The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-07-02

Prussia, and make her the leader and
center of Germany; that book shows
how cold-blooded Bismarck was in
his planning, making no account of
the common people; to him the pri-
vate citizen only existed as one of
the mass to be moulded and directed
at the will of the ruler; and | quoted
Bush's account of the argument that
Bismarck used when urging William
l, grandfather of the present Emper-
or, to seize Schleswig- Holstein; he is
reported to have said: That every
one of his immediate ancestors had
won an increment of territory for
the state. Frederick William w had
acquired Hohenzollern and the Jhade
district; Frederick William III, the
Rhine province; Frederick William
II, Poland; Frederick II, Selisia;
Frederick William |. Old Huher
Pomerania; the Great Elector. Fur
Their Pomerania, etc. and he encour-
aged the king (Will.am y % -
l.! wise" Ii Is IL TIL the speech
was received With CONSERVATION and
old William though; it the eject of
his wine at dinner, and that the father
Of the present Emperor, then Crown
Prince Frederick, expressed his aston
ishment, and began to fear Bismark
was going insane" His wife was the
eldest daughter of Victoria, a remark
able woman, from whom Frederick
imblbed many Anglo-Saxon ideas of
constitutional government; Bismarck
hated the English wife and did all he
could to thwart her influnece over the
Crown Prince; and succeeded in get
ting Grandfather William to oversee
the education of their boy, the pres
ent Emperor, and fill his mind with
the HohenZollern ambitions for dom
inence in Germany. From the dark
hints that have been given it is be-
lieved that the present Emperor did
not treat his mother any too we'll af-
ter his fathers death; the latter lived
but a few months after his fathers
death, and was too i'll to direct the
government or withstand Bismarck
during his very short reign. If he had
lived it is altogether probable the
German government would have been
different, and responsible to the peo-
pie, as in England, and not to the
emperor alone, as at present. 1t has
been hard for us Americans to believe
the German government had been
deliberately planning for fory wears
to crush some of her neighbors; we
could believe the Germans, particul-
arly the Prussians, would not be sor-
ry to again humiliate France; but we
could not bring ourselves to think
that in enlightened Germany, in the
glory of the 10Th century and the
opening of the Goth century, could be
deliberately planning to turn on her
let loose not only dogs of war but
those dogs OF the most fierce and cruel
breed But any one who has kept in
close touch with world politics now
recalls how the German government
has seized each and every opportunity
to thrust into political pies finger
irritating to England and France. 1t
has amazed the Christian world that
the German Emperor could appear to
approve the Sultan of Turkey after
his horrible massacreS of Armenians;
whyf why? we asked ourselves over
and over again Then he sent his
sympathy to Dom Paul in South
Africa when the conflict was begin
ming between the Beers and the En-
glish; we wondered why? He was
German, they Dutch and French.
Then he meddled in Morocco, and
went out of his way to do it, 1t
looked ominous; but we free Ameri-
cans could not see whittier it all end
ed. The world had been dreading
the Russian policy of conquest and
enlargement; and those who have read
the English magazines for the last 80
years know how Englshmen have
had Nightmares over the Russian pol
icy, constantly fearing her advance
towards India. But about twenty
years ago English statesmen began to
divine the German schemes. France
and England have been at war with
each other much of the time for CEN
turtles, and it did not seem possible
that they should become allied very
closely; the alliance during the Cri-
mean war did not count for much; it
was not natural for the liberal Eng
lish to be allied with the up-start Ma
polean III; to me it has always been
a wonder thai Victoria could lave
been so weak as to make so much
OF Napoleon the Little" as she
shows she did by her own book. But
with the establishment of the Third
Republic" in France in 1871. a new era
ddWHSu lOI lHdt IdlT ana nluCn abused
land; abused and deluded b. the rul-
ers since the assassin's dagger re-
moved the great and wise Henri ",
Henry of Navarro, And as it be-
came evident that the French people
would be able to rule themselves, and
that the Hohenzollerns dreaded that
very thing, and were only waiting to
end her dreams of government,
which Bismarck always regretted he
did not do in his day; always thinking
it great mistake that when he
smashed the egg-shell of the Second
Empire" he should have let the
French people establish a Republic;
then the English leaders began to
think it might be well to join hands
with France; Queen VictoriaS son,
Albert Edward, so long the Prince of
Wales, was looked upon much like
Henry Prince of Wales, son of Henry
~, a good natured, easy going man,
with no ambitions to play king; but
when he came to the crown he again