Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-04-05
Condition Of ParIs..The Armed Inter-
TentiOn OF Germany a Necessity 10
France.

~N"NtiVu " EAlAbasLue armed inter-
EentiOn OF Germany a Necessity 10
France.
Our latest advices from Paris fully
Justify the conclusion that nothing but
the armed Intervention Of Germany can
save France from civil war,a Robespier-
rian Reign Of Terror, and all the horrors
Of anarchy. The Communal Council Of
Paris are drifting rapidly into the cd red
reNoiutlonary programme OF the origin
Al Jacobtns All documents from the
government al Versailles are forbidden
CIRCULATION in the insurgent capital. The
old Jacobin cry OF s'the Universal Re-
public, OF Liberty, Equality and Fra
tsrnlty, Is revived in flaming prOcla-
nations. Paris grows sadder In its ap-
pearance from day 10 day, and il would
be something miraculous ii il were 9th
erwise. One hundred and sixty thous-
and citizens have len the city within the
last ten days. The mass OF these emf
grants are no doubt people OF some
means ana OF sSme reputation for re-
their lives.
Chaplains have been ordered 10 cease
pious service Of mass in the prisons.
we may next expect % hear that all the
institutions OF Christianity, including
the Sabbath, have, a. once before by the
saine school OF reformers, been ab1lish-
ed and that the liberated citizens have
been called to worship a woman Of the
town paraded through the streets on a
triumphal car as the Goddess of Reas-
on" A search has been made among
the insurance offices for the imperial
jewels supposed 70 have been len be-
hind somewhere in the city by the Elm
press Eugene, in her hasty departure
| last September, with one shoe on and
one shoe of, through a backdOOr OF the
Tuileries. Forced contributions, TO the
extent Of a million Of francs, have been
levied upon the Bank OF France, and
larger demands will doubtless follow
upon that bank and upon the money
changers, pawnshdps and jewelry stores,
&c; for yOur Paris JacObin holds to his
! dOgmas that money accumulated is rob
berry, and that property is then, and that
/ all surplus funds and means beyond the
necessities OF the day belong TO the State
and to the people, on the rule OF equali-
tv. NJ. Blanqui, in the formation Of the
Paris Cabinet, has followed the example
/ Of Mazzini in his Cabinet Of lS4S-9 al
Rome-a visionary concern founded
upon the idea OF a universal republican
brotherhood, looking q the millennium
in something like Fouri rism or the
! OneiQa Tree love
II is apprehendeu that q struggle Is
close at hand between the government
forces from Versailles and the Paris in
su~rgents, and that the conflict will be
desperate and bloody. Il is probable
that the insurgents, If attacked by the
loyal French troops, will fight with the
desperation Of pirates driven into q cor
ner. and il is possible, on the other hand,
that when brought to the pinch the gov
ernment troops viii not fight the reds
This is the opinion OF the reds them
selves and the suspicion Of NJ. Thiers.-
But the reds, with all their recklessness
and audacity In everything else, have
still q Wholesome fear and q profound
respect for the Germans. They actually
propose { pay the German indemnity,
and they are celebrating upon the plan
of r5ising the money BY selling Versail-
les to an Anglo-American company for
one milliard Of francs, st. Cloud for
eight hundred millions TO q German
gambling proprietor, and Fontainebleau
TOR i've hundred millions. Compared
with this communal establishments Of
Paris. this grim b~urlesque, what a bless
cd government was that of the philoso-
pher Sancho Panza over his delectable
islandi
But with all this hideous and perplex-
ing catalogue Of French red republican
absurdities and atrocities, the question
still recurs, what next7 Only a prophet
or a lunatic would undertake to answer.
From all the facts before us, a sanguina-
~ collision between the government
| forces Of Versailles and the Paris insur-
gents is inevitable and cannot be many
days delayed. The government is stop
ping all horses and cattle from entering
Paris, and in thus cutting of their sup
plies NJ. Theirs is pursuing the right
course to bring the Insurgents out. The
Commune is actively disarming the loyal
National Guards. which means that the
Commune Is preparing for the tug Of
war. IL mean war and mo quarters"
for measures of prescription are secretly
enforced everywhere in the city, and the
ominous word "guillotine," though
spoken only in whispers, is in every
bldy's mouth. Under the existing ron
ditiOn Of things the armed intervention
8f Germany in support Of the Theirs
government appears as a necessity to
France. Germany may be Indifferent as
10 the fate ofLM Theirs, because in the
last resort, she a exact her indemnity,
IL she a nothing more, in the appro-
p~riatiOn Of two or three more French
provinces But Prince Bismarck, while
holding France 10 the conditions OF her
bond, Is ready TO give NJ. Thiers a help
ing hand. Let him provide for the occu-
patton Of Paris, fur a limited time, By
the Germans as a guarantee for peace
and that indemnity, and there will be
peace and law and order in Paris and
throughout Frsnce.-N. Y, Tribune.