Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-10

a vigorous war on him upon the QueS'
ton of how this unity was to be ef
fected. The Chamber wanted to dc
it through the people and the National
Union. The King true to his military
instincts and training looked to the
army as his sole hope Of success.
The Government urged its scheme
session after session only to
have 1t utterly ignored by the
House. A complete deadlock was the
result and, things looked black
enough. The King, driven to the
very verge OF despair, exclaimed: '.If
the Cha nber still finds it impossible
to pass the Reorganization Bill, will
some one find me man with the
courage to uphold it in defiance of the
Deputies ?" Bismarck was Ambassa-
dor at the Court OF st. Petersburg.
Something suggested him to the
nearly distracted King. In obedience
to the royal summons, the man OF
blood and iron came to Berlin, and
from that day to yesterday the King
aud Prince Observation-Disclosures
have been intimately associated in
everything OF importance to
Prussia and to Germany.
Some one described the new Minister
as IA bold and resolute spirit, with
narrow but intense vision, and will
created to go crashing through diff
culties, and to fashion world to its
liking" The King had actually dis
cussed resigning in favor of the Crown
Prince. The advent of Bismarck on
the scene of action put an end to all
such thoughts. The King grew con-
fident in mind, and with this came
renewed physical strength. A Rus
sian Princess at the court compli-
mented the King on his improved
looks. He pointed to the new Min
mister, saying as he did SO, "ciola
mon medicin!'' The pills Bis
marck prescribed for the Depu-
ties were less agreeable than
those he administered to the King.
They were not sugar-coated to the
tongue, and they were drastic in their
effects. Bismarck is of past age.
He is really out of place in this time.
Hear him: Germany does not con-
template the Liberalism of Prussia,
but her power. Wuertemburg and
Baden might indulge Liberalism !;
but they were not therefore called to
play the part of Prussia. Prussia
must hold her power together for the
favorable opportunity which had al
ready been sometimes neglect
ed; the frontiers were unfavor-
able to a good State constitution.
The great questions of the day were
not to be decided by speeches and ma
jorities-this had been the error of
1S4S and 1919 but by blood and
IRON" So the King closed the sixty
fifth session fthe chamber-a stormy
one with those words: "The budget
for the year 1862, as decided by the
Cham Der of Representatives, having
been rejected by the Peers, on the
ground of insufiiciency, the Govern
ment is under the necessity OF con-
trolling public affairs outside the Con-
stitution." That was a statement
for a Constitutional government to
make And the King and his minis
tiers went on and did the
things they said they would do.
THE sCHLEswICK-HoLsTE WAR.
The current OF events carried Prus-
sia at a rapid pace directly into war.
1t was a petty, inglorious war, but
important for two reasons. This was
necessary as a first step towards Ger
man unity, and it proved the great
superiority of the Prussian needle
gun. Bismarck, by one of those mas
terly strokes of statecraft for which
he has become famous, induced Aus
tria, in defiance of her policy. to
draw her sword with Prussia. How
this was brought about has never
been clearly understood. In Den
mark a new King had just come to
the throne. Federal troops were dis
patched by Prussia on the pretext of
watching whether this monarch, King
Christian, would observe in Holstein
the terms of the London Protocol OF
1852. Their presence gave courage to
the German inhabitants to proclaim
for the Prince OF Augustenburg, as the
true Duke OF Holstein. Prussia and
Austria asked permission of the Bund
to occupy Schleswick also, Sin Justice
to the Danish King and the Duchies. -
This the Bund refused to do; when,
true to his usual policy, Bismarck ad-
vised independent action, and the
war against Denmark was begun. Up
to the issuance of the proclamation Of
war the Landtag had obstinately re-
fused to vote the sinews of war. The
Deputies asserted that the "money
was not intended to be spent in the
true interest of the Duchies or of Ger
many, or in the interest of
the Crown or of the country"
The King replied with characteristic
independence: "The direction which
my Government has taken in its
foreign policy is the result OF due con-
sideration. My resolution has been
formed in regard to the treaties that
have been concluded with Prussia,
and in consideration of the present
European situation and our own posi-
ton. German rights in the Duchies
must be upheld, and the measures are
justified by which Prussia endeavors
to obtain her end, even though that
end has to be accomplished by force
of arms. The House cannot take upon
itself the heavy responsibility of
refusing the necessary means, or,
in granting them, of imposing
conditions which would be an
encroachment on the rights
of my crown. / can not
understand the policy which in duces
the House to press my Government
necessarily to action, and that, too,
at the moment when action should be
taken only in the field. Least OF all
can l understand that these measures
which demand for the protection OF
the right and honor of the country
should be used otherwise than for this
purpose, for which my word is suffi-
cient guarantee. These doubts stand
in utter contradiction to the confidence
the Prussian people are wont to place
in the word of their Kings" The
Landtag, however, was obstinate, and
adjourned without voting one thaler