THE MAN OF IRON

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2181, 8 July 1890, Page 1

THE MAN OF IRON

JS E W ADVER n.->ExMENTB

Tho conflict of classes, Prince Bismarck assorted at a recent interview, would never cease ; to solve it is like trying to solve the problem of the squaring of the circle — it is Utopia, the dream of 1000 yeors, the millenium; to bo realised only when men become as angela. It was useless to think this question capable of an external settlemena, to exclude ' all future struggle. " Socialism will give a good deal of trouble yet. Governments have sometimes been reproached with the lack of both energy and of tenderness. Ido not call it tenderness if a man is a coward and yields to the pressure of a manifestation. It is sometimes true benevolence to Bhed blood— the blood of a riotous minority — in the defence of a peaceloving and law-abiding majority. The first requisite in a government is energy — not to be a time server — not to sacrifice the future to an arrangement of convenience purely temporary. A government should be steadfast. The firmness, indeed the fierceness, of the ruling power is a guarantee of peace both abroad and at home. A government always ready to yield to a majority, either* local or temporary, parliamentary or riotous, and which keeps up its authority by concessions, each one of which paves tho way for a new concession, is in a sore strait."