Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-03-24
with lively interest and eager faith.


But that has not yet happened.
There was a noble opportunity
for MIR. jenkins to do something OF
this kind at the surrender of Paris.
He had repeated to the public sew
eral of his interviews with Count
Bismarck, and has reported the
condolences which his friend, the
Count, impaired to him. But they
all had a marvellous resemblance to
what was already known of the
Counts opinions. If, now, on the
day after the surrender, Mr.. jenkins
had happened in upon his friend, as
minister plenipotenitary of the ia
zette, and had presently emerged
and told us precisely what Germany
intended to demand of France, and
his story proved to be true, Mr..
Jenkins would have done something.
But to write elaborately that he had
been admitted to an audience OF
the great Prussian Premier, and
found him in his military cap; and
that, npon recognizing him, the ar.
bitter of modern Europe had said to
him, with a grim smile, and in the
cultural German tongue, 'Comrade!
and then proceeded to say that he
must have Alsace and Lorraine, the
French fleets and forts, Pondicher.
ry, Cherbourg and Brest, and forty
milliards of ncs;-that, Mr.. Jen-
kins, was hardly worth while.
Any clever writer could have sa,
down and have written an account
in the jenkins strain of an interview
with Gambetta. lie would have
'written up" che Corsican lawyer
although the Corsican birth is now
said to be doubtful. He would have
declared that he fixed me, jenkins,
with his glistening eye, in whose
unearthly gleam / instantly rccog.
nized the deadly glare, the unwhole-
some splendor, of opium. Our flu
ent friend would have "done" a
great deal of description ofthis kind
and then NJ. Gambetta would have
exclaimed, with Gascon frenzy, We,
with the depthless sadness of one tc
whom the woes of war were but toe
familiar: "War, Monsieur, war q
Foutrance! The indomitable hear,
OF France utters in its despair but
one passionate cry of revenge. l,
salutes the hcaven-born republic
one, invincible, and indivisible.
We hold no parley with Paris
Monsieur. Paris has BETRAYED
France! But this long night will
yet break in day, Monsieur jenkins
and France will yet declare to as.
founded Europe, mot stone of a
fortress, not an inch of territory.''
This is the way in which it is yer,
easy to write interviews, and, care
fully analyzed, they will generally
suggest the presence of Imagination
rather than Of personal observa
ton.
When Mr.. jenkins writes from
the dazzling halls of fashion VIZ
csn all read with faith, because We
know he has propitiated some abb
gail, who has furnished the details
The story is at least fresh. Fol
who knew, until Mr.. jenkins tolG
us, that Mrs. Tuppcnny wore a lapis
lazuli skirt over green and yellow
drugget? or who could otherwis.
have known that Miss Capitol, tn,
celebrated belle of ashington
wore a red bandana train of grea
magniticence, trimmed with plush
shoulder-knots? These are truth.
which we could not know until q
Jenkins revealed them to us; but W,
all know what Mr.. Sumner thinks o
the .lhob0naa claims, and Coun
Bismarck of Alsace, and NJ. Gam
beta of the republic; and when Mr.
jenkins pretends to instruct us up
on those points he waists his labor
EDIToR's EASY CHAIR, in Harper,
4hoyaziae for -1prH.