A plain tale from the "Statement of Foreign Commerce and Immigration," published by the Treasury Department for June, 1891, puts this accusation down very summarily. Total imports free of duty for nine months, ending June 30, 1891 $295,963,665 Total imports free of duty for nine months, ending June 30, 1890 208,983,873 ------------ Balance in favor of nine months, ending June 30, 1891. 86,979,792 Total dutiable imports for nine months, ending June 30, 1890 389,786,032 Total dutiable imports for nine months, ending June 30, 1891 334,242,340 ----------- Balance in favor of nine months, ending June 30, 1891 55,543,692 Total imports for nine months, ending June 30, 1891 630,206,005 Total imports for nine months, ending June 30, 1890 598,769,905 ----------- Balance in favor of nine months, ending June 30, 1891 31,436,100 BISMARCK IN THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BY EMILIO CASTELAR. I cannot pardon the historian Bancroft, loved and admired by all, for having one day, blinded by the splendors of a certain illustrious person's career, compared an institution like the new German empire with such an institution as the secular American Republic. The impersonal character of the latter and the personal character of the former place the two governments in radical contrast. In America the nation is supreme--in Germany, the emperor. In the former the saviour of the negroes--redeemer and martyr--perished almost at the beginning of his labors. His death did not delay for one second the emancipation of the slave which had been decreed by the will of the nation, immovable in its determinations, through which its forms and personifications are moved and removed. In America the President in the full exercise of his functions is liable to indictment in a criminal court; he is nevertheless universally obeyed, not on account of his personality and still less on account of his personal prestige, but on account of his impersonal authority, which emanates from the Constitution and the laws. It little matters whether Cleveland favors economic reaction during his government, if the nation, in its assemblies, demands stability. The mechanism of the United States, like that of the universe, reposes on indefectible laws and uncontrollable forces. Germany is in every way the antithesis of America; it worships personal power. To this cause is due the commencement of its organization in Prussia, a country which was necessarily military since it had to defend itself against the Slavs and Danes in the north, and against the German Catholics in the south.