| Show GERMANS REVERE p THE T I ROt CHANCELLOR 0 OBSERVE P CENTENARY OE OF BIS BISMARCK'S BIRTH niH Y this morning cel celebrated G T the tho centenary of ot her greatest t statesman Prince Bismarck who ho was born April 1 1 ISiS 1815 Amer German leans too took occasion to do honor to the memory of ot the great man who solidified sol aol the Gorman German empire The following follow ing estimate of at his hili work worle taken from the American Review lew of or Reviews for April Is la therefore of oC unusual Interest The rhe period of oC Bismarck's pre pre a as a n European statesman was exceptionally long Jong and eventful lie He been growing hid hd from tram carl early youth In e experience as a a. Prussian who had devoted dt his entire life to the study of public affairs and to an official cial dat career until nt at about the time when Lincoln was waR elected president he hc had hod become clearly rl tho the most moot Influential of at Prussia's governmental go group A few after afur Lincoln became pf President BI became prime minister of oC Prussia anti and also minister of ot forel foreign n affairs Ills brier brief war that added to Prussia occurred In iii the year vear and In he ha wn waged ed edthe the va war var r against Austria that brought him still more territory Then rhen came In 1870 ISTO th the great war against t j France with the Imm Immediate formation of oC the German empire and tho tue b beginning of Bismarck's har which lasted almost year until ho he resigned In March Mardi ISDO 1891 through h his disagree disagree- em e m ment nt with tha present emp emperor lie lit presided lod nt at the Berlin congress congre- 11 lit Ir and he formed the tho Triple Alliance In iii It may well welt appear after an another another nn- nn other h hulf lr century gives Iv s the historian a longer i perspective that s ac acU and policies I resulted In more profound profound profound pro pro- found disturbances and changes than did those of oC the tile first t Napoleon Out jut cf of his policies s grew militarism In Its itS' present phases His domestic re reforms reforms re- re forms Corms gave n e Germany German a systematic caro care and provision provIn for lor or the welfare of ot the thc working cla classes S 8 th thit t. t th the whole civilized Uhe l world has been bren Imitating i in on one w. way was or 01 another H He lie guided Germany to a n nI I place of Krcik and to an eco- eco and Int Intellectual development of oC astonishing brilliancy 1 nut But h ha failed ailed to provide for fOI Germanys Germany's future aaret safe safe- tv t tJ by removing s of oC and promoting European humon bar har mon many mony To Do his credit It should he be said Baht lh that t he did not wish to ann annex Alsace Alsace- Lorraine but acquiesced In lit the views of oC linden Baden anc and Bavaria Da these German states s holding that their defense defenso as a ft part of or the tho new empire re required re- re the annexation atlon A much better kind of ot defense would h hn-a hn ive been such OUCh An nn arrangement with France Fiance a H as would have removed enmity and would have havo resulted In la unfortified boundaries and small armaments In 1877 1577 Russia lusia bail ad conquered Turkey at great t sacrifice and had arranged term of oC peace pe Tin Un- del Bismarck Bismarck's load lead supported b by tho the British and Austrian delegates the congress of Berlin In 1878 thwarted th Russia Russin Europe and rendered Inevitable the series of wars var that has followed rollow Including the tho present on one There was ample room and opportunity In the tho world for aUthe all aU the tho great nations and alt all the small ones and If tc the talents of Bismarck anT tho the other nationalist and Imperialist statesmen of ot that period pe period pe- pe po- po nod had been less devoted dc to schemes of ot a aggrandizement for th their lr respective countries and more devoted oled to the thc finding of ways wn's to Insure the future pence and ancI w well being ll of ot all Europe th th-j th entire world might be boo glad to loin join Germany In celebrating the anniversary anniversary anni annl- of or Bismarck's birth 0 I I D PRINCE RINCE OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD YON VON BISMARCK I P HAUSEN 1815 1808 Germanys Germany's most noted statesman whose sc I I rigorous policies in ill wel welding ng together the empire as ns it stands stanch to today loday ny t made him known as ns the iron chancellor This portrait is from his t best photograph 1 t a t I I |
