The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-08-26

"Party of Order"--a combination formed
by all the rival fractions and factions Of the
apPropriating class in their now openly
declared sntagonism to the producing class
es. The proper form of their joint stock
Government was the Parliamentary Re
public, with Louis Bonaparte for its Presi
dent Theirs was a regime Of avowed
class terrorism and deliberate insult to
wards the "vile multitude" If the Par
lismentary Republic, as M. Theirs said,
divided them [tbe different fractions Of
the ruling class least" it opened an abyss
between that class aud the whole body of
society outside their spare ranks. The
restraints by which their own divisions bad
under former regimes still checked the State
power, were removed by their union; and
10 view of the threatening upheaval of the
proletariate, they now used that State power
mercilessly and ostentatiously as the nation
al war-engine Of capital against labor. In
their uninterrupted crusade against the pro-
ducing masses they we're, however. bound
not only to invest rhe executive with con.
tinually increased powers Of repression, but
at the same time to divest their own par
Iamentary stronghold-the National AS
sembly-one by one, of all it's own means
of defence against the Executive. The
Executive, In the person of Louis Bona
party, turned them out. The natural of
spring Of the "Party-of Order" Republic
was the Second Empire"
The Empire, with the coup detdt for its
certificate Of birth, universal suffrage for
its sanction, and the sword for its sceptre,
protessed tc rest upon the peasantry, the
large mass of producers not directly involved
IN the struggle Of capital and labor. 1t
protested to save the propertied classes by
breaking down Parliamentarism, and, with
it, the undisguised subServiency Of govern.
ment to the propertied classes 1t professed
to save the propertied classes BY upho lding
their economic supremacy over the working
class and, finally, it professed to unite all
classes by reviving for all the chimera OF
national glory. In reality, it was the only
form Of government possible al time when
the bourgeoisie had already lost, and the
working class bad not yet acquired, the fac
ulty of ruling the nation. 1t was acclaim
ed throughout the world as the savIot 0
society. Under its sway, bourgeois society,
freed from political cares, attained devel
opment unexpected even by itself. Its
industry had expanded to colossal dimen'
sions; financial swindling celebrated cosmo-
pOlitan orgies; the misery Of the masses
was set off by a shameless display Of gor-
geous, neretr cious, aud debased luxury
The State power, apparently sohring high
above society, was at the same time Itself
The greatest scandal Of that society and the
very bet bed Of all it's corruptions. Its own
rottenness, aud the rOtteuness of the society
it had we'd, we're laid bare by the seat OI
that regime from Paris e Berlin. Imp.
rialism l., at the same time, he most pros
t,tute and the ultimate form Of the State
power which nascent middle classes society
had commenced 10 elaborate as a means OF
own emancipation from feudaism, and which
full grown bourgeois society had finally
transformed into a meaDs for the enslave
ment Of labor by capital