The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31

oI Germany. he was an enemy Of
popular freedom. He was the Trainer
of mighty military empire
John Swinton.
MAN OF "BLOOD AND IRON.n
Life Sketch of Prince Otto Eduard
Leopold Won Bismarck.
Otto Eduard Leopold Won Bismarck
Schoenhausen was born on April /, 1915, of
noble ancestry, one Of six children His
mother, who was handsome and a social
leader, was DESTROYS that he should enter
the ranks of diplomacy, but there was little
career.
After attending school in Berlin he matric-
ulated at the University of Gottingen to
study Jurisprudence But instead of apply
ing himself to his books he entered vigor-
ous4y into all the excuses Of student life
The three years course was with difficulty
completed by him in five years.
When his mother died, in 1889, Bismarck
the family. He labored diligently to i'm
prove Its revenues, but the dissipated days
OF his university life were not yet over, and
numerous stories are told of his bachelor
parties, where many stormy night was
passed In drinking and gambling ending with
duel In the park between two half tipsy
}unkers. Then he was known as "the mad
His fathers death in 1S45 made him
landed proprietor and nobleman, who, by
right OF birth, was a knight deputy of the
provincial diet of Merseberg. Then began
his reform.
Two years later he met the woman who
was destined to be his wife. She was Jo-
hanna Friederike Charlotte Dorothea Eleonore
Puttkammer, born April II, 1924. Despite
the protests Of her people, they were mar
ried on July %, 1847. This was shortly after
the adjournment of the Prussian landtag, the
nrSs legislative body in which Bismarck sat.
The revolution Of 184S infused new hopes
into the hearts Of the people. Radical ideas
were spreading and the occupants of thrones
fremDied for their safety; But Bismarck
of the king against the people. He upheld
the royal prerogatives and fercely opposed
any form Of liberalism. giving way with bad
grace grace to the concessions which Frederick
William eventually deemed wise to grant to
popular sentiment.
CHIEF TRAIT OF CHARACTER.
Perhaps the chief trait of his genius was
to be found in his entire freedom from pre-
conceived notions and in the limpidness of
MS mind, which refused to submit to &C
cepted fallacies. For equivocation and direct
Ialsehood his powerful intellect substituted
a sort OF outrageous frankness which be-
Wldered and outwitted his adyersares Moth
ing, however, marked his strong personality
more wildly than the intense hatreds and
Dllnd deVotions with which he surrounded
n nj lie had the courage to be himself.
the power to rely on himself and to meet any
emergency, while his keen sense of humor
enabled him to see clearly the vast array of
snam and no pompous pretenses of public and
IMAM was shown by the originality of this
strange being. half Mephistopheies. half
dragon, who before subduing to his iron
VIII WI the Whole OF European diplomacy shock
gu ana norr1hed the fogies Of the old school
with the innuendoes and insnuations, the
sarcasms and stories, the gibes and Jokes
when ne flung at their heads mercilessly and
continually. The wigged and powdered pomn
which covered diplomatic pretense and men
dacity was torn aside the instant he obtained
grip OF political realities, and his first ap-
psarance among the dignfed excellencies
OF the German diet constituted a veritable
revolution. He had been appointed envoy to
tne diet at Frankfort in 1851 as reward for
his loyalty.
mat ne was sent as ambassador to st. Peters
Durg, where he remained till 1861. Then
William |. succeeded to the throne of Prus-
sla, and Bismarck returned to Berlin as the
mead OF the ministry with the great plan of
German unitcation taking shape in his mas
premiership, the Liberals regarded his ap-
Polntment as direct menace to their aims
lie was the most hated man in the kingdom
was hooted and Kissed at on the streets
until the time came when the triumph of the
Prussian arms gave material evidence of his
farsee1ng sagacity and genius.
The Sleswick-Holstein war was the first
serious test of his policy 1t was a six
months campaign undertaken by Austria and
Prussia to wrest those duchies from Dem
mark. on the pretense of broken engage
ments. Denmark was Inundated very quick
~ but the allies were soon haggling over
the spoils. There was no alternative but to
ferce struggle, ending with Sadowa on July
2, 1866, which blotted out the military slory
Of Austria and added imperishable fame to
the Prussian eagles.
GERMAN UNITY.
Bismarck in his plans for German unity
had strong coadjutor in Won Moltke. The
first arranged matters to suit the imperial
fancy, the second disciplined the army until
1t was G great death dealing machine. When
the Jealous Napoleon III. saw fit to strength
en- MS power, as he supposed, by a revival
S Rf s maT spirit of of the French and
what those two cool, willy Germans desired.
With the result OF this memorable conflict
empire was proclaimed in the palace Of YER
sailles. and the title Of Prince Bismarck
SScfhoenhausen, chancellor of the German
kingdom. was conferred upon him at the
close of the Franco-Prussian war His fam
was now at the zenith. He was recognized
eaerywhe[re e. as the diplomatic giant Of the
and ruler of united Germany.
When it was announced in 1877 that
question would be put to the government in
the Guelph fund Nhe sequestrated fo1tne Of
the ex-king Of Hanove), Prince Bismarck
intended at first to answer it himself He
would make clean breast OF it. he said at
the meeting of the Prussian cabinet that pre-
ceded the sitting and then submitted to Herr
Friedberg, the minister of justice, number
of drastic expressions which he intended to
use, with the question whether they were
insults in the eye Of the law. Herr Fried
berry was obliged to answer in the afflrma-
tive.
The prince lost his temper a little and d.
clared that in that case he would rather
not furnish any answer. In the new i'm eriaI
chancery great precision was the order of the
day. At that time Prince Bismarck was v:ry
inaccessible to ordinary moItals, and to ey-
traordinary ones as well. Even the minister's
unless their visits were announced in good
time beforehand had often to wait in the
anterooms for hours.
PUNCTUALITY HIS PRIDE.
Unpunctuality the prince could not endure
Once a German grand duke requested an
interview The prince sent the answer that
1t would be high honor for him to receive
the visit at in the evening When the
hour approached, he threw off his undress
uniform while a report was being delivered
to him, and had himself dressed in new
one with decorations At 9:15 his royal hi h.
ness the grand duke had not yet appeared.
The prince said to his valet, Bring me nv
undress coat again and put away the best
one" and sat down at his writing table
The grand duke arrived immediately after
but the prince Is said to have done his bsst
went to Varzin, the chief of the impe ial
chancery followed him thither. Seldom did
that unfortunate officer get to bed befo q
o'clock in the morning. Great as the mass