The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning. Thursday, March 26, 1891. EMPEROR AND PRINCE.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 587, 26 March 1891, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Morning.

Thursday, March 26, 1891. EMPEROR AND PRINCE.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’s! at bo thy •ountry’i, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

The increasing bitterness between the Emperor of Germany and Prince Bismarck indicates an approaching storm in the German political world. The fall of the autocratic Bismarck was so sudden and the Emperor so quickly belied the general report concerning himself, that no one, if he did not wish to be thought a mere shallow guesser, would care to attempt to foretell the near future While he lives Prince Bismarck must be a prominent figure in the world, and he will continue to wield a large influence. The taunt thrown at him in the past has been that he wished to be a power in the land and have his opinions reverenced and adopted, while he himself remained free from the turmoil of political life and its worries fell on others. Now, it seems, he has decided to come forth to again take his part in the politics of his country, and what is more surprising is that the National Liberal party is said to have declared in favor of the old autocrat. This policy may have been adopted on Republican grounds. On the ordinary principles that govern politics the deposition of the Prince was the most satisfactory thing that could have happened from a Liberal point of view. The young Emperor has seriously taken up the question of ameliorating the condition of the laboring classes; Bismarck sneers at that great desire, and thinks the spirit of freedom engendered by a belief in the rights of man as man should be put down by the bayonet—he holds that the Emperor is only playing with fire. There seems no difficulty in a choice between two such men as far as their political lights are concerned The one, though an autocrat by the position to which he has succeeded, may do some good; the other man has outlived his age. As a staunch Conservative of the old school the imperious Prince would be in place. He has done as much as any man perhaps to make his country what it is, but the domineering days of old have gone by, and men claim to be something more than the slaves of those who happen to be in power. If the Prince is elected XO the Reichstag he would soon have a substantial following of those who hold with him in his opinions or are fascinated by his striking individuality, but it will be a wonderful example of rapid changes if the younger generation of politicians ever accept him as their guiding light.