It is one of the defects of the London Press
that it will never give us speeches from Berlin in extmo. Prince Bismarck has evidently been groaning again over his worries, a symptom which with him always means that he is going to hit somebody very hard. This time his grievance is the strength of the Federated Governments, particularly the Prussian. They leave the Imperial Government insufficient freedom. He is worn out with their resistance and their power of argufying, and if he were not Premier of Prussia, he could not get along at all. He thinks Particularist feeling is extending, and is entirely unable to yield to the wish for an Imperial Cabinet. He must ask the Members of the Reichstag, like good children, to give him some more money, and so make matters easier, or really, he must confess himself overburdened. It looks very much as if the Prince repented of the strong Second Chamber, the Federal Council which he himself manufactured, and as if he would like his master to be a good deal more imperative with the chiefs of the Prussian Departments. The King apparently likes controlling Camphauseu and his confreres better than having to control Bismarck alone. It is pleasanter to sit on many thistles than on one spike.
