New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-28

III OctIIdu POIIbSo.
II was over this last mentioned tssu, ~.
the end came. Upon it the Emperor and \,
Chancellor radically disagreed The Encao,
imagined that he could solve the uny,r,,,
problem of work and wages, OF labor and On.
tai Therefore he issued his famous In,p.,l
Rescript OF February 4, 1890.
"To ease the strong OF their burden, to h.o Il,
weak in their need,
lie sent a word to the peoples, who struggle. Al
pant, and sweat,
That the straw might be counted fairly and "a.
tally Of bricks be set.
"And the young King said: 7 have found r. d,
road to the rest ye seek:
The strong shall wait for the weary, the asls .hsn
halt for the weak;
With the even tramp Of an army whore no n,,
breaks from the line,
Ye shall march to peace and plenty In Ii. boo.
Of otherhood-signl'"
THE BREAKING OF STRAINED RELA.
TONS; DROPPING THE PILOT.
But the poet has told u.s. too, Of the ludicrou,
failure OF that council that
"the German Kaiser held
The day that they razored the GrindstOns, the DAY
that the Cat was belled,
The day of the Figs from Taistlss, Ii. day Of ID.
Twisted Sands,
The day that the laugh Of maiden made lgh.
Of the Lords Of Their Hands"
Bismarck had discerncd that humiliatng
hasco with unerring prescience, and frankly
warned the young Emperor Of it. The resul;
was the final breaking of relations, which had
long been strained. Oh March IS, $780, Ii:
Council, foredoomea to failure net Two day'
latcl came the drop re Of the pilot TO en-,
ploy the phrase with which Tenn.e !oreva
named IT, Bismarck stepped down and out
and the young Emperor, thereafter in last 4
not in name his own Chancellor, shrIied out
the command to the Ship Of State, Full speed
ahead~
Bismarck lived, in body. lew years there
after, even becoming in measure uoninaly
reconciled with the master who had dismissed
hra. But the genius Of Bismarck was mor.
5unl from tht fatefui St. patri-Es Day CT
twenty-five years ago. Every year Thereafter
saw tie imperial government departing luraei
and further ..-m his policies AID BIS deals IL
both domestic economy and foreign dl1o.
macy. Ye; j.st as he had used the machinery
nd the systems which Stein and Hardea5;rs
nd Schar1horst and Cncisena1 bad provided
o DO works and &c attain ends e which they
ever dreamed and OF which Trey probably
qould not hay. approved, 50 his machinery
a-d his systems were used BY his successors
ct o7le to 90 irmeasura5.y 5eyond and coun.
ne. to his en- IS md Limits, but actually TO undo
IS works and reverse his policies.
Il ABANDONMENT OF THE BIS
EA2CK STATECRAFT.
A single tlrstaton will sufice--one Of he
nest recent nd most d;sasu5us L was
fundso erla. d-ct-.ne Of his creed that all ii
l-l'.r states cut together were not worth 70
q eru5-y tie cones o. one single Pome'an'1n
.r-n75cr. Jet today Germany SACRIFICES ne
Ives OF myra5s Of soldiers and stakes her c"n
rst.cnsl cx ste7ce Jvef petty embodiment
Suck e east, s the face aspect Of the case
The deeper fact me- &c qiite different YET
.o.. t'- ies, doe il deno.e abandonment o.
si.u7r.s's statecraft We may .ol5, Il he
Eve. would ave undertaken the conquest Of
- Europe We may De corhden, that ne
r ' would have been by means OF setting
th- ether powers fighting a~o.s themselves
7s.sal O. uniting them as allies against Ger
many. ps-haps the Franco-Russan alliance
9u.L have cen ncyon} even his power 70
-revc7t BOT wye ray BE sure that ne "oul'
ave hep, Great Britain from joining them ID
q veg u1i c 4 that he would taye uea'e'
Italy yrh .ega.ty snl consideration "hien
would hsTe held her in the Drei5und INC
sercrt-ae r.lnderng Of the las, years Ger
zen l.. o~acy would have been lnconceiya'"
ara-. re lie OF The hole roker, "n'
above -I e. @ his time VS. past master "
.er rule su vtc- b. nod. fort,er IN re-
H..-arcl und Germany, seyenty-hy- year
ago ..~ger.cs o. jealous, disoordan' 'n'
some; -s elligerent states--king IONS, prn'
-iroltes IL eGorls and What not-s me'
--ou2 Of pawas n the perpetual game oet"e''
France and Austria. He left II = united nauOA
an harmonious federal empire, with Us "
ner master. Austria. Little more than Vase
and France dependent upon alien Alliance ~
security against IT, His W Is ard means
attaining that extraordinary trans.ofHlau.s
were not always such as were accordan' VIZ
the Golden Rule or even with the mora ."
Yet they were on the whole no worse u''-
those of other statesmen OF his age, and 'n''
were better than those OF some who have P's
sumed to reproach him for them. ABOVE
they had the vindication OF unsurpassed SUI
cess. True, he played or made Germany pp
m. nerilous mart of Frankenstein, and his cen