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fc J BISMARCK. . Seen iFrom An American Pdlrlt ' ' Of View. Tlio oighlioth natal tiny of Bismarck, which foil last wook Bismnrok having boon born on April 1, 1815, two and a half months boforo tho battlo oi Waterloo is ouo of thoso ovents which challougos tho thoughts and admiration of all nations. If ho who maintains himsolf by tho groatost powor is nocossarily tho groatost ministor, J3ismarck was tho groatost ministor, "not of ono ago, but for all times." Tho sympathetic human sldo of this universal commotion is, howovor, tho fuct that it is not tho poworful ministor that is celebrated and eulogized today. Bismarck, tho ministor, coased to bo fivo years ago, whon tho young Gorman Emporor od his resignation as a matter of "tho now oourso." Tho man that is extolled today is nothing but tho ponsioned mastorsmith of tho Gorman otnpiro. Tho onco mighty, omnipotont Ohancollor has boon divested of all oflloia powers; tho man upon whoso lips formerly tho wholo of Europo hung in fear and expectation, now strides silontly among tho forest oaks noar Friedrichsruho, only omorging from tho calm of his rotiromont whon the honors of a gratoful nation aro showored upon him. And thoro is a vast deal of fino sontimoutality in this political canonization of Bismarck. Evorything that appeals to puro sympathy is so strougly involved in this administration that it sooms almost sacrilegious to dosoorato tho high-soaring by cold and sobor reflection. Tho spectaolo oi tho octogenarian, who of all tho horoes that helped to build tho Gorman pmpiro, alono is loft warded oil' by tho 'no whoso fayor ho would most appreciate is bound to Btriko a sympathetic chord among tho onlookors tho world over. That into this sympathy many an exaggeration of tho gi'oatness of the man, if ho bo jiulgod by his principles and accomplishments, will slip, I huvo tho harshness to maintain. Fow generations aio given an opportunity of gazing retrospectively upon tho finished carcor 'of any living man of such importance as Unit of Dinmarck. Tho grace of God moy oxlond Bismarck's lifo to the utmost limit, but his work is complolo and his deods'aro recorded in contemporaneous history. Tlio presont generation enn pass judgim'nt on what ho Ijiis done. It can appreciate tho wondorful conception of his national work, which is and must over romiun his crowning work; as tho onduranco and tl)o unsworving fidolity that ho do-voted to it form his noblest trait. But' tho presont generation can also moasuro tho standards, tho .principles, tho ideals that guided him in his oaroer; and tho present gonoration is at liberty to with many of theso that Bismarck uphold and represented. Bismarck's first stop in public lifo'is distinctively characteristic in thai it condomnjd ono of tljo fundamental privileges which a probably misguided part of kind upholds as ono of thoir most prooious blossings a parliamentary govornmont. It is well worth ,whilo recalling the incident. Tho obstinato of King Friedrich Wilholm IV. of Prussia to grant to his people thoir domand for a constitutional form of raonarohy had aroused gravo discontont. Tho king, through "Boyal Patont," oonvonod tho (Jnitod Prussian Ohambors, and among tho (for tho provinco of Saxony) was Otto Edward Loopojd yon After an unovontful youth, during whioh ho wont through collogo, whore ho kont a loof from tho spirit of liberty then provading tho Gorman univorsilios, -and oxporij montod witli law, agriculture and officialism, ho finally ontorcd tlio polltioal arona. His first spooch was mudo pn May 17, 18d7. Ho thoh doolaiod himsolf a firm ndhoront to tho "sacred rights of absoluto monarchy ,"4 Ho ridiculed tho of his liberal opponents that tho uprising of 1813 was done for any olhor pnrposo than tho oxpulsion of tho foroign IIo declaimed with Warmth against tho "Utopian ravings" of tho nowspapcrs (in this respoot he novor nltored his position a hair's broadth), and "absolute faith in tho wisdom of tho crown." IIo wound up by fighting against tho emancipation laws thon boforo tho Chambor, boldly conlonding that emancipation was a Bontimontal idea, hostilo to Christian 'govornmont, and concluding with theso words: "If thoso aro modinoval principles, I will gladly say that I boliovo in thorn." Evon whon, aftor tho involution of 1818, tho King