The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-03

ruin of the country; that the upper
house has also used its rights and has
placed itself on the side of the govern
ment; defect in the constitution; that
here, also, the king has only to con-
! suit his royal duty, and works the
machine without budget until the ac-
count is subsequently laid before the
second chamber and voted.
WILHELM"
| How we'll Bismarck carried out his
masters will and introduced the pat
riotic sentence can be seen in the fol-
lowing extract from speech which he
made the same day, January q, 1888, in
the landstag. He said:
ut is a remarkable coincidence that
the discussion of this manifesto which
is to be presented to our royal master
takes place on the birthday of the
youngest presumptive heir to the
! throne. In this coincidence, gentlemen,
we see a redoubled call to enter the
lists boldly for the kingly rights, bold
ly for the rights of his majesty's sue
cessors. The Prussian kingly office has
not yet fulfilled it's mission, it is not
vet ready to be purely ornamental dec
Grafton of your constitution or to be
dovetailed like dead piece of machin-
cry into the mechanism of the parlia-
mentary regime"
On January Is, 1870, William 1. wrote
the following to Bismarck:
| Unfortunately Ihave always for
gotten to give you the victory medal
which should properly have been in
YOUR hands FIRST. I send it YOU
now as the seal of your world histor-
ical achievements. Your.
| "WILHELM."
| Bismarck's reply shows that he was
very grateful. He wrote:
| Most illuStriouS king: Most gracious
master:-I thank your majesty most
respectfully and most sincerely for
graciously bestowing on me the victory
medal, and for the honorable place your
majesty has been pleased to assign to
me in this historical monument The
recollections which this impressed docu-
ment will perpetuate among posterity
acquire their especial Importance for
me and mine through the gracious
words with which your majesty has
been pleased to accompany the present.
alton.
great satisfaction in the fact that it is
permitted to me to see my name car
ried down to posterity under the wings
of the royal eagle, which points out TO
Germany the paths she must tread
my heart is still more gratified by the
feeling that / am serving, with God S
visible blessing, an hereditary master
to whom I am attached with full and
1 no low Il a. x,-IA &c,
faction is the reward l covet most in
life. With the expression of most re-
spectful and unwavering fidelity, your
majesty's most obedient servant till
death. V. BISMARCK"
WILLIAM I. ALSO GRATEFUL.
| That William I. was also grateful to
Bismarck for the latters services is
distinctly shown by his majesty's let
ter of February 81, 1871, dated from
Versailles. He wrote:
81 have been unable to come to you
yesterday and today so I take UP my
pen to congratulate you on the pre-
| liminaries to the peace which 1 again
owe to your circumspection, resolute-
ness and perseverance. Everybody ex-
Icept France is thanking you, but 1 most
of all and my thanks I herewith ex-
press to you in highest appreciation for
this difficult work. If Bordeaux (the
French national assembly was sitting
at Bordeaux) listens to reason, we shall
crown what has indeed been a bloody,
but a glorious and honorable work
which Providence set us to achieve:
thank Providence for granting me such
an adviser and such an army.
| Your most grateful king
WILHELM
! Throughout volume I is shown Bis
Imarck's devotion to the King of Prus-
STA and the latter's great ability to
guide the policy of his kingdom and
influence the politics of other countries
1.-THE letters furnish most valuable
glimpses into the hidden history of the
days of Bismarck and William I.
Volume II of the letters is equally in
teresting and furnishes the true ex-
PLANTATION of many hitherto mysteri-
Gus incidents of the past. They in
clude many interesting letters ex-
lchanged between Baron Won Manteuf-
fel then Russian prime minister, and
minister of foreign affairs, and Bis
Imarck and between the latter and the
crown prince, Frederick of Prussia,
Gortchakoff, General Won Room, the
minister of war; Count Won Arrnin,
Prince Hohenlohe, King Ludwig of Ba-
varia. Count Andassay, and, in fact,
almost all the important personages
connected with the recent history OF