The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-04-15

| tLed ihIiguation against d G0Nernment which
does not succeed in finding profitable employ
ment for the people-,BaIids Of armed wofkmeI
are everywhere parading the city. Many Of TIA
shops, We are told. have teen not only ransack Ike,
but waatonly injured if by discarded OF Of
Tended employees. These formidable bodies pen
citrate the Hotel do Vile, knock at all the doors
| Iili The sales, and end,savor to repeat In ia,
| Council Room the terrible scene which decided
| The fate Of France IN the Chamber Of Deputies
The genius of Lamartine is tasked TO luii thu
| storm
Let Parliaments look to it-hunger is the sta.
pie Of rebellion. Justice requires us TO guard
our censures. We are far from intending q
general condemnation Of the conduct either Of
the Prov isionsl Government OF of the people
The former has displayed an energetic zeal fol
humanity aud order, carried out with great judg-
nent. We may instance particularly the ab0-
iiion Of pital punishment for political offences
and the strong measures taken for the prOtec-
ton Of the once royal property and other public
monuments. The latter has shown equal mod
Grafton in the hour of triumph. The peculiar
features OF the Revolution which We have no
iiced above, are an exception To the general
character of these events, aud are so much the
more remarkable.
This was written March the 4th, aud Dou-
glas Jerrold's Journal Of the same week de-
clares:
THr ELEVATION OF TINE LAsoR CLAss IN
FRAScE--The Prov isio u al q overnment of France
has undertaken TO solve the great industrial
problem, which proposes at all times and under
all circumstances, TO lind remunerating employ
ment for the lsboring classes. They have
pledged themselves TO establish, as one Of the
nr Al RI. MI Of tha All
eminent Commission for the workmen." This
new principle will not interest the French alone;
Il will profoundly agitate Europe; IL is the basis
oi Republican Institutions, and an the doctrine
enunciated is sure TO excite the liyeliest solicit
tude among our own operatives, IL becomes an
English question, and falls Immediately within
our province.
The French laborer has already appealed TO
our Ten Hour Bill in the factory districts, and
with success; for the Provisional Government
have reduced the hours of toll from eleven to
ten in Paris, and from twelve to eleven in the
PROVINCES. Every step in the new French sys-
TEN will be yigilantly watched by our mechsn
les and artisans, and il is too late now 10 de-
nounce such discussions as mischievous. We
have fostered cheap literature, and taught the
people 10 read; we have encouraged literary in
stitutions, and taught the people 10 think; We
have ELECTED their Intellectual powers, and in
spired them with the resolution Of no longer
being treated as "hewers Of wood and drawers
of water" Of this education we must take the
for the laws Of society forbid ret
repression.
Above all. the political economists now domi-
iant in Parliament. have proclaimed trumpet
iongued that Labor is the source Of all wealth;
ana shall not feel surprised il this testimony
to productive power should have led TO specula-
tive inquiries into the theory Of distribution.
The problem now sought TO be solved Is the
practical realization of that theory. From this
agitation Of thought have sprung up Commun-
ism. the doctrines of Fourier and ST. Simon, the
various phases Of Socialism, and other remedial
schemes which partaks rather Of enthusiasm
than judgment; nevertheless, they all show in
what current public opinion is flowing, and it
Is the part Of wisdom not TO iuterpose obstruc-
items which would cause the swelling stream TO
overflow and destroy its banks, but 10 direct the
waters into deepening channel, whence they
may be judiciously drained TO irrigate and fer
tilize the surrounding country
In these views all English papers concur;
high tory. wing, radical, and they not only say
the issue is rightly made, but that it must be
met everywhere. Not in violence. as we have
said will. or can il be met in Great Britain.
The reformers there ara wise. They kno1 they
eau win all the good they want by peaceful agi-
tatiOn, and will not she'd drop Of blood in OBJ
tanning it. They care not for the form Of the
Government, it is the spirit they desire to see
right in heart, aim, end and the mob movements
in Great Britain are tribes, cause no fear any
where, not a bit of anxiety even TO the old wo-
men Of the country.
The London Examiner says:
"a skilfui old Monarch has upset his own
throne ia kicking over II dinner table. The war
with the Reform Banquet knife and fork, has
ended with war 10 the knife with the mon
archy. The engineer held down the safety
valve, and crack. in the twinkhng Of an eye the
machine was blown to atoms"
"The fall Of greatness has been utterly with
out dignity"
"Ia consistency Louis should have gone to
Vienna, 10 show the Emperor to what great
Monarchs may come by despotic counsels-"
"His ruined tool Guizot, escaped in the aP-
propriate disguise Of a servant. II was TO this
that Louis Philippe had reduced him, the mere
instrument of the meanest purposes"
And after exposing the Kings intense SCI
fshness, intrigues. despotism. his shameless cor
ruptions, buying. bribing; after declaring that
all this. and the Kings gold left the people no
resource but their arms-that the knot conld
only be loosed by the sword, it Continues:
"what has Louis Philippe done for France
in return for her trust in him2 When the PEG
ple were sick of war he did all in his power 10
revive the vain glories Of the empire. tie es-
tablshed a savage fighting ground, HOCKEY in
the Hole, in Algiers. He made Bobadils Of his
sons. He turned France, at peace, into camp
he beltsd and bolted in Paris with lines Ind forts
He did all he could to stimulate the minds and
imap inations of the people to war; but, curb
ing while he spurred, he kept them at peace
while pursuing his intrigues for his crooked pri
vats purposes, for which he leagued with pow
ers and causes hateful to the liberal spirit Of tn
nation. Well, he falls in an unjust effort be
yond his weakened strength, and in his fall h
did the last mischief 10 his country; for in hi
fall every existing security wa broken for pesol
and order, and the Reconstruction Of the whol'
political fabric became necessary in less thar
| four and twenty hours. He had so played hi
part that whether he continued TO reign. or wa
hurled from the throne, griev0us troubles ant
terrible hazards must be the lot Of the people
He lad created the atrocious alternative Of des
| potism or revolution. Much need was there o
wisdom in the huinblest of the people wheI
| there had been such blind aud wicked errors Il
a ruler-and the retrieving wisdom happily ha
not been wanting.
aWe acknowledge that our first impression
were unfavorable to the trial Of a Republic, an
that we contemplated in II an experiment full
danger Of every kind; but the accePtation OF
proves that there was no other Practicaol
course--no other course which would prompt
have stopped tumult and anarchy, and restore
the sway Of the laws. The Republic, whstev
er may be its consequences for veal or for wo'
is Louis Phhillippe's legacy to the French IA
failure had cut them off from every other u