Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22
THE BERLIN TREATY.
Its First Publication the Greatest Feat OF
Modern journalism.

On the 9th Of July, a week before
the Congress CLOSED. was reading ia
the hall of tive kaiSerhof private let
ter Just arrived. and containing tue
following passage
81 have watched with delight the
campaign YOU have been making at
Berlin. 1t would be browning of
that campaign # you could be the first
% publish the treaty, and | need not
cell You with what JOY | should see
you realize what would be the great
est feat of modern journalism,
AT that moment diplomat who
had always been friendly to me passed
through the hall of the hotel | must
have looked dowucast, for he came up
with alacrity aud said, Have You
been getting bad newS9 With the
instructive idea according to which
mans destiny depends on the sagacity
with which he seiZes on the indications
given by fate, instead of replying. /
showed him the letter. He perused il
attenuvely, then, turning to me, $50
you set great store on forestalling the
| publication of the treatyw
III YOU put on one side all the grand
| crosses in the world, and the treaty on
! the other, | should choose the treaty.
"And how are YOU going to yet itP"
al nave Just had an assurance that
/ Prince Bismarck is highly satisfied
/ with what | sent on cur conversation,
/ and thinks | have rendered IA service
to peace. am going to ask him to
/ give me the treaty as n recompeuse.
My friend reelected n minute. then
| exclaimed; "No, do not ask him till
YOU have seen me again. Walk ous
! tomorrow between one and two in tue
Wilhelmstrasse, and | will see YOU
Next day. ON coming into the street.
he came up TO me and hurrcdly said,
Come for the treaty the day before
the closing, and promise you you
shall have IT,.
could hardly restrain my delight
Now that was certain of getting the
treaty, | had twofold anxiety. In
the first place, the Congress was to
terminate ON the 18th The Cham
cellor had positively said SO. 1t was
Saturday. should have the treaty
ON the 18th, aud it was necessary at
all cost for it 20 appear on the 18th,
foe the English papers do not como
out on Saturdays, and Monday would
have been too late. Secondly, IL WAS
not enough TO have the treaty; ! must
be the only Que to have II. The Cor
man papers were angry with the
Chancellor for not receiving them.
reflected that probably to pacily them
he would give them the treaty. which
would thus appear at Berlin on Satur-
day, and that should bee beaten.
was in despair, How prevent Primo,
Bismarck from doing what he chosoi
How telegraph the treaty. II wasIm-
possible in Germany or Austria, auJ
nj Paris 10 would be too late, for got
ting it only on Friday. could not be
at Paris in time for IL to be published
on Saturday in London.
Az the very hour on the 18Th Of jan,
when the treaty of 1873 was signed a
Berlin, London telegram announced
that the Times had published the pre-.
amble and sixty-four articles, with m
English translation appended. "Iow
could IL have got the preamble yester-
day morning, seeing that 10 was not
drawn up?' asked Prince Bismarck Of
the Count die ST. Waller. WAS ia
not you. Count who gave it the
treaty. '
by this time Nj. dc St. Waller had
no reason for keeping the secret
further and he was bound to reply
without hesitation. lie therefore
frankly related what had happened.
"And what did he say when YOU
told him?" asked NJ. dc st. WALLER.
Excuse me- replied the Count,
smiling, "but he did not tell M to re-
peat it to you. AIR, de Biowilz, IN
! Hnper's Hagazule.