Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-08-04
PRINCE BISMARCK.
Brief Ske tch Of the Long, Busy Life
Of the "Iron Chancellor"
Achievements of This Great Man. OF
Which the Growing Glory Was
United Germany-Honored ON
HIS Eightieth Birthday.

a colossal hgure was bismarck, pnVS-
ically and mentally, who lowered above
the statesmen and diplomats of Europe
as the great oak overtops the naples OF
the forest. He had one undying love,
and that the glory of Germany. He
found it dismembered into nearly two
score parts, each rent by jealousies and
torn by feuds; he left it grand unit,
the pride of it's people and the admira-
ton of the world.
Prince Karl Otto Won Bismarck
Schoenhausen was born at Schoen-
hansen April 1, 1915, studied at Got
tengen, Berlin and Griefswold, entered
the army and subsequently became a
lieutenant in the landwehr.
Politics attracted him early IN life,
and at the age of thirty-one he became
a member of the diet of Saxony, and in
the following year, 1S47, was in the
general diet, where his radical though
courageous utterances brought him
into wide fame.
Entering the diplomatic service in
1851 he was placed in charge of the le-
CATION at Frankfort, and in the follow
ing year was transferred to Vienna.
because of his rigorous jealousy of the
power O1 auSlIld. ldCCA q
pamphlet, PRUSSIA and the Italian
Question" ascribed to Bismarck, ex-
cited widespread attention. It urged
triple alliance between France, Prus-
STA and Russia as check to alleged ag-
gressions of Austria. After serving as
ambassador at ST. Petersburg and Paris,
he was called home in 1862, to become
minister of the kings house and of for
eign affairs Then began his phenom-
email career as director of the affairs of
Prussia in the name of the king. His
career as soldier and diplomat with
his intense loyalty to prince and father
land eminently fitted him for the role
he had now assumed. Rightly did he
bear the name of the Iron Chancellor"
for he knew no law but that of the king
and his enemies were made to tremble
before him. Scarcely had he assumed
the duties of his station when he dis
solved the chamber of deputies because
it had rejected the budget, and those
newspapers which protested against
the act, as well as a number of officials
who showed hostility to the govern
ment, were vigorously and relentlessly
prosecuted. When in the following
obituary IHe ucpuIlcS III Gil stoo1CoS ~
the king charged him with having vio-
lated the constitution, he protested
against this accusation with extraordi-
nary vigor, insisting on the rights OF
the king and the subordination of the
popular will to the monarch's authority.
Bismarck thought he saw an oppor-
tunity for German unity when he
formed an alliance with Italy and made
war against Austria. After the victory
over the latter country, with utter dis
regard of the rights of the smaller prov
inces and kingdoms, he began to annex
them to Prussia, Frankfort, free city,
being the first to feel the strength OF
his invincible arm. Hanover was COM
pletely absorbed, it's autonomy being
destroyed, and by the end of 1866, or
less than six months after the conclu-
sion of the treaty of peace with Austria.