The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-06-17

Each and every newspaper report from
France 1t is needful to recall which now
enters the German press, and at least
nlnety-nine out of every hundred which
enter the foreign press have either pass
ed through the French branch Office OF
the Prussian Press Bureau, or are writ
ten by men under It's influence. And
something else must be kept in mind (;
a people having undergone what the
French have during the last eight
months, and being, | will not say
driven to the extremity of despair, but
thrown into a whirlpool of maddenlng,
conflicting passions shame, rage, thirst
for revenge, and the consciousness OF
mOmentary impotence-a people en-
during the most intense mental and
physical suffering pain, and half dellr-
lous from over excitement, is not to be
judged by the rules of common, nor
NAL life. We must* appreciate the sit
and the frame Of mind in which the
Frenchmen are, or We shall Judge
wrongly and unjustly. One word more :
this shooting of two generals by the In
surgents has caused yell Of rage and
torrent Of denunciatIOns against the
Paris wOrkmen in particular, and the
Socialists and International in general.
] With regard to this unfortunate affair
il must not be forgotten, that the act
was committed by comparatively small
number Of National Guards, and that
the leaders as well IS the Instruction
Iary authorities had nothing whatever to
do with it besides it is established
fact, that the two generals were caught
so to say, IN fagranti, when they were
on the point OF organizing a horrible
butchery, and their doom was scaled
by the discovery, that one of them was
that infamous Thomas, who played
such knavlsh part III the history Of
the AtetierS NdtlOnaun National Work
shops) OF l848, and was foremost in
bringing on the fearful June MdSSacres
! (l84S), in which II, 900 Paris workmen
were killed and wounded-not to men,
ton the thousands of prisoners shot after
the fight, and the Is 900 transported to
Algeria or to Cayenne, to die their on
the "dry guillotine." As you may i'm
aglne, this Thomas was most unpopular
amongst French Prolitarians, he was
hated fercely by thousands; that this
hatred burst forth on his being recOg-
nized in the moment he endeavored to
arrange another massacre,is but natural,
that his unhappy colleague was involved
in the catastrophe, nobody will wonder
at who has ever seen an assemblage OF
Infatuated men. On the contrary it is
astonishing that not more acts of the
SEINE kind were not committed.
But this will not prevent our Bis
MARKHAM press from rendering the
whole body of Insurgents responsible
for the shooting of the two generals
aud from preaching a crusade against
the international W orkingmen's Asso
citation, which is represented as having
manufactured this instruction. 1t il
of no use telling those scribes that in
surrections have happened at Paris be
fore the International Workingmen'.
Association was thought of they wil
not listen to truth, nor will their EN-
ployers, for the International Working
mems Association is a terrible bugbea
to them, because it embOdies the spiri
Of modern Democracy all over tn,
world; because it is the prophetic indi
cation of the coming social and politlca
world-the sketch Of the future-th
Memento Mort of ruling, abuse, oppres
sion and privilege The awe in whic
the governing classes, with their i'm
mense array Of capital and Of literar
power stand of the international Wor
ingmen's Association, whose funds ar
= are .sst sarge enough to pay a dozen 9
-"idi~~~, An CLEARLY the result of ba
! conscience, and certainly the most Clio
riOus, though involuntary testimonis
in favor Of our principles. Since tn
beginning of the late war the attack
3 on the International Workingmen'
Association till then periodical, have bC
come permanent. IL was the Interna
: tionals that had forced the French En-
! peror to seek his safety il war; it wa
the Internationals that forced France t
! continue the was after Sedan it wa
the Internationals that murdered Prin
! literally true); it was the Information
ais that destroyed John Bulls goo
opinion of Prussia-in short, anythin
and everything not to the taste of on
privileged is the work Of this miracI
: ous Association, which, in the imagins
ton of its frightened accusers must b
provided with the divine attributes {
E omnipotence and ompipreSence