The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-07
CABLE NEWSFROM GERMANY
THE COUNTRY INCENsED AGITNS7
PRINCE BISMARCK
Enpe. or william may be Drive" 10 some
Action Against Him-The Ez-'ha"ce!
,or's Incorporate Language In the Blum
Io,ervicw-Re marknbie Progress OF the
.,,,u, Deuocracy-The Russian Treaty.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Progress. OF the
sccini Denocracy-The Russian Treaty.
BERLIN. Nov. e-Prfncs Bismarck has again
made himself the question OF tho hour. Fear.
ing, apparently, to enter the Reichstag ana
aabt Count Won Caprivi on technical military
grounds. he has voiced his antagonism In an
Interview which, in carefully calculated maiiee
and Irrelevant tr ea cherry to the dead. surpnss,s
ANYTHING in his past Official utteranccs "hie
accommodating much mischief undoub'eop
among the people and seriously emo", .ss,'s
the Government. however. IL IS u,,t
That tn, OK Chan ceilor has again lowere" n''".
III, ocn,i,llv In IN, estimation OF the German
psople Even among tho Liper"'s' VIZ" w.,
c,nsc hc sought to aid. he has causea pi't''
noror,I feeling OF Apprehension an" "''E.9"
Evorvbodv IA anxious as to tho event U, MS
unveiled attack upon the whole perso''ne' anu
policy ot the present Govcrnmeh'.
VIII Emperor William rcprc's MS iee!inss
sufficiently TO refrain from n STATE triaf All
lo,s that how'll. hut few OF the lnuuential
men of Prussia would blanc him IL he shou'u
rot Ivc;ywhcro one hears references to
Iripcc Bismarck's course against Harry Won
Arnip, Who for less serious offences. was
hunted from office and bounded from Ger.
many The state OF feeling in high civil and
military quarters certainly warrants the most
serious arpr-hcnsions. Tho feeling against
tho OK Chancellor Is litte less than fury and
hatred and the suggestion is made In oil ear
pestncss that. should tho Emperor still alb
stain from legal action. he ought at least TO
remove Dismnrck's name from tho army anu
stripthe kings coat from his back.
ono OF tho most singular features OF tho
Blum interview. with its reckless revelations
OF state secrets and its all but treasonable
sentiments. ia that It was given soon after the
Z5irrC interview. in which Prince Bismarck
eff sively protested his loyalty to the crown
md thereby excused himself as wearor OF
the army uniform from opposing In Parlia-
mont the Emperor's policy The whole intent
and Iurrosc OF tho Blum interview on the
9th rhlnd is to cmharrass the Government,
md it is imI sbe to ina CINE that Rismarck
expected any good to come OF 1t. Wounded
vanity is perhaps the only possible exp'ara-
@ion, and even this explanation requires fur
ther explaining. Many think that the slight
attention raid to the Znkunf interview was
such Il sad revelation to tho Prince OF his
wurir: prestige that lie sought in the Blum
interview to challenge the attention OF the
county at any cost
Il Is doubtful that Prince Bisnarcks biting
criticisms Of the Military bill will have much
efc,t urou its prospects. for these criticisms
are 1T once two-edEed and contradictory.
Every argument now advanced by him
against the bill con lie answered at length
with quotations from his speeches made when
he was urging the passage o! the sertenna'e
anil other bills designed 10 increase tho mil
fury burdens OF the reol IL. His objections
ia the two-year term are mere echoes OF the
Object ions already made by :hc Conservatives.
who. nevertheless now chow signs OF falling
into line behind tho Government. The r;!tua!
establishment OF the two-yoar system. BIS
uarck says. in order that the Till mny lie moro
ralatable to the deputies. is IL risky pian.
Emperor William l.. IA we'll MS Mo.tke and
Room. who understood II few things about
military affairs. ia not chase phan:oms. but
adhered stcadtasily TO the thrcc-ycur system
A point not stated bv Prince bismarck is that
neither the old Eu,n nor Mn!,ke nor Roor
thought much vi Bismarck's knowledge o
military affairs. and always succeeded ir
Keeping his hands of tho army.
For thirty years" continued Bismarck. The
soldiers 10 tho third year had been the nowc
Of the army. hut now the proposal was Il
make tho third year IL punishment. thereby
attaching n stigma to the men who servc'
through it. Hitherto tho raw recruits ha,
looked up to the third-year men as the mos
experienced soldiers in the regiments. nnL
they had often got their drill from them
Should the present bill pass these recruit:
would look upon tho third-year men as the
dregs Of the army. Tho obvious answer to al
this Is that military conditions throughout
Europe havo changed in the last thirty years
and that as tho whole history OF the Prnssal
army for seventy-f five years shows, German
soverelgns and Generais have rarely scrupleC
n change tho military system to suit ths
times. The need Of more soldiers for the wa
footing is ono Of tho numerous new require
ments OF the times. especially in view Of III,
numerical strength OF the armies OF tho Tripli
Alliance" This argument and several Others
which confound the ex-Chanceor are bein!
set forth in a series OF articles in the M,litGr
Wcekly
Bismarck spoke snrcastically Of the i'm pos
sibiity Of Germany raising sixty million o
seventy million marks more annually to NEE
the demands formulated in the Liil Al
attempt to raise any such sum- he said. wou
cause universal discomfort and possibly scri
Gus domestic conflict. This argument |
somewhat weakened by its source. in view c
tho fact that tho Government has document
proving that Prince Bismarck himself. jus
before his fall. planned to submit to til
Re!chstag n military bill proposing change
which would have necessitated tho additions
annual expenditure upon the army OF 10
100000 marks.
The most reprshensible utterances OF Prime
Bismarck In tho Blum interview. however. ar
his grntuitous insults OF celebrated men no
In the State service or removed from it in re
cent years by death. Thus no accused Hell
Non Nadowita. Imperial Ambassador at tn
CoGrt Of Madrid. OF drinking too much win
aud rereaiin. state secrets while drunk. Thi
accusation Herr Won Kadowitz will answe
with libcl suit. II the Foreign ONCE wi
grant him PERMISSION. After going we'll on
7" way toRbuss Prince Gortschakoa an
Huo'" from private conversation with tn
N]"f' Bismarck turned upon some OF Ger
NY Mmy Il'u''1ous dead Field Marshal vo
.u"''Nr' lie sa', urged that Germany attac