The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-06-21
The Paris Comm a aIsss.

The Paris Comm unIsfs.
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speotik the q mmhA ire7oh.kivA hA
views Thereof an gngaisR P4snalS HH
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II have spoken of the scandal of this
Commune revolt, OF the great wrong Of
taking France at an advantage. :. But 4
beg you will not consider mS ID writing
seems to skeepldvsr Eaf5pI. There is
cause for all thia@a causa- -aamaRhere---.
and it9e91othe sl;9 ttr treac44ed by gfape-shos.
grave and wise friend who Knows Paris,
| when you remember that there are 1O0.-
900 people here whose wages for eight
months in thaIXear svea1ge franc aud
a half day. F6ftffe other four mouths
nothing When Vesuvius burns, e1-
peot the lava. have no doubt there
we're, many conservative Pompeian phi
iosophefS Who sealed their windows and
hid the mountain from aight. But it
burned. and one day the lava came.
The Go%pH9s 2; asd sgRPFess,ed M 6as if the
patiently seek out the cause of these re-
volutions and find remedy, there will
be ., blessing to France and to Europe
in the end"
After reeiting The negotiations that
the Communists attempted with the
Theirs Government, he thus sums up
whnt he calls the logic OF the movement
OF the Commune. Paris is represented
as saying to Versailles:
"You have given us kings; you have
elected 'emperors; yon have covered us
with what you call glory; you have slain
our sons, burdened us with debt, de-
stroyed all honest, true thought; you
have made Paris the home Of luxury Bnd
sensnonsnees- city for the latter Cm-
sars; you would bring us more kings.
with your five dukes all in q row., but
We do not wont thems,n. We want free
dom. You Bay we FnreS eSnot legitimate,
not oonstitntional-that we do not speak
for France. Well, granted; and what
arc yPpa' Was Bonapartism legitimate?
Remahher the eighteenth 81. f.sBrumaire
and the Second Of December, Was Or
leanism legitimatefi1 Remember that
Louis. Philippe himself had NO right to
the throne-that he was the king of the
barrlcsdes. Why, even your most To-
gitimhte Christian successor of ST. Louis
was brought back. to- as BY the allied
armies OF Europe. after we had whipped
them again and again for twenty Years
What right had you to proclaim the oe
cheancc OF this Third Napoleon-you,
jules Favre md Picard: yonr oaths of
allegiance to him and his dynasty, but
recently sworn in the Legislative Assem-
bly,. And now, elected under the terms
OF Frussinn occupation. simply to
make the best terms of surrender, you
forget that your work is done, and oon-
tinne to legislate for France. We de-
mand the rspnbliol We demand the in
dependence Of Paris in her own domes-
tic affairs; that independence which Eng
land gives to London and America to
New York. We demand that Paris shall
be something more than royal park or
on imperial households preserve for
the creatures of the throne, and 20.
verned by order Of emperor or king.
70 France We give what is DUE; for our
selves we reserve what is our own. and
mean to govorn Poris, ourselves.
Ailudiug to the throwing down of the
column in the Plaza pendome, he re-
marks that, in connection herewith, this
Thought occurred 70 hfa mind: ii,v
.'fs there really nothing better for a
nation as great as France than to send
our sons out to murder and devastation,
and when the work is over to build q
monument to assassination, and misery
and woe9 For what is it, after all
these Vendome Columns and this aurora
OF Napoleonism that has covered France
9Th lurid splendor for seventy years
but the ap0theosia Of murder and woe2
This was anoble column. The men who
made it were cunning in their work. AS
It loomed up in clear and sharply-cut
symmetrical lines, with Caesar at the top,
il was in itself a victory OF taste and in.
dustry. And although no human being
has ever read the legends which enoir.
oled it in animated bronze, we knew that
they told of great wars, and that this
was the bronze of 1900 cannon taken in
The German countries. and that it meant
the unspeakable glory OF the great Em-
peror. Apd T said. great is Napoleon
and beautiful is the column, and this
bronze tracery has deep meaning to
those who read history. But the thought
that to-day people have been brave
enough to root ont q monument to mur-
dare fo khot T. = T.; ;-ta