New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-22
sympathy in behalf of the communists,

PuoHc JOURNALS were arrayed against tnen
for their violence but the moment theil
assailants wickedly and cruelty resorted
to the indiscriminate butchery of al
classes, without regard to age, sex or con-
dition, humanity revolted at the specta.
Gle. The cruelties perpetrated by NJ.
Theirs troops have awakened a feeling OF
commiseration for the communists in
their needless persecution. Innocent and
guilty have been struck down together.
Horrible indignities' have been inflicted
on women. In their excuses the French
soldiers have initiated the British in their
terrible work of sacrifice of human life in
the Sepoy instruction in India The
communists had not been guilty of the
atrocities which were charged against the
! Sepoys, and hence, while the conduct of
the British might in some degree be de-
Tended, in the case of the French
troops it can not be. Besides, the
communists were their own countrymen
and countrywomen, and even though
| their conduct was not altogether such as
was justified, yet they had not committed
any of the barbarities of the brutal
Sepoys. The troops of the French gov
eminent have half obliterated the recol-
lection of the crimes of the communists
by their own ferocity. To seize women
and children upon mere suspicious and
butcher them in the streets, to shoot
down men without regard to age or con-
dition are acts worthy only the days
of Charles TX. or Philip H. The
international alliance need not be so
ashamed of the communists as they were
up to the time of the cruelties inflicted
upon them by their countrymen. Some
may have supposed that this organization
was but the accident of the moment. This
is not so. 1t has been in existence for a
long time, and men of all nations are
members of it Even here this society
had its correlatives and co-werkers in the
labor organizations and trades unions,
especially among the French and Ger
mans. In England more than in any
other country, does the communist party
gain strength with such men as John
Stuart Mill to give them aid, countenance.
and support. While we, as a nation, do
not sympathize with the commune or
their anarchical ideas, it must be ad-
mitted they have very strong hold upon
the laboring classes of all countries
where labor is performed In Germany
the principle of this society is very &C
tive and finds its supporters in the Ger
man Parliament. The North German
Correspondence recently published a
speech of Prince Bismarck, in which a |
passing and contemptuous reference was
made to an address of one Herr Bebel 1t |
appears that he justified all that the COM
mune had ordered in Paris and went on
to say:
The aim of the Paris commune is neither |
an impossible nor perniciOus one, as it has |
been enormously called by a previous
speaker. On the contrary, in all Europe |
these classes not dead to all feelings of lib |
erty and independence look upon Paris as |
their staff of hope. Never mind whether
the insurrectiOn is suppressed; what is
doing now at the French capital is only an
outpost skirmish which will be followed ND
by a great European battle. War to the
palaces, peace to the cottages, and death to
luxurious idleness, is and ever will be the
of the Proletariate ia all parts
of the world.
"Do not be afraid, gentlemen, says
Prince Bismarck, ''that intend to reply
TO the last speaker" This may be very
we'll while such a minister as Bis
narck lives and holds the power, but
meanwhile the seed is terminating and
aking root in hearts and homes that, Bis
narck dead, will be powerless to control
n the struggle to which Bebel refers. An
Ible writer from Berlin points out the
endency on the part of workmen to en-
courage strikes as more marked, and that
trikes are now intended, not so much
o adjust trade questions as to extort
from the middle and upper classes a
PORTION of what is supposed TO be their
uperfuous wealth" The same thing is
believed to be transporting in other parts
# the world
Referring to the subject the Nation
avs:
Though, there is no doubt that society will
verywhere hereafter regard the sOcialistic
heOries with greater repugnance and alarm
han ever, we think they are mistaken who
oppose that the downfall OF the commune,
nd the spectacle of its excuses will do
much to weaken the faith of those who now
old these theories, and to lessen their at
ractiveness to the workngmen of the great
towns, not in France only,
ut everywhere, for it can not be too i
istinctly remembered that a strong class
ceiling is, in the minds of the population of
hose towns, nearly everywhere taking the
lace of patriotism. 1t is the rich, and the
capitalists of whatever country, who are
Ow becoming their natural enemies or ri .
ais, and not foreigners as such. The
are rapidly wiping out nation g
al distinctions, or at least as rapidly as diff |
,rence of language will permit. T
Monopolies and corporations with the c
of wealth, whether by in t
eritance or speculation, are not gratifying {
} the communists or their sympathizers,
nd they look upon portion of this
'easure as their own, for which one day,
'oner or later, there will be fierce ,
ruggle. 1t is easy to sneer at such Or :
anizations, but they will compel notice :
another kind by-and-by. Even now
re find the English Chancellor, with fear v