The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-10

Rdltortai Opinions Of the Lending Journals
Upon Current TOplcs-COmDtled kvorv
Day for the Evening Telegraph
THE BARRIoADEs.


tion had begun. Forthwith, Paris with its
old fury began to tear up it's streets and turn
over it's omnibuses, and to make at least
several quarters of the city a scene of war
BelIeville and La Villette, and the neighbor-
hood of the Montmartre, were chosen for Its
demonstration. Upon this part OF the city
the lavish genius of Baron Haussmann for
spending the money of Frenchmen in order
70 make it greater architectural possibility
10 shoot them down, has not been fully exer-
cised.
The world is not surprised to hear that the
Parisians have attempted insurrection, nor
will il be astonished to hear that the attempt
has been suppressed. The one hundred thou
sand soldiers whom Napoleon knows how TO
turn in upon Paris at q moments notice
ought to be competent to make him master
of the situation. Curiously, their number is
lust the same as that wherewith usurper
one bloody December overthrow the liberties
of France. 1t is the fatal number of the
coup detat. Looking back upon the day
when fraud reared its throne upon massacre,
no man oan predict that Napoleon will be
more meroiful now than then, if only
his bayonets are firm and his well-traiRed
soldiers are provoked. tits impossible to forget
Mt this time that Napoleon perpetrated one of
the cruelest, most sweeping slaughters of
people and its liberties on record. He did 1t,
IL is true, in the name of the people, as Dan
ton, Robespierre, and other less sagacious
students of French nature had done before
him. ALI that we need remember just now is
that he did dishonest act in q murderous
spirit. It was not his fate to be upright, to
love life more than its sacrifice, and his
country more than himself, but to serve the
baser part of the country which he debased.
Like all men of exceeding ambition, his sell
fish genius helped to create the necessity
which he made his excuse for perjury and
slaughter. How much he has expiated the
crime of December by holding France, with
the permission of Providence, under his able
sway, it is for Frenchmen to judge.
There will be a variety of contemptuous
comments on the latest phase of opposition
to Bonapartism; yet we imagine that Roche
fort and his partisans have advanced step in
the respect of those who are disposed to
esteem o thousand sans cuEOttes with arms in
their hands more than a lonely man eating
prison fare or the bread of exile. The Name
iukes of the French press, and the hunkeys of
the English and American press, had
chance to show their instincts when citizen
of Paris was murdered by prince for chal-
Ienging Bonaparte. Now Paris in despera-
tion challenges another Bonaparte. Will he,
too, murder his fellow-citizens if they excite
him?-and then, what will the funkeys say
This latest demonstration iS likely enough to
be quieted till the next day of crisis, till
the next day of weakening and disintegration.
For the present it will serve to bring back to
the mind of France bloodier event than
this can possibly be-the terrible deed of De-
cember 1851. On that occasion one regiment
alone slew 2400 men, and the fatal one hun
dred thousand committed, according to the
historian of the period, nine different species
of slaughters, including that of the massacre
<c hat ptc in ool1 hlna6 Tho Epo ~ira
cannot now surpass its masterpiece A people
who have had Robespierre and Marat, and
Danton and Mirabeau, could hardly expect to
get along without Louis Napoleon and NJ
Rochefort but let us above all remember the
French people. Barricades mean now as
ever that life in France is cheap, more OIL
less, and that government is dear.
PROTECTION DOOMED.
FTo4s the NJ Y. World.
We copy the following statement from tn
Tribune
'sThe free-traders made an earnest demonstratio
In the House yesterday under the lead Of Mr.. Mar
shall Dem,A Of Illinois % They were @ squarely me
the table, and beaten by SO to II, and, on recons
deration, by 81 to sO They had nearly or quite
every Democratic vote, including these Of Messrs
Haldeman, Getz Reading, Stiles, Van Auken, an
woodward, OF Pennsylvania (Randall absent O
1Sdging,: mr. BSrnpm M nm OF COnpecticTt Dem wa
Eastern State voted against protection"
The Tribune seems to exult in the fac
that no member of its party from any Easter
State voted against protection. Its exultt
tion is as foolish as it will certainly be shor
lived. Even with the advantage of an III
broken front by the Eastern Republicans, th
protectionists had majority of only IL in
total vote of III.
Assuming this to be the present relatiy
atray,r 9th ~ tho inpicto nd fraa da,
in the House of Representatives, it is eas
to see that protection is on its last legs, an
will fall PROSTATE Immediately after the ne1
census, which is to be taken this yea
Within the last ten years the population
the East has remained comparatively station
ary, while the West has been advancing at
prodigious rate of growth. In the new a.
portionment of Representatives founded
the census about to be taken, the Easter
States will lose, and the Western States maj
large gains. AS soon as the West is repr
scented in Congress in proportion to its pop
Iation, the era of high tariffs will end. Il
protectionists have even now maj jority
only eleven, and the new apportionment W
at once change it into majority at les
thrice as great on the other side.
Nor will the gain to the free-trade 81
come wholly from the West. The relati
strength of the South in Congress will
considerably increased by the new apportie
ment and the South retains its old hostil
to protective tariffs. In consequences of
abolition of slavery, the South will be entitl
to representatives for the whole of its net
population, instead of three-ffths of it viii
was the rule previous to emancipation.
was not till after the Southern Senators q
Representatives withdrew from Congress,
the winter before the war, that the prot
tionists were able to pass the Morrill, tar