The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-07-15

/ first time in his life, beld his tongue, ouiet
Iy awaiting the outbreak Of the civil war.
IN order then frantically to denounce the
people Of Paris as band Of escaped con-
Sicts in utter revolt against family, religion,
order and property.
This same forger had hardly got into
power, after the 4th Of September, when be
sympathetically let loose on society PIC and
Iallleter, convicted, even under the Em-
pre-, Of forgery, in the scandalous affair of
the " Etendard" One OF these men, Tail
leter, having dared to return to PARIS un-
der the Commune, was at once reinstated
10 prison and then Jules Favre exclaimed,
from the tribune Of the National Assem-
BY, that Paris was setting free all her Jail
birds
Ernest Picard, the Joe Miller of the
Government Of National Defence, VITO ap
pointed himself Home Minister of the Re
public, after having in vain striven to be-
come the Home Minister of the Empire, is
the brother Of one Arthur Picard, an indi-
vldual expelled from the Paris Bourse as a
black leg (see report Of the Prefecture Of
Police, dated 18th July, 1867 and con-
Vlcted, on his own confession, of theft of
100000 francs, while manager of one OF
the branches of the Societe Generate, rue
Palestro, No. 5 (see report of the Project
ure of Police, dated ! th December, 1869
This Arthur Picard was made by Ernest
Picard the editor Of bis paper, PEctsur
Ltbre. While the common run Of stock
Jobbers were led astray by the official lies
Of this sHome-Oflce paper, Arthur was
running backwards and forwards between
the Home Office and the Bourse, there to
discount the disasters of the French army.
The whole financial correspondence Of that
worthy pair of brothers fell into the hands
Of the Commune.
Jules Ferry, penniless barrister before
the lth of September, contrived, as Mayor
of Paris during the siege, to job fortune
out of famine The day on which be
would have to give an account of his
NAL administration would be the day of his
conviction.
These men, then, could find In the ruins
of Paris only their tickets leave. They
were the very men Bismarck wanted
With the help Of some shutting of cards,
Theirs, hitherto the secret prompter
Of the Government, now appeared at
its head, with the ticket ofleave men for bis
Ministers
Theirs, that monstrous gnome, has
charmed the bOurgeoisie for almost half a
century hnnauso ha = tLa x.,o.. ,o..,,,,,
mate intellectual expression of their own
class corruption. Before be became a
statesman be had already proved his lying
powers as historian. The chronicle or
bis public life is the record of the mistor.
tunes Of France. Banded. Be ore 1880.
with the Republicans, he slipped into of,
hce under Louis PHILIPPE BY betraying his
protector LATTE, ingratiating himself with
the king by exciting mob riots against the
clergy, during which the church of Saint
German PAuxerrois and the Archbishop's
palace were Plundered, and By acting the
mInlster-sPy upon, and the jail accoucheur
Of, the Duchess de Berri. The massacre
OF the Republicans in the Rue Transnonain,
and The subsequent infamous laws of Sep.
TENDER against the press and the right of
association, we're his work. Reappearing
as the chief Of the Cabinet il March, 1910,
be astonished France With bis pan of forti-
flying Paris. To The Republicans, who
denounced this plan as a sinister plot
against the liberty Of Paris, be replied
from the tribune Of the Chamber of Depu-
49,
aa. 2 fancy that any works of for
..l-'.sn ever endanger liberty And
..s' -' il calumnate any possible gov
eminent IN suPvosing that it could some
day attempt to maintain itself by lombard
ing the capital; but that
government would be a hundred times
more impossible after its victory than be-
fore" Indeed, no government would ever
have dared to lombard Paris from the
forts but that government which had
previously surrendered these forts to the
Russians.
When King Bomba tried bis hand at
Palermo, in January, l848, Theirs, then
long since out Of cfice, again rose in the
Chamber Of Deputies:
You know, gentlemen, what is happen
ing at Palermo. You, all of you, shake
with horror lin the parliamentary sense) on
hearing that during forty-eight hours a
large town has been bOmbarded by
whom? Was it BY foreign enemy ex.
ercising the rights of war! No. gentle
men, il was by its own government. And
why! because that unfortunate town de-
manded its rights. Well, then, for the de-
mand of its rights it has got fOrty-eight
hours OF commandment. AL
low me to appeal to the opinion of Europe.
1t is doing service 10 mankind TO arise.
and 10 make reverberate from what is, per-
haps, the greatest tribune in Europe some
words Indeed wOrdsl Of indignation
against such acts When
the Regent Espartero, who had rendered
services to his country (which NJ. Theirs
never did intended bombarding Barcelo.
ma, in order to suppress its instruction,
there arose from all parts of the world
general cutlery Of indignation"
Eighteen months afterwards, NJ. Theirs
was amongst the 6ercest defenders Of tie
bombardment Of Rome by a French army.
In fact, the fault Of King Bomba seems
e have consisted in this only, that he
limited bis bombardment to forty-eight
hours.
] A few days before the revolution Of Feb
TuaTy, frettlng at the long exile from place
aud pelf to which GuizOt bad condemned
him, and shifting in the air the scent of an
approaching popular commotion, Theirs, in
that pseudo heroic style which won him
the nickname Of Mirdbedu mouche, declared
to the Chamber of Deputies:
" l am Of the party Of Revolution, not
only in France, but in Europe. l wish the
government Of the Revolution to remain in
the hands Of moderate men; but if that
Government shonld fau into III Londa ~