The New York herald., 1871-09-16

archy and the return or Gambetta by two promi.
nent constituencies, were distinct repudiauons, not
And now that we have glanced at
THE COMPOSITION OF THE VERSAILLES GOVERN
MENT,
with its treacherous politicians. its faded royasts
Its beaten generals, its crafty monks, its gaudy
voluptuarles, al crowdng 10 the 'front.' the masters
OF tie hour, let us turn for a few moments to the
Communists and their mysterious allies, the Inter-
rationale (who are the opposing forces In this bit
terly contested proolem, and ascertain II possible,
what are their purposes and who they are.
TIE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MASSACRE OF PARIS.
tits not popular to speak we'll OF the Commune or
allude to the Internatlonale without exc
fed above have pronounced all of them to be thieves
atheists adulterers and assassins; and the world,
able authority has cheerfully accepted the ''ms.
creanp theory as sensible Calculation OF the Paris
q bad name" which merely implies trick Of imi.
talon, has in this instance been LARGELY overshot for
passing kick with usual readiness but the most 're-
spectable'' classes, and especially the High Church
eefS rom the pulpit good d
for the doctrines OF the Commune and the Interna-
try or Religion in its business form; they
threaten, likewise, to overthrow the Infamous land
burst aud disrupt the entire aristOcratic crust OF
Europe, 50 mat those who make the earth smile With
due s a5 hss
And here let me pause to say that In using the
INDUSTRY OF RELIGION,
l do not mean to sreak with disrespect OF the
| sweet aud simple faith which Jesus or Nazareth
! taught mankind when he had nowhere to lay his
head, but of that organized conspiracy OF acquIsi-
ton which has at times absorbed half the posses:
sions OF the world. which constantly defameS and
msrepresents the benefcent character OF Goa, and
| which earns its incomes and maintains its power
| by making women and children afraid TO go to bed
without light. 1t Is not the faith, but the political
practices Of the Church, which those devout Cath.
| DR.. Dollinger the Rev. Charles Voysey and others
of like character unshrinkingly condemn; and 1t Is
time that all men who have courage and love lib
| erty should come to their support 1t may be
thought in the United tates, where there is no con-
nection between Church and Slate, that make an
invidous distinction against the ambition OF the
Church OF Rome; but 1t will be observed that while
| the various shades of Professionalism which are in
effect the repubcanism OF Christianity, do not enter
the field Of politics in the United States at all, the
verts, who hold their party posiiions by ostenta-
| tously attending mass, by money subsidies to Ca
ing meat on Fridays Tnese things % are true an and in
view Of recent events which have happened III the
have found dit to be Impossible & % in attempting to
explain the career and purposes OF the Commune to
avoid making other reneclons or TO excuse myself
from the task OF unmasklng the monarchical accord
OF the Papal hierarchy, and
THE ENGLISH POLITICAL HIGH CHURCH.
They are in fact the enemy upon the other side,
and it Is impossible to leave them out of picture
DS0e Ss S snS
| swickers from the field OF Waterloo. The EstaD-
Ss 81 o q o aa vi well as
Greek Church OF the great Northern Empire, assmt-
ss IN T9
couraging popular educaton) ihe viglant protector
Of the status guo Tne ChpIcn OF Rome particularly art
in the eleventh century, when all other forms OF
human government were uncertain and distracted,
became the first great model lOr all the subsequent
selfish conservatism of the world. Obeying tnis In
stinct 1t has steadily opposed itself to all advance.
mcnt In popular education, except where 1t con-
trols; all development in science that threatens 10
expose its errors; and all progress in civil and
more directly with his Maker and set up an under
standing for himself 1t matters not how much 1t
NAV tn hltaln nnn IN " m fhn
generous gene dow Of national and domestic liberty it
Is at all times the subtle and deadly foe Of true
stronger illustration OF this fact than the present
political condition Of the city OF New York. There
to the condition Of conquered race; there, the
elective franchise and republican institutions are
osT Security n property er ana S justice @ IN the
courts are subverted under the debauched and
ruIian rule OF an aristocracy Of the gutter
1t was not much worse III France previous to the
Revolution OF 1893. That was the time when
THE OLD CRUST OF EUROPEAN DESPOTISM,
which had been laid over the world Tor nearly SIX
teen centuries by the princes and the priests, broke
the people swarmed through the crevices, and Tor
the first time came to the front. Tnat was tae date
lion OF fraternal spirit, which these latter days
has become the lnternationae. the first act OF the
revolution was The constitution OF municipal liberty,
ns the preliminary and necessary globue to the or.
ganiZation Of national liberty; and the present In
Of nationai fraternity to an unlimited brotherhood
OF all the world. 1t is organized chiefly In the ln-
e Va "9h aaea Hs
Of those who don't; while the Commune Is purely
and a reasonable local independence Previous to
the Revolution Of 1922 which N, may nay be regarded
KIND, SO adroitly had society been organized
| by privilege and poweri that everywhere the
ants While in France, as we are told by NJ Thlers IN
his capacity as historian, elevel-twelftls OF the
the annual pfoduct IT. Of The country % WA was absorbed
| Jointly 10y the Church, the mobiles ana the crown.
ne wn ere was ei e ne
Of society by Messrs. The Church, The MOBILES q
The Crown But this wa not all L, Tne n aOOrer
received even less than one;lwenh Of personal
respect from his oppressors He was subjected TO
numerous difficulties in the cultivation OF the land
His crops were always liable to be trampled and
gaIoped over when the three estates went out to
hunt. He was, IN certain seasons, forbidden to
manure the earth, as that process was thought to
impair the flavor OF young partridge. when the
s near By Were deprived Of sleep and turned into the
fields to beat the rushes that the noise OF the frogs
were TO be buli, or the public roads repaired they
were conscrIpted en 1adsse and worked like cattle
vdei by the law Qnade, be 1t borne ID mlnd, when
church at the zenith OF It's power, that be-
fore the bushng girl could go 10 the arms OF the
betrothed youth whose heart was IN her bosom the
lord OF the manor had the right OF first taking ner
that the people OF France revoted IN 1928, and by
tner determined spirit let light and liberty III upon
1t s said that they were guilty OF very great ex.
cesses; that they confscated the properly OF The
mobiles and OF the clergy; that they plundered the
churches, killed the king, set up the gulotine and
even had SO poor all opinion Of the priests, who
had been parties To their degradation, that they
threw or their teaching altogether and set up o
religion OF their own.
DOUBTLESS THEY COMMITTED GREAT EXCEsSES,
for they had been greatly wronged, and were, for
the most part, very ignorant nevertheless, KNOW
they have been namousiy lied about for. even TAX
lug the reports OF their detracors at the worst
find that the whole OF the public executions during
the socaled "ReIgn OF Terror throughout the en-.
~ pf mt N IN n mo
sixth OF the victims who were recently butchered
by the present Church government of Versailles In
the Massacre OF Paris" Tue executions OF the
Reign OF Terror were for Paris, only $780, and for
all France together, not bearing out the much
trumpeted horrors OF La yendee and 'aoyddes OF the
Loire less than total Of five thousand, while the
murders perpetrated in this capital between the
22d and the 27th OF May, on mercless ORDER issued
at the instance OF an eXasperated priesthood, "tC
XII eyerYthIn0 IN heretic Pans that could be IOund