The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-05-09
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The annual Good Friday banquet, of the,
society Of the: refugees Of the. commune.
held for the purpose of expressing the coli 81;
tempt of that body for the religious S 1obserV: s
ances of the Christian church; took; plaoe
last evening" atJ the restaurant of Citizen
| Clouzot, No. 1876 sBleeckeE street. The ban
.quet hall vas decorated with hanhA1n anA1nsns Is Of
very red banners ana the iiass of the; cons
mune. Ono. Ibqree the: inscription,
! '"Vive la Commune;'' another bore the in
| scrlption, SPAS de devoir5, pas de droits.''
Pas de droHs; pas do deyoirs,II. and $50
| ciette des Refugees dc Ia, commune The
| table was spread with red napkins; most OF
theguests wore red in sonic form or the 9TH
or, and tue chairman, Citizen Mathelot wore
red shirt. ALL the guests were IN their
working day clothes. Sixteen in all sat idownii
to table, and nearly two hours were engaged
/ in eating and drinking. ;:' ~ T. e::w l.;
Each guest ate'heartily; and drank!ae much
en- ordlndire and cognac, as be, could hold.
The effect Of this was noticed as s0oii as tho
cloth was removed, when iCitizeil 'NIathelote
rose and delivered the opening address iof:
the evening", He Was greeted with loud .ap,,
plause, and pulled up the collar of his red
shirt, and, taking from his mouth the clav
pipe which he held there, he said: 81 do
not rise in the character of president,
for we have 10 president, aud
need none. We are all equal. I rise TO tell
you why we are here; we are here to attest
our hatred of the prejudices which make of
this fast day for the poor, while the priests
and the rich feast and grow fat. What are
these priests? They are the assassins of
the people; the enemies of humanity: rascals
who always side with the opprcssors against
the oppressed, with the Prosecutor against
his victims. Applause. The priest has
ever been the enemy of liberty-not only the
Catholic priest, b1t the Jewish and Protes-
tant priests as well. In 1851, when the c0up
a'etdt came III Franco, the Archbishop Gull
bert offered the revolutionists the use of the
church Of Notre Dame as place OF refuge
| from the troops, but as soon as the coup
! 9ctdt had succeeded, he opened his doors
to sing Te Deum to Napoleon, and thus al
! lowed his victims to fall into the hands of
| the assassins. So here in 1857, when the
| men were marching to the city hall crying
| for bread, it was the priest Henry Ward
Beecher, the putative husband of Mrs. Til
| ton, who advised them to submit to the mill
| tary, although the board of aldermen were
forced to vote S2.0OO,0O0 for work on Cen
trail park to relieve the distress. Applause.1
This same Beecher it was who afterward de-
ciared that workingman can live on 81
| day. Cries of "seventy-ive cents.'' All,
these priests! I remember when I bad
| daughter: instead of having her baptized by
a priest, gave her namc and baptized her
| with wine. A priest afterwards came to me
| al d said tie would come and baptize her. 7
| said: If you come as man will welcome
you, but if you come as a priest will throw
you out of the window Loud appause.l
| Citizens, we Go not want these priests. If
we get married let us be married by the
| mayor. If we must baptize our children let
US do it ourselves and i'll wine, and not let a
priest throw his dirty water over it's head
Loud applause. These vino do not feel
| and act III this way are ovcrinhuenced by
their wives or their mother-in-law. Let US
| feast when these priests fast. fast when they
feast--for the church and its priests are al
| ways on the side of property; but sometimes
| they suffer too, as.in the case of NJ. Darboy.''
Loud applause, during which Mcgy picked
his teeth with his fork and smiled triumph.
| aEtly.
! The next speaker was Citizen Golard, an
old man with little hair and much cravat.
He said: "CitZens. we are here. as Citizen
Nlathelot has said, to express our contempt
| for the priests. THIS is right. lake the
! case of the archbishop who recently forbade
the members of the workingmen's party to
enter the church in San Francisco. Ab. ifI
could have that bishop by the hair. Loud
applause end wild yells. 1t is time that we,
the advance guard of the people, should
come out boldly and express our feelings to-
ward these priests, these assassins of our
rights. these robbers of our means. priest
be he Catholic, Protestant, or Jew, is an
enemy of the people. The church is an
1nG ha IIS {f1 loo2 -
the peoples enemies Loud applause.]
After this address Citizen Megy was called
upon for a toast and said: "Cit,zens, pro-
pose to you, The annihiIation of the priests
and all other rascals. and the dest1 uctiou of
the church. Drink This was drunk with
due honors amid great enthusiasm. all the
guests gazing at Mcgy with great admiration.
The colorel communist. Citizen,
Corny, next sang song. which
was loudly applaud-d, and tho
Citizen Leblun sang an ode to spring of a
lively character. prefacing tho third verse
with an apology for its religious character,as
it contained the line:
Jaime ma mere ct mon Dieu-
"Oh, we are indulgent,' exclaimed Megy;
Ego on
"Yes," exclaimed Citizen Mathelot, ':go
on; we are not 80 serions as we look.''
Citizen Mathelot then sang revolutionary
ditty, of which the refrain was:
Pou, Pou, Pou.
Courage! garcons.
Pou, Pou, Pou.
Demolissons. demolissions!
This excited degree of enthusiasm equal
ed only by that Created by a song sung by
Megy and entitled "Aux Barricades," of
which the refrain was:
Tor II forf {.,nt ,,riy
vainqueurs.
Citizen Caniare followed with song of
equivocal character, which was received with
great favor. By this time the claret and
cognac, the red flag, and the speeches had
done their wrok, and citizens. whose name
was withheld, sang ditty of such a charac-
ter that Nine. Ciouzot, who was waiting at
the table. left the room in hurry and the
audience salutcd its vulgar words and moro
vulgar refrain with yells of drunken laugh
ter. At its close the reporter left, and Citi-
zen Mathelot, leaving his seat at the head of
the table, followed him into tie hall and
asked him to be just in his report. Said the
citizen, in q tono of maudln dignity: 'Do
not report what we are, but the principles
that we represent" AS the reporter left the
scene roars of laughter were making the
rafters ring at the joke of one Of the COM
pany, which was much too blasphemous to
be printed here.
Onton Euts ar.
Onions can be best grown upon the
same land repeatedly, year after year, and
a change of f-rtilizc,s is beneficial. Af-
ter barnyard manure has been used, poul-
try manure would be effective, and occas-
ionally a dressing Of phosphate of lime
would be advisable. The best standard
fertilizer for onions is nieht-scil taken