The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-02
MISTAKEN AMBITION.

Phllosophy, thou lest" said the indir.
nant minister, Cardinal RIcHELIEIr. on
reading some stale euloey on a life ra-
moved from secular power. The remark
was mace at time when the grand old
MINISTER OF LOUIS felt the power he had
welded and by which he had made his he
loved France one of the first nations of
Europe, slipping from his nervous CRASH
After him how many men similarly situ-
aVeo nave felt and perhaps expressed them
serves IN the same manner! AS often as
that has occurred so often has il been
proven That Quiet to quick bosoms is
nen' That ambinon cnce aroused in the
heaft, plays the tyrant over mems souls
ana urges them forward beyond the fitting
meulum OF desire" Once having tasted
OF the enchanted cup, quenchless ever
more is the thirst which it created instead
OF satisfying. Full of the madness which
hath made men mad by mere contagion if
Dy some fortune they are stripped. of the
power, they become restless as the leonsri
IN DIS cage or the eagle which beats mis-
wings against the bars that confne until
blood covers MS plumage and exhaustion
compels quletness. CINCINNATUs, twice
elected to the dictatorship of Rome, could
tWlce-hls country saved by his yalor and
wlsdom-lay aside his more than kinplv
power, return to his plow and in the ouiet
OF domestic life and its emnlov-
ments find that enjoyment en-
Indignantly spurned aside bv the
more human RICHELIEU. How few
are our CINcINNATUsEs And yet how de-
ploraole TO see men who have outlived
their times, their friends or their puppets
balancing upon the very edge of the grave |
with outstretched withered hands clutcb.
ing Vainly for the power sna,ched from
1hem py the rising masters of the world !
we nave recently seen a picture of this |
Rlnd In the course Of Prince OTTo VoS R1s.
MARCK. One would think that after Great
Ing the Empire Of Germany, debating the
Policy ana movements OF three of her EN- |
perors, crushing her ancient enemv-
france-and for more than two decades 7
regarded as the foremost man of En-.
rope, IN whose hands the issues of
war or peace rested-one would think
that that. would be glory enouob
10 be encompassed in one mans life
enough to satisfy ambtion's widest
dreams; and that when thrust aside bv the
upstart youthful Emperor, he could have
retlreu from the scene of his former glory
with quiet dignity and calm demeanor
secure In the greatness which the world ar.
;orced him. But no; ambition is still nm
'atsfled. He would again grasp the sceptre
u power, again NEEDLE in the affairs of
state, again attract the eyes of the world
md become the thunderer of the scene and
fence he has sought and at last obtained
eat in the German reichstag.
We fear, however, he will add NOTHING 70
us former greatness by consenting to be-
ome member of the parliament. Indeed
Us Illumination began when he consented 70
tano as deputy for Geestemunde. In the
rst election, though receiving pluralitv
L votes, he failed to get the necessary ma.
orlty over all required by the German law
nd therefore had to submit to a sunn,e
1entary election between himself and tho
andidate who received the next largest
umoer Oh votes. This was SoHMALTFELpT
ne SOCIALIST caandidte. The supplementary
allot was cast IN Geestemunde on the 3otb
IT,, and resulted in Prince BISMARCK re-
ewing 6,1SS votes and SoHMALrFr, nr
40, majority for the prince of 2O7o
BISMARCK therefore will enter the re1chstey h
ad Inc world Will lston to his speeches
ut mainly out of curiosity to le.rr
hat attitude he will assume towa. 10 tha
resent government. But the old MAJ, will
ot be long in making the discovery that
lere is wide difference between re
ARoK, the former chancellor of GERMANY
e man of 'blood and iron" the arbiter If
e fate of nations, and BISMARCK the NOR,
n from Geestemunde.
Better that the sun should be blotted ont
existence and nothing but darkness
Ign throughout that space now filed hu
effulgent light than that he sbonld
vindle to pale star which would onlv
flee as contrast to his former glory
would 1t be better for BISMARCK. better
his fame, more gratifying even
his ambition to be remembered &c R1s 4
RICK the ''thunderer,n at whose froy,
lrope trembled, than to be rememberaa -
the feeble old man, the deputy from :
A,oui
'IHE NEXT Republican candidate for
ont - l.