The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-07-29

heu to tne tongue. W.. yer tired Of
denouncing as a s-e@OA ~ deviation
rom the old French tive system
When minister Of Pbilinne "
rallied at railways as cbimera ana
when in opposition uude Louis Bonarsrte
ae branded as profanRion every attemnt
to reform the rotten hreneh army system
Never in bis long political career has ia
been guilty Of si1sie-even the smallest
-'''1atS,Ie Of IMPRACTICAL use Theirs was
AAlY in bis greed for wealth ana
90 the men that produce it,
- his first ministry under
Opposite corhor as Job, he left it a mil
Boar ministry under the same
March, ls40-exposed
taunts Of peculation in the
Inc Deputies, to which be was con-
ply by tears-a commodity be
lsas freely as Jules Favre or any
crocodile. At Bordeaux his FIRST
-leasure FIR saving France from in pending
iinanciai ruin was to endow himself with
three millions a year, the first and the last
word Of the " Economical Republic" the
vista Of which be bad opened to bis Paris
electors in 1869 One Of his former col
leagues Of the Chamber of Deputies of 1880,
himself a capitalist, and, nevertheless, de-
voted member Of the Paris Commune, NJ.
Beslay, lately addressed Theirs thus in a
public placard:
The enslavement Of labor by capital
has always been the cornerstone of your
policy, and from the very day you saw the
Republic OF Lsbor installed at the Hotel de
-Nllle Nep never ceased TO cry out to
ce, Iney are criminals = "
A master 10 smah state roguery, virtu-
$50 in perjury and Il eason, craftsman in
all the petty stratagehs, cunning devices,
and base perfdies IF parliamentary party
warfare, never scruBling, when out of Office,
10 fan revolution! and to stitle it in blood
when at the helm pf the State; with class
prejudices standing bins in the place Of ideas,
and vanity IL tbe place A a heart; his pri-
vate life as infamous as fNs public life is
Odious-eyen4 VOW, when playing the part
of a French Sulla, be cannot help setting
off the abomination of bis deeds by tue ridl-
cue Of his ostentaton.
The capitulation of Paris, by surrender
ing 10 Prussia not only Paris, but all
France, closed the long-continued intrigues
of treason with the enemy, which the usurp
ers Of the 4th Of September had begun, as
TrOchu himself said, on thar very same day
On the other hand, it initiated the civil war
the5 were now to wage, with the assist
ance Of Prussia, aga nst the Republic and
Pais. The trap was laid in the very terms
of the captulation. AT that time above
one-third Of the territory was in the hands
of the enemy, the capital was cut off from
the provinces, all communications were dis
organized. To elect under such crcum-
Stances real rerrcseDtation from France
was impossible unless ample time were Civ
en- for preparation. In view of this, the
capitulation stipulated that National AS
sembly must be elected within eight days
so that IN many parts Of France the news
Of the impending election arrived on its eve
only. 4 bis Assembly, moreover, was, by
an express clause of the capitulation, to be
elected for the sole purpose Of deciding OF
peace or war, aud, eventually, to conclude
a treaty Of peace. The population could
not but feel that the terms of the armstict
rendered the continuation Of the war impos
! sible, and th' for sanctioning the peace im
posed by BIZ rex, the worst men in Francs
iVkE But not content with thest
n1 4 Dh1vD even before the secro
been broached to Paris
neering tour through
q. EPSTEIN galvanize lack int,
e.s.y, which now, alonJ
had to take the plac,
-- L. aEsible BSnapartists ii,
lid of them. Impossible as
,nmept Of modern France, and, there
contemplate as rivals, what part,
ere more eligible as tools Of eounterrevo
1tion than the party Whole action, in th
,ords of Theirs himself Chamber Of Depu
IS. 9Th January, 1889, ''had always beef
fined TO the three resources of foreigI
,asion, civil war and anarchy ?" The!
ysrily believed in the advent OF their long
erAected retrospective millennium. Their
verb the heels of foreign invasion tramp
Iino mon France there was the downfall
of an Empire, and the captivity Of Bona
usrte and there they we're themselves. Th
wheel Of history had evidently rolled bacl
10 stop at the "chambre introuvable {
1916. In the Assemblies Of the Republic
ls4s to 1851, they bad been represents
by their educated and trained parliament
Wy ary champions. 1t was the rank and file
party which now rushed in all tb
-:s,eaugnacs Of France
I stsSS pom as the assembly of "Rurals" ha
sa$ q Sordeaux, Theirs made i clear
the peace PrelimlRsrles must
at Cus. without even the homo
.S,ssuAtssS6tary debate, as the only g,
v<sn which Prussia would permit n,:t the g
ssp the war against the kepuOn S,a 4
sd. in fact, no time to lose '.A,.a : ,
al Empire bad more than !, do .aa =,
debt, and plunged all Toe IT #
Into heavy Uoa,ciPa os s;.;.;e. I. :
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