Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-26
THE BISMARCK SNUB.
Opinion of DR.. Laskcr's Brother in Re.
gard to the Return Of the
UOuse Rpsu,utjouS

House Resolutions.
New York, February oj.-Morris
Lasker of Galveston, Texas. who ne.
companied the remains of his brother.
Edward Laskcr, TO Berlin, has lust
returned. Lasker thinks regarding
the return of the resolutions to the
house of representatives., that Bis.
marck, having discovered his mistake
in excluding all official recognition at
the funeral services OF DR.. Lasker.
seized upon this resolution, which in
contrast with his action had met
with II very kindly senti-
ment on the part of the German
| people, to give it the Importance of a
political document and by returning il
TO weaken the influence OF the friendly
sympathy which existed between the
two people in behalf of the ideas which
Dr.. Lasker lived to advocate and sun.
port. The great contrast between the
feeling OF the German masses, excited
by official discOurtesy on the one hand
and the friendly expression OF supposed
unprecedented people on the other.
threatened to become too important a
factor i'll the sentiment of masses
against Bismarck personally.
Skillfui diplomat as he is, he thus
seized on this very resolution TO dispe-
the effect produced by it, by putting
TO ridicule its authors, the Representa-,
tive body of the American people, and
while 1t would suit him to antagonize
the two people, yet desiring at the same
Time to preserve friendly relations
between the two governments. He
oilers as an excuse for the indignitv
thus cast upon the American peopie
that the document was not presented
IN n proper diplomatic manner. II
seems to be the general Impression
IN America that Minister Sargent
Is man held IN no esteem in Germa
ny ana void of tact to uphold the dig
NIFTY OF his position. / have met ped
PIE or all shudes of politics there, and
ma that while some close adherents of
bisniark display a great deal of bitter
ness with regard to Sargent pro-
voRed by the controversy in connec-
.ion WIN American pork importa-
siohs' YET all but the most servile Of
hcia' press speak OF him in terms of
uiSh respect, and the mass. |
es are IN sympathy with
uls position on that question.
30 iaf from IT bein true that Sargent
,acks determination, with all due cour-
80 - ''"'h MS IOsltlOn, i NAV saw |
rom information derived from I'M.
doubted sources that ms the result of
the controversy referred to, the inward
nature of which IL best known to tha
Ann fican state department, German
officials are evidently instructed IN ma
preach with delicacy every ouestian
and transaction in which t6ey are an.
gagged with Minister Sargent. Sargent
Is deep, American lntelljSent
gentleman, who does not lack tart and
decision to uphold his proper dirnitv
IN any position, and with due resnac,
10 those with whom he comes in nnu
tact, had he (Surgent presumed ~
put himself in direct COMMUNICATE,
Win The reichstag, he could have nra'
perry been rejected with no other tban
personal slight upon himself, and tha
presiding control of the body being IN
i 1, hands of those in sympathy With
bismarck, II would nat,,raltu
have left him to expect i,,:,
such treatment. He could only ioo,
l3r re ognilion rom constituted an'
lnoritles IN Germany for any comm"
hlcation he might have desired "
make by submitting 1t THROUGH H.
state department, ana that corr.s 'he
'ooS. l dare predict that no,h,n ne