Connecticut western news., 1898-08-04

went as a deputy to the local diet and
 made a speech on small local matters of administration. Then he went as sub
 stitute for a sick delegate to the united
 diet which Frederick William ", king of Prussia, had reluctantly summoned
 to meet at Berlin. There Bismarck be-
 gan his forceful. masterful utterances. He championed the divine right" of the king to do as he pleased and op- posed the emancipation of the Jews. When the revolution of ls4s broke out in Prussia. forcing from the king con- stitutional government, Bismarck be- gan to write for the newspapers. In his after life he professed hatred of all newspaper scribblers." to whom, new ertheless. in his retirement he was giv- ing long interviews constantly. but the fact remains that he first attracted gem eral public attention by his articles in The Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin. In one of those articles he first gave utterance to | the idea which the laundering legions of Won Moltke subsequently made an accomplished fact.
 AS to the Prussian constitution which was passed, he maintained a negative attitude. but he went at the Unionists hammer and tongs. He approved of their object, but he ridiculed their
 methods of trying to bring it about. Conventions of delegates of the German states were held and came to naught. In the diet of Frankfort, 10 which Bismarck had gone ns secretary to the Prussian member. General von Rochow, he soon succeeded his chief and became | the great and fiery champion of the in- terests of Prussia. He was only ST years | old then. and though the king believed | in him the rest of the Prussians were surprised at hjs appointment. The dip | lomats assen. sled at Frankfort played at diplomacy as children play with puz- xles and thought it imprudent to tell the | truth to each other. Bismarck. simply | by brutal frankness and a habit of not l concealing his contempt for his asso- | ciates, confuted and confounded them all and immediately won the reputa- | tion of being a most astute diplomat. In October. 1862, Bismarck became president of the cabinet and minister of | foreign affairs. and began that long | career of power which ended only when | the ungrateful grandson of the man | whom he had made emperor dismissed | him from power in 1890.
 As soon as Bismarck took office he be- | gan to carry out the programme he had | outlined to Disraeli. When he began | this great life work of his. which was to | place his name forever on the rolls of fame. he was 47 years old. All that had | gone before had been preparation. Now | the real work began, and he proceeded | to make history at rate which caused | the nations to hold their breath.
 From that time forward he was the most conspicuous figure in the affairs | of Prussia, taking a prominent and | guiding part in those stirring events which led up to the establishment of the German empire. | Through the war with France. which
 began in July. 1870, Bismarck accompa-
 nied the army in its triumphal course. | "mokyizing the foreign office" and
 trans6cting business on the march and | on the field of battle. He was made a
 prince, and later was created Duke of | Lauenburg.
 The rest of his official career was de-
 voted to consolidating the empire which | his genius had created.
 | In the decade between 1860 and 1870
 when our own country was too much | wrapped up in its own troubles to pay | much attention to continental Europe, | Bismarck was very busy at empire | making conducted under circumstances scarcely less difficult to cope with than | was the French war, which gave him
 the opportunity of completing his task