Show THE returns from the last German elections add several National Liberals to the Reichstag The membership of the Reichstag is nothing if not polyglot In Germany half a dozen politicalparties exist and each party depends upon a system of political combinations for any temporary success Hence German legislation leg-islation very largely made up of getting ready to legislate No man can foretell the alliances which may be formed or the friendships which maybe ruptured before the close of a session of the stormy Reichstag This state of affairs is eminently emi-nently favorable for the centralization policy of the iron Chancellor and in the division of the popular representatives he finds his greatest strength The Ministerial Min-isterial party is always able to find some popular faction sufficiently exasperated at the others to join hands with the Government Gov-ernment and Bismarck rules despotically despotic-ally by the aid of the people |