The Bismarck Dynasty.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 274, 16 March 1889, Page 3

The Bismarck Dynasty.

Loudon, Feb. 1. The Contemporary Review publishes an article entitled “ The Bismarck Dynasty, ” by an anonymous author, who has probably drawn his information from very high quarters. It has attracted much attention, and contains a vigorous, and uncompromising attack upon Bismarck and all his plans. The writer commences by giving a clue to Bismarck’s policy, which was the necessity of finding a successor to whom he could hand over the Imperial major-domo ship which he had spent bis life in creating. He selected as his heir his eldest son. The determination to secure the succession of Herbert Bismarck to the Chancellorship is due to recent events which have scandalised Europe. Before Herbert was taken up for development he was looked upon as rather a disreputable member of the family. He was mixed up with several brawls with women. After the FrancoPrussian war, in which he was wounded in a cavalry fight, he again figured in a diigracef: 1 scandal which serves to accentuate his views, as regards women. Shortly at er this he began to develop an aptitude for official duties and became Minister for Foreign Affairs. His importance, however, w: a only derived from the intimacy of his rela ion with his father. When the old Kaiser William died it seemed desirable to Prince Bismarck that his grandson should proceed forthwith. Bismarck made sundry important binding agreements as to the principal of his duties. Frederick, on the other hand, was not Bismarckian. He represented civilisation, culture, and peace, and above all he reprcsented the hateful principle of the rights of women, and the recognition of faculties regardless of sex, and paid homage to the genuis of his wifi without stinting the measure of his devotion. The Crown Prince and Princess regarded with the utmost aversion the coarse brutalities of Count Herbert Bismarck, and it is easy to imagine the measure of temptation suggested by the cancer which was eating into the throat of the invalid at San Remo. His opponents suggest the Chancellor summoned from San Remo to Berlinin the depth of winter, hoping that ho would either make a refusal—in

which case he might have proclaimed a Begency—or else that, if he did take the journey, he might die en route. Either alternative would have suited the Chancellor. The influence of the Empress Victoria was now paramount, and the Emperor frequently showed aversion to Count Heibert by refusing to transsot business with him, and sending for his father. Here was the Kaiser, with one foot in the grave, practically controlled by his English wife, presuming upon the dream of overthrowing the Bismarck dynasty. Who then could be surprised if Bismarck wished that the cancer would make haste ? That such evil existed in Bismarck's mind was shown by the malignant slanders poured out by the reptile press, which showed various phases of the Chancellor's thoughts like a magic lantern, Bismarck at this time was unable to make up his m*nd whether the necessity of preparing his own position justified the declaring of a Begency, The only other incident connected with Frederick’s reign was the Bat tern berg marriage, which at the time was stated to have been forbidden because of the danger of offending Russia ; but the real reason why the marriage was forbidden was that Prince Wilhelm stated as one of the articles of agreement by which he bound bimegit to suppdrt Bismarck that the Chancellor should, jn the event pt his sister’s marriage, originate an interdict that it should be a matter of purely personal endearment. The last great obstacle to the Chancellor was removed after the reign of 90 days, when the grave closed over the coffin of Frederick. The way seemed clear for the attainment of theßismarokian dream, There would be no mote petticoat infid'ened now In Gefmdh politics.' Bismarck was left free to establish his dynasty, and it was now necessary to punish all who were associated with Frederick. First and foremost came the widowed Empress. Upon her fell the first vengeance of the offended Chancellor. AU ths blows aimed at Sir Morell Mokeuaie fell on her who supported him. The envenomed attacks of the reactionary press never ceased. She whose position ought to have commanded universal *• sympathy found’ herself isolated, denounced, and slighted, | Seldom was the dobtrjne v<x vlotii more ' ruthlessly enforced- The new Emperor William showed himself as an apt pupil of bis master, So little did be care for others, that he treated the Prince of Wales with such discourtesy as to render it difficult for them to again meet, a fact of which the public was-* made aware when both visited the Emperor of Austria, but they carefully avoided meeting each other in their host's capital. Count Herbert, out-Heading Herod, forced the Prince of Wales to take the extreme *wp of breaking off all'relations with those who received the Count as a friend.'