Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-10-06
BOURBON 1HsULTED WHERE
ANOTHER WAS BEHEADED.

A BOURBON INSULTED WHER
ANOTHER WAS BEHEADED.
It was announced last week tbs
Alfonzo, king of Spain, had accepte
the colonelcy of a regiment of Germa
uhlans stationed at Strasburg, and ha
appeared in the uniform of his ne1
rank. France and Spain being upon
most friendly footing this unnecessar,
condescension on the part of the king
and the acceptance of military servic
In the army of the enemy of France
especially upon soil the inhabitants o
which are only made German by tn
sword and bsyonet, created intense ex'
element and great feeling. Indigna'
ton was first openly expressed il
Spain, and naturally there was a bittel
feeling of indignation In France.
On Saturday Alfonso entered Paris
where he was received by the jeers an6
insults of q mob. He comported him.
self under the threatening aspect o
affairs with much GOODNESS and courage
and insisted on passing through the
streets to his destination without al
escort.
At an interview between Presiden,
Grevy and Alfonso in Paris on Sunday
afternoon, the former rendered al
apology to the king in the name of the
French Republic on account of the un-
friendly demonstration with which
Alfonzo had been received on Satur.
day. All the French newspapers ex-
pressed regret over the occurrence
L'Intrsnsigeant said, ttSpain will know
that in King Alfonso it was not a
Spaniard but German who was boot
cd"
Alfonso said that behind the king
It was the Spanish nation that was
hooted.
Germany gave out that the ebullitien
vas n of weakness, and that no ma.
ton would desire to be the ally of a
country where such things could occur.
AL of which Is very funny.
Alfonso's insult to France goes for
nothing. He is q Bourbon King, and
all the other Beurbons are stricken in
his sacred person. The mob was
wrong, as mobs nearly always are; it
was no doubt coarse, brutal, rough
all that it should not have been; but it
is simply ridiculous and nonsensical to
hold q whole nation responsible for the
acts of q few crazy, ignorant people,
when its entire press, including the
most radical, denounce them as I'M
worthy, meal and puerile.
Alfonso's mot dordre, too, was in
genious, but it was not true. Even the
mob had no intention to insult Spain.
It was the Kaiser's uniform that they
reviled-the representation of empire
and not even the Germans as q peo-
pie.
France has q hard time of it. The
only republic in Europe that has either
strength or wealth it is hated by the
and aristocracies of all the
other countries. Their liveried SER,
wants are always ready to revile her.
Betrayed by the ~imbecility of Napoleon
Ill into a disastrous war, her military
prestige impaired, surrounded by ene-
mics, her every institution pervaded by
the spies and agents of kings and their
satellites, it is simply wonderful that
she . maintain her republican form
Of government. It is only the fear Of
The growing manhood and independ-
ence Of their own subjects that prevents
the Bourbons and their sympathizers
from descending upon her, and forcing
aer to submit again to be governed by
! king. In this country the memory of
1er Lafayette and other gallant allies
the revolution must ever give her
apart from her cause, and,
3od-be-thanked, her influence for the
freedom of man is growing every day
stronger, from the gentle and balmy
slopes of Spain to the sterile,
odd steppes of Tartar Russia. Even
he Iron-Prince, Bismarck, sees the
sentiment Of liberalism in his
'wn country, and only keeps it down
" the armed heel. In Germany as in
England when the ruling sovereigns of
o-day pass away great strides will inc
itably be made toward popular free
|om. The days of kingly preregative
re drawing to an end-the sooner
hey r ended the better = and the lit.
le capital that kings may make out of
he wrong-headed actions Of an intern
'erate mob will not materially retard
he onward march of the emancipation
f man.
A press dispatch from Higginsville,
lated October Sd, said:-"The dead
'ody Of a man was found to-day at or
'ear the west end of the Chicago and
Alton railroad bridge, which crosses
rabo creek, about three miles west oil
his city. When the news was report
d a delegation Of our citizens went to
scene, and an inquest was held,
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