The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1921-03-03
Prophecy and Bitter Attack on
William u in Suppressed
Volume of Memoirs.
CALLS KAISER Vain AND WEAK
Statesman Said Terrible Catastrophe
Would Hit All the Nations OF
Europe-Attempts Made to Pre-
vent Publication Of Book.
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William then talked about the new
reichstag and about insurance, both
subjects on which re knew the chan.
eellor's views were opposed to his own.
He spoke Of his great wish to visit the
car as soon as possible.
Bismarck did not approve Of this
and the kaiser knew It. The chancel-
lor's answer TO the suggestion was to
take document from his portfolio
and warn the kaiser against the visit
saying that Prince Hatfield, the Ger
man ambassador at London, had made
notes Of some very unpleasant things
the car had said of the kaiser These
notes were contained In the document
which Bismarck exhibited, but would
not show to william. The kaiser in
sisted that he read them, but Bis
marck said that such distressing state
ments could not very well be read
aloud. The kaiser snatched the docu-
ment from Bismarck's hands and be-
gan to read for himself. His face
grew pale with anger. for, as Bis
marck observes, "the things said about
him were really very nasty"
Williams Vanity Wounded.
The chancellor derived great pleas
ure from the incident, but William
was very hurt and angry, both at the
ear and ut Bismarck, because of the
situation In which he had found him
self placed and the wound to his van
lily. Shortly after this, while his rage
was still hot. he heard of some III.
founded report by an obscure German
consul In Russia which told of an al
legged mobilization of the Russian
army. Bismarck had not thought 1t
worth calling to the kaiser's attention.
as there were slight grounds for be-
lieving the report. But the kaiser be-
lieved every word of II, and wrote a
dlscourteous note to the chancellor
asking why such important informa-
tiOn had been withheld from him. He
declared that the empire was threat
ened and that counter measures must
be taken Mt once against the threat
ened Russian menace.
Bismarck's policy had been tradi-
tionally pro-Russian for 80 years, and
he knew that there was no ground for
alarm. Action on the part of the Ger
man empire would have caused I'M
necessary complications and might
have ended In real trouble Bismarck
won his point, but at the cost of great
~ strained relations with the throne.
This quarrel soon merged into an
other, for Bismarck. who felt that he
was being supplanted by others in the
confidence OF the kaiser, suddenly In
sisted on "A constitutional clause, 40
years old, which forbade the ministers
to converse officially with the SOW
ereIgn except through the medium of
the premier Bismarck was both
Prussian premier and imperial chan
celor, and was determined to let no
one but himself exercise direct per-
sonal influence on the monarch. The
kaiser. who liked to talk personally
with his ministers and who favored a
direct government policy, demanded
the abolition of the clause Bismarck
refused. but offered to resign.
The offer was a mere gesture. Bis
marck had rendered his resignation
many times before when he wished to
gain point, and had always won. At
one time the kaiser had returned a
written offer with the word "Never"
scrubbed across 1t. But now he sent
the chief of the civil cabinet to call
for the offer of resignation at Bis
marck's house. The chancellor refused
to be hurried. Carefully and slowly
he began the wording of the resigna-
ton. An afternoon and evening passed,
and the next morning the kaiser lost
patience and sent an adjutant with
the message:
His Sqjesty will walt until two
o'clock for the document"
Bismarck told the adjutant that he
was "ready to sign his own reslgna-
~ 1t any moment" but that he