Show I I LIES LIE OF STATESMEN PRINCE BISMARCK WAS AN AC ACKNOWLEDGED AC ACKNOWLEDGED I MASTER t His Hie Mendacity Described D no as Bold Simple and Unstudied False Falsehoods hoods of Other Great Rulers of Nations Naton r Prince Bismarck definitely and Irrevocably retired from power had no delicacy in describing himself as n an a uncompromising unc liar Har says MYS the Iho New York Sun The Tho quality of o his mendacity was not attained It i was WM bold simple and unstudied Old Emperor William WIla was his hie apt and proficient pupil pupi Between them by straightforward lying 1 that would have havo disgusted they the made his history I tory The Tho lie le of ot Ems Em was a prodigious i thing thins one empire created a greater and deluged a continent in It blood bloc f There Thero was no common knowledge knowle se of of Prince achievements In the theart theart I II art art of oC lying at tho the time of oC his hIl activity ity J it They were well wc enough known in high places but but to make malo public such Buch Bucha sucha I Ia a charge against so great great a man was wasI to incur great great personal inconvenience t or expose ox pose ones oneR self Bol to ridicule Elm Sim Simple 1 4 plo voracity is resorted to by very er gat at statesmen only when they aro are reasonably sure that tat they run rim no danger of or being hollered believed beloved Bismarck was ono one of or the tho great figures of tho the I nineteenth century In all al hla his career career I he ho never told a n trivial lie llo le while for gratuitous lying he entertained an I Ineffable contempt I In Ia tho the early clr part of or the tho last cen century century tury tu nobody thought of or calling Na Napoleon No Napoleon Bonaparte a liar lar It seemed scored too inadequate None of his syco sycophants sycophants Is on record as aa describing him himas hima himas as a a gentleman genteman HI His precious nephew gained d his 20 years of precarious I ascendancy by b an effective counterfeit i of or all al his worst qualities his hla own undiluted depravity f Disraeli the most most distinguished Jew in modern history was much the In Intellectual I superior of at Bismarck The 1 Imputation of oC lying was never success successfully successful successfully fully ful urged against him oven een by hr the tha house of or commons On tho the other hand band hane Implicit belief bolet In anything that I he uttered utere was hold held to be tho tilo height I of oC temerity It I was maintained of or Palmerston that that he never told a n Ho 10 outside of at tho the house of oC commons in Ills his whole life The statement of or an obvious un untruth untruth untruth I truth does docs not necessarily Impair a amans amans mans character for veracity Mr lIr Gladstone had a wonderful won reputation for Cor truthfulness and maintained It It r oven to his death In the estimation of of perhaps a majority of oC Englishmen It ItIs Itis Is only Just to his character to acknowledge ac nc knowledge that with wih advancing years ears 1 ho himself shared the same lion Hon ton I Respecting those persons who the be public prints with wih lamentations re reo respecting respecting I tho the prevalent decay deca of or tho the theart art arL of or lying wr we hold their burden hurden to tobe tobe be he mainly affectation There Is none nonesuch nonesuch such Buch Of or all al tho ho arts of at tho the day da It Is the tho most robust 11 |