| Show THE GERMAN SITUATION it Is IB nearly two weeks now since the german prime minister posted off to his royal master at Pote dain with a resignation of his office snugly tucked away in a corner of his hie gripsack to present to the royal autocrat and as yet we hear bear nothing of the outcome this seems to be a period of resignations the old saw regarding officeholders that few die and none resign having been completely overturned if not smashed it is a long way from utah to where the german situation has a center and a circumference but we feel some little interest in the matter because germany holds holda and has baa held for many years the key to the peace of europe and caprivi caprisi went out because his a and nd the emperors emperor a bill to strengthen the military power of the nation was defeated it ought to be said in justice to that official that it requires some little con to place him in a proper light bebon the world the office had been made so large and conspicuous by bismarck Bin marok that the tee borowa itself became dim and the glamour surrounding its wearer as a halo was measurably dispelled in ii a word the german chancellor was easily the leading statesman and the greatest diplomat of europe to enter upon such an office under such circumstances was for the one who did so to be placed at a great disadvantage partly because there were no such opportunities to deal with as his predecessor had and if it were otherwise there is but one bismarck in a cycle but caprivi caprisi is a great man measured by human standards he is profoundly educated scholastically and by experience has a philosophic mind great tenacity of purpose remarkable will power dower and that rare faculty of divining what it Is ie the master ol of the german states would have whether expressed fully or not and carrying out such desires in general and in detail it la not overstating the case in his behalf to say that he has done as well in his bis exacting and critical situation as it was possible for anyone else to do the emperor is ja a hard bard taskmaster and it might be a good g for him to realize J just for once that he has ridden a high horse borse long enough he has had bad something of a foretaste ot or this in the defeat of his pet measure hut but if after exhausting all his big power conferred and inherent he should be rebuffed agadia the lesson would be about complete it looks from the way the elections for a now new reicho reichstag tag stand now as if that were the most likely outcome and then those who look lightly if nut indulgent antly jy upon williams haughty self sufficient capricious moods will perhaps be even lose less tb than an now |
