New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-05-19

FOR THE ENGLISH MINIsTRY-LORD
sELBoRNE AND THE HoUsE-MR.
GRAcEs ACHIEVEMENTS IN
cRIcKET-THE BARRAs Me-
MoIRs-PLAYs AND Play
ERs IN LONDON.
[BY CABLE TO rRrBUNEl
cspvyfg.t 1898: By the Trituns Assoefstfss
London, May 1s-The contest In Germany dur
inf this week and last has become something
more than a mere political struggle. The very
principle which liec at the root OF German pubic
life is chaIlenged-the kngly and imperial prin-
ciple by virtue Of which the King OF Prussia ana
the German Emperor the one great authority
in each state. The Reichstag has never been the
seat of power. The Emperor's palace has been
the seat Of power. The Reichstag has shown
from time to time little spurts Of Independence
1t now seems disposed to try fall with the En-
peror himself and to become something more
than a bed Of justice for registering the DEGREES
OF this German Louis XIV OF the nineteenth cen.
tury.
1t began badly, doubt. but II began oy an
insult to Prince Bismarck on his birthday. The
Emperor's rebuke of that scandalous piece OF Ill
temper and ill-manners was inspired by an hon.
orable feeling. but involved admission that he
was no longer master in what he had been wont
to consider his own house The gage OF battle
had been flung down and taken up. Ever since
then the courage Of the Opposition has been ris-
ing Prince Hohenlohe has shown himself
powerless to control or influence the Reichstag,
and destitute OF that ability In constructing
majorities out Of discordant sections wnich
Prince Bismarck possessed. Prince Hohenohe
was not much more than head clerk The En-"
peror was and is his own Prime Minister. That
involves inconvenience.
The defeat Of the Anti-Revolutionary bills and
the defeat Of the tobacco tax mean something
more than the failure Of an ill-consdered policy.
It is a personal rebuff. The Emperor has entered
into a conflict with the representatives OF the Ger
man people on the floor OF the Reichstag. and has
come out worsted His prestige is shaken. He
was warned before and after the K6nigsberg
speech Of his peril He listens to no warnings. He
was resolved that the cost Of increasing the Army.
an enterprise on which he started out against
Prince Bismarcks advice. should be betrayed BY
indirect taxes There also he has been beaten.
The rejection Of the beer tax. followed by the ~
lection OF the tobacco tax this week. leaves tne
Impertal Treasury with a deficit and no means q
filling 1t.
The political deficit Is worse still. The Social
lists claim the credit such 1t IL, OF defeating -
repressive measures known as the Anti-Revo.S-
tionary bills, the measures foreshadowed In -
K0nigsberg speech. They are entitled to part q
the credit The truth is nevertheless that these
bills we're odious to all parties. Prince Bismarck
himself sees them rejected without regret. All
parties saw that under cover OF Furnishing resist
ance to State officials and preventing subversivs
propaganda in the Army the Emperor meant to
limit still further such freedom Of speech and act
as exists in much-governed Germany. They
thought the danger OF despotism greater than
the danger Of Socialism They have struck at the
Emperor and struck hard. They may or may not
have taught him a needed lesson. namely, that ne
must calculate political forces and take account Of
public opinion as we'll as Of his Imperial will or
caprice
lie has remained silent under his discontinue.
That was the wisest thing he could do. Prince
Bismarck has warned him that the old policy OF
carrying on in disregard or defiance OF Parliament
will no longer do He must find a Minister VINO
can manage. If he tries still to manage himself.
he must take off his jackboots and sword abandon
his military methods with a nominally representa-
tive body, and accept the new conditions
Meantime he has to reflect the other fact
that the upper house Of the Prussian Diet has got
so far out OF hand to carry bmetallic resolu-
ton by 72 to 4S against the remonstrance OF the
Chancellor.
to 'the final object OF securing international BIZ
metallism" The lower house is expected to adopt
it, and thus both King of Prussia and German
Emperor William has to face something like a re-
volt.
The resignation OF Count Kalnoky, fourteen
wears Foreign Minister Of Austria Hungary. Is re-
gretted on personal and diplomatic grounds. He
has been very able and, on the whole successful
IL AA-
come identified with Clerical intrigues. The
priests with the Papal Nuncio at their head, have
entered into a conspiracy against the liberties Of
Hungary They drove DIR. Wekerle from power;
they seemed likely to overturn the balance Of the
Constitution and subvert, II not the liberties the
immunlties OF the Kingdom. The triumph OF the
Hungarian Prime Minister and the second ana
final resignation OF Count Kalnoky put an end to
their present schemes and show the Liberals
united In defence Of their country and victorious
In their resistance to prestly control Such is the
service which Count Banffy. on an issue apparent
y Of no great Importance. has really rendered 70
his country, the country Of Kossuth.
The new Foreign Minister Count Goluchowski.S y
is of Polish family. great landowner. an expert
dip.omatist, known In France. where he has con-
nections He is mildly Clerical. probably dc
liked by Russia. and an object Of suspicion -
Hungary.
The payment OF the indemnity by Nicaragua
ends an incident which ought never to have been
allowed to assume the proportions II did. II ha4
nevertheless. taught Central and South American
republics lesson by which they may prone
Nicaragua counted on the Nngo spirit In the
United States and really believed that the Gov.
ernment at Washington would be foolish enousa
to pull the Nicaraguan chesnuts out OF the nre
and uphold her In her defiance Of the plainese
principles OF internat tional duty. II may be hopeo
that illusions OF that sort are now once for Ill
dispclled. We could have champIoned Nicaragua
In her childish attitude by assuming her ooliga-
tions and paying her dues to Great Britain. Aay-
body who wished to disappear from public Mo
had only to propose such policy to the Amsrt-
can people.