The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-12
LOUJsR NIGHEL


Louise Michel, the high priessess Of
the French anarchists. is now In prison
in Paris. Her political views are sum-
married. in her own words, thus: Tear
down the whole social edifice and begin
over again" She maintains that crime
Is the result of existing abuses which
would be destroyed in the creation Of q
new social editice, in which justice and
love would rule. Her scheme involves
the adjustment Of government and
the creation of social groups, in which
every member would contribute to the
general good, the ADLER members with
out superior reward on account Of su-
perior services, but content with doing
more for the association. Money would
have no place in this arrangement, the
wants of all being supplied from pub
lie store to which all would contribute
according TO the nature Of their pro
duction and the extent of their capacity.
The apostle of this dream has her
home in poverty in one Of the obscure
parts of Paris. She lives with her moth.
or, who il q person content with things
as they are and deprecates the dangerous
teachings and doings Of her daughter.
The most conspicuous thing In the arch
anarchists home is q bust of Charlotte
Corday, the assassin of Murat. Louise
Michel, who has been in England lately
where she attracted the attention Of
many eminent persons, is described a
being quiet, kind looking, middle-agec
woman. Her brow is intellectual, heI
mouth too large for beauty, her hail
brown in color and cut short, her eyel
gray and full of expression. She dresses
shabbily in black. Her delivery as |
public speaker is quiet and subdued sht
SAYS the most terrible things In g man
ner amiable and winning.
Born at the Chateau de Vroncourt
where her mother was q domestic, he
early life was passed in plenty, and sh'
was the pet OF q household circle Wh'
admired her precociiy and the original
ity of her views. Her father Is said Q
be an aristocrat. Upon the death OF he
protectress and the advent OF new own
ers TO the home in which she had live
/ in comfort and honor, her mothe
and she were sent out into the coll
| world. Under these circumstances sh
opened q school in the village of Aud
elencourt, but did not succeed, and q
experiment Of the same character, mad
in Paris, was also q failure. She the
found more congenial associations tina
those OF the school room in the politics
clubs which were sprlnging uD In th
French capital, and she became q leade
In the diffusion of ideas which. in To
course of time, took the forr
in her mind of q new social syi
TEN. During the struggle made BY ID
Commune she fought under the re
flag, was made prisoner and exiled I
Now Caledonia. The noble generosit
of the woman appeared in many way
while on her way to that far-oh Ian
and a resident there Her bestowin
her stockings and shoes upon a wretc
more in need of them tina
she while on the wa
out is remembered as or
of her numerous acts of self-denia
Upon her pardon and return to her n
tive country, she resumed her old occ'
patton as political agitato
with a greater strength of convi
ton and the enlarged influence resultiI
from the peoples knowledge of her pa
: sufTerings and disinterestedness Of cha
acter.