Evening star., 1921-10-16
GERMANY'S RUIN PREDICTED ;
IN MEMOIRS OF BISMARCK
Government of the Republic Urged to
Circulate Recently Published VOL
ume to Combat Monarchists.

fallen victims of the one great bat
tie Of that war, and he often won
dered in his later years whether MS
conduct had been justifiable IN nav
ing helped to make three wars con con,
sequently causing many deaths. BIS
marck was not a good soldier. pc
cause resignation and silent obe-
dience were impossible for him. Put-
ting responsibility on others he con.
sidered cowardly. A monarch's Will
and signature were to him no SUP
stitute for a free mans inmost con-
victions.
Therefore he soon became embar-
RAISING and unbearable to the third
emperor, our Wilhelm II. now resi-
dent in Holland. The latter wanted
the German people to see in him and
his ancestors alone their source OF
glory and happiness. Contrary to
historical facts he called his grand
father, whose greatest virtue was his
subordination to Bismarck's genius,
Wilhelm the Great"
At the beginning of the twentieth
century in consonance with his in
fantile belief that the kings will
is the highest law" he dismissed the
chancellor. who in this vain weak :
lings opinion was only AN agent OF
his majesty's sublime WILL. as one
would dismiss a valet.
Yet the junker Bismarck. born in
ton, considered Il monarch necessary,
while the Germans, newly united. be-
gan to reflect for the ffrSt time IT'S
meaning. There arose then the ques-
tion as to whether the institution
could be upheld, giving. young man
of theatrical temperament the poSsi-
bility of running the empire-a young
man whose own father shortly before
had desired to exclude from interna-
tional politics as being too immature
and self-satisfied.
Germany's Ruin Predicted.
Bismarck never doubted that Will
helm IL would ruin the empire after
he had once become intimately ac-
quainted with him. He said to me:
You will live to see il. I am TOO
old. thank God. Such government
must endanger even the powerful
German empire.
He wrote a book warning the ma
tion whose majority, however, was
against him and for the kaiser. This
was in 1890. The third volume of the
book is especially important, as it
pictures the emperor and gives an
authorized warning from the empires
creator against a diiettant absoiutlsm
leading inevitably to ruin.
Never since the days of Isaiah and
jeremiah have prophecies been more
painfully true. The book unfortu-
uately comes TOO late. In 1t Is the
tragically ironical sentence: Il nope
the next generation VIII reap me
fruit of royal self-conf1dence." 1t has
reaped. and the taste of the fruit is
bitter to the tongue.
He who thought himself like God,
high above the others in every sphere
of human understanding and knowi-
edge, is now in Doorn. GermanyS
people, to pay his debts. must give
their work and its proceeds to for
eigners for centuries long.
But the people once again render
homage to Bismarck. In his grave he
still proves that monarchy as incor-
porated in Wilhelm Ii was uncomfortable,
and neither nationalist nor monarch
list can doubt the truth OF TINS testi.
mony, AS l said at the beginning, IL
the present German government does
not make full use of Bismarck's fate
full words in this crisis they must
never complain again OF new dam
Copyright. 1871