Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-03
NEXT TO BISMARCK.
The Passing of Gemany's Most Pie
turesane statesman.

turesQue Statesman.
German papers have published one Of
those gracious and graceful speeches in
which the kaiser excels In 1t he re-
fers 90 the great service rendered TO
me, TO my house and to the country
by Dr. Won MIGUEL, and in particular,
compliments him upon the new iinan-
cial tayls established for the Prusslan
state, a basis on the security Of which
future calculations and further i'm
pr0Yenents may continue 10 be made.
Not OILY as token Of the emper0r's
Special confidence but also in order
that Dr. Won Mquels great expert
eSce and distinguished ability may be
preserved to the state" his majesty
dominates him a lifelong member Of
the Prusslan Herrenhaus
So passes into political obs"urity the
most picturesque and curious Of Ger
man statesmen, one might also add the
most powerful. for, though little
known abroad, since Bismarck's fall
no one, least Of all Count CapriW and
Prince Hohenlohe has wi lded one-quar-
ter Of Or. Won Miquers authority, Since
the kaiser came 10 the throne there
has been no room IN Germany for a
Richelleu. He who would rule as Or.
Won MIGUEL he'd the shrewdness to see.
must be a Father Joseph standing be-
mind the throne and Wen out Of sight
That was Why h. chung 10 the COM
paratlvely humble pes, Of Prussian f.
lance minister and refused to Put him
sci, forward for the vice chancellor
shin OF even the CHARACTERISTIC. Had
b. succee led CaDrivl or Hohenlohe ne
would, Of course. have become the
emperor's chief minister, but at the
same time he would have ceased 10 be
his majesty's confdentlel adviser. So
lcnR as the kaiser Is alive the chan
cellCrshln OF the German empire. COM
nared with what Bismarck was abl.
TO make q it, is and must be a dign-
fed sinecure.
d. Won Mquel's p st'on. considering
What Germany Is and what his career
has been. might fairly bee described as
phenomenal II, as Cardinal Newman
used to preach. TO be perfect is TO
have changed Itself for he has boxed
the entire political compass and fought
for and against every party In the
state. He has been In tIrn revolution
AIRY intranslgeant ana opp0rtunist an
ardent republican, an advanced imper-
ialist. demag gle OF demagogues
and moderate Whig. a slci lst and a
comml MIST reformer and free trader.
as wen as the rising hope Of the stern
and unhending agrarlans; an atheist
ana anti-clerlcal and member OF an
evangelical synod. Eyen IN a life thai
!as already lasted seyetv-three years
there has hardly been time for more
transformations. In the revolutionary |
year Of lsis he was a student az Uei. |
delberg, and Ike all other German |
Youths, up 10 his reck in plots end con. |
snracies When the people Of Baden |
ros against their grand duke he was /
The first to Join them. and, being a |
sound organizer as wei nc a clever /
talker AMI fighter male himself so |
conspicuous among The rebels that the |
uu'al government, among he terms of /
peace, Insisted on the Punishment of /
johannes MIGUEL, then a boy Of barely |
~. From Baden he went 10 Paris
joined the famous Communist league |
and under the influence Of Karl Marx
was rapidly developing INFO profes.
sonll conspirator when an opportuna
attack OF cholera gave him leisure for
''i
Accordingly he changed his tactics
though not his ideals and decided to on.
.er the service Of the state.
In 1901 he was appointed official pros-
'cu,or for GOttingen. plunged into To-
'ai politics aud was chosen speaker ~
he BurgerYors ehcr- Kolleelum the
most influential Of the civic institutions
hls gave him Just the experience of
PRACTICAL business that he needed and
le used II TO organize campaign on
ne PLATFORM and In parliament ana
hroush me press AGAINST the reaction
'ry despotlsm OF the Hanoyerian GOV.
A pamphlet dated 1867. merr-
essly expo sing the financial polioy ~
ne government, made his name frs,
'nown as an economist. Al tho same
line he was preaching German unity In
,eason and out OF season. and dononnc
ng the narrow and stubborn "particu
aflsm which would seek TO thwart il
re was one OF the founders Of the
league and was. believe. The
u'hor q the famous program Of 1859. In
when unity OF Germany under the
leadership OF Prussia. was first pro-
laimed as a political necessity. This
vas IN the years when any mention
u German nationallsm was received
win scorn, when Bismarck dubbed the
movement "a passing craze" and when
he Junkers would willingly have
topped II by wholesale slaughter M
Is leaders. Dr. Mlquel's hope was thai
he states might be prevailed mon m
ON together Of their own free win |
nd arrange the terms on confedero.
Ion In n giye-and- take spiril THO
gar ~ 1865 came as bitter blow 10
rs ideaiisn As a Hanoyerian and a
lember OF the llanoverian parliament
q uld all he could TO prevent IL. ana
Ieaded Nalnley with his cOuntrvrnrn
war came not 10 throw In their lot
lth Austria In both objects he was
sappolhtei. The war came and Uano.
W sided against Prussia. only 10 wake
? one morning 20 find herself a Pms.
an province. Or. MiqueIs course
this crisis of his country marked bi.
nth as statesman. he made he
'st possible terms with the vlctors ana
iat done, Joined hands with thom - :
anne constitution for tho vto3o :
ofth German empire. In 1867 he was
2, yea "a member OF the Prussian !
elchsiag and IN the same year found
the National Liberal party
J rom lN5' 20 about 1875 Dr. Miquel d.
ded with Bismarck. Moltke ana Tho y
d Kaiser the affections Of the German <
'ople. Thegreat chancellor had no firm. &
or more valuable hacker than him In (;
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pr Mlquel has always been a moor 3
an az ana his poverty drove him into an .
lion which led eventually moi onlv X