The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-07
SOME INSTANCES.
That of Herbert Bismarck
a Notable One.

ated with the name which they bear.
They realize that, no matter what they
do, they will always be regarded as in
ferior to their fathers and unworthy of
their names. that any good which they
may achieve will be deprecated, while
every indiscretion or mistake will be
magnified hundredfold to their detri-
ment. and that they would have had a
far better chance Of winning a position
for themselves in the esteem and re-
gard of their fellow countrymen had
| they not been handicapped from the
very outset by parental lustre. This is
all the more remarkable since the prin-
clpa1 object Of the father in almost
every case has been to win fortune and
position 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, declares a
writer in the New York Tribune, who
signs himself "Ex-Attache." His one
aim is to benefit his boy, to facilitate
I his career and to increase his status by
means OF the heritage of great name,
and yet, by 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 to mind by the death Of Prince
Bismarck, and the succession of his s0n
Herbert to the princely and ducal hon
ors Of his father If Herbert is today
man whose unpopularjsg extends far
p, beyond the confines of hfs native land,
and who is burdened with a reputa-
| ton for coarseness, brutality, mediocre
| nd oar al off fxrar1
| he may be said to be indebted in the
matter to the circumstance that he is
| the son of the old chancellor. Just on
that account his every fault has been
magnifed, while his many good points
have been obscured and passed over.
I Thus if any one were to ask today for
the main features Of the career of
Prince Herbert, the response would be
to the effect that he had distinguished
himself above all other foes of Empress
Frederick by ribald and insulting re-
| marks concerning the mother of his
sovereign. Mention would be made of
the fact that While representing Ger
many in England as charge d'affairee
he had been caraS2ss enough to bring
a shooting party at Sandringham to an
untimely close by lodging a charge OF
birdshot in the smallclothes of the
Prince of Wales, this being the only &C.
casion on which the genial heir appar-
ent Of Queen Victoria has undergone
the disagreeable experience of being
peppered.
The rudeness of which he rendered
himself guilty at the vatican in at
tempting to force his way into the pres
ence chamber of the pope, and the cruel
snub by means of which his presump-
ton was punished. would likewise be
related, while no one would dream of
emitting the story Of how, after hav-
ing induced the lovely Princess Caro-
lath- 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,
penniless and in want, at Venice. Yet
with all that Herbert Bismarck has
many good points, has done much good
work as foreign minister Of Germany,
an office which he held until his faith
er's dismissal by the present emperor.
One of the most attractive points in
the character Of Herbert Bismarck is
the passionate affection which he law
lished upon his father, who returned it
to him with interest. Whatever am
billions the old chancellor may have
| had were conferred in this eldest son,
and 1t is no secret that among the
| causes of his disagreement with the
present kaiser was the refusal of the
latter to confer certain offices and dig
mites upon Herbert. Not for his own
sake, but for that of his heirs, did he
crave for the rank Of a federal prince
of the empire as vassal ruler of the
| duchy of Lauenburg, and when the
young emperor at the time OF his dis
missal conferred upon him the mere
| titular dukedom. of Lauenburg without
the rank of "Bundesfuerst," and with
out any seat among the federal princes
of the empire, the hopes that he had
z IL y
ground, and he could see in the gazet-
ting of this empty honor nothing but a
disappointment that was almost in
sulting in it's intensity.
Herbert himself has no such ambi-
tions Or il he has them, they have
been altogether obscured and out
weighed by his devotion to his father
It was in obedience to the latter's en-
treaties that he deserted Princess Car
olath at Venice, and throughout the
old mans life and his own he has made
his fathers wishes the first and most
| imperative of all considerations. When
| the chancellor was dismissed no one
| took the matter more to heart than
Herbert. who insisted on ct once re-
signing all his offices, being unwilling
to remain any longer in the service
of monarch who, in his eyes, had
been guilty Of such base ingratitude
that he had seen the latter reared, so
to speak, in his fathers house, draw
ing all his lessons of Statecraft and his
knowledge Of men and Of the world
! from the old chancellor, in whose
home he was treated more as a son of
the family than as a prince Of the
blood, William frequently turning to
the chancellor for advice and consola-
ton in his numerous bitter conflicts
with his parents. The idea that Will
liam, of all other people, could turn
against the statesman who had been
his mentor, and a sort Of second fa-
Their to him, destroyed every spark OF
affection that Herbert may have en-
tertained for the kaiser, and it may
be doubted If the latter has a more
bitter and relentless enemy At the
present moment than Prince Herbert
Bismarck.
HERBERT SIGHTS THE KAISER.
In fact, his sentiments toward the
emperor have been strtkingly displayed
in connection with the scenes that fol-
lowed the death of the old chancellor,
and, after turning away from his doors
the court painter and the court sculp-
tor who had been sent by the emper-
or to place on lasting record the fea>
| lures Of the old chancellor, and reject
! ing all the kaiser's requests in con-
nection with the funeral, he put a fin
ishing touch upon his demonstrations
of hostility by declining to attend the
/ grand state funeral services organized
at Berlin by the emperor in behalf OF
the old prince, although he was in the
city at the time, having gone to the
| capital on the pretext of business on
the very day that the service was held,