Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-20
,.uxCE SAPoLEOSy MANIFRsrO.
~.xt Of the Document With which
plan Plon PlacaPded Paris.

PRINCE NAPOLEONB AANAfkSIO.
Ylon Plon PlacaPded Paris.
p.srs. Jan. Is, 1883.- To Ny Fello,o
r;,;z-,..: France is lar Gushing. Some
.nono those who are suffering have en-
oaoed ia agitation.
The great majority of the nation is
a;sonsted. Without confidence in the
nrssent. it seems to be waiting for fu-
tm,s that it can reach only by virile
resolution.
I'ha executive power is enfeebled, in
capable and impotsns.
The chambers are without guidance
md without a will of their own.
The party in power repudiates its own
,,incioles and seeks only the Rratifca-
lion OF the least creditabls passions.
The Parliament is broken up into an
;,,fnitude of fractions.
Reactionists, MOderates and Radicals
have followed each other in the Gov
.,nment. All have failed.
Won have been promised q republic
NJ rehabilitation and reform. Menda-
nous promise.
You witness continual crises, which
strike at the chief of the State, the min
isters and the chambers.
The experiment OF a parliamentary
rapub!io, prosecuted for twelve years
nast, is row complete.
You have no Government.
The evil is imbedded in the Constitu-
tisn itself, which places the country in
the power of eight hundred Senators
and deputies.
Faults have been committed in the
uast. Why make them worse, insteap
81 drawing from them lessons?
The army, which is the foundation of
our greatness and security, has been
abandoned to the wild folly Of incom-
peteut managers. For ten years they
lave been discussing methods of reOr-
Qanization, and after groupings which
ruin the military spirit, they are still
engaged in searching for the right mode
Of recruitment.
Administrative functions are discred-
itsd. Office holders are slaves of the
most petty political interests.
To farm out the Country is not to ad-
minister it.
The magistracy, threatened in its in
dependence, seems to be losing every
day, together with the stability to
which it is entitled, the perception of its
mission.
Our finances are dilapidated.
Heavy and ill-distributed taxes are
kept up in fatal spirit of routine, which
forms An obstacle to every kind Of pro-
gress.
1t is, to be sure, easier to borrow than
70 reform.
Expenditures are unreasonably mag
ni6ed.
The most elementary conditions of
public credit are disregarded. A habit
Of stock gambling, which owes its i'm
punity only to its mischievous univer-
Sslity, has invaded all Glasses Of society.
The floating debt has been swollen to
figures that threaten the public credit
with collapse at the first shock.
In spite of enormous taxes an equilib-
rum Of the budget is unattainable.
Religion, assailed by atheistio Ierse-
outions, is unprotected. And yet religion,
which is the great concern of every civ
iizsd society, might easily find a safe
guard il, the loyal execution Of the Con-
cordat, which alone can assure to as
religious peace.
Social questions of vital import to our
dsmocracy, wherein political equality
eeght To entail fairer distribution Of
Hblic burdens 70 the benefit of the
most numerous and poorest class, are
thrust aside. Even the study of them
b hdisiained. In the presence of these
psoblems, which impose themselves on
Cur attention. we do not 70 forward; We
fAll back.
Our commerce has been impaired by
the abandonment of the treaties of 1860,
70 which We owed prosperity, and the
interests of our consumers and traders
are sacrificed.
Our foreign policy has been conspicu-
Gus for bad faith toward the weak. 1t
has subserved private speculations in
Tunis, whose costly occupation has
brought no profit; it has been stupid
and oowardly in Egypt, where the inter
ssts Of France deserve consideration.
No Frsnchman can traverse foreign
countries without deep sorrow. Our
France, Onoe 80 great, has now no
friends, no dignity. Even among its
best wishers it meets with an indiffer-
sncs more painful than hostility; yet,
for all that, France, IL strong, would
have in the world her place well de-
fined and indispensable.
We shall recover our position in for
sign eyes only by international regener.
alton.
The present situation comes from the
abandonment Of the principle of Ma
tional sovereignty. So long AZ the peo-
Pie have not spoken, France will re-
main unregenerate.
Heir Of Napoleon I. and of Napoleon
ILL, am the only man alive whose
name has brought together 100000
Since the death Of the Emperor's son
have kept silence touching all politi-
eAl questions. Unwilling to disturb the
e1periment which was making, have
waited In sorrow until the right to
eak should be given me by events
silence was only the patriotic ex-
0ees,on Of my respect Tor the coun-
eys tranquility.
~ conduct, my opinions, my feelings
nAN been systematically illuminated.
ampervious to such assaults, I replied
ny oy contempt to these who went 30
IN ~ 70 try to set their sons against
snef father. Odious and fruitless ef
.olu! l have had to impose silence on
youn9 hearts, that revoltsd at sugges-
eus. desired to be alone in the
psesnce of our enemies. My sons are
Nu strangers to politics. The order of
aasafe has designated them to follow
- and they will remain faithful 10 the
x0S Napoleonic tradition.
Inere has been talk of abdication on
2 part; but no such thing will take
49,. when man has more duties
1nn rights. abdication is desertion.
cooa aRreemtnts, such reciprocal re-
suons. may suit princes who sup
themselves to have rights superior
= ns sountry's will. The Napoleons,
cSo are tho elect Of the people and the
Paes servants. must act otherwise.
.aIo principles divide the world; that
~ Sca Acknowledges right superior TO
peoples will, and that which de-
al power from sovereignty.
spect the countries in which these
nfoiples are made to harmonic.
TAnce no snoh harmony ia possible.
representatives of the past have
~ ~ once for all repudiated.
Nts must be no MISUNDERSTANDING.
~ compromise is possible with the
ns OF the white flag, which has
- ~pe the only emblem of the house
a. aile there are dissensions among
~ usans of national sovereignty,
~. no absolute antagonism be-
me Napoleons uphold the direct SOW