bodies
by the degree in which they accept the political
principles in favor in. the United States More
over. the House seems to forget that IN paying
compliments Tetcencc Is often good ded more 2
niGed than eftuson.'
Tn, point on which Renters dispatch is least fail
is precisely the one Of most lasting interest 10 MS,
VIZ. Prince Bismarck account Of Gcrmanys rell-
tons. and hi, own relations, to the Unified states.
The more ancient part of it, may perhaps observe.
Is almost in words a repetition of the sentiments ut
tered in my hearing nearly eighteen years ago
which | quoted Yesterday. But then comes pass
age on the French episode for which We have to
turn from Reuter- to The iRes dispatch After
mentioning Frederick the Great. Prince Bismarck
saws Again. during the war Of secession, Prussia
had shut her ears to the cnticements of certain
other Powers France was il not queries the cor
respondent to pursue her own profit by meddlnc
with the affairs of the Americans hat is "a
stronger phrase than the one gave and the declara
ton of good feeling is fortified by the cordial recog
milton Of the proofs Of sympathy aud encourage
ment he received for himself and for Germany from
the United States during the campaigns OF 1866 and
/ SO. France. may add, resented them as keenly
as Germany welcomed them. There remains I'M
happily on record the ferocious abuse of General
Grant a. President and of Mr. Bancroft as United
States Minister to Berlin from the pen of no less a
man than Victor Hugo.
A sentence from The Standard sums up the whole
matter with the point and conciseness one has
learned to expect from that journals
These personal matters aside must repeat that
from strictly political point of view the Chancellor
has justified his action in refusing official recogn
ton TO what virtually vote of censure on the
policy that has placed Prussia at the head of Ger
many and Germany at the head of Europe.
1t Is seen here IN England plainly enough that
Lasker able and Jealous as he was, would have in
iured and not benefited Germany mad he had his
own way. He was an opponent and not a supporter
of Prince Bismarcks policy. His efforts, to quote
the same writer. " undoubtedly tended 10 thwart
the Princes plans, and to endanger that German
unity which il has been the work of his life TO ere
ate" Germany, in other words, had to choose be-
tween the policy of Lasker which tended to Separat-
ism and the policy of Bismarck which secured
Unity Or if yOu like. ii was not permitted TO Ger
many to choose, and because 1t was not permitted
10 her Lasker who was pedant in politics, opposed
the making of a wise choice for her BY the man who
had the power to decide and who held her destinies
and the immediate destines of Europe, IN his hand
| respect the motives of Lasker and of the German
Liberals but they are among the worst practical
politicians among the least statesm0nlike, of mod
en parsans. II is not easy to forget the recanta-
ton and confession of their errors by the German
Liberals in 1866. They had resisted the whole
policy of Bismarck which led up to Sadowa. That
victory won and Prussia fairly established in her
of Germany and Of the movement for
German unity, the Liberals fully and frankly
knowledged their blunder in opposing the and
the policy which had secured victory and SUI
premacy. / first heard il III private from the lead
ing men of the dav at Berlin. Everybody soon
heard it In public. Yet the confession they then
made did not prevent them from repeating their
l..pa Ia 4
They were. and are, going through course of
political educarion at the Expense of their country.
But the fact that they have little conception of the
and conditions of public life they are
in England and IN America, might make
us hesitate before granting them our full synpa-
thes.
There are signs that Mr.. Healy's constitution IL
hardly equal to the strain he puts upon IT, Hereto
fore the copousness of his vocabulary has been sup
posed 20 be inexhaustible. But he IL beginning
TO repeat himself Last night In the House of Com
mons was what Is called an Irish night, one of
those festive occasions when SIR. Healy, Mr.. Biggar
and their associates make general attack upon
and everybody. Mr.. Healy was pretty
often on his legs but unless the Saxon reporter has
been unjust to him, his remarks were lacking in
originality. The scene Of the evening grew ont of
his charge that the Chief Secretary for Ireland had
been trying to hang innocent persons. This has
been said before but the Speaker, perhaps because
il had not been said since he was IN Office, inter
posed. and required Mr.. Healy 20 withdraw the OBJ
servatlon. Mr. Healy preferred to shy that the at
tempt to hang innocent persons was made, as Mr..
Trevelyan believed In the discharge of his duty,
and was therefore justified. The Speaker, however,
not convinced that the hanging Of innocent persons