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Show UK WILL K NINETY, When King, afterward Emperor, William of Germany made the notable speech at Versailles, In which ho credited cred-ited his marvelous achievements . to "Bismarck, who prepared, to Moltke, who guided, and to ltoon, who struck the blow" against the hereditary enemy of the fatherland, he little thought that his grandson would hurl from power the first and retire the second, the third being dead, of that remarkable trio that contributed to the success of German greatness, so soon as the scepter descended de-scended to his hands. But the people, whilo watching with keen anxiety the struggle of the ambitious young emperor em-peror to essay alone the part of statesman states-man and soldier, do not forget the grim old heroB who sorved them in the cabinet cab-inet or battle lield.1 Bismarck's popularity popu-larity was never so great as since he resigned, and silent Moltke's ninetieth birthday, falling on the 20th of this month, is the signal throughout the empire for a popular demonstration of unprecedented extent and feeling. Contrasting Moltke with Bismarck, one seeing them both together would instinotively poiut out the former as the diplomat and the latter as tho soldier. Se quiet, so reticent, and so modest a man as the German Held marshal would best compare with our own General Grant. The ex-chancellor, on the contrary, con-trary, is stalwart, brusque, and martial. mar-tial. A country that in time of its direst need found so unselfish a servant and genius ns Moltko, who reduced war to a mathematical problem, cannot express ex-press its appreciation of the great non-agerauian non-agerauian too much. |