The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-11
The Communists and their New Ally.

AHo COMMUNISTS ana tnolr new Ally
We had thought the Republican the only
organ Of that ultra Radicalism which found
fts fitting expression in the late Communist
frenzy Of Paris. The Times, however, OF
this city, in its issue of last Thursday has
q labored leader upon universal suffrage in
which 1t endorses the platform Of Commu-
nism ON that point. It says:
Universal suffrage in France is therefore the
s: sss Of # ssas% and 'as
racy.
And again:
the Parisiaa Democracy, who have,
nouncsd the tndisputable maxim thai the
| power and control of the Government should
| be given to the majority of the intelligence,
have NO more dangerous agency and auxiliary
| than that of brutal, ignorant, corrupt and
degraded majority.
Why this is strange Democracy,-a
| Democracy the cardinal principle of which
| is Aristocracy and must logically lead to
Monarchy. 1t is the principle of exclusion.
Intelligence, virtue and cepacity must rule.
This is just the pretext of both King and
| and Noble. For all plebeians are to
! q certain extent, "brutal, ignorant and de-
graded" Commence by excluding the
lowest class of voters, and then the class
which stood just above it becomes the
lowest, and on the same principle it, in its
turn, must be snubbed out of political ex-
istence by those who consider it vulgar.
The principle of elimination having been
adopted where will it end Tie majority
being ruled out as IS brutal, ignorant, cor
rupt and degraded" how much of the
minority, will be retained in political sig
niRcancef The majority being without
representation OF voice, how eau any rea
sonable man speak any longer of such a
government as Democratic or call himself
an advocate of self-governmentf
We must suppose that the Times swap
ped leaders with the Republican, uninten-
tionaily, or that there is an editor in COM
mon between the two papers, who some
times get things mixed up little. 1t
strikes Us that there can be but one Demo-
versal suffrage and that is-race. All the
suffrage holders ought to be of Que of three
races descended from Noah's sons. They
ought to be all white or all red or all
black. Whites, Chinese or Indians, and
Negroes, ought not perhaps to constitute
a common nationality, because they can
never become homogeneous. They are
and essentially as distinct races
now as on the day when the Almighty gave !
them all distinct destinies and character
istics and they must always remain 80. But,
other than this, Democracy recognizes |
no distinction among men as to the sacred !
right of self government when not for
feited by crime.
The parallel, then, which the Times
chooses to draw between the situation |
of the South, cursed with negro suffrage,
mitted to vote is as foreign to sound ideas |
Of government as it is to decency. That
parallel is contained in following sentences:
They ask that France aud Freedom be pro-
tected from the ballots of the twenty millions |
Of peasants controlled by the priests and an
80 too, the Radical Imperialism at Washing
ton Is to govern and control these Southern |
States through the suffrage of the ignorant |
and creduious negroes, led by 6 far worse aud |
more dangerous class of demagogues than |
those to whom the peasantry Of France look |
for their guidance and direction in the exer-
else of their suffrage.
Franco ls 10 % ProGecIeo IEoW JIG WhAto |
peasantry, as the South from negro suf-
frage. Can anything be more scandalons
and disgraceful than such language Is it
reserved for America in the nineteenth CEN
fury to class hardy and thrifty white
peasantry with negroes7 Why this is an
insultsto the whole white race. 1t is an
explosion of aristocratic folly that one
would not have expected to meet whore it
occurred.
We must, however, in the name of the |
French clergy, thank the Times for the |
handsome discrimination which it makes |
in their favor. The carpet-baggers are
branded as far worse and more danger
GUS class of demagogues than those to
whom the peasantry of France look for
their guidance and direction in the exer- !
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