Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-18
KAISER SCORED BITTERLY
IN BLSMARCK'S MEMOIRS
ChanceIIor's Prediction of
Germany's Ruin and His
Castigation of ExiIed En-
peror, Just Out, Stirs Berlin
by MAMMALIAN HARDEN
(Germany's Foremost Publicist>
Iensed Wire SerYica to The Journal.

BY MACMILLAN HARDEN
(Germany'a Foremost Publicist)
| Ueased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Copyright, 1927
BERLIN, Oct. 15.-If the govern
ment of this German republic does
not at once use the third volume OF
| Bismarck's memoirs just now pub
lished after having been long de-
.ayed by the tricks OF Kaiser Will
helm, Il must never complain Of new
dangers to its young life.
have advised the government to
select those parts of the book which
indicate the character of monarchy
and of the last monarch In par
ticular, and to circulate them free,
or If necessary, as paid supplements
to the official papers. They should
be distributed to all classes Of Ger
mans, even those abroad.
Unfortunately this is not being
done-as yet. Fear Of the nationalist
party furies, who. II they do not use
the whip, the dagger, or tar and
feathers, nevertheless try to terror
ize the more timid Of our public Of
ficials and thus prevent any strong
agitation against the old regime, OF
which only a memory Of power and
glory remains after seven years OF
suffering.
In Bismarck's third volume we
read Of how the young prince Will
helm. reproached by his father for
his immaturity, his presumption and
his vanity, becomes emperor and Is
able to rule a great people as ne
chooses, being protected from criti-
cism by his inherited name and old
superstition of special conservation
known as 1.-The divine right Of kings"
Dismissed Bismarck
We see the young ruler dismissin9
roughly the old pilot who steered the
ship Of state prudently through the
storm and fog and appearing himself
as the captain whose steering causes
apprehension among the crew, but
sits lighting q cigar on powder
barrel"
These are Bismarck's words. More
over, he describes the third emperor
as vain. cruel. untruthful and fiattery-
monarchist. Certainly he Is mon
archist Of an unusual kind.
When Wilhelm was made emperor
Of the German empire after the first
treaty Of Versailles, that frank and
honest monarch was angry with the
Iron chancellor" because Bismarck
had been unyielding on the question
Of titles, though he had saved the
Prussian throne and had made Will
helm the first German kaiser. Bis
marck thereupon refused further to
speak to the emperor and Ignored
him. Already. after Prussia's victory
over Austria, Kaiser Wilhelm and his
general staff had displeased the min
listers who had been wanting to end
the war after the battle of KQenig-
gratz and not make Austrian annex
atoms nor march triumphantly into
Vienna.
Bismarcks long struggle against
described. There had been room only
in the background for civilians at the
German court, and therefore, Bis
marck wore uniform publicly even
in parliament. He said smilingly "as
my wife and daughter-in-law are
my masters of military inclinations."
Bismarck upheld civilian power and
supremacy in state arisen from
conquest.
war Shocked Bismarck
After the weeks war in 1866 Bis
marck shuddered in thinking Of the
fallen victims of the one great bat
tie Of that war, and he often won
dered in his later years whether his
conduct had been justifiable in hay
ing helped to make three wars, con-
Sequently causing many deaths. Bis
marck was not a good soldier because
resignation and silent obedience were
sibility on others he considered cow
ardly. A monarch's will and sigma
ture were to him no substitute for a
free mans Utmost convictions.
Therefore, he soon became embar-
RAISING and unbeara BILE 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 Bisn1arcks 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
ling's opinion, was only IAN agent Of
his majesty's sublime will" as one
would dismiss a valet.
Yet the Junker Bismarck, born in
1915, the year of Napoleon's abdi-
cation, considered a monarch neces-
sary, while the Germans, newly unit
ed, began to reflect for the first time
it's meaning. There arose then the
question as to whether the institu-
ton could be upheld, giving a young
man Of theatrical temperament the
possibility of running the empire-a
young man whose own father shortly
before had desired to exclude from
International politics as being too
immature and self-satisfied.
Bismarck never doubted that Will
| helm II would ruin the empire. At
ter he had once become intimately
| acquainted with him, he said to me:
His True Prophecy
you will live to see it. 1 am too
| old. thank God. Such a government
German empire"
He wrote book, warning the ma
ton, whose majority. however, was
against him and for the kaiser This
| was in 1890. The third volume Of
| the book is especially important as
1t pictures the emperor and gives an
authorized warning from the en-
pres creator against a dilletante
NeVsr sn lssdg 5S syts s ya to ruin
Jeremiah have prophecies been more
| painfully true. The book unfortu-
nately, comes too late. In 1t Is the
| tragically ironicar sentence:
II hope the next generation will
reap the fruit Of royal self-confi-
| dence."
1t has reaped. and the taste of the
fruit is bitter to the tongue.
He who thought himself like God.
high above others in every sphere
of human understanding and knowl-
edge, Is now In Doorn Germanv's