The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-04-11
SCORES BISM. A T R J, ! !.
LAGRANGE TELLS WHAT
HE THINKS OF THE
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Should Not Be Congratulated
BY the Legislature.

EDITOR ADVANCE Who will say
now that we have not got legisla-5
ture that understands its business,
when it can lay aside the humdrum.
of vulgar Legislation and spend it's
time in laudation of a tyrant. It
has been we'll said that there is but a
step from the sublime to the ridicu7
lous, and of all the ridiculous things
this legislature has been guilty OF,
the one supreme folly was the pass
ing of resolutions congratulating
man whom even his friends desig-
nate by the ,euphonious title of blood
and iron, I suppose blood and iron
being euphemism for tyrany. Why
should the free men of this country
have any respect for man who has
always been a, ready tool
for despotism, who : has
no sympathy or love for freedom, and
who would rule Germany today, if at
the head of affairs with the mailed
hand and iron heel of militarism. |
for one repudiate the stigma and in
suit that has been placed upon the
people Of this state by set of legis-
lative noodles. If these people would
Join hands with Bismark and would
tody to the parvenue that deposed
him from office, why not transfer
themselves and their allegiance to
the country and the men they profess
to admire. Besides, these law max
ers could not see that their action
was an insult and glaring act OF
discourtesy to the German govern
ment that emphatically repudiated
this Molock that they seem to wor-
ship. Among the arguments in sup
port of this congratulatory whim was
the one put forth by Fieg, which
seemed to clap the climax. In his
extravagant admiration of the old
Chancellor he aeulogises him as being
the author of the French republic.
If that be true, then by parity Of
reasoning Satan must have been the
authorof Paradise, that is, if hatred
could have produced either. Yet it
is true~that France is republic, but
she is not so at the behest or choice
of any man bearing the name of Bis
mark. If he had anything to do with
French republic, it was by indirec-
ton. Breaking the power Of Ne
poleon III made it possible for
France to become republic, but
that was result that Otto Won Bis
mark or any other man could not
have forseen or anticipated out OF
Germany's hatred for France on &C
count of the humiliations that Prussia
and other German states received at
the hands of the great Napoleon.
France has reaped harvest Of free
dom that perhaps could not have
been attained in any other way. The
blow that was aimed to
crush France was, by
some inscrutable dispensation, con-
verted into a blessing, and by re-
lex action has redounded very much
to her exaltation among the nations
of the earth, and that is how Bismark
created French republic.
1 quote Mr.. Fieg again. He says:
81 trust that as time goes on we may
see the whole continent Of Europe
follow in the footsteps of France by
the establishment of republican
forms of government When that
is attained the historian will record
as the maker thereof the man OF
blood and iron, etc. y
When or where has the counselor
of despotism ever put himself on
record as the ally of freedom or
friend of republicanism? Has not
his every act and deed been in favor
IF Capitalization and one man demon
nation? If universal freedom should
,ver arise to bless the world, this
German prince will be an unknown
actor. If Bismark has aligned him
elf on the side of popular sentiment
" any form of liberalism it has been
when he has been driven to it by the
}emand of the nation and not by his
clifton. Strengthening the hands
f the Kaiser has been his favorite
,astime, and correspondingly weak
ming the power and Importance of
he people. Militarisn has usurped
he place of fuedalism, and the for
ner has become more dangerous to
liberty than the latter was in the