The times., 1898-07-31

force respect, l shall seize upon the frs
preteNt FOR declaring war against ustria
breaking up the German Fedora alton, and
% giving Germany national unity under
| Irussis suhiance l have come here
| in order To tell the Queens ministers
ins' Disraeii said afterward. -.Ta ke
care oil That man.. He Ineans what he
| says"
While roaming among the Pyrenees a,
| september. S62, Bismarck got q Telegram
sulnnioning him to Berlin as president OF
the cabinet aud minister of foreign affairs
at the time he reached Berlin the King
was much p"rturbed and excited: the cham
Der would not pass the budget 20 support
the army, and things generally were In a
turbulent and unsettled state. la fact the
hing's abdication lay ready on the table
| when bismarck arrived. but the new min
lister prevailed upon him 20 tI.s Troy it. The
Chamber soon discovered that there was a
new hand upon the rein. When it ref USED
TO pass the budget the crown and the up-
| per house acted without IL.
Best Hated Man fn Prussia.
it was not long before bismarck was
'he best hated man ia all Prussia France
and England also BeaEed situ1 er a ion on
hini. calling his policy bari.aro,.s aud blood
THIRSTY. he helped Russia Ert down the
Polish insunection thereby securing Rus
sia's neutrality. If nothing more, in any fu-
tnre struggle with ustria, and he continued
friendly policy toward Napoleon. Then
ioiiowed the conquering OF SehIeswig oil
stem py the combined forces of Prussia
ana Austria a fter the dUchies had beer
surrendered by Denmark there was mutual
suspicion and jealousy. Bismarck had
continued To rule without budget, aud
had been given the title Of count At this
time several attempts were made TO as
sassnate him. The powers were aTming,
more or less secretly, and Napoleon had
begun fishing for he left bank ofth. Rhine.
lie was defeated u nd duped at every turn
by 'fhomme de Biarritz.'' a. Bisma rex had
come To be called, and without kns ss-sag
Just now IT Was done. He proposed peace
Congress. bat the proposal was refused, aud
WITHIN week afterward Prussia had with
crawn from the Germanic Coufesfera tion
ana virtually declared war against Aus
tria. Prussia was now sole master Of
Schies Wig Holstein. and Bismarck serenely
remarked, 'Beati possidentes" He might
have quoted the proYerb of Judge Jeffreys
that possessiOnis nine points of the la w. and
seif-possessiOn is the other, for at this
luncture he may certainly be said 70 have
had the whole ten.
Now came upon the sta ge another Titanic
or Koniggratz, which ma be fairly called
the greatest battle OF modern times, took
place in 1856. Four hundred and thirty
thousand men We're engaged In this battle
Bismarck left EeTlin FOR the battlefield.
yOwing that he would never return alive If
Prussia We're defeated. A little incident
which occurred during the action iilustra ties
the character Of the King and that of his
chief minister too well to be omitted The
King was sitting ON horseback in the direct
path OF a HeIy rapid fire. Bismarck bcE4-s-.i
him to retire to some safer place. The
Kuig paid at attention u the suggestion, md
presently Bismarck adroitly gave the Kings
horse kick which caused him To Found
to one side. The King did not see this
little maneuyer, but he was 0ut OF danger,
comparatively speaking, a nd remained
there.
His appointment as Chancellor.
After the great and decisive conflict
Koniggratz, or Sadowa. as IL is otherwise
known, Bismarck set himself to the ia SIX
oil establishing peace. Napoleon again
began fishing for concessions. requesting
that lie be given Ma yence and the Rhine
frontier but bismarck put him off till
alter the conclusion of tie Ieace with
Austria. The minister, president now, had
the support OF the National Liberals, who
welded the balance OF power, nd Germany
was fairly started ON the path of ma tiouai
existence. The next event in Eismarck,s
career was his appointment as bundeska NJ
IeT. or federal chancellor, sole responsible
minister under the constitution.
The repeated rebuffs which had been
given TO Louis Napoleon now brought on
war with France. The French plainly saw
that the union Of Germany might give the
death-blow to the long standing predomi-
nance of France, and Louis Napoleon had
endeavored ~ Illustrate this by sleight or
might. There was stirring scene in the
German Parliament when tins question was
discussed, and Bismarck had some hope that
Napoleon might listen to the warning voice
OF the German people as there expressed
The speech OF one member ran thus:
Germany seeks no war, but if France
viii not allow us To become united
country, We are ready t. give her the most
inlubitable proof that the time of our
domestic division is past, and her attempts
will be benceforth resisted by the whole
nation
At the great Industrial Exhibition Of
1867, much was made of the fact that
Bismarck and Gortscha koff rode side by
side at the review of $4,000 troops at
Longchamps.
The proximate cause OF the war was
the Hohenzos,eIh Prince Leopoia's eaR-
sl,dacv cf tue Spanish crown. but the real
cause lay far deeper. France, on this oc-
casion, instructed her ambassador, NJ
Benedeiti, to demand from King William
that his ma iesty should never again al
low his kinsTnan To stand for the crown of
Spain. To a demand so insulting as this
there could OF course be but one answer.
The Eing refused to ans v-er NJ BeDetet,
and teG q phe1 the fact o Bismarck, MoitJc
and + DON were dining with the Chancellor
when he received the telegram, and when
Bismarck had formulated his policy Mo1tke
said: You have turned chamade into a
fanfare"
III tnis war Bismarek's two sons served.
inths First bra goon Guards, a privatetIoop-
ers. The battle OF Sedan was simply the
logical sequence of Bismarck's policy of
making the arTIly the bulwark of Prussia.
After the battle Bismarck and Napoleon
met in weaver's cottage by the roadside.
This interview was followed by talk be-
tween Favre and bismarck The French
statesman implored the chancellor with
tears and sobS to spare the honor of France,
buttheonly Comment Bismarck made on this
demonstration was: lie ought to know
that bursts OF feeling are out of place in
politics,
The grand concluding tableau in the drama
of German unity took place in the Hall OF
MirrorS at Versailles January Is, IS7i
William l was proclaimed Emperor OF
Germany ON this. the anniversary oftheday
on which Frederick l. King of Prussia,
crowned himself at Konigsburg in 1901.
The cession of Alsace and Lorraine fol-
lowed.