The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-12-05

i"ii "oy " CaiH loI llSell Cne title OF the
Mexico of Europe. For the ninth time since
the beginning of the present century a revo-
luton seems impending. In 1902 the first
Bonaparte by sort of coup Petct became
consul for life, and in 1904 he quietly con-
Verted France into an Empire of which lie
was the ruler. In 1914 the allies drove him
out OF France and put the Bourbons in his
pace, but he was back again in 1915 for
hundred days only, giving place to the Boul-
bons at the end of that time. In 1880 ar
other revolution replaced Charles x. by Louis
Philippe, but by still another revolution in
1S4S the house of Orleans followed the Bou1-
bons into exile, and the Republic was pro-
claimed. The dull-eyed Bonaparte now of
Chiselhurst, upset the Republic by his muir
derous onslaught of December I'd, 1851,
reigning till fate overlook him in 1870, when
the nondescript government over which NJ.
THEIRS presides-if he, too, is not upset ere
this Is printed-was established. Nine
changes in less than three-quarters of a ce.-
fury, all Of them accompanied by more or
less excitement, violence and bloodshed, and
involving the complete subversion of the pre-
viously existing forms of government are
enough, we should think, to drive patriotic
Frenchmen, like Michelet, Renan and About,
to despair. And now. it seems, M. Theirs
must walk, also! The most discouraging
part of it is that he must go, not because he
is too conservative, but because he is too rad
ical to suit the fancy of the friends of ''Henry
w." Bonaparte and the Orleans people
who constitute the Right and the Right
Centre of the Assembly. One would not
suppose that nominally democratic
legislative body would contain enough
extreme conservatives to drive from power
an Executive that never misses an opportu-
nifty to avow his personal preference fora con-
stitutional monarchy. But so it is. A
government founded ON the model of that Of
the "Citizen King'' is the ideal of Theirs, as
he said only few days ago; yet the Legit-
imists, the Bonapartists and the Orleanists
have banded together to destroy him because
he chooses to obey the will of the people ex-
pressed with especial clearness in the late
S@SSsAOA~S ~ho iudiubAlu buc hGpuDllC.
The Radicals of France have often been
blamed for their rashness, impatienee and
turbulence, 1t is reported that they only
await the deposition or retirement of Theirs.
on whom they have wasted very little affec-
ton. but who has suddenly become the rep
resentative of all that is dearest to them, to
make renewed assaults on public order.
France is very likely to again become the
focus of the Mortified gaze of the world and
the bloody scenes of the great revolution and
of the Commune may quite possibly be re-
psated. The radicals of the cities are men of
high and heroic aspirations and devote them
selves to the liberty of their country with a
most fervid spirit of self mmolation. The
mass of the peasantry on the contrary are
men without aspirations and seek only to
cultivate their lands with as little disturbance
as possible from political causes The CITY
radicals are men of advanced thought and
culture and undoubtedly are somewhat ex-
travagant and fanciful in their dreams of
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity" being led
by the intensity of their enthusiasm to vio-
lence whose only palliation is the sincerity.
patriotism and unselfi.hness which actuate
and pervade it, The rural population have
very limited culture and partake in very
small measure of the exaggerated liberal views
Of the educated classes. That these two
classes can act tremendously and establish
stable Republican government seems almost
lmnOSeihlp Thu f,ffyra Of Pro
ly to be checkeged by revolutions, anarchy,
republics, limited monarchies and despotisms
in their regular order as the past has been.
A LONDON "FREETRADER'' informs the
British public through the London Times
that Chicago lost millions by having felt
roofs and that Boston has lost as many more
by having wooden single roofs. He further
informs the British public that ''these Amer
lean cities are deficient in slate roofs because
native quarries ar insufficient and the high
tariff keeps out the vast stores ready for ex-
port from Wales" 1t is quite evident that
the London ''Freetrader'' i. utterly ignorant
of the extent of slate quarries in Maine, and
would be a greatly surprised Briton should
he ever come to the knowledge of the fact,
that Piscataquis county in this State has
greater area of the finest slate extant than
South Wales, and that within the limit of the
State of Maine there 10 such an abundance
of the best slate that it could supply the
United States for centuries. The statement
relative to the wooden single roofs ON the
buildings embraced in the "burnt district of
Boston will strike the Boston people as quite
original, to say the least.
OUR distinguished townSman, Hon. Chas.
P. Kimball, was President of the recent gen.
eral convention of coach builders in New
York, and is praised on all hands for his eff
cheney in that position, and for the eminently
practical and useful address with which he
favored the assembly. Mr.. KimbalPs reputa-
ton in his business is almost worldwide, and
reflects credit alike upon himself and our city
and State. We append the following extract
from an editorial article in the Harness and
Carriage Journal:
The Convention was most brilliant sue
cess. 1t could hardly be otherwise when COM
posed of such men; hut to the Hon. Chas p
Kmball, the permanent President, the mem
bers owe a lasting obligation. Prompt and
correct in his rulings, his quick perception
carried the Convention successfully over pla-
ccs where men of less promptitude would
have caused disagreement. and always ready
to practically instruct, he carried the Conven-
ton tremendously to the end.
Mr.. FRoUDE has another opponent and
Ireland another champion in no less distin-
guished man than Wendell Phillips, who ap-
peared in the Parker Fraternity Course with
lecture entitled "Some differences from
Froude." TIE Boston Advertiser saws that
Mr. Phillips was in command of all his re-
sources, speaking in the most brilliant man.
ner an hour and half, selecting as points of
attack in Mr.. Froade's argument those in
which Ireland was made to appear at the
greatest disadvantage, pouring upon them in
return argument, invective, sarcasm, illustra-
ton, eulogy, until England herself was made
to appear the barbarous spoiler summoned at
last to the tribunal OF the worlds opinion by
her oppressed but still heroic victim.
NOT only does the Republican press warm.
ly commend the action of Speaker Blaine rel
alive to the Credit Mobilier Investigation b,,t
the Democratic papers express their unouali.
fled approval of his action. The Ro,ton poat
says that "Mr Blaine's course in ,a1,ina
prompt and dignified measures b.