The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-05-30
The French Radicals and the New. Republic.


constituents at Belleville on st Georges
Day. 1t filled sixteen columns OF his or
gan, La Republigue Francaise. and has ex-
cited even more attention than the utter-
ances of 80 prominent leader usually 90
even 10 France. 1t has marked the attitude
and sketched ont the policy of the Red to,
wards the Conservative Republic, ana
completely justified the misgivings with
which the majority of the Assembly voted
ia their late nome tous division. On fbe
other hand it indicates a change IN the
views of the French Radicals. Iheir leao'
er has certainly protited by the crit'c'sms
and alarm which his upguarded WORDS al
tn. funeral of NJ. Edgar Quinet had excited.
The ex- Dictator SIS no longer aptiy des-
cribed by the epithet which NJ. THEIRS hur.
led at him in the moment OF terror anu
conflict. If he then deserved to be- called
"a furious madman," he Ia now a sincere
convert, not perhaps to the RepubH4ue sage,
but to the absolute necessity of yielding SO
far to circumstances as to seek the accom- :
plisbment of Radical ends by means ex-
clusively Conservative. 1t is true that be
told the Communists of Belleville, whom
he thanked for his first Introduction into
public life, that he was come among them
once more to show himself unchanged as
everyone of themselves, untainted by his
long contact with Conservative preponder-
ance 10 the Assembly not having been
induced, as he phrased it, to "cut OH his
tail" and as frm as ever against any such
base compliance with the prevailing fashion;
but it is reassuripg to be able to detect the
senatorial aims tbinly yelled under the
conventional clsptrap ofthe demagogne; TO
& nd himself stigm atlzing "revolutionists'
as ga class worthy of execration )" and
setting before an audience commonly sup
posed to be at war with society such poltI-
cal objects as culture social peace, do
mestic. and "foreign policy, education,
| morality, and order" A party that cares
| for these things, even in lts own acceptati"n
and fear to reasonable, we'll to do citizens
than M. Gambetta's following has beer
heretofore. We see that their polltica
education has commenced, and they viii
not be formidable if they cease to slaughter
to plumber, and to burn, aud turn to con
stitutionalism with a sincere heart, though
they remain Red stll. They were taugh
on Friday how to view the CONSERVATIVE
checks devised for the safety of the new
Republ as so many means for securing
the attainment of their cherished ends. B.
the recent ,enactments Republicsnism i
detioitively established, at least in name
aud no man now dare call himself parti
zau Of Henry V. or Napoleon III. Thos
hopes, together with the Septennat, "hav
Withdrawn into the darkness" If tn
President of the Republic is to be chose
by the Chambers that is q guarente
against the calamity and disgrace G
another Imperial plebiscite. The Senator
are to be chosen, not by themselves, not b
the Chief Of the State, but partly by tn
National Assembly, and partly 10y tn
CommuHes, that is to say, by the counci
,, lors whom the Communes elect. Thus tn
+ municipal constituencies will at lengt
develop into political constituencies an
become emancipated from the dictation
the mairs and prefets. What better coul
y a Communist ask Let no Radicals the
be- laZiy Indifferent to the SenatOrit
elections, nor regard the new institution {
. q hostile bulwark, OF as Vepdome colum
o marked for abolition at the first CLEAN
2 Radical ascendancy, but let them determir
a to utilize it as an excellent means
attaining the complete realization of Il
a "conQuests and principles of 49," In OF
a word, let the Commune of Paris elect oil
n such "a NJ. Gam beta to the Senate. Tire
the Monarchists will not be able to tul
4 the new Republic to account and as 4
"a the seventy FIVE Senators 20 be elected
II the Assembly, the orator assured b
"a hearers that there would not be a sing
IA Bonapartist amongst them. In the conclu
in ing part of his speech he threw a cop to &
\. German Cerberus by asserting, in terri
plagiarized from DR.. Falck, the compile
pa supremacy of the State over "reiigio
70 matters" French Conservatives may
ia congratulated ON these revelations of t
tv new policy proposed for adoption by thu
r.. opponents. AT all events such outspok
- declarations are many times less dangero
IN than secret plotting.
The Separation of Parents and Children.