New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-14
HANDICAPPED.
,.URACKS TO WHICH THE SONS AND
urIRs OF THE WORLDS GREATEST
AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS MEN
ARE EXPOSED.

,,,nor,, indeed is the role which falls to the
-, ~ the sons Of men Of worldwide fame. who
s,or the very outset of their career are ham
..,ed as well as discouraged. by the conviction
.ho, they will always compare unfavorably with
A.. autbor Of the renown associated with the
,ome which they bear. They realize that. no
natter what they do they will always be re-
,.rded as inferior to their fathers and un-
uortbv Of their names. that any good which they
NAV achieve will be deprecated. while every in
.iscretion or mistake will be magnifcd hun
arsdfold to IN .ir detriment and that they would
have had far better chance of winning a
nosition for themselves in the esteem and regard
A. their fellow countrymen had they not been
handicapped from the very outset by parental
,rstre This is all the moro remarkable since
the principal object of the father in almost
svery case has been to win fortune and posi-
tim not for himself. but for his son. and to
render the career of the latter less arduous and
less painful than his own had been. His one
aim Ia to benefit his boy. to facilitate his career
and TO increase his status by means OF the
heritage Of great name. and yet by a strange
decree of Fate his very grandeur serves to cast
shadow. rather than sunlight. on the life walk
Of his son
THE NEW PRINCE BISMARCK.
This peculiar condition Of affairs is recalled
10 mind by the death Of Prince Bismarck. and
the succession of his son Herbert TO the princcly
and ducal honors OF his father. II Herbert is
today a man whose unpopularity extends far
beyond the confines of his native land. and who
Is burdencd with a reputation for coarscncss.
brutality. mediocrity. arrogance and general
h., 10 IN no nd cd in
the matter to the circumstance that he is the
son Of the old Chancellor. Just on that account
his every fault has been magnifcd while his
many good points have been obscured and
passed over. Thus il any one were to ask to-
day for the main features of the career Of
Prince Herbert the response would he to the
effect that he had distinguished himself above
all other foes OF Empress Frederick by
ribald and insulting remarks concerning the
mother Of his sovereign Mention would be
made OF the fact that while representing Ger
many in England as Charge dAfares he had
been careless enough to bring shooting party
at Sandrngham to untimey close by lodg
ing charge Of birdshot in the smallclothes OF
the Prince Of Wales. this being the only occa-
sion on which the genial Heir Apparent OF
Queen Victoria has un iergone the disagrecabe
experience Of being peppered. The rudcness OF
which he rendered himself guilty at the Vatican
tn attempting to force his way into the pres
ence chamber of the Pope. and the cruel snub
BY means Of which his presumption pun
khed. would likewise be related. while no one
would dream Of emitting the story Of how. after
having induced the lovely Princess Carolath-
Beuthen to sacrifice husband. children and
position at the Court Of Berlin in order to elope
with him. he had abandoned her some weeks
later penness and in want. at Venice. Yet
with all that Herbert Bismarck has many good
points. has done much good work Foreign
Minister OF Germany, an office which he held
until his fathers dismissal by the present En-
peror.
One OF the most attractive points in the char
acter Of Herbert Bismarck IS the passionate az
fiction which he lavished upon his father. who
returned il to him with interest. Whatever am
billions the old Chancellor may have had were
centred in this eldest son. and it Is no secret
that among the causes Of his disagreement with
the present Kaiser was the refusal Of the latter
10 confer certain offices and dignites upon Her
bert Not for his own sake, but for that Of his
heirs. did he crave for the rank Of federal
Prince OF the Empire as vassal ruler OF the
Duchy Of Lauenburg. and when the young En-
peror at the time Of his dismissal conferred upon
him the mere titular dukedOm Of Lauenburg
without the rank OF "Bundesfuerst." and with
out any seat among the federal prices Of the
empire the hopes that he had nursed for his
son dashed to the ground and he could
See in the gazettng Of this empty honor nothing
but disappointment that was almost insulting
10 its intensity
Herbert himself has no such ambitions. Or If
he has them they have been altogether OBJ
scured and outwcighed by his devotion to his