Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-25
THE EREYCR CRISIS.

the government UDaI q CaDlneC cf1SlS mas
arrived, and the ministry is only held to-
gether for few days by the earnest en-
treaties of President Grevy. The sessions
of the chambers are stormy, transactions
on the bourse partake of the nature of a
panic, the public mind is in state of fer
ment and there are mutterings of discon-
| tent and rebellion in the rank and file of
the army. 1t is very manifest to to the
most casual observer that the country is
resting on volcano that is liable to burst
forth at any moment and lay waste the
fair cities of the plain.
The cause of this crisis in French affairs
is said by many to be the death of Gambet-
ia, whom they claim to have been the only
barrier between the republic and anarchy.
| No ooubt that statesman exercised pow
erful influence not only upon the popular
mind but in the affairs of government, but
we are not prepared to believe that he was
the only man fitted to guide the republic
| through whatever storms might arise to
threaten its existence. Yet in a country
| like France where the peo-
pie are tickle, and liable to be
carried away by every wind of doctrine,
the removal of a leaderiiis always fraught
with danger.
AS predicted by the GLOBE at the time,
Gambetta's death was seized upon by tie
opponents of the republic as an occasion
for demonstration in favor of the Ma
poleonic and the legitimate monarchies.
The former executed coup, ill-cons1dered
and ill-timed, and it would have fallen flat
upon the public but for the undue i'm
portance given to it by the government.
Prince Jerome was imprisoned, and steps
were Immediately taken by the chambers
to Danish from France all of his kin. The
ex-Empress Eugene, hearing of the plight
into which her kinsman had gotten him
self, fastened to Paris, and during her
brief stay in that capital succeeded in
adding fuel to the flames. TO add to the
gravity of the situation, the legitimists,
who had been long plotting for re-
turn to power of the Bourbon dynasty,
uncovered their scheme, and it was found
that the entire west of France was honey
combedi with their intrigues, and some
10000 men organized and armed in an
ticipation of an uprising in the cause of
the Count de Chambord.
Probably the most inexplicable and at
the same time the most foolish movement
on the part of the government has been
the war waged upon the members of the
Orleanist family. These are the only
Of Ho
dynasties who have proved loyal to France
under all circumstances and under all gov
ernments. Under the second empire they
were at first exiled, but soon returned and
resumed their places in the councils and
the army of the nation. While they have
never relinquished their claims to the
throne, they have been content to bide
their time, in the hope that the people
would some day call them to their inherit
ance. Under the republic they have con-
tinued to sit in the halls of legislation and
to command their legions in the army, and
they have never been accused of completely
in any of the intrigues designed to over
throw the government. And yet the chief
animosities of the leaders of the extreme
republicans in the chambers are directed
against the Orleanists, whom it is proposed
to cashier from the army and expel from
the country. Such shortsightedness is GER
talnly mysterious, and will do the govern
ment more harm than if the rigors of the
law were directed only against the active
conspirators of the two other antagonistic
factions. .a
Careful observers of events in France
have but little faith in the permanency of
the republic. 1t is a republic only in
name, not in fact. Some of the most OBJ
noxious features of despotism have been
retained surveillance of the press, the
right of the police and military to
make domiciliary visits, and governmental
supervision over schools. 1t lacks that
essential element of true republicanism,
the right of free speech and social and re-
ligious freedom. The police are as des-
potic as they were under the empire, and
intolerance is as openly manifested.
It will be almost miraculous if the pres
emit crisis shall pass over without blood
shed. The government seems determined
to rush madly forward and adopt wholly
unnecessary and foolhardy means of re-
preston. These the people will not en-
dure quietly. The legitimists and Bona
partists are well organized to resist OPP
preston of such sort. In fact, they have
always been compact, free from dissen-
sions and determined. It would not be
surprising if they should unite their forces
to secure the object desired by both, the
overthrow of the republic, leaving to
events the decision OF the question of
which shall grasp the scepter of authority.
At any rate, it is not likely that the present
state of unrest can long exist without re-
sulting in an open rupture, and any hour
the cable may bring intelligence that the
sword had been draw on behalf of one or
the other, or perhaps of both, of the active
contestants for the crown.
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feeble Minded.'
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