Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19

most prominent democrats in Germany; hil
impatience over the free and easy govern.
ment of Alsace and Lorraine; his acceptance
of war as a necessary condition of modern
civilization; his maxim that the most power.
full nation in Europe was the one with the
heaviest artillery; his appreciation of Gam.
beta, whom he regretted he did not
know; his kind, almost maternal re.
spect for Thiers; his scorn fol-
the gentlemen of the pavement
in Paris; his repeated expression of his
conviction during the Civil War that the
South never could succeed; his outlook
upon the American Observation-Disclosures
in time, as he laughingly said, to be the
first of German, as she was the first of
English, ard would be the first of Scan
dinavian nations; his interest in our negro
problem, and whether we would ever solve
it; his proud remembrance of the fact that
German friendship for the United States
came to the royal house as a legacy from
Frederick the Great; his shadowing the
theory that America had her grave problems
still to solve, and that the suppression of
the Rebellion was useful as showing the re-
served strength to deal with what in time
might try government and society even
more than rebellion-from point to point
the conversation of the Chancellor went
flowing on and on like some Amazonisn
river broadening into the sea.
His Personality Was overpowerins.
Imagination and consciousness of stupen-
dous glory may have prepared me for the
impression formed of Bismarck. 1 do not
think so. Much journalism had made this
writer at least cynical about greatness in
men. Here, plainly however, as clearly
=, Il, o4E
a gigantic origina al intellectual force.
Rather more in the American, Lincoln
spirit, was his story OF how he kept peace at
the Berlin Conference.
"Oh, yes," he said, Eve have differences
and delicate questions. What else could be
expected with such minds and such interests?
The Frenchman sits near me, and we are
good friends, and do what 1 can to amuSe
him. Then there are Gortchakoff and Bea-
consfeld, and there is the duel-Gortcha-
kof all spirit, Beaconsfeld all sef-pos-
session. The talk will sometimes run high,
and sharp words are spoken. AS t,e room
is large, the members rarely talk loud
enough to be heard with comfort. So it is
so easy when a delegate makes an angry
speech to ask him to raise his voice and
make it over again, so that we may have the
privilege of hearing it. That is an immense
gain toward peaceful deliberation so much
fire goes out of a speech when you have to
say it all over again. There are few of us
who speak in temper without subsequent
vexation. So to repeat speech gives the
speaker time to be sorry"
Sometimes They Took Drink.
Sometimes, however, that will not do.
The speaker, and generally the Eaglishman
or the Russian, is SO angry that the more he
thinks of his wrongs the angrier he grows,
and the second speech is worse than the
first, and everything will be on the blaze.
Then 1 have my last resource. Like the
great general I bring up my reserves. In
an adjoining room have splendid set-out,
especially in the way of drink-no buffet at
the Prussian railway stations half SO we'll
ppointed-everything selected to meet the
tastes of my noble and princely friends.
Well, when the talk verges on the blaze,
and Beaconsfeld's face grows dark and set
and poor GortchakoF hobbies and scram-
bles to his feet in passion, which it was
hard to do with his intrmities, say, Gen
tlemen, am tired and thirsty, and think
I would like to take drink. And why not
let US all have a drink?' That means
question of an hour at my famous buffet,
and We resume our seats in better humor."
There was something so American in this
humor, good sense, per-
,eption of human nature-that I never re- |
,al it except as an illustration of the SIM
olicity of Bismarck genius, the simplicity |
nseparable, perhaps, from true genius; the |
yoing at a thing in a plain, direct way.
Bismarck knew that men were men, and |
hat there comes time in mems lives when |
he buffet has unspeakable power. 1t is |
" this simplicity that causes are gained |
md battles won.
Bismnrck's Place in History.
Even as statesmen go in a nation where
IN emperor lived and ruled and a field mar
hal held his baton when they were over 80, |
is no longer young man. AS to
lis career-well, the career of such man is
lot confined to his lifetime. No royal man.
late can make or unmake the statesman,
because even the DEGREES of Hohenzollern
10 not run into history. Events made Bis
narck, and he directed them to the glory
# his country and his King. I can well
believe the repeated asseverations of his
aith in Providence that he trusted in
1od as much as Cromwell and WASH
believed in God as
he One who doeth all things well. 1t was
'nly due respect to the Supreme Being to
zee that the guns did not moulder in the
There was practical Chris
ianity in that proud, sad, worn face-hu-
Generations must come and go before we
ee the measure of his greatness, the COM
,ass and volume of his work. The crown
hat spurns him was his gift to the Hozen-
ollerns; the nation that is called upon to
isown him owes its unity to his genius.
There is justice and generosity in time.
Who is the sovereign whom Richelieu
erved? Who was the master of Mazarin?
What Emperor discovered Metternich, and
Who remembers whether the Dukedom of
Wellington came from George the Third
II George the Fourth? Surely there is JUS
ice and generosity in time. Bismarck is
ne of the names of the century, name to
i've with Lincoln and Napoleon. No royal
ommand can eliminate it. Even now his
ory, which is so often pitiless, sees in Bis
narck the central sun Of German splendor,
nd the Emperors whom he served as SO
many happy, obedient stars who have con-
ented glory in his splendor.
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG.
HE WAS TOO C0NFIDING.