The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-29


lern house owes to Bismarck. When
Bismarck returned from his Paris en-
bassy IN 1862 to. take the ministry, I'M
der William 1, that monarch was in
what seemed to him ineXtricable trou-
bic. The chamber had refused to pro-
vide money for the army and without
the army the king thought there would
surely be anarchy. When Bismarck
went to him he found that the king
had written and signed his abdication,
feeling that the only safety to the
throne was in his leaving it,
Bismarck assured the monarch that
he was willing to- manage matters with
out budget and the abdication was
destroyed. 1t was about that time that
Bismarck won the title of 1.-The man
OF blood and IRON To the budget COM
mittee of the chamber he said that the
great questions of the time were not
determined by speeches or parliament
tary majorities, but by blood and
iron He brought about the reorgani-
cation of the army without a budget,
and when opportunity arose four years
later, still without budget, he saw this
army humble Austria at the battle of
Sadowa. This battle won popularity
for Bismarck for the first time, and
thereafter the Prussian chamber gave
him the budget for the army.
King William was most unwilling to
go into this war with Austria, war
which absolutely thrust glory upon him
and his house. When the king and
Bismarck returned to Berlin the joy
bells that greeted them also rang the
death knell of Louis Napoleon. 1 need
not tell even to a new generation of
readers of the war with France and of
the browning of William as emperor at
Versailles. We all know that it was
Bismarck's work. But less than twenty
years later the grandson of the first
emperor and the Wearer OF the crown
Bismarck had bestowed cast that vet
eran from him with an ingratitude
which may be characteristic of kings
and at the same time show that kings
are not quite human.
BISMARCK SINCE HIS DISMISSAL.
After being dismissed in 1890 Bis
marck retired to F'riedrichsruh, q es-
tate given to the prince by the emperor
after the war with France. This estate
of something like 10000 acres is near
to Hamburg and has continued to be
the eX-chancellor's home. 1t has been
described so often by American CORE
spondents that 1 shall just now refrain.
He has not left there often. Once he
went to Austria to the wedding of his
have always thought Bismarck made
OF himself the only sorry spectacle in
his whole career. He quarreled with
all existing things political and exhib-
tied his sores to all who had the in
delicacy to express sympathy. | am
sure that at this time the strong man
was weakened by illness and was not
entirely responsible for the unwisdom
of his utterances, which were in a way
characteristic of him. for they no doubt
expressed but what he felt at the time.
But bluntness of criticism and frank
ness of avowal are not the same in a
fallen man as they are in one in full
power. The next year he was very i'll
in Kissengen and all the world was
prepared to hear of his death. His ill
ness appealed to the emperor, who
made advances for a reconciliation.
This was effected the next year when
Bismarck, for the first time since he
left Berlin, in 1890, donned his uniform
and went to visit the emperor. He was
greeted in the streets of Berlin as
returned cOnqueror and was unaffected
~ pleased by all that happened.
AT Friedrichsruh he lived the life of
a country gentleman, but has a great
deal of company. He is as hospitable
at home now as he was when Motley
visited him in 1851 at Frankfort. A
friend who visited him this year sup
plies me with this description Of him:
He is still so erect that he has lost
none of his great heights feet inch
in his stockings. He is careful in his
diet, which is controlled by DR.. Schew-
inniger, and keeps his weight below 200
pounds. If unrestrained he would
quickly SO to $780, His moustache and
eyebrows are perfectly white, as also