The New York herald., 1871-05-02

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special HERALD despatch, dated Berlin,
1919 A. NJ, May l, informs us that on Sun
day last, at an imperial council in that capital,
at which Prince Bismarck was present, it was
agreed to notify the French government at
Versailles that further limited period would
be allowed it for the restoration of authority,
the enforcement Of order and the fuflment OF
treaty stipulations, after which Germany would
proceed to an independent course Of action In
establishing law and order In Paris. Germany
does not wish to interfere in the internal poitl-
cal affairs Of France, but the prospect of an
interminable civil war, originating in revolu-
ton and characterized by disgraceful excesses,
is state Of things which cannot longer be
tolerated, because it involves the moral and
whole of Europe. The same despatch says
that private and trustworthy information,
communicated to our correspondent in Berlin,
leads to the belief that it is the intention Of
the Germans to restore the Regency (Napo-
leonic) as the next legitimate government of
AAoASOs ~ SAO OS Civ VI . AoAAuAO VA thO POI y
of NJ Theirs to re-establish law and order in
Paris within the limitation to be assigned
him.
| We have every reason to accept this intelli-
gence as authenticate treat 1t as true that the
German government has resolved upon the
armed restoration of the Imperial Regency Ger
many, instead of being resisted by any of the
| Great Powers, will be acting by and with their
advice and consent in this proceeding. But
will not the Theirs government settle this
| question within few days in the suppression
of the Commune and the occupation of Paris
We cannot tell but even with his complete
success in suppressing the Commune there is
no guarantee that M. Theirs will be able to
re-establish law and order In Paris and France.
On the contrary, unless arrested by the strong
hand OF Germany, 1t Is probable that new
complications and factious outbreaks and
state of general revolutionary confusion may
follow and spread its fearful contagion from
the Seine to the British islands-to the Elbe,
the Po and the Danube.
Prince Bismarck can hardly be ignorant of
the dangerous elements which underlie the
Paris Commune, and which in their ramifica-
tions embrace the British islands and extend
at least to the confines of Russia and Turkey.
We shall speak of them presently, but there is
sufficient justification for German armed in
tervention at Paris, simply in view of the
restoration of authority and the fulflment of
treaty stipulations. There is no guarantee in
the present condition of affairs in France that
the Theirs government, if left to itself, can
long survive, or that the fighting factions into
which unhappy France is now divided csa
come to an agreement upon any government
short of general and exhausting civil war.
French history, with all its revolutions since
1889, seems to teach us the impossibility of o
French republic. That of 1898, with its
reign of terror
The bloodiest record in the Book OF Time
| is terror to France AMI to Europe to this
day. The .fasco of 1880, on the other hand.
was simply ridiculous; while the beautiful
Arcadian experiment Of Lamartine of 1848,
''too beautiful to last" was short-lived
poetical opera 60ufe. Yet as a French
extravaganza it has been surpassed by the
republic of Gambetta, with Gambetta bearing
it higher than ''high Olympus" in his escape
from beleaguered Paris in balloon. And
what else than farce, though a terrible and
bloody farce, can this raging conflict between
the Versailles government and the Paris Com
mune be to the impatient matter-of-fact Ger
man army looking on?
With all these teachings from French history
of the delusions of French republic, the
Germans, looking only to their indemnity,
can be excused, as the world goes, in cutting
short this conflict between Versailles and
Paris and in giving law and order to France
by reinstating the empire. The Paris Com
mune of this day embraces revolutionary
elements of new character and OF more
perilous and extensive organization against
kings and crowns and Church and State than
any hostile conspiracies of the past. We
refer to the international league of the
workingmens associations. The workingmen
of this league are the fighting men of the
Paris Commune. 1t appears that they are
united with the advanced socialists of Paris
on the revolutionary programme of a republic
social and universal which embraces
Frss-The abolition Of everything in the
form of State Church and of churches gen.
orally, the conlscation Of Church properties
and the dispersion of priests monks and nuns.
Sec9nd-The abolition of all individual pos
sessions in houses, lots, lands, &c., and the
transfer of everything to the State, as repre-
sented by the agents of the people, on the
basis of liberty, equality and fraternity"
Thid-An equitable division and appor-
tionment of labor and recreation among ali the
people, of all pursuits and professions, and the
equal rights Of all, socially and politically, as
children of the State, and the abolition of mar