The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-15
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HERALD.)
PARIS. March IA. 1889.

PARIS, March IA, 1888.
In the gatherings that have taken
place during the past seven days.
the real working classes held aloof
The anarchists attempted to have
field days, and the result proved
that the government was resolved
to repress any risings, that the pub
lie and the republicans condemned
the nonsense, and that the mOnarchal
press did its best IL blow the Goals
but without success. The anarchists
allowed their number to be counted,
not ever 1,60) in all, and among
whom figure the leading spirits OF
the commune. In the crowds there
were certainly many hungry work
people, who had no sympathy with
the anarchists; their numbers were
increased by the curious who desired
to witness manifestation. a great
many jail-birds were picked up, and
the staff Of the anarchists pu. in a
full appearance.
The communists were trying their
hand, but they never were taken as
serious by the citizens. They did
not brighten a single nervous old
lady out of Paris. The rioters ar
rested were fined from ten to fifty
francs, and sent to prison from three
days 10 four months. Many were
lads; others confessed they could
not explain why they used insulting
language towards the police, threw
sand in their face and hurled chairs
between their legs. They were as
mild as sucking doves in the dock.
None complained of being out of
work or hungry. Indeed some of
the furnished band" had from sixty
to eighty francs in their pockets.
These were the rioters who smashed
in a few bakers windows, and threw
the bread and pastry in the ken
nels,
The Red Virgin, Louise Michel
appeared in black on the opening
day. She has since disappeared,
aware the police wanted her. AS
she has taken hints from Felix
Pyat how to conceal herself, she
will rest to France unknown for
some months. This is a sad con
tra6iction with her chronic Boosting
to be first at the lannon's mouth and
last on the breach. Sic transit
gloria.
The anarchists, it has now been
demonstrated, can only make a
noise. They have no followers, no
power. At the Belleville election,
the Mount Aventine of Paris, to fill
up the vacancy caused by Gam
betta'S death, the anarchists polled
but 1000 out of a total of over 1000
votes. And that scare included the
two factions of anarchists, for in the
lowest depths there is a lower still.
The anarchists kept from congre-
eating by the foot and mounted
police and municipal guards fell
back on their meeting halls and re-
yelled in their old drawings and
billings gate. One orator claims
the right to demolish private houses
in order to punish the middle elias
ses. Other companions" as the
designation citizen is viewed as too
aristocratic, recommended the 18th
March, the anniversary of the COM
mune, to be selected for a grand
demonstration, placing the children
and women in front, and so defying
the soldiers or police to do their
worst. These are old revolutionary
tactics. The speakers have no con-
fidence in any parliament; over
throw not revise the constitution, is
their motto.
M. Yves Guyot, a prominent town
councillor, a distinguished writer
and economist, though a very ad-
vanced radical, was discussing the
business crisis before select as
sembly, when a column of anarch-
lists streamed in, ordered the au
dience to Join them, and made a
rush at the lecturer, who had pre-.
viously accused them-they who had
graduated in New Caledonia, OF
being subsidized by the monarch
lists. He was knocked down with q
chair, knuckle buster closed his
eyes, a knife destroyed his ear in
stead of his skull. He was saved by
the police, he who is ever denounc-
cling the hobbies and claiming foI
the municipality the right
to control the police in.
stead of the government. 1t was al
this stage that Mile. d'Erlincourt
appeared, demanding that Guy.
OTIS head be cut off and stuck on q
pike. Now this young lady is but
twenty-five, the daughter of a com
munist and exceedingly pretty, tall
blond, and slender, with large fall
ing curlS, and the softest of eyes
She was dressed in the latest fash
ion, save her Observation-Disclosures
Hubbard bonnet, which was ladeT
with red ribbon streamers. Sht
studied for the opera, has a fail
contralto voice; and it is said music
softens manners. Mile. d'Erlincour
takes the command that Louise
Michel deserted; we have seen bel