Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-03-22
BISMARCK.
Description of tsis Great war Speech
In the Cern1aH Retci1ataG.

SoSCttfSBOAt VI TIL AAE0&dI " 1f 2UGGCEi
In the Cermas Rsichatag.
While the prophets and warmon.
gers are eontending with their vari-
Gus interpretations Of Prince Bis.
marck's speech, / shall but endeavor
to pen picture OF scene in the reich.
stag on what the Cologne Gazette
pronounces to have been the moot
memorable day in modern German
history since the proclamation OWL.
helm as kaisef at Versailles. BY mid.
day the streets, leading from. Prince
Bismarck's palace in the Wilhelm
strasse to the Reichstag building were
thronged. All Berlin had turned out
to welcome the Iron Chancellor, who
has been littleseen since hisreturn from
Fredrichsruhe, and give the stamp
OF popular approval to the project
he was about to propose and defend.
There could be no manner of doubt
that Berlin, at least, was will.
ing and glad to give the 100000
men demanded for the better defense
OF the vaterland. and the $40, 00O,.
600 to meet the thus entailed deficit
In the military budget. From his
palace to the parliament building the
drive was a triumphal procession
Some people who twenty-five years
ago mobbed him because they thought
him reactiohaty, and, as d travelling
American had put it, TOO big for his
boots" now huzzahed themselves
hoarse. Young ladies' showered down
on him as he passed corniiowers. and
these offerings alone won from the
adamantine countenance OF the Man
OF Iron a smile. Though erect and
soldlerly IN his cuirassier tunic, with
yellow collar, / thought he looked
pale and wan, as well he might. He
seemed fully aware OF the weight all
Europe placed upon his words, and at
fi-st his care in their choice made his
speech slow and even halting. Behind
his chair was placed little table GOV.
cred with seltzer bottles and white
Rhine wine. His son Herbert ofiici.
ated there at arbiter bibendi.
The bill having been read Prince
Bismarck rose, no one naturally chal.
longing his right to the presiding Off
GERS eye, pausing for moment, his
glance swept around the house. Be.
hind him sat Field Martial Won Moltke
with folded arms and eyes closed, his
busy brain teeming with all the secrets
of the German war Office. In the i'm.
mediate neighborhood are gathered
Messrs. Windhorst, Richter, Bennlng,
sen and Others who had SO strongly
opposed the government on the sep.
tennate bill. One hundred and TWEEN.
ty skilled stenographers sit ready with
sharpened pencils in the press gallery.
Telegraph operators sit behind them
with fingers on the tickers and when
the first word of the great speech is
said, the first thought that suggests
itself is the wonderful disproportion
between the speakers frame and his
voice, the one colossal, the other al.
most puny. Gradually, however, il
deepens, broadens and increases in
volume Until at last the dispropor.
ton disappears. Suddenly gurgling
sound comes from the speakers throat
like the suction OF a ships pump.
Quickly a settler bottle is uncorked
by Count Herbert's skilled hand, the
Rhine wine added, and in q moment
the liquid has gone gurgling down his
parched throat. Irresistibly the i'm.
age OF Gladstone, whom the sphinx oi
NarSin SO cordially detests, rose up
before me, and once more saw the
Peoples William" place his egg-fiip
bottle upon the dispatch box, draw
out his notes and commence to de-
molish the ainlsy arguments of tory
apologists.
While the speech, which according
to newspaper statisticians contained
1898 words, was being spoken,
Count Herbert presented seventeen
times TO his thirsty father glasses oil
Rhine wine and seltzer, and each time
the glass was drained to helast drop.
Once the prince sat down. His face
was drawn, and evidently the varicose
veins. which so trouble Europe, were
twit ching. But wheRhe came to the
climax of the oration-when he ex-
claimed: 1--WE Germans fear God and
no one elsel We seek 90 cultivate
friendly relations, but we run after
no onei We dread war, but against
the Juror Teutonicus no power can
stand, "--ls rose, and then the house
shouted as one man, and then the
tickers tell the world that Germany is
one and united 'auf immerdar,"
Not word is san in opposition.
The socialists are powerfess 70 s,m-
bat this outburst OF patriotism, and as
Prince Bismarck walked back to his
house through the crowded street,
his carriage not having come, he knew
that the bill was to be adopted unani
mously and en- bloc.