The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-04-02
ENoLANn.s PERElpY.
Bismarck Says Few Things About
British Hypocrisy.

Britlsn hypocrisy
Although the Bismarck Interview
with the interviewer seems 10 be n
thing of the past. the visitors who see
the old Chancellor i'm his Friedriehs-
ruhe home nowadays come away in
variably with interesting patches OF
his table talk on politics, diplomacy
his big pipe, his career and his ram
lily. The man toward whom he feels
most bitterly just now Is Joseph
Chamberlain. In a recent discussion
of South African affairs he applied
some carefully selected inyectiYe to
the Birmingham politician who admin
listers the London colonial office
I'm general" he remarked after
closing the subject of Chamberlain, ut
is noteworthy what a difference there
Is between the character and conduct
of the Englishman in private life and
those of the Engllshman in politics.
The Engllshman in private life IS re-
spectacle and trustworthy. To give
him the lie is the worst insult you can
offer him. AS politician ana dlplo-
matist, however, he Is at the other eX-
treme. English diplomacy lacks In
every respect the characteristics of
English private life. Its most striking
characteristic is its hypocrisy. 1t uses
all the means which the individual de-
spises.
I'm France, of course, they have not
been always very choice of the means
they adopted to a diplomatic end; for
instance. In their policy toward weak
tribes and peoples abroad they have
been as cruel and brutal as the Eng
lish; violence and treachery have been
part of their policy now and then, just
as with the English. However no.
body can contend that French diplo-
macy is so permeated with incredible
hypocrisy and perhdy rs Is the Eng
lish."
Bismarck seems to think that the
Turks are comparatively respectable.
He called them recently 1.-THE lone
gentlemen of the Orient The rest
of the people in their part of the world
he described as more or less democrat
lied and politically untrustworthy.'
Returning to the subject of Central
European politics the Prince said:
ut makes me sad when see things
going badly for us, but | cannot do
anything. At all events, find 1t pleas
ant now and them when | read of this
or that complication, TO think | am not
responsible for It,
"Of course, it would be impossible for
me to give advice in most cases, sup
posing were asked 10 give It, because
| would not be able to watch officially
over the execution of it, Politics Is
more art than science: 1t cannot be
taught; man must be born TO II. The
best advice amounts to nothing If 1t
Is not carried out properly TO fit the
1t h. the same as In
riding. Call out to man on horse
back the best advice in the world, yet
If he has not got 1t in him. and II he
doesn't suit your advice to the horse
he rides. you viii see the horse get the
best Of him.
Referring to the Russo-German aeu-
trality treaty, which existed contem-
with the Triple<Alliance,
the old Chancellor said:
"Of course 1t was complicated-all
politics are complicated, for that mat
ter. The old Emperor used TO say to
me occasionally:
Whew! | would not care to be In
your skin. Sometimes you seem to me
like the rider who. while sitting his
horse losses and catches five balls
without letting one of them fall.