Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1898-08-11


try was passion with him. AS for
was ready for it all. His soft nature"
had now become so thoroughly subja-
gated that 1t is recorded that In three
semesters at the university he fought
no less than twenty-seven duels. in
every one of witch he was victorious.
In PrussIan LandtAg.
In the early part of the year of his
marriage Bismarck was elected men,
Der OF the newly constituted Prussian
ferment. Radicalism was on the In
crease. The common people were
showing a disposition to question the
Righteousness OF every time-honored
prerogative. and not a ruler but felt
his throne a-tremble with the premon-
itions Of the storm that was to break
in the coming year. Bismarck was
now 80 years old. The day Of his birth
had dawned but few years after his
country had begun It's feeble and SEEM
ingly hopeless struggle against dis
memberment at the hands of Napoleon
/. In 1907 Bismarck's discouraged
had seen 100000 French
troops encamped upon soil that nour-
ished but 100000 Prussians. who had
to pay Napoleon n war indemnity that
amounted to SIS for every man, wo-
man and child. Baron Won Stein, For
eign Minister Won Hardenberg and
War Minister Scharrhorst were labor
ing to kindle Prussian patriotism and
col tz .Nf cot
Three months before the Punishment to
st. Helena of the author OF this ruin
was born Bismarck. who should re-
trieve the wreck.
Opposes Constitutional Reform.
The young member of the house OF
burgesscs was unmovcd by the NUT
terings OF democracy. He scorned the
movement OF the people, believing
soulfully In the ability OF the aristoc-
racy to maintain what he believed to
be Its divine prerogative-thato OF gov
ernlng. The broken pledges Of King
Frederick William III. to give his peo-
pie written constitution had rcceiv
ed new sanction from Frederick Will
liam w.. who was no more willing
than his predecessor had been to full
Ill his promises. In the speech from
the throne he declared to the united
diet that he would suffer nothing TO
change the natural relation between
sovereign and people; no conventional.
constitutional regime should Intervene;
never would no consent that n written
document should intrudc between the
Lord God In heaven and his country
In place OF the ancient faith. Such
royal tenncity promised Ill for cons;i-
tutionnl reforms. Bismarck wanted no
constitutional reforms. He bluntly
told tn, united diet It had no excuse
for converting. Those who had sus-
pected the young man OF liberalism"
saw their mistake. When m assault
on the Hohenzollerns woke him up II
awoke the most ardent OF royalists-
one who saw no place in the human
order for democracy: one who saw
even In constitutionnlism only n tenn
PORTING cxpedient for use In critical
situations. Bismarck saw in the con-
test n struggle between the principles
of order and the principles OF dis
order-a contest which was not to be
decided by debates and majorities
Sooner or later the God OF battles
must cast the die"
Leader of tho Conservatives.
In tho second session of the Prus.
sian landtag dS50-D Bismarck was
recognized as the leader of the con-
servativos. At Its close he was APP
pointed Prussian minister plenipoten-
tiary in the Frankfurt diet. Here he
showed himself the firm opponent OF
Austrian pretensions. But brief cx-
pericnce ut Frankfurt convinced him
that little was to be hoped for under
the existing constitution. Already he
had come to believe tina. the malady
of the country could be healed only "by
fire and sword" The tedium of his
post at Frankfurt was interrupted by
diplomatic missions to Vienna and
Pcsth 1s62). to some of the South
German courts, and (1s55) to the EN-
peror Napoleon at Paris.