Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-31

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Your declination of the Russian
mission, is of course, final2" said the
reporter
Entirely so. That vacancy mas
already been filled by the appoint
ment of Mr.. Taft, and / learned with
great pleasure that Mr.. Kasson is to
go to Berlin. | consider that an ex-
ceilent appointment. Mr. Kasson is
d Strong man. am glad, on the
wnole, that the place has not been
leIe vacant But I am certain of one
iihlng-'he Minister at Berlin will
nave TO wink at a good MANY THINGS.
or ne Will lind the position made very
hot Tor him under Germanv's present
policy. You see Bismark IS now i'm
tensely conservative. He is work
lDg IN every possible way TO conserve
tie landed interest. and thus con
troll their support. To do that he
does not shrink, so far as America
is concerned, to disregard the pro
visions OF treaties now existing oe
tween the two countries. and he be.
lleves that he can do ii with perfect
impunlty, knowing how i'll prepared
our government would be 10 exact
any enforcement of the treaties Tn
the Reichstag he is trying to straddle
several different stools IN order 10
carry out his projects"
THE PEOPLE LIBEeALS.
DO the German people sympathize
with Bismark?"
Not as rule. a great majority
of the people are Liberals. This is
especially true of the middle classes,
the educated people, those represent
ing the university elements. IF Herr
Lssker was, as Bismark SAID. the
of the Emperor and of his
country, he must class two thirds of
the people IN the same category. The
of Berlin would be equally
guilty, and some of it's most illustri-
Gus professors are traitors If Lasker
was"
TO what do you refer in saying
that the Chancellor tries to straddle
too many st0ols2"
Gas said before, Bismarck is in
conservative, and the only
true conservatives in the country are
the landed interests. His design in
the railroads mere Govern
ment affairs was to make sure of the
votes of all the employees. But IN the
Relchstag the Conservatives are not
able alone to carry out any of Bis
marck's schemes, so he strives to
make irmer friends with some Of the
other wings. For instance, he has
recently tried to get subsidies for the
German steamship companies, be-
llevlng, very properly as | think, that
they should have governm entail as
slstance. He has endeavored to Sc
cure the Ultramontane and Catholic
lnteres,s, and there is somc talk of his
putting a Liberal III the Cabinet, of
course in the hope Of getting a few
Liberal votes"
Would Bismarck like war with
this country"
ooh, no. He would laugh at the
idea Of d war as an impossibility, for
The reason that there are so many
Germans in America that he does not
,hink they would allow cue to occur.
strange as you may think it, he be-
ieves that the COMMUNICATIONS
sympathize with him, though, if they
40, the tone Of the American press
strongly bellies their real sentiments.
have no desire to belittle Bismarck
in the slightest degree, but he tries to
do the entire thinking of a nation,
and no man can do that successfully"
AMEBICA's DISGRACE
do you feel that our Government
failed to support you properly?"
Il would not care to talk about that.
1t would probably have been better if
the Government had acted more
promptly. What amazes me is that
the American people should be con-
tent to remain in their present unpro-
tected condition, trusting to the COM
plaisance of powers which arc never
with one another There
is New York, in such q defenceless
condition that fifth-rate naval
power could come l.ere and raze it's
banks to the ground in couple of
hours. The Herald has taken the
correct view of this case 1t is uni
versally accepted abroad, and | can
not understand why people at home
are SO apathetic.
LII Wow vi ouI IIdN oil WCdhhCooj
don't you think if Mr.. Blaine were
elected that he might engage in some
dangerous quarrel with Bismarck
Il do not share the Hera Ids alarm
in this" said Mr.. Sargent, smiling,
IS though [ am so rusty IN recent
American politics that I am possibly
not very good judge of Mr.. Blaine's
position. | am willing to admit that
the nominees were not my first choice,
still I am Republican and I expect
to vote the Republican ticket this
year."
Mr.. Sargent said that the famous
pork decree had caused genuine suf-
fering among the poor, to whom it
was the only flesh food 1t was an
act of demagcgy ard bad
been performed merely to please the
landed interests. The exMinlster
Will leave New York at once and go
% Washington, where he will give
IN account of his stewardship. Then
ne will go to his home in San Fran
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