The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-09
FEARS HIS ROYAL MASTER
Erection of the Prince Bismarck Monu.
meDt Delayed by Her Won Leviizow.
Afraid to Apply the Subscribed Fund to Proper
Use for Fear Of Offending the Kaiser
Riot in Trafalgar Square.
BIsMARCK's FRIENDS DISGUISED.

Delay in Erecting the Princes Monument
Due TO Herr Won Levitzow's Cowardice.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
LONDON. April S-Like everything con-
nected with Bismarck, the celebration of
his last birthday has stirred up some bad
blood in German politics. The Leipsic
Gazette. In apparent disgust with the fat
teTers In Berlin who try TO please the
Emperor by sighting the e~x-Chancellor,
has let loose a torrent of soorn upon
Herr Won Levitzow. President of
the Reichstag. because be refuses to
take steps toward applying to its proper
uses the Bismarck monument fun under
his supervision. This fund amounts TO
some 1000 no marks. Contributions
toward it were made Immediately after
Bismarck's fall. and the under
standing of the contributors was that
the money was to be applied as
soon as 1.000.0C 0 marks had been
collected. Naturally the site was ex-
pected to be In Berlin. Since Bismarck be-
gan speaking his mind about the Emperor
the committee in charge of the fund. and
most c~onspicuonsly Herr Won Levitzow.
the chairman. have been paralyzed 10y the
fear that any step toward hOnoring Bis
marck with a monument would offend the
Emperor. and hence nave allowed the fund
to lie idle for two years after work had
been begun. The Gazette remarks ironically
that perhaps Herr Non Levitzow has for
gotten about the fund. as q few weeks ago
his lapse of memory had become SO re-
markable that he omitted to mention Bis
marck as one of the few members of the
North German Reichstag who had
sat In the department house. If
Berlin feels ashamed to honor the
greatest of modern Germans. adds the
Gazette. Leipsic will only be too happy to
relieve her of the duty and TO grant as q
site for the Bismarck monument the hnest
spot within the city limits. This article
has been widely quoted and approved. and
there is a loud demand that the monument
committee either cease licking the En-
perOrs hand or get out OF office.
The monuments Is expected to be com.
pleted during Bismarek's life. and 10 fulfill
this expectation il will be necessary for his
admirers to select q site within a few weeks
and offer prizes for designs. as, despite all
reports to the contrary, the Princes health
is shattered SO completely that his ply 81
clan believes he will hardly live to see'his
eightieth birthday. He has, however, been
keeping MP his birthday celebration
all the week, holding daily receptions.
The number of visitors to Friedrichsruhe
is now falling off. The Prince insists upon
tAo ate 10 -
Quietness. receiving his visitors only in
the daytime. The torch-liGht procession
In his honor has again been postponed TO
April IL, which is the anniversary
of the birth of Princess Bismarck.
The text of the Princes speech de-
livered in reply to the congratula-
tions of the Bonn students has q strong
Bismarckian touch. He said that when he
was a student be did not study. For this
he was sorry. because he found later that
he could not repair his neglect. STILL" he
added. Il would not nave been horriied If
my sons had committed. student-like. the
excuses of students. University life
has its advantages in somewhat steel
ing the character by subjecting it
to contact with the criticism of comrades.
The W ord knot with the university has
become the backbone of the best German
Off cial life" Prince Bismarck next told
the students how. when Count Herbert
Bismarck was q student at Bonn. he had
been suddenly called to take him hofneras
he was i'll. The Prince found that Her.
bert's illness was due to a wound he
bad received IN a duel. In order to evade
the law Herbert had hurriedly left the spot
where the duel had been fought, with his
wound %unbandagcd. lie had washed the
wound with foul water. Prince Bismarck
did not moralize on dueliDg; be only adj
vised the students that It would be- better
A. - ~ h4Hl q