The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-04-22

well, and because We know it, that
"What next?" is such a perplexing
question. We shall take Frenchlaud
to withdraw our figures from what
7 they have clutched, would be unnatur-
/ al IN us-we shall make the Frenchmen
+. our enemies. For year, for two years,
v perhaps for Ten years they will have
7 plenty of work at home, healing the
wounds, repairing the losses--we have
done our best to give them occupation
in that line. Heaven, our good ally,
will bear as witness and when the
wounds are healed and conquered
France feels her old strength again ?
| Will she not set her whole heart on a
''policy Of revenge ?" Will she not
look for confederates ? And are there
not many governments III mode to a.
slst her? England, Austria, even Rus
sia-nOt to mention the small fry
Denmark. Holland, Belgium, Switzer-
! land, Sweden, who would see us going
t. the dogs rather to-day than to-mor-
rOw-are not over-fOnd of us. On the
contrary; were the two former not at
present paralyzed BY parcel of timid,
nay, cowardly statesmen, we should
have been stopped long sgo-and as
for the rulers of Russia they liked us
amazingly, while we danced to their
music and while our King was the ODE
dent viceroy or Lord Lieutenant Of che
Gar, but they will do their utmost at
ST. Petersburg to prevent the Prussian
tree from growing INTO the sky; and if
the Frenchmen were to offer them full
liberty of action on the Danube for in
stance, on condition OF help against us,
by JOye the prospects are no rosy ones;
and what remains for us poor press
bureau scribes, but to sOlace the Re
public, that lam-blike animal which will
be deceived, lis not L-ppy without
v"h decipi) by pointing at our glorious
army, doubling the number Of our SOL
diers-two millions sounds better than
one million and then exclaimIng with
a proud, defiant air: New Germany
can, in case of need, carry on several
great wars at the same time!
This is literal translation Of the con
GLIDING sentence of big press bureau
article, which Is now running through
our national newspapers, and the real
contents OF which have communicat-
ed above, such as to be read between
the lines. l. it not a pretty situation
for a victorious nation? And hopeful
Not yet Is the peace concluded, which
shall end the blOOdiest and most barba-
rious war of modern times and already
the comforting assurance il bestowed
upon us from above, that this peace
will, hlough the greed and ambition
of our Leading statesmen, be built on
such unsound foundations, as to render
fresh outbreak (sooner or later,) inc
vitable, and, perhaps, the outbreak of
several great wars to be waged BY us
simultaneously. When the old French
Kings died, the courtiers, to show the
eternity, the uninteruptedness of mon
archy used to call out te roi est mort
V're Ie roi. The King il dead Long
hive the King. Our press bureau
scribes act somewhat similar to these
courtiers, in proclaiming the eternity Of
war. War is dead! Long lire tcar Z
One war is over-let us rush into fresh
great wars-several at the same time
And we found those scribes are right.
For l. not war the normal state u our
society, which is based on disc0rd, mu-
tual hatred ,-beUum omnium contra
omnes-wsr Of all against all ? Does
military war not correspond to this So
cial war? Can our political body exist
without war any better than our social
body? Can our monarchies exist with
out militariSm, and can our bourgeois
society exist without it? Are not both
resting now on the swords point, wor-
shipping AZ their idol yesterday d
Louis Bonaparte, to-day a Bismarck-
the men of blood and iron?
No hypocritical cant, therefore /:
War was, war is, war will be, Till this
old world OF ours is politically and So
cially reformed and reorganized through
out on the principle of justice In the
meantime, till the sham peace is conclud-
ed, the Prussans continue to remain
in France, to levy black mail whole
sale, and, in case Of resistance, TO set
fire 10 houses and villages If this was
not written in Prussian papers, papers
under the direction OF the Prussian
government, | could indeed not believe
it. The worst is such horrors can be
told, without creating any visible indig
nation. This callOuSness Of the public
conscience, this lowering OF the stand
ord AZ natsnpal Y,,nroltt.- NJ. ~
baneful fruit of war. Oh how right
was Buckle, to say, that the height OF
civilization is to be measured by the
hatred people bear to war and to men
and things pertaining to it and that
love of war and admiration of warriors
is an invaluable proof Of barbarity
The particulars since came ID hands,
concerning the French elections fully
established the truth of what | said IN
my last letter about the comparative
strength Of the various parts. Much
stress, ! see, il laid in some quarters Oh
certain oral declarations of Theirs en-
pbatically reiterated few days ago, TO
the effect that the Orleans family had
hy its countless political mistakes for
feited all dynastic claims, that monar-
chy in every shape had become impoS-
siblc in France, and that the Republic,
a moderate Republic, was the only form
Of government, promising stability, and
offering qua 'antees against civil war.
Maybe Theirs thinks so-maybe he
does not. For the development IF at
fairs this is Of very small importance ;
/ and between the moderate Republic
"a Theirs and "moderatc Orleans
monarchy, there is 50 little difference,
as To be lmperceptibie to the common
eye Fortunately the Republic has
other t'et 70 stand upon, than the sHaky
thin legs Of shaky Though twenty
times elected) Theirs. The 22j,OOO