The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-14

Terror, and till the restoration of Law. ord ar.
decency, and religion by the First Napole IN,
these abandoned and bloodthirstv Amsz ,us
Of Paris were the most diabolical, detestAble
and disgusting.
They resppeared again in the streetsamope
the Reds in therevolution of 1880, andin 1913
with the flight of Louis Philippe, they enacted
an opera b0ufe in the Tuileries which will
perhaps, some day be set to the lively musie
and scanty costumes of Offenbach. unless he
shall prefer the more abundant materials for
the illustration of the Amazons of Paris TO be
found in the glorious reign of its Commune of
ruffians and prostitutes of 1871. Voltaire
justifies us in the notion that your AVERAGE
Partisan is part monkey and part tiger" or
part opera boelfe and part tragedy, buffoon
or an assassin. Victor Hugo in "Les
Miserables" describes him, but even Huoo
fails to describe the shocking Paris Amazon
in the political role of French equality and
womens rights. There can be nothing more
revolving more degraded or debasing than
this female monster under the sun. And
these are the creatures to whom the Com
mune of Paris of 1871 have appealed TO
organize as military phalanx for the defense
of the city What mockery for Paris as
the capital of civilization What a chapter
of infamy is this in the present degradation
of France
From the doings of the Commune in Paris
during the last two or three weeks it is clear
that their ultimate object is the universal
republic of Anacharsis Cloots. They have
made considerable progress, too, as it appears,
in this direction. They have abolished the
rents for lodgings; they have driven off some
two or three hundred thousand landlords, and
occupy their houses free of charge; they have
abolished the Sabbath, and in their spolia-
tions of banks, stores, and churches, in their
Imprisonment of priests and nuns, in their
scourging of the archbishop, and in their
blasphemous proclamations, they have pre-
pared the way for parading again through the
Boulevards woman of the town as the en-
bodiment of their religion. Such are these
Communists of Paris. Their whole pro-
gramme may be reduced to these few words:
Everything for everybody; everything in
common; no work, but a general carousal
till everything on hand is eaten up, and then
a sale of the national palaces to raise the
wind, and so on And it appears, too, that
in all these socialistic doings the women of
Paris, more than in any preceding revolution
or revolt, are actively concern ed.
How are we to account for this? Is it q
natural outgrowth from the debaucheries of
the empire? or is it French development of
womens rights? or is it due to the demorali-
cations of the late siege, or to the general
spread of infidelity, domestic, political, and
religious, among the people of Paris? All
these demorallzing causes have evidently been
at work, undermining the foundations of gov
ernment and society in the gay city, now
called to meet some of the penalties due for
its sins and follies. The German armies came
first, as the Medes and Persians came down
upon the gay city of Babylon and put an end
to its reigning dynasty in the midst of a
grand oarousal. Under the German siege the
army and the people of Paris we're reduced
for subsistence to horses, asses, elephants,
lions, tigers, monkeys, alligators, rats, cats,
and dogs, and such strange food on empty
stomachs, and under all the fierce excitements
of bloody and fruitless sorties, unquestion-
ably contributed much to demoralize and bru-
talZe the Parisians women included. Then
from the capitulation and the harsh conditions
of peace exacted by Germany, and accepted
from necessity by NJ Theirs and the National
| Assembly, the general mind of Paris was so
| unhinged as to place the city and it's people
| at the mercy of these reckless and desperate
| Jacobins.
| Most lamentable in all these developments
| is the apparent widely increased demoraliza-
| tion of the women; for surely these Com
munists would not think of forming mill
| tary legion of the women of Paris if the
women themselves had not applied for their
equal rights in fighting. So much, then,
among other causes-so much for the general
agitation of womens rights. In the full
fruition of this grand idea it gives us the
Paris Amazon, monster compared with
which the savage Apache is a humanitarian
and the filthy Hottentot model of propriety
and feminine fascination. If such are the
outgrowths from the centre of modern civil
zation the question reears, Is not this civil
zation, with its advanced ideas of equality
fraternity, womens rights, and Communism
carrying its followers first to anarchy and theI
to barbarism? Reduce this advanced univer
sal republic of Anarcharsis Cloots to its eIe
mentary principles and results, and do we no
find them embodied in the half-starved Digger
Indian?