New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-14

rebellion iu France Tn. Government "is ID i-'' "ni
nipoteni they had only % say, DO II and u "ou.n
have been done For month and upward aii,f tncH
installation hevo2ercsed more absolute power lAih
any other Government ia the world because tney were
ohcyei wiki willingness oui win tAin---A'iil
Instead oi organizing anything, they con'enied them
selves vith prlclaiming that Labor -' ~ f-tn4@'
rs q there were M distinction between me "oin ana
thc deed. For The rest they amused ne peop.e WIN
parade- with liberty tee- and this and tAai. az iae
while not yenrlrng ogf 1i the old r0uLAe ol u-H-'
We except Lamartne admirable maniie-ios ana ioi'
Elauc- National Workshop There was great deal
o Rails about tle matter The Commission oi LABOR ~
the Iuxeubour. 1eId 10. srnss. bug nothing came o
thc whole except that some thousands of men go paid
ior dong nothing but wheel earth from one side OF the
seine 20 Che other and when they had Wheeled over
efficient quantity loading 10 again into their barro~s
and wheeling II back Twenty thousand OF 20 OF the
same class Of people were also provided Tor in the
Garde Noble where they received pay enough % keep
them from starving and were spilled 10 IN equally u,e
fal purpose. namely. being drilled into soldiers
Meanwhile. however. TIE demand for the establish
ment Of the people ID the Right 70 Labor and the Right
70 the Profit Of their Labor strengthened by the
discussions Of the clubs by ihe articles Of the journals
aud by the growing Intelligence Of the people them
srlyes The great feature Of modern society the in-
crease Of the aggregate wealth OF the community and
the parallel increase Of the poverty and misery OF the
classes by the industry Of whose hands that wealth Is
produced had become clear 70 their Understandings
as 10 had long been palpable TO their experience We
suffer they said because We are our knees let rs
rise This feeling could not fell 70 ind rs organs among
themsei,s Many nev Journals sprung up written ~
men not trained 20 the business but who nevertheless
could write on the Right % labor with good sense a
well AZ passion-iLough sometimes, Of course passion
would get the uppermost vast intellectual move.
nent followed the revolution by which the intelligence
Of the wo-k king people % their social rights was
rresiIy increased They asked for destruction Of
the rights OF others but only asked that the Equality
ami Fraternity Of the Republic should be made reality
il their case az well name.
All this was going on while the Provisional Govern
meut were letting slip the golden opportunity Had
tBev seized IT, they would have satisfied the expecta-
t1i, of the working classes and not gone beyond the
consent of the Bouryeoisie But they were not equal
10 their position Louis Blanc alone OF them under.
stood wha, that position and made effort 20
answer ts requirements and for that he deserves
credit than he has received But what he did be did
poorly. because with less practical sense than belongs
20 many wio with him hold the dogma OF Communism
he attempts to carry fully out ~ his theory Of the
equality OF wages He did poorly TOO because he set
his workmen 20 perform useless labor and did not take
care that they worked even az that Thus his effort
was failure and without satisfying the workmen dnai
Is provoked both the rdice and anger OF the wealthy
classes Il could be expected that they would long
see millions Of money flung out OF the window without
trying 10 pa. stop to
Every one must desire not to be unjust to the mem
beers Of the Provisional Government. We welcomed
their accession TO power with such enthusiasm In
America and watched their administration with such per
sisteut hope that is saddening in this second act
Of the Revolutionary drama and from Paris where the
Illusions and halo OF distance disappear TO b. compelled
% accuse them Of ncapacity But IL must be sad that
an the disturbances since the fret OF May chsrgeable
% their account With abundant promises of entering
upon a new course Of policy they cling TO the old worn
out routine Forgetting or never knowing that they
were acting in new times and amid new ideas they sup
posed that the old machinery and old modes would su
flee. They were warned OF the necessity they were
told that revolt and bloodshed would follow. They did
not beevei IT, OF those of them who did believe Sed
the wisdom 20 put their belief into practical nstitu
uo.s Lamsrtine man OF noble aspirations, poet
splendid writer the very man IN fact for the nrst days
OF thc Revolution. was no more equal 10 the great
practical work which was iis duty. than were bis com
pccrs SIS sail. he is OF sentiment but not Of
constructive talents the time impartial justice
cannot suppress ,hc suspicion that he ovcrrated himself
and supposed that be- an organizer A. well ~
poet Except Louis Blanc and Albert the other men
were mere politicians such the Provisional Gov
eminent and 20 they lost the occasion which Proyi
dencc offered them. To-day frsnce becds IN conse-
quence society shaken by volcanic commissions and
the good that then might easily have been attained cin
now be reached only through these fatal -truggles
The Bourgcoiso eursged the OF the so-caled
National Workshops, and relapsng into the sehshuess
from which the enthusiasm the CONSERVATION Of the
revolution had aroused them became more thzn ever
sntagonistc 70 the new ideas Of the working classes.
Their profits they IN danger from any change
from the old relations OF the employer and the EN-
p.oyed. for If the worunen should come 70 work for
themselves there would be no chance OF getting rich
out Of them On the other hand the wOrkmen. seeing
that Government was really going 10 do nothing for
them and that after the elections the National Assem-.
bly was in the interest OF the moneyed and trading
classes. became inaainei also. When the Assembly
fused 10 appoint Special Ministry 20 Tor the inter-
e.,s OF Labor their hatred o. them made posi-
tive It The same tiue they no doubt operated
by the agents Of the factions Interested IN over
throwing the Republic and Of all these grew
bance- both 10 Paris and the Departments the present
terrible n.urrection and whatever other troubles
yet % follow But the irst impulse of the whole
and b. the idea of the Right Labor and to enjoy the
profits Of their own labor working Ia the minds Of the
people In a word they revolt against the employers
and the Institutions by which one man makes others the
tools Of his own profit do no, md from careful in-
qury OF the best OF information that body
they 20 the length of the doctrine Of the Community
of Property Most of them have not thought out the
idea which snimscs their movements into any definite
systematic form They not Communists any more
than they ar Socialists Of any other particular school
They only cherish conviction which they carry to o.
u.,csm that Justice Is not and cannot be done by the
existing relation OF employed and employer Nor is il
because they have been urged on by the Communists
thar they have res0ried 20 violence The whole cry OF
Down with the Communist. Death 10 CADET p" sctup
on the 18th Of May and continued since appears 10
De only another instance OF popular injustice. CADET
.s not lighting man. nor revoutonist nor IS be- a
man - ,r.rt ir7n..,-r is i-4 ,sornsi1.oa. 10 10
hardly necessary u say hst ihs Associative school
even more remote than o,her Socialists from any par
iicpstion a. the whole movement. Their organ the
Dan1crafe Paelfqae earnestly and steadily Maintains
the Necessity OF preser Ing public order the condition