Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-07-13
STATES RIGHTS.
It Appears in Germany from .
Surprising Quarter.
PRINCE BISMARCK THE CHAMPION.
He Fears an All-Powerful Prussia Elm
peror william sangulne OF Good
Majority on the Army
Bill.

BERLIN, July 1O.-About 400 excur-
sionists from the principality of Lippe-
Detmoldt visited Prince Bismarck in
FREDERICKSBURG. Both the prince and
princess responded to the cheers of the
excursionists by appearing on the bal
cony Of the palace.
Prince Bismarck made notable
speech concerning the relations of tho
smaller federal states to the empire.
After referring briefly to the most re-
markable features Of early German life,
he described Lippe- Detmoldt as the
scene of the first German revolt
against the foreign yoke in the
days when the German hero, Arminius
swept the Romans from the coun-
try. He then discussed the difficulty
entertainingly, showing the signih-
canoe of the small German states. He
expressed the opinion that their par
liaments ought to influence the policy
of the empire more powerfully by crit
icising the action of their represents
tivcs In the federal council of the en-
pire. The number of votes held in the
federal council should not be dimin-
ished, lest the national German empire
be supplanted by a great, all controlling
Prussia. The prince concluded with
these remarkable words:
You are seventeen free states having single
vote each in the federal council II deduct
the Hanseatic cities, which diner so radically
from all the others, there arc fourteen such
states, and fourteen votes in thefcderal coun.
Gil are weighty matter II they keep together.
II added to the Prussian votes II would give
the Prussians a majority Of the federal council
The council may be divided, as II were, In three
categories-the small states, with vote each;
Prussia with eighteen votes and the
middle states with twenty.four votes Thus
| you see what weight the small states have
wonder that no politician has arisen in one or
| the other of them to turn the state OF AFFAIRS to
account All am saying TO you Is regret, II
| you wish 10 call IL such, over the fact that the
| national idea has not caught nre in the parlia-
| ment and governments OF the federated states
as twenty or twenty-five years ago hoped 1t
| would,
must apologize for directing your attention
10 these matters Unfortunately l am not
strong enough to appear in the relchstag, !
could deliver q speech there occasionally, but
should be unable TO perform all the duties
which the occupation OF q parliamentary seat
| would entail You must therefore excuse me II
In poltticsl occasion, such as your greeting
creates / inhict upon you my jeremiads /
bureaucrats, whom Arminius conquered, will
not become autocrats again
There is danger at present that they viii
once more, with their bloodless and oppressive
habits gain dominion over us, and that what
the sword has won will be lost-I will not say
by the pens OF diplomats, but by bureaucracy,
by oficialism, by the lazy, dilatory policy OF
waiting for others to do what 10 necessary, OF
waiting, In fact for the government TO do 1t.
The princes are well.intentioned gentlemen,
but they necessarily are dependent on the Of
hcials, the ministers and councillors My fear
and anxiety for the future is that the
national idea may be stihed In the
coils OF the boa constructor Of bureau
cracy, which has grown rapidly in the las
few years Only the federal council and the
reichstag can help here, and the former has the
right to assert itself II the statesman like In
sight Of Bureaucracy does not suffer the OPP
portunity Is offered TO the members OF the fed
eral council and rechstag to come TO Its nit
with mon OF intelligence working In harmony
for the highest interests OF the empire wisl
TO emphasize the fact that attach the great
est importance, not TO discussions In the fed
eral council, but the rights OF members Of IN,
federal council to speak whenever they please II
the rcchstag. Suppose l were younl
and strong enough TO go to Berlin as
representative In the federal council OF tn
, German nnccs-yours for instance SuppOs
! were TO express my convictions In the fedora
council and reichstag even In cases wher
! those convictions wero opposed by the malOrit
OF the federal council Would not my spccchc
, in the reich4tag make an impression as comm
from a person whose antcCCdcuts are know
throughout Germansf Such persOnages nr
not extinct In Germay and they ought to b
/, placed Ia a position to influence directly publ
I affairs II would be possible then for the gov
. ernments Of the smaller states to express tn
opinions to which no official attention has bee
paid. l sum up all these reflections thus;
ann VA fnp "a "a
| empire as 1t Is, and God preserve for US III
4 | present number OF federal governments, whic
form the federal council, that the latter may a
! oil times stand by the side OF the rcichs tag as
1 legislative coeniclent OF absolutely equal ranl
with absolutely equal rights. To this end II
+. necessary that God should preserve the hOus
of your prince. therefore beg you to Join m
y IN wishing that God may grant long life
T; waldemar prince Of Lippe.
4; Repeated cheers were given for tn
7 prince by the Lippe eXcursionists afte
= he closed his speech. The strong state
: rights sentiments expressed in tn
n speech aroused as much surprise as ell
y thusia SIN,
!, EMPEROR WILLIAM SATISFIED.
d BERLIN, July 10,-Emperor WilliaI
9 received Herr Won Levetzow, presiden
;; of the reichstag, and the two vic
- pTthlutnths nc tNpItHbcu hdtlhlhSNl'
with the progress of the army bill
z adding that good Majority for
on the decisive vote would greatly in
!, press other nations. The probabilit
l. that the bill will be passed by a larg
majority has greatly increased in Ii
II last forty-cight hours Herr Won 10
cial KoscielslSy and Or. Won Jazdswk
leaders of the Poles, have pledged {
y the government the solid vote of the
a party. A considerable group Of Gle
a icals have refused to support DR. Lie
1. er's proposal TO send the bill TO a cor
milInn Ihn chnncnllnr and his hnen