was compollod to mako concessions, Bismarok vainly raised his voico in protost against all acknowledgments of tho pooplo's will. Lator ou, during wiiuoims rogoncy, and in tho stirring times whon Wilholra finally uscondod tho throne, Bismarck was tho rook against which all liboral hopos woro shattorod. For fully throo yoars, Bismarck frotlod and fumed against any recognition of tho "sovereignty of tho pooplo;" whioh ho charactorizod as "ono of tho tearful sontimontalitios of tho century." Ho advocated a continuous stato of siogo and did all in his powor to dostroy tho parliamentary concessions which tho spirit of tho times had fiually wrostod from tho King. Tlio king Bismarck first camo in contact with King Friodorich Williolm IV. and tho during his wedding trip in Vonieo'J oyod his champion with lovinp, solioitudo. It cannot bo said til at in thoso oarly days tho groat excuso whioh, in lator days, his admirors porhaps justly ad- Lvancod, that only foar for tho safoty and groatnoss of tho country impollod him to attack parliamentary rightsj will stand tho test. At that titno, while tho problom of groat national unity possibly ocoupiod his mind, ho had. no dofinito plan tooyolvo; thoro was no diplomatic secret to bo cuardod; thoro woro no ulti mate onds of tho blood-and-iron policy to bo concealed. is tho justification of Bismarck's activity aftor tho Frankfurt Diot of 1851, whon ho commoncod tho work that ended with tho unity .of tho Gorman nation, thoro is no dofonsiblo motivo for it boforo that dato. It was tho rosult of nothing but an inborn contempt for human rights or a dosiro to ploaso tho powers that bo. Wo can well understand now that Bismarok, aftor 18CG, con scious of tho nocossity of military dornands a nocossity that ho could not publicly divulge lost his pationco oncountoring tho stubborn and somotimos malicious opposition of political factions, and loathod tho trials of tho responsiblo ministor of a constitutional form of But how can ono in this toned century, whoro tho proofs of tho possibility of freo and parliamentary aro furnished by all advanced nations, how can ono rooonoilo with groatnoss tho in "Royalty by tho graco of God? '' And Bismarok will bo handod down to postority, not only ns tho makor of tho Gorman ompiro, but also as tho sturdy, tenacious dofondor of absoluto royalty. Ho was first or foremost in tho servico of his Tho national idoa, through whioh ho achiovod his fame, was only a sooondary consideration with him, Bismarck's words on many occasions, and his deeds on a fow, boar uudoubtod testimony to that fact. Tho greatnqss and powor of his raastor, tho Ilolionzollorn ''soin Horr," as ho lovod tp his, fivflf caro, On throo occasions, with noblo oloquonco, ho repudiated tho proposod of tho Gorman Em-, vpiro. On tho nrst, pooauqp thorq was danger that tho imperial grown would go to tho and twico booauso ho did not think tho tirno ;ipo and his muster strong ouough forhat consummation, othorwiso to bo wished for. Of courao, thoso hesitations may bo justly coiiotniod as a demonstration of his suporior statesmanship, and they probably aro. But thoy aro at tho samo timo a convincing proof that dynastio considerations woro far strongor with Bismarck than national ambitions. If tho scions of tho noble houso of Hapsburg had boon imbuod1 with national spirit and aspiration, instoad of boing tondorlings as they aro, Bismarok would havo lod a war to tho knifo with tho Austrians instoad of troating thorn aftor Sadowa with so muoh indulgouco nnd patiouoo. Ho would have lod Qolumn aftor column of ''sound Pommoranian bouos" to cortain destruction giving his couttont to tho formation of a unitod Gorranny with anybody olso but a nt tho hoad. If in tho fa co of tho groat national workoflbotod by Bismarok, tho reproach that ho was should soom bold, it would bo as woll to rocall tho words with which Bismarck oxplainod his motives for rofusing tho establishment of national unity under comparatively poacofnl Whon in 1819 a" de putation of tho National Assombly from Frankfort -on hoadod by tho Gorman patriot and poot, Arudt, urged tho King of Prussia to accopt tho imporial crown, which tho Assombly him, and to establish Gorman unity, Bismarck said: "No; tlio King of Prussia dogrados himsolf to bocomo a vassal to thoso radical Utopians who in Gorman unity let Prussia