The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-10-08

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Russia must think herself endangered by q
German empire under Prussian leadership.
Such Is the lac Of the old political system.
Within its pale the gain Of one state is the
loss Of the other The Cats paramount
influence over Europe roots in his tradi-
tiOnsl hold on Germany. At moment
when in Russia herself volcanic social
agencies threaten to shake th, very Dase of
autocracy, could the Gar afford to bear
with such loss Of foreign prestige? Already
the Moscovitc journals repeat the language
Of the BOnapartist Journals liter the war Of
1866. Do the Tueton patriots really be-
lieve that liberty and peace will be guaran-
teed to Germany by forcing France into the
arms Of Russia If the fortune Of Der
arms, the arrogance Of success, and dynastic
intrigue lead Germany to dismemberment
Of France, there will then only remain two
courses open to her. She must at all risks
become the apoVed tool Of Russian aggran-
disement, or, after some short respite, make
again ready for another defensive" war,
not one Of those new tangled /" localized
wars, but a lcdr of rdces-a war with the
combined Slovenian and Roman races.
The German working dass have reso-
lutely supported the war, which it was not
in their power to prevest, as a war for
!. German independence and the liberation of
France and Europe from that pestilential
, incubus the Second Empire. It was the
German workmen who, bgether with the
rural laborers. furnished the sinews and
! muscles Of heroic hosts, having behind the
halfstarved families. Decimated by the
battles abroad, they will be once more deci-
mated by misery at hone. In their turn
9 they are now coming toward to ask for
guarantees, guarantees that their i'm
: mense sacrifices have nd been brought in
Q vain, that they have conquered liberty, that
: the victory over the ImPrislist armies will
/. not, as in 1915. be turnld into the defeat Of
: the German people nd, as the first Of
D these guarantees, they claim as honorable
r peGce for France, and the recognition o.
D the French Republic.
0 The Central Committee Of the German
q Socialist Democratic Vorkmen's Party is
e sued on the fifth of September. NANTES
!, to. energetically insisting upon these guar
# antees. "We," they say, "protest against
8 the annexation Of Asace and Lorraine
b And we are consciou Of speaking in the
e name of the German working class In the
) common interest Of Fnnce and Germany, ii
o the interest Of peace aad liberty, in the 10
!, terest of Western civilization against East
J. ern harbarism, the G.rman workmen viii
not patiently tolerate the annexation Of AL
!, SAGE and Lorraine. We sha'
IS faithfully stand by OR fellow workmen
y all countries for the common international
IF cause of the Proletarlt!"
; Unfortunately, we cannot feel sanguin,
II Of their immediate success. If the Frenct
+? workmen amidst pace failed to stop th,
b aggressor, are tn. German workman
is more likely to stop the victol
!. amidst the clangor If arms The Ger
" man workmen's manifesto demands th,
a extradition Of Louis Bonaparte as common
b felon to the Frenc. Republic Their ru
e Iers are, on the contrary, already trying
e hard TO restore him to the TUT cries as th,
4 best man to ruin France. However tha
. may be, history will prove the German
4 working class are not made Of the sam,
r naIleable stuff as the German middle class
e They will do their duty.
/. Like them, We ii the advent of the Re
D public in France, but at the same time VT
r abour under mi givings which we hope viii
D prove groundless. That Republic has not
! -, Al thn l,,,tn 1lxt al
} place become vacant. 1t has been pro
] claimed, not as a social conquest, but as
} national measure Of defence. Ii il in the
bands Of Provisional Government com
, posed partly of notorious Orleanists, partly
Of middle class Republicans, upon some Of
whom the insurrectIon Of June, 1913, has
, left its indelIble stigma. The division Of
labor amongst the members Of that Govern
, ment looks awkward. The Oreanists have
seized the strongbolds Of the army and The
police, while to the protested Republicans
, nave fallen the taking departments Some
Of their first acts 60 far to show that they
have inherited from the Empire, not only
! ruins, but also It's dread of the working
) class. Ii eventual impossibilities are ia
} wild phraseology demanded from the Re-
2 public, Is 1t not With a view to prepare
the cry for possible" government
; Is the Republic, by some of its
its middle-class managers, not intended to
/ serve as mere stopgag and bridge over an
OrleanIst Restoration
! The French worklng-clsss moves, there
fore, under circumstances OF extreme diff
J Guilty. Any attempt at upsetting the new
! Government In the present crisis, when the
/ enemy is almost knocking at the doors OF
Paris, would be a desperate folly. The
French workman must perform their duties
r as citizens; but, at the same time, they
must not allow themselves to be deluded by
the national SDuCenirs Of 1892, as the
Fr,nch peasants allowed themselves to be
deuded by the national s0ureairs Of the
FIRST Empire. They have not to recapitu-
late the past, but to build up the future.
! Let them calmly aud resolutely improve the
opportunities Of Republican liberty, for the
work Of their own class organization. 1t
will gift them with fresh Ilerculean powers
for the regeneration Of France, and our
common task-the emancipation of labor
Upon their energies aud wisdom hinges the
Fate Of the Republic.
The Enghsh wOrkmen have already taken
measures to overcome, by a wholesome
pressure from without, the reluctsnce Of
their Government to recognize the French
Republic. The present dlIatoriness Of the
British Government is probably intended to
atone for the Anti-JacObin war a. its for
mer indecent haste IN sanctioning the coup
dstGt. The English workmen call also
upon their Government to oppose by all its
power the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of France, which
part Of heEngIish press is so shameless to
howl for. It is the same press that for
twenty years dei6ed Louis Bouaparte as the
providence Of Europe, that irantically cheer
ed C. he shareholders rebellion. Now. "A