The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-15


 were, indeed, a few Prussians there
 who said they considered the atmos- phere of the Embassy too Partisan for them, but the Kaiser was evidently not
 of the same mind for during his visit
 to Rome he singled the Count out for
 special marks of favor and in 1897
 summoned him to Berlin, There he
 was appointed representative of Bar 1 on Marschall, whose health had broken
 down, and a few months later at the
 age of fortyeight he succeeded him as
 Foreign Minister.
 ! The Kaiser made his installation in
 'Bismark's s House" the occasion of joke
 with somewhat political point. He
 sent him hundredweight of soap, with
 instructions that he was to make a
 thorough house. cleaning.
 There were some who did not alto
 sether approve of the Kaisers choice. | The more severe Prussians were in-
 clined to look askance at the man who had dared, as Ambassador to Italy, to openly drink the health of the Pope, and who was remembered for the jokes he cracked in the midst of the Congress of Berlin.
 l and his services in China and Samoa, and the consummate skill with which | he soothed the ruffled susceptibilities of America while he remained the stanch friend of Spain, all made it a matter of common expectation that he would at- tain to the highest office in the empire upon the retirement of Prince Hohen- lohe
 This he did and just month after his appointment, in October, 1900, Count von Buelow. in the Rechstag, had to explain away d piece of dangerous oratory" on the part of the Kaiser. Now, without the possibility of an apol- ogist unless the Kaiser should come to his rescue, the Chancellor himself stands rebuked for a lapse into dan gerous oratory."
 It is, too, a piece of irony sufficiently delicate to be worthy of the ironical Count von Buelow himself that, having in 1900 been obliged to say that the Kaiser's famous exhortation to his soldiers that they should give mo quarter" in China, was excusable in soldier, he should now find himself hotly denying that any methods of barbarism' could be ascrlbed to the German soldiers of 1870.
 But those who follow the march of German politics closely see that beneath the would be lesson that Count von Buelow has preached to the Colonial Secretary there may turk a personal motive.
 The heavy expense of the expedition to China and the damage inflicted upon German prestige by the recalcitrance of Prince Chun considerably lessened the phenomenal popularity he had en- joyed since he succeeded to Prince Ho- henlohe, and his popularity diminished still further when he tried to restrain the recent outburst of Anglophobia.
 It is q strange factor in German politics that the doings of the two fore most men in the empire-the Kaiser and his Chancellor-shoud be judged not upon their own merits, but upon the hypothesis that William I. and Prince Bismarck would have done oth- erWise in the same circumstances.
 A little study of the German papers will show that scarcely week passes without William II. being politely in- formed that he is not so great a man as William T., while Count von Buelow is told with uncompromising bluntness that he is most unworthy successor | to the man of blood and iron"
 The unfortunate man, in fact, finds | himself confronted with Bismarck at | every turn. Though he is the third | Minister to occupy the Chancellery in the Wilhelms-strasse since the days of | | yic,y ra1F t1a Eoia i,, ,t;I called Bismarck House" The Ger man comic papers never weary of por- traying the Count masquerading in | Bismarck's clothing, which is many sizes too large for him, while in the artists more congenial moments he is depicted as an ass wrapped in a lions skin
 Nor does the caricaturist forget his poddle Mohr, which takes the place of Prince Bismarck's famous Reichshund
 None the less, the Chancellor enjoys in no small degree the confidence of his countrymen, the majority of whom, though they do not regard him as great man, hold him to be Minister of exceptional ability
 Count von Buelow has hitherto play ad an extremely awkward part with tact and success, but his relations with his mperous master, who will tolerate 10 spirit of independence in his Minis .ers, are not comformable with the German Constitution, and his position s not secure. His political opponents declare that at some date, perhaps not 'ar distant, he will fail in some respect, md diplomatic life will no longer know man who has as yet made no prom nent mark in history. Indeed, some 90 so far as to foretell that Count Eu- enburg, the Ambassador at Vienna, md favorite of the Kaiser, will be his successor at the Chancellery.--Cor )ondence London Mail.
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