New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-03-14
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SESMARGMs
Description fills GreatWar Speech
in the German Reichstag.
While the prophets and warmon-
gers are contending with their vari-
Gus interpretations OF Prince Bis
marck's speech, l shall but endeavor
to pen picture of q scene in the reich
stag on what the Cologne Gazette
pronounces to have been the most
memorable day in modern German
history since the proclamation OWL
helm as kaiser at Versailles. By mid
day the streets leading from Prince
| Bismarck's palace in the Wilhelm
strasse to the Reichstag building were
| thronged. Ali Berlin had turned out
to welcome the Iron Chancellor, who
has been littleseen since his!return 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 $7O,O0O,-
| 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 reactionary, and, as a travelling
| American had put it, ''too big for his
I boots," now huzzahed themselves
hoarse. Young ladies showered down
on him as be passed cornfowers. and
these offerings alone won from the
adamantine countenance of the Man
Of Iron a smile. Though erect and
soldierly in his cuirassier tunic, with
yellow collar, I thought he looked
seemed fully aware of the weight all
Europe placed upon his words, and at
first his care in their choice made his
speech slow and even halting. Behind
his chair was placed a little table COW
cred with settler bottles and white
Rhine wine. His son Herbert offici-
ated there at arbiter bibendl.
The bill having been read Prince
! Bismarck rose, no one naturally chal-
longing his right to the presiding Off
GERS eye. Pausing for q moment, his
| glance swept around the house. Be
hind him sat Field Martial Won Moltke
with folded arms and eyes closed, his
busy brain teemlng 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, it
deepens, broadens and increases in
volume until at last the dispropor-
ton disappears. Suddenly a gurging
sound comes from the speaker s throat
Ike the suction Of a ships pump.
/ Quickly a seltZer bottle is uncorked
by Count Herbert's skilled hand, the
Rhine wine added, and in a moment
the liquid has gone gurgling down his
parched throat. 1rresistibly the i'm
age OF Gladstone, whom the sphinx OF
Varzln SO cordially detests, rose up
before me, and once more saw the
peoples William" place his egg-aip
bottle upon the dispatch box, draw
out his notes and commence to de-
molish the fimsy arguments of tory
apologists.
hn L, ~
to newspaper statisticians contained
| 1888 words, was being spoken,
Count Herbert presented seventeen
times to his thirsty father glasses of
Rhine wine and seltzer, ard each time
1 the glass was drained to the last drop.
Once the prince sat down. His face
was drawn, and evidently the varieose
veins. which so trouble Europe, were
twlt ching. But when he came to the
climax Of the oration-When he eX--
claimed: owe Germans fear God and
no one else! We seek6 to cultivate
friendly relations, but I've run after
no one! We dread way but against
the Juror Teutonicus 10 power can
stand, he rose, and then the house
shouted as one man, and then the
tickers tell the world that Germany is
one and united s'auf irnmerdar."
Not word is said in opposition.
The socialists are powerless to COM
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.
William King, farmer OF Vermillion.
Dakota county, who was troubled with
caicer was talan To ST Pa III 10 a =.