Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-03-30
HERBERT Won BISMARCK.
The Career OF the Son aud Probable Suo-
cessOr Of the Iron chancellor.

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The Career OF the SON aud Probable Sue
cessOr Of the Iron Chancellor.
The common desire of famous IA
thers to have their sons succeed them
In the following generation Is rarely
satisfied. BY many thia Is regarded
as an evidence Of what is known as
''fate." Might not one better consider
it as proof that intellect. like matter.
Is subject to force similar to that OF
gravitation, which draws downward.
and which can only be overcome by !
counterforces, such as rare energy, ex.
ceptional ability and opportunity
John Quincy Adams and William Pitt
are among the very few statesmen who
have equaled or surpassed illustrious
fathers. That Count Herbert Won Bis
marck will ever equal 1.-THE Iron Chan
celOr" in statesmanship probably no
one believes, but his intellectual and
political training has been SO remark
able that the basis Of the doubt must
be in the conviction that such grand
opportunities will not recur, rather
than in the belief of lack of ability in
the son. At Herbert's age-thirty-nine
the great Bismarck's career had
hardly begun. His many student duels
were still remembered in Gottingen;
In Pomerania his name was familiar,
for all the people had heard of his
daring pranks and drinking bouts, by
which he had gained the name OF "ths
mad young nobleman;" he had served
three or four years in Parliament and
shown furious temper, and had made
q small beginning in diplomacy-that
was all; he had given no sign OF genius,
no proof OF statesmanship.
Herbert, the elder OF 6ismarck's two
sons. was born at the end OF 1849. He
was educated at Frankfort, Berlin and
Bonn, at the last of which cities he
took his university degree. When the
war with France began, Herbert was
only twenty-one, and his brother Will
lam only eighteen. but both joiaed the
army. Both were also wounded in the
charge OF the Prussian Dragon Guards
at Mars-la-Tour. Herbert's political
career began as long ago as 1873. He
was first attached to missions at Mu-
mich and Dresden, and then became
Secretary Of Legation at Bern. From
the first, Bismarck seems to have
planned to make his son his successor.
Except where great distance rendered
it impossible, young Bismarck has
constantly been his fathers confiden-
tial secretary. When the great diplo.
matists of Europe met in Berlin in
1878, the Chancellor made ample pro-
vision for the diplomatic apprentice
by having him act as one as the assist
ant secretaries. That he might give
special attention to different languages
and ss,stoms, he was for some time con
nected with the legation at London
then with that at st. Petersburg
and finally advanced to the posi-
ton of German Minister at The Hague
! BY 1885 his progress had been SO salts
factory to his father that the latter
thought it time for Count Herber
to begin to learn how to pla.
the great game Of diplomacy at Ber
lin. He was therefore recalled an,
advanced to the Under-Secretarysh
for Foreign Affairs. Since then h
has been promoted to the Secretary
: ship, and in his diplomatic positio
ranks next to his father. An educa
. ton in diplomacy could not be NOR
,, complete or more logical; and it nigh
be doubted II there was ever anothe
one so much so.
Since the advent of the youthful
Emperor the old Chancellor seems t
find great pleasure in seeing the tw
men of the future yoked together an
! parading before all Europe as
: they were the real leaders OF Ger
: many. Young Bismarck has bee
the almost constant companion an
adviser of the Emperor in his recer
I travels. Unless this intimacy ceases
or the present Chancellor dies within
year or two, every thing seems to IL
dictate that Count Herbert will be h
fathers successor.
In personal appearance Count He
u bert is one OF the very few handsom
!. men one sees in Germanycoutside I
q the army. Like his father. he is oyt
: six feet in height, and is of splendi
!, proportions. His face is finer than h
J fathers, and consequently does nj
y show 80 much intense personal energ.
:. Instead of the fathers fine bald hes
q and white mustache. the son has
. heavy growth OF dark brown hair ar
IS dense mustache of the same color.
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