The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-02
F2 a N Q Z,
HER GOVERNMENTAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION,
EXPOSED AND CONSIDERED
In IFS PRINCIPLES, IN ITS WORKING,
AND IN IT'S RESULTS.
THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

the electoral colleges the return of any candi-
dates introduced by the projects and the sub pre-
fects. 1t Is ascertained that two-hlrds of the
electors In France are at this moment dependent
on the government by the places they have OBJ
tanned for themselves or for their children and
other relatives. During the last two years, more
than AZ, 900 places or promotions have been
granted IN this manner, by the present admins
tration, IN addition to those previously bestowed
on 20, 600 electors and, as The practice In every
ministry has been to grant places only on the de-
msnd or the recommendation OF ministerial
deputies, it follows that the electors are interest
ed IN the
and from whom they expect promotions, or some
other snug appointments tor the younger men,
bers of their families Thus the deputy OF an
ACCOMPLISHMENT Is In some sort lrremovable.-
Some of them make traffic OF their influence,
and receive per centage on the value OF the
emoluments, or other ministerial favors, prefer
ring that to being employed themselves, as they
can pretend to be independent and dlslnterested
in their support of the ministry.
Lest the fact should be doubted, must explain
it. know, not one only, but twenty, deputies,
who possess little more than the qualification,
1880 francs year, (GlS0,) and who cannot live
six months in Paris on that income but they
are legis alive and administrative Jobbers To
promote the bills for the two Versailles railways,
many of them received from 40 TO 100 shares
They were largely paid, three years ago, by the
contractors tor supporting the law on the loftin
ledge, are in the practice OF charging from t4O
to EGO for the appointments obtained through
their influence, and they derive a tolerably good
income from that source. The ministers know
this they assist in it ; nay, more-they them
selves do the same. Two years ago, one OF them
introduced railway bill, for douceur OF "a 600
-whi CHI railway bill was rejected, because the
compeers of the minister were without 1000
francs to;begn WITH and were, besides, SO dlscre-
dtable that nobody would join them in the un-
dertsking.
The general principle of the electoral and re-
preventative system, now firmly established In
France, is that TO obtain anything OF any kind,
at the hands OF the government, from which eve
ry thing proceeds, the electors must return depu-
ties ready to do every thing Tor the government,
and to make the most they can Of their functions
The house of deputies, then, filtered through
every process that policy and corruption could
invent to mlnimise-as Jeremy Bentham would
have said-the operation OF national feeling, and
10 maxmse the governmental preponderance,
has completely answered the sinister purposes
for which 1t was established, and cannot but con-
tipue to act, as it has done fol the last twelve
years, against the opinions and the interests OF
the French people.
cannot, without disgust look on the personal
composition of the present house. more lgno'
rant, more despicable, more venal, more unprin-
clpled, more vllanous and cowardly set OF PEG
pie never was collected IN any country, than the
mountebanks who periodically assemble at the
Paiais Bourbon 1t is quite in accordance with
the origin of the name OF their pace-itls 6our-
bier Ii you take out from them about twenty
members, and amongst these De Trscy, Dupont
de pEure, Cormenin, Arrago, De Corcelles,
Isambert, de Theirs, George Lafayette, LanJul-
mates, BIN de Bourbon, La Rochejacquelln, and
few others, you will not by any possible pro-
cess, extract from all the others united, one par
tlcle of political, or, indeed, OF private honesty
of patriotism, Of any refined or manly feeling, OF
regard for the rights OF the people; OF concern
for their interests, OF commiseration Tor their
distress They are nothing better than rave
nous crew, hOaxing, fighting, pllfering one ano-
theirs nests, and agreeing on only one purpose,
to feed and breed on the national corpse. Such
they were from the beginning; such they are,
and such they will continue to be, SO long as the
present system of government stands.
My Judgment Will, no doubt, be deemed ex-
ceedinsly severe but beg to say, that 1t is con-
formable to the general opinion. and the few no.
It deputies themselves confirm 1t on every
mes Let US quote one fact In confirmation.
Po,nl; r. Jerry Poux, medical man, OF good pro
perry hao tor been sort OF ,be TO
tne poo! ., Oh Nacter, his science, his modesty,
MS uprighi On, IL. evidence to all, had gained for
ana ms n.ne an the love Of every class I'm
mediately after the smavor Of The town ana
u, an Grst General elecu ~, his fellow citzens,
with the same unanimity, J,s, 40 H. r %
Prolestants, chose him for tl'eil ugpuy, ID D.;
uctantly accepted the mtssiS S,". That was the
time of the seductions and aposta%tess VI tne "
deputies; offices, money, crosses y, ,n.a ,ha
nisterial and royal dinners ana oaHy n'seS everv.
the government tactics. Poux re- i ~ ~
thinS and when urged to accept Piace az w
royal table answered, that ne co1'd hos WIZ
consistency Tueet at conViViai .au,. $50
with whom he differed on almost eVoiy Poin'
VI" ,ht ~ the Invitation were meant as favor
he could not accept tavors from !1ose mv
was mis- duty to control" lie SAID THIS wrlhou'
arrogance, and with that miia sn,ap lie could
ner Characteristic OF all his conquer. Iie couiu
MOI iong he a witness of the administrative and
representative depravity.. SIX mouths a,.er n,'
election he went back to his Poor ssp 81 DO,
and wrote TO the president oil inc chah'poi VI ~
P"' CuAMsRE DIES DEPUTIES, % Fevrier, 1882
W"u,ant repudsr touts solidsrite ia majori'c
dune chambro qu SO Iend comPce du sy.seSe alsas
treux ct des actes deporables dun ministere anti ma
nonaA - 00"n' III" '' ''''''A THIERRY POUx.
twas but eighteen months after the revolution
of July, that this honest and unpretendlng man
found that he could not consclentlously remain
any longer IN connexion with perJured and cor
rupt cole CUES, who already formed the MAORI
~ II was during the ministry OF Cislmlr FER
rier, who desplsed the doctrinares as set OF So
nhistical pedagogues hated them for their trea-
cherous and sanguinary deeds during the resto-
ration, and would not, on any account, admi
Them in his ministry len years nave since
ELAPSED, ten years of doctyindry, that Is to say,
barefsced, impudent, and systematic corruption.
of cruel intimidation, and savage executions
and perpetual msrule all with the appreciation
of the MARTY of the deputies, who beneht by IL
Their Intellectual capacity is on apar with
their integrity any 459 persons taken at random
from anon pst the people passing the barriers OF
Paris, would prove more Intelligent, as Wen as
more honest Three hundred OF those deputies
know nothing of the real principles OF social and
political economy they do not even understand
tie doctrinarian system itself, to- the malat s
cce of which they are instrumental, except SO
ma na. y they individually benefit by it. They do
,a nt a. ne, eraze-they do not understand the en-
ss sem OF corruption and tyranny OF which tneIr
Individual corruption and baseness form com com
nonent part Political mechanics, they 40 tnelr
psrt nj the machinery, without knowing, with
p pMt ;no~,ring about the total result. beg par
dom of the English mechanics they know 9; better
than that I must fad another similitudeL:l
have IL Won see. IN brick fields, the dumb AMI
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