, 1870-09-13
French fscrIsbFicnnts1a,.

NILS. Aicl., Sept. ~.
10 E- E2star of TIC Chicago 1ritrns:
Since ynn wrote the srticls, "What Next"
in No. 65 Ut TuE TR1ErSE, wherein you truly
describe the prospects and stability Of 5
French Eepublic ns very uncertain, you l,1re
permit mo to sag it, becume a little senti-
mental and inconsistent In No. GO you say:
"Amr1ica will secn distinguish between the
''e-rot WHO uscd the power ol France 10 Cub
,.rt tseputllcAni>nl III America. and tho He
l,al.liea,.s whose Highest ideal Of national
N1ll-tf!1c il sxmbol;.etl t,y our flag." 1t att
other time, you described tho French nation
nj one without Al : Coincidence. claiming oulr
success. irrespective OF principle. to ue sa,-
isicd.
Let nc endorse yoEr ctst,cism Of the French
and ac" tllas all the French Republican lead
lTs, eiucc 1880, have proven themselves aAut-
LEG in 1atiuns1 ttatcsmanehip. They were
constantly more anxious OF their own perso,-
aiporition than Of tho verldcation Of prinr:-
PIES Which alone can give stability md orler
10 a republic. Their g1eatest foree was ncga-
tiou: but. as to building up, they Were uuable.
for whatover cauae there be.
What Kepublican virtues are there that the
French people itself has shoWn7
! wish to recall the DAYS OF the French tie
public Of 1913. Did the people s5steuatieslly
steer toward republic as II conscious OF i.s
relative greater merits a. against royalty?
They meant only too oppoaa the Ministry in
certain measures. and lid not think Of re-
ruLlic until tho King had led before mob.
They subsequently, elected AL imperial pro-
tender to the National Assembly. They. a.
Republicans, retained the uniou between the
liomsn Church and the State, confitiicg the
reucatson Of tie peor,h to the Roni.h priest
hood. They elected the impt rial pretenIe1 a.
President Of tue 1epablic, and after Ito sut-
rave him vote Of confidence. Franco CO.
d.rstd tie sets OF NaLoleon, and is therefore
Responsible for Whist he has doue.
Eet'uhlican Frluco Of today, because hex
;.sopse are the same al formerly, il respou
!. For the destruction Of the Eorn.u Re
s,utlic. aud for :hs Flench garrison in Rome,
with its coas.Iaencea As 10 Italy.
2. For the miserable territorial shaw, it
Iraetissl npen Italy, ty securing BY treaty be-
f'rehand the cees'on Of Savoy, under the
| promise Of freeing 1taly to the Adri1tic,-
! stopping. howevtr, At Solferino.
,. For the territorial shave, attempted at
!cAet, upon Italy, when tho battle of SAlova
had freed Italy In fact, By wrestling ycnic.
from Auet1is. and trying to .ra95 it OH for the
| Italian island OF. Sardinis aed the li.tosal Of
| t;epoa.
T. For the war against Germany, because
rt!e war ctsxy for It without Ruy caItse 1T al,
and sinrly Tor an an:iapated- humiliation Of
Prussia anc territorial reduction Of Germ any.
5. For the imperial policy to prevent th<
untty Of, GermanE.-a matter never having
any bearing upon French Reputhcanism; and
sill these very men, like Jules Favrs, etc.
| s:nacd aett. There men, bctoro the defeat,
cried w1r: now they want to pre4ervs the
hrnor Of France, as If sho had not 1ost it b.
the war its.H.
Ii Germany, in her full strcngth and great
ress,' absolutely dangerous to Fraueei Ou,y
III tlat seneo that Franco is great by The
smallness and weakness Of her selRhb2rs; or
that the German national feeling might Dis
tusb the aleep OF France, inasmrch a. this
latter, in the midst OF peace, once occuple,3
Alsace End retained it. Ihs word conauer IS
not proper. bccaass there WAS no war, nod m
Official ear open in Germany then to tho cries
l.. Esu1 Ire then, Austria, being traitor.
What right had France to NEEDLE in the
homo Affairs Of other nations, when she. In
the sight OF tho treaty OF Vienna Of 1911. nro.
tc1tfinK the fsonapar1ae. wzs pcacAblv left te
herself in 1873, and afterward.
tho revived popular sovereignty Of Ger,
many claims to-day what it has yss by natnra
right. and which was stolen from her vh,i,
weak. under the influence Of imperial de:s,
and feudal missule, Bhe, the now reclaimed
Germany, doea not, II political wrong she does
do more Of wrong than France, which robbcx
Austria OF one OF her Italian PROVINCES. tna,
FEance, which undertook to subfugstc 4 siste
republic in Mexico, OF to DESTROY our Union
tEau France, which annexed Savoy and NJ.
countries which always were Italian, b.
heazt and by association.
l Why Bhonld Ftauce, nov that she Is Repus
Fran, refuse. stko1utelv, to cede one iuch a
hsr. soil, when. at the beginning Of this vi,
she cried, "TLo whols Rhine" Her cIl,
| .pou Savoy and Belgium, is balanced By IL,
German claim cf GtFmsn roll. II Fr.r,