Show BISMARCK K POOR the financial ii aff afflis tire of prince bis big marck are said to be in a most unsatisfactory condition notwithstanding the exalted position he hold held for years in IB the german empire and the mag ent gifts of which he be at times was the recipient he to is in debt and despairs despain 0 of f being able to leave his property unencumbered bared to his bis posterity after the A austro prussian war in 1866 bismarck received from the old kaiser as a recognition of his services with this money he be bought his bis place at barzin after the war with france he was presented with a large forest at fried he valued at then he inherited an estate at hausen and his friends made him a present of that part of the estate which his father had been compelled to sell during a time of financial stringency in addition to the income derived from these estates the iron chancellor earns something as an i a distiller and the owner of a brickyard brick yard but notwithstanding all this he finds it impossible to raise a mortgage of encumbering his estates het heads teiki a yearly interest of more than and in ie not abad to save anything the figures quoted prove conclusively that a man may be the greatest statesman of the age and a most successful diplomat and yet yes a very poor financier but they also speak volumes for the she honesty of the now aged founder of a great empire there can be no doubt that had bad be been for sale 02 he would in years gone by when be held the interests of a continent in bis big hands have been able to make enough adough money in an indirect way to cover many times the mortgage that is now worrying him not all men man in his position would be able to prove their honesty by actual poverty bismarck seems to be able to do so no the german people however are generous and his bin many friends and admirers are not likely to forget the man to whose vig orous policy it Is ie due that their country at present has attained a rank among the he first powers of europe it would be only just if to him should be given a small email portion of the five milliards billiards milli ards of francs he made france pay to germany at a time when the treasury was exhausted and money was needed for the revival of the pursuits of peace |