New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-06

trayal of the sordidness of Partisan life under the
Empire. Mr.. Jenkins might have given us q CON-
panion picture of the sorddness of Partisan lie
under the Republic. The effect OF the Union
Generate speculation upon The wider classes OF inc
population in France was every whit as remarkaDle
as upon the patrcian element. The example SET Wy
the mobiles and prelates was followed by the ihosV
prudent and thrifty tradespeople ana peasah'iS'
Actresses lawyers clerks. seaInstresses, nousescl
wants all caught the Infection until Paris oecaie
n pamblingden for politicians in Parliament and
for the very rabble in the streets. Not only IN the
capital and in the great centres of population like
Marseilles Lyons and Bordeaux but even In rural
market-paces and in crossroads hamlets, classes
that had never been known to take an interest in
the quotations of the Doursc followed the iluctua
tons in shares with fevcrsh anxiety. and risked the
savings of years in a spirit of reckessness and I'M
providence strangely at variance with the pro-
verbal caution of French peasants This charac-
teristc of the most remarkable speculative mania
of recent times is slurred by the author The agrl-
cultural classes not represented in the charac-
tiers of the volume and the motives which impelled
the workingpeople and tradesmen of the cities 10
deal in the most mercural shares of the stockllst
are not analysed. The protector of the enterprise
il is true, is finally murdered by two of the hum
best victims his financial collapse; but this IS
tardy and ineffective recognition OF the intense
interest taken by the democratic elements OF
society in this recent scheme of religious banking
This is phase of the subject which the author
strangely neglects. His attention is wholly aO-
fsorbed by the financial operations and mercenary
righteousness of the patrician class He makes no
attempt to explain the destinations .of stock
gambling for the of the population i'll Republl-
can France. If avarice the predisposrng
midi N
avarice which had boarded became an avarice
which coveted windfalls and threw dice for them
dice that were blessed by the Eighty spirits of
the French clergy. Large classes of peasants,
shopkeepers and artisans with an instructive pref
erence for boarding their savings, suddenly be
came convinced that that method was both
laboriOus and ienobe, and that with little capital
great fortunes could be amassed in stock specula-
ton. The social and political conditions by which
the Judgment of singuiarly cautious and prudent
people had become impaired might have been
proftably studied by he author He has Interested
himself too exclusively in parician avarlcc. That
belongs to the old order of things in France. 1t is
democratic avarce which has vital significance in
the France of to-day.
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