The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-10
GERMANS EXASPERATED'
THE WHOLE NATION AROUSED BY
THE ACTION OF THE REICnSTAG.

Every Person OF High and Low Degree
United In Congratulatlne Him on the
Round out of His Four Score Years of
Life.
Dresden, June 20, 1895,
To the Editor Of the JOURNAL AND CouRIEM
Just as truly as Gladstone is the
"Grand Old Man" of England. so is
Prince Bismarck the Grand Old Man"
of Germany, and to the delight of the
whole nation the kaiser and the people
have recently rendered marked respect
to the hero who has lately attained his
eightieth birthday, and although his
eyes are dimmed by age and his prodi-
gious bodily forces somewhat abated,
still the old mans heart throbs with
patriotism, and "Germania" is his
pride, for did he mot labor more than
any other to bring about those forces
which have developed a united Germa-
ny? A blessing indeed to the Germanic
nations. His brain did the planning
and the hard work, and his wisdom it
was that suggested to Kaiser Wilhelm
First the direction which he should
pursue in carrying out the pathway to
greatness and in forming the great ma
ton which is rightly styled United
Germany"
The Reichstag rejected the proposed
congratulation to Prince Bismarck on
his eightieth birthday by seventeen
votes Those opposed to the congratu-
lation reasoned vthat it was a political
act to political tperson.
They would not for one moment for
get their quarrels to render justice to
the very man to whom Parliament
owed it's existence, the one who had
placed Germany in ann exalted position
among the nations. Stung by the gross
insult, the president declared his deter
mination to resign the presidency; the
vice-president threatened to vacate his
office but the little majority of anar-
cllsts could mot be moved to reconsider
and forget. When the kaiser was in
formed of the insult he was stung to
the quick. He at once telegraphed his
deep indignation at the decision just
taken by the imperial diet, which is dia-
metrically opposed to the sentiments of
the German princes and the people"
The press of England, Austria, Rus
sia, u, fact of the whole of Europe, was
filled with amazement at the result.
Even in Paris itself, where, as is natu-
ral there is great hatreG of Germans,
the press united in condemning the at
titude of the opposition as an act of UNI
paraleled ingratitude. 1t was fortu-
mate that Germany had other resources
to express her real sentiments, and in
the great popular congratulation the
voice of the Reichstag was hardly
missed, and yet it was a specimen OF po-
litical meanness which the German
people will hardly forget. Bismarck
had retired from the Parliamentary
struggle so long ago that the argu-
ments of his opponents lose all their
force-even if the old man were still
fighting them in person, it would be but
a little thing to lay aside all minor is
sues and to vote to honor the one who
created German unity. So exasperated
was the whole nation that every city
and hamlet every person Of high and
low degree determined to congratulate
the prince as he rounded out his -four
score years, nearly all of which have
been spent in the patriotic service OF
his Fatherland. When Bismarck at the