The herald., 1895-04-02
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lht lRUN GhHNGtLLUK
All Germany Pays Tribute to
the Grand Old Man
ROYALTY PAYS RESPECTS
Congratulations Sent by the King OF
Wurtemburg
The Universities of the Empire Send Con-
tingents to Help in the Great
Celebration

FREDERICKSBURG, April 1.-Sinc
early morning trains have been arrivin!
here loaded with visitors from all parts o
the empire desirous to congratulate
Prince Bismarck on his eightieth birth
day. Among them was a deputation o
the Zeydlitz Curassier regiment, o
which the Prince is an honorary colonel
one composed of university professors
and another of. Senators from Hamburg
Lubbock and Bremen. Dispatches of con
graduation were sent by King oscar o
Sweden and Norway. Prince Bismarck
alluded to the latter as the creator OF Ger
man unity Emperor Francis Joseph o
Austria telegraphed congratulations to-
day.
deputation of 1000 strong from the
universities of Germany took up positions
IN front of the palace this afternoon, and
when Prince Bismarck appeared he was
greeted with deafening cheers. Tne
spokesman of the students then read an
address OF congratulation and presented
the ex-Chancelor with a gift subscribed
for by the students. After thanking his
visitors, the prince conversed with sew
eral and returned to the house amid a
fresh storm OF cheers.
The general public was not admitted to
the CaSlle gardens. Wnefe the reception
was held. but thousands gathered in the
meadows on the other side of the stream
overlooking the gardens.
At 1890 p. m. the band of the Fourth
regiment of Footguards took a position
in the garden opposite the palace and
played the Halleluiah chorus from the
Messiah and other popular airs. Soon
the strains of Die Wacht am Rhein were
heard in the distance, announcing the
approach of the students procession. The
terrace at the time was occupied by
Prince Bismarck, his family and their
numerous guests The Countess Won
Rantzau. daughter of Prince Bismarck
and the Countesses Herbert and William
Bismarck were attired in summer toll
ette, while several of the gentlemen in
the party wore uniforms. but Count Won
Rantzau Count Herbert Bis marck and
Count William Bismarck were in ordinary
morning dress. Prince Bismarck sister,
Countess Won Arnim and her two grand
sons were also present.
At 30 .. m. the students procession
emerged upon the triangular space under
the terrace, presenting strikingly brill
liant spectacle, the sun glistening on the
drawn swords of the students and display
ing to advantage the gorgeous gala uni
forms OF the various corps, consisting of
white breeches and gauntletS of silk and
velvet doublets, many colored sashes and
caps ornamented with ostrich feathers.
AS the students were nlarshaled in front
of the terrace and on the rising ground
to the left the band played heilder Sic
geskranz.
The crowds about the castle had by
this time been swelled TO H. 600 persons.
At the moment the Princes stately form
was recognized by the students and the
public there arose mighty cheer, which
echoed far and wide, and the students
clapped their swords together in the air.
Prince Bismarck wore a curassier uni
form and was without a cloak. He raised
his helmet and stood bowling until the
cheers had subsidized.
The spokesman of the students deputa-
ton, Bruch, a theological student of the
University of Bonn, then aScended the
tribune and conveyed to Prince Bismarck
the congratulations of his fellow students.
representing thirty universities, in a few
appropriate words. and concluded with
presenting to the Prince an addTess re-
questing him to accept as birthday pre-
sent handsome shaft of marble, iron,
silver and gold, with symbolical figures
and surmounted with the German eagle.
Prince Bismarck, having inspected and
admired the monument, which occupied
prominent place on the corner of the ter
race, advanced to the balustrade and amid
renewed cheers and claShing swords re-
piled to the address of the students He
spoke for about twenty minutes. clearly
and distinctly, but with less force and
point than when addressing the delega-
ton of the Reichstag a week ago. In the
course of his remarks he said;
Your masters paid me tribute of ac-
acknowledgements of the past (referring to
the visit of the university professors this
morning.) Your greetings are to me a
pledge of the future that until the middle
of the next century, when L shall long
have been dead, you will continue to
utter the same feelings which you pro-
ole aH tn6aV Whom a f,prr1 m ie MT aI
in his youth he never let's it drop alto
gether in his mature age. That which
the government of William I. insilled into
your hearts will always bear forth its
fruits, no matter which shape the insti-
tutions of state may take. The national
feeling remains everywhere one emf
CRATES. | have proof today that hundreds
of thousands of Germans at the Cape of
Good Hope, in America and in Australia,
cling with equal enthusiasm to the old
fatherland.
We had to fight hard for our national
independence. The prologue was the
Holstein war. We had to embark in the
Austrian war in order to arrive at a de-
finite entente with Austria and to obtain,
so to speak, a judicial separation from
her. After Sadowa everyone foresaw a
war with France. 1t was, however, not
advisable to undertake such a war too
soon but to wait until the fruits OF the
North German union had been duly garn-
cred. After that war there was talk that
in five years another war would follow
That was to be feared but | used every
endeavor to hinder it. We had no ground
for war. We had what we wanted and to
continue firing out of sheer desire for con-
quest appeared to me to be BOnapartist
instability and not our German way.
Since our house was built | have al
ways been a friend of peace and to that
end have not Stunned small sacrifices.
yielded in the Caroline and Samoan
islands question in spite of the great
value attached to colonial expansion, in
odrer not to make war
But as to resolutions regarding what
is to happen in the future, there is no
exact provision. They are dependent
upon the decision of others. If friends
alter their opinion the whole plan often
misearries. Positive undertakings are
very difficult in politics. If they succeed
one should thank God and not find fault
because they fail in trihing points. Man
can neither set in motion nor control the
stream of time. He can only steer his
boat upon it with more or less skill. If
lie has come safe into harbor we NAV
gather from the sounds of overwhelming
approval and we must be content and
keep what we regained for the empire as
it now is, and not as many wish it to
be, with additional institutions. We
want to preserve scrupulously what we
have
Il should like above all to ask YOU
young gentlemen not to give yourselves
too much to the German craze for criti-
cising, Accept what God has given you