The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-03-25

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| kings, when an over~confident youngster
with a scepter may rue the day he pushed
from his throne the mightiest prop I'm
Europe.
From the Salt Lake Tribune.
We do not think the retirement of Prince
Bismarck from the virtual control OF the
German empire will be succeeded by any
great shock. In the economy of this
world men can only do n certain moun
| of work, and as the burden falls from one
another is found to take II up and bear il
onward. The young Emperor Of Germany
is an impetuous, impulsive man, but Ger
many Is filled with capable and conserva-
tive men, and the emperor could not, IL
he would, do aught to seriously endanger
his country, for the German people would
not have il. No matter what may come
TO Germany, no future triumph or defeat
will detract in the least from the eternal
fame that surrounds and will forever sur
round Bismarck's name with unfading
splendor. The work he has performed
was never, i'm some respects, equalled by
any other mortal, and his statue i'm the
inches of ages will take on grander and
greater proportions as q shall succeed
age and as centuries shall ebb and How.
From the Minneapolis Journal.
The TACT is nobody in Germany can 10
what Bismarck has done; but there are
IIlali tittt va Isl rs "lh
have never under the governmental sys-
tenn which has obtained there since 1871,
had an opportunity to show the stuff they
are made of. The system is peculiar. An
emperor, absolute, with some attributes
Of a constitutional sovereign, ruling over
a group of states, more or less independ-
cnt, with one responsible minister, the
chancellor, who has generally acted as II
irresponsible; q federal council of repre-
sentatives from the states, responsible Ia
nobody and a parliament elected by uni
versal suffrage and yet not exercising the
full functions of n representative body.
Bismarck has supported the burden of
this clumsy government so long hat the
crossing of his wishes by the young en-
peror seems like an insult to him. The
present trend of events may change all
this. No Hohenzollern can be a very ar
dent liberal, and the recent declaration
of the emperor that he would ''crush all
who oppose him. looks as il he is on the
way Ia some hard lines of life. In these
days that is a hazardous policy for kings.
| From the Portland Oregonian.
Bismarck is shrewder than the young
emperor. and sees that the paternal game
is played out i'm Germany; realizes that
/ divine right died with old William. He
would have prolonged his power and
system while he lived by a s~agacious, il
somewhat tricky balancing OF parties and
manipulation Oh Dersous. Dut lit Will uOt
take the risk of such n crazy crusade
against the spirit of the age and the will
of the people, as h young emperor seems
bent upon undertaking. He would have
been willing to jugele with parliamentary
government another session, IL he could
have had it his own way; but even his
tried courage and splendid audacity hest.
tates before the task of annulling parlia.
mentary government altogether, and rul.
ing by personol will under the name OF
divine right. which William ii has set for
himself and his ministers. This is the
real secret of his resignation. He dare
not risk his fame and his person in a mao
scheme to govern by kingly and military
power a nation which has grown able and
willing to govern itself. He would juggeI
with the people. He dares not try to OF
crush them. Young William has most
courage but il is the courage OF the bull
before the locomotive. Bismarck is wise
10 get off the rack. His own fame is safe,
He could not increase il under any cir
cumstances. He might fatally mar it,and
worse. by remaining responsible for thu
government Of Germany. He is more to
be envied in retirement than William Oh
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