remain Prussia. Tho constitution fabricatod in Frankfort, which upholds tho damnable principle of tho sovoroignty of tho pooplo, is nothing but constitutional anarchy. It is bound to domqlish tho glorious Prussian stilts edifice whioh has boon comonted with tho blood of our forofathors. Tlio imporial crown tondorod from Frankfort may bo brilliant, but tho gold whioh will lond truth to this Utopian bril liancy must first bo gotton by in fusing tho splondor of tho Prussian ,crown." aim in loou no saui, in combating tho unionistic schomo of Itadowitz: "Prussian honor dornands first that Prussia hold aloof from all infamous connoction with tho democracy, and secondly, that novor shall anything happon in Gormany without tho supromo consent of Prussia." It will bo hard for tho futuro viowor, who, uniniluoncod by tho presont glamor of national prosperity in Gormany, looks calmly upon tho historic figuro of Bismarck to roconcilo thoso views with tho later purely national nttitudo of the Ohancollor. As a mattor of fuot, tho national chauvinist, Bismarck, may havo bopn born only during tho eventful battles of 18GG, though Oharlos Lowo, in his book on tho .tries very hard to furnish ovidonco that Bismarok bogan to lay his national plans during .tho Crimean war. "It is, 'ovidont," argues Tjowo "that Prussia's policy during and aftor tho Crimean war, with all its arabiguousnoss and soOming falsity, harmonizod with tho views of Bismarok." (Bismarok ontorod tho Prussian Oubiuot only in Oot-ober, 18G2.) "J3ut who would havo droaniod that a cortain Horr von Bismarck had bogun to take tho fato of Europo in his hand ? '' And who would do so to-day if subsequent historic ovonts did not justify saoh gonorous ? Oortainly, Bismarck's diplomatic aotivity in Vionnn, St. Petersburg and Paris was apparently guidod by only ono an uncompromising hatred of Austria, And tho Austria of then was. not tho Austria of to-day, with tho centor of gravity in B.adapesth according to tho description of Br, Bismarok. In his memorial "concerning tho necessity qf tho inauguration of an independent Prussian Gorman polioy," n whioh ho prodiots that Prussia's will only bo ourod ferro ct igfrk thero is not ono allusion to the idea of na tional unity, for whitfh he is said to havo battled all hih lifetime, And I cannot suppross tho fooling that to Bismarok, as to all mortals "who cook with water," tho poofs word npplios that man grows with his highor aims and that aims somotimos grow with mon. But lot it bo grautod that Bismarck's intorost in tho nation's and in Prussia's groatness woi'o ono and tho samo, both because his fino manamvoring in tho quoptitin and his moderation aftor tho war as woll, tond to show that, and bocauso it will ondoar him to the Gorman hoart. It does not add a moloeulo to his groatnoss as a statosraam Tho moro fact that boing a Gorman ho strovo to strengthen tho Gdrman namo doos not load him groatiiosB. That should bo a mattor of courao. No Fronohman would over droam of being glorified bocauso ho has tho litorost of his nation at hoart instoad of that of tho in which ho was born. As Gorman patriot, Bismarck finds his oqtmls in tons of thousands who aro willing to loavo their on tho battlefields of tho Fatherland. Tho 'morit of taking up tho problom of' tho national idea would havo boon nothing if, his overwhelming sijccess as master-diplomat of tho century had not onablod lam to realizo it. rnho nntioUai idoa in itBolf hns had moro spirited advocates than Bismarok, who havo failod to attract moro than parsing notice. Even that advonturor on an ompcror's, throno, whoso overthrow was Bismarck's master-work, grasped it ns tho ono loading princplo in his advonturous caroor. Indood, Napoloon III. was much quiokor to cater to tho political fooling of Europo as tho ndvocalo of national unity, and much moro outspoken. But asido from all this, what is Hecuba to us ? What is natioual unity to a country where mombors of all nalionalilien livo in blissful, prosperous poaco i What is tho glory of tho nnitor of ono nation to tho glorious coalition of all nations under a of tho people, for tho pooplo ? If tho thoory of Bismarck and Napoloon III, woro tho only saving ono, thd United States would bo an impossibility. As a mattor of fact, Bismarok has novor looked with loving oyos upon Gormans sooking a now fiold of activity in now countries uudor different and nocossarily freer governments. "Tho Gorman admiration for nil that is foreign, "said ho in a speech in tho Boichstag, dealing with tho Polish quostion, "a certain admiring joalousy with which wo look upon compatriots who livo in foroign countries, is only equal to tho poouliar capability of a German to leap out of his skin into that of any foroiguor say a Fronohman or.nn American. If any ono returns from Araorioa aftor having boon thoro throo yoars, ho spoak of 'our sido of tho wator,' and, horribitc diclu, uses English idiomB." (This is vory sad indood, but coming from suoh lips it sooms to bo n splendid testimonial to tho fitnoss of tho groator part of Gormany's sons to bocomo oxcollont American citizens.) Evon in suoh a cursory examination of tho claims of Bismarok to romain forovor upon tho high historian podostalupon whioh his own thankful ago has plaood him , it is impossible to ovorlook his logislativo activity on burning economical and sooial problems, an aotivity that oommonood at an ago whon othor mortals havo finished thoir lifo's task. His efforts in this dirootion, whioh havo not yet had timo to maturo, havo boon markod by tho samo providonco, aoutenos3 of intellect and singlonos3 of purposo that havo always compollod his ondoavors to oomploto and convinoiner triumphs. His talonts, indood,,inall tho departments in whioh thoy hiivb thorasolvos, his mastorful. attributes of zoal, thoi'oughnoss and will, his raro attainments in diplomaoy and statooraft, no oquanimous oiltio would sook to dony. But that ho is, or ovor was in his stato caroor, a man of broad, humano viows unuisular, cosmopolitan, philanthropic in his inolipation in sooial questions or governmental to say tho loast, that is" a mattor of whioh much may bo said on both sides. Tho rocont ovonts in Gormany tho rofusal of the majority of tho ItoiohBtag to sond congratulatory mossagos to tho rotirod tho suddon attuohmont of that ohamolooivliko young man on tho Gorman throno to tho whom ho dismissod so unceremoniously only a fow years ago, must bo rogardod in an di fib ron t light from that in whioh tho noisy Gorman patriots wish it to bo rognrded. It is not a quostion of gratitudo or to tho elovor diplomat who accomplished tho 'unity of tho Gdrman empiro (and, tho good fortune of tho it is u quostion of indorsing tho damnablo principle) that Bismarck roprosonts, tbatyof monarchical servility. A&kxanpfu Nkuman. Peerless. A fow days ago a company was formod in this'city who purchased from C. J. Waguor tho wliolo and oxclusivo rights for tho Hawaiian Islands to manufacture and uso the Poorloss Preserving Paint. Thoro havo boon numberless attempts to produco an articlo which would prosorvo and nt the samo timo protoct tlio varidus roqfs ovor buildings on those islands all of which havo mot with more or loss success, but oaoh possessing somo in point or quality which has rondorod it practically in carrying out tho purposa for whioh it was intended. It had boon .loft with Mr. Wagner to placo upon tho Hawaiian Market n paint which by oxporimont nnd in actuul uso during tho past fow yoars bus fulfilled ovory requirement and tho Paint is guaranteed not to scale, crack, or run it boing possessed of a body whon npplied in whioh thoro is no oil spirits or ovaporativo substanco. Tho main features which tho now company offers for its uso upon roofs an its thorough rosistanoe to any notion of hot or salty atmosphoro and its wondorful preserving qualities which fully provent any rust or decay, besides being a provontativo from tho ravagos of posts. Tho Poorloss Prosorving Co., aro prepared to sond skilled workmon ' for tho purposo of applying tiio paint and ovory contract takon by tho company is fully guaranteed. Tho prices for this work includ ing labor and material aro very modorato considering that tho guaranteo is against looks, otc, for a period ostimatod upon tho ngo and condition of tlio roofs whon tho work is porformod. Tho Poorloss Prosorving Co., will ou application at their oflico, 87 King Stioot, oxamino your roof and give esliraatos freo of charge, also on bridges, ports, etc. It dly. Anchor-:-Saloon kEx "AUSTRALIA," Another Invoice of tho World Ronowncd FREDERICKSBURG UGER BEER On draught and by tho keg. 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