The Labor enquirer., 1886-03-27
Concluded from frst pass.l

cism and disorder enrolled themselves
to fight under its banner, it was because
It was the first and only flag where they
might enlist. If poverty. distress and
desperation looked to it for a change
it was but rational. The history
of the Commune is written by its enc
mics. Like all lost causes it will be
misrepresented. What there was OF
good in it will be suppressed. What
there was of bad in it will be exagger-
ated. The effort of an eyewitness at
this late time is but a feeble effort at
stemming the tide and current of opnro
brium running against the Comm unistt
of Paris. I feel it my duty to say that
Communism does not mean a forcible
and unlawful distribution of property
nor is the word Communist syno nyn
for every crime"
Such, cseafsdess is a portion of the
testimony of one who was witness
and. being newspaper man, was close
observer of the events. There is no neeC
for me to add more to this. } 4=desire
oaeemase4 4e4unse5 se5fsomcvictor Hugo
he said: (which is the culprit; the
assembly or the Commune? History
will tell. I accept the principles of the
Commune. If anyone comes to my
house to take fugitive of the Commune
they will take me also If he is giver
up I will follow him I will share his
seat, and for the defense of right, by the
side of the man of the Commune, van,
quished by the assembly Of Versailles,
will be seen the Man Of the Republic,
prescribed by Bonaparte."
Gempedes, to sum up in conclusions
want to say that the mere fact that the
government of the citv of Paris, with its
10000 inhabitants, YVES managed
under the m ost trying circumstances, by
common workmen," was Revolution
which shook the whole world to its foun
dation. In spite of the Commune's sup
preston, labor movement WAS formet
forthwith in every country, and it ha
since developed into great Interna
tional Socialist agitation, which is now
menacing every throne, threatening tc
destroy every species Of class DONNA
ton, and which promises aooa to insure
to every producer the full fruit of his
toll. So I say to you the Commune is
not dead. n "
"They say she is dead, the Commune is dead
She was thrust to the heart by the red han
of Theirs,
And never again shall she raise her cold heaG
Or fiaunt CORY locks at your whtte-livere
fears.
"But know ye this, that am not dead;
The spirit of Revolt can never die!
Upon ten thousand fields I've bled,
And with my martyred slain did lie.
but every soul your bloody steel set free
My spirit hath absorbed into its own;
SO, now I am the Sum, the Majesty
OF every Rebel the world has known!
"Until the Human Race is Free
On every foot breadth of the world;
Until Sweet Peace abides with me,
And every flag but white is fured,
81 am not dead; I am not dead
live life intense, divine!
tours were the days forever fled;
But all the morrows shall be miner'
At the conclusion of Comrade Buch
anan's address, the usual recess wa
taken, and during the ten minutes sev
eral signed the roll and became mem
bers of the League.
The first thing on the programme afte
recess was the Marseillaise hymn, IL
French, BY Comrade Vinot and M
Henri Lelu. The singers were loudl
applauded, and the audience would no
be still until they had accepted an en-
core and sang another verse, Tor one 0
the same, for the duet had it all then
own way, in the "bloody French").
Next came the address of Louis
Michel to the French soldiers, read b.
Comrade Albina Washburn. Conrad
A. W. Peet as upon the programme 70
this, but owing to illness she could no
be present, and Comrade Washburl
kindly filed her place. This address o
Louise Michel has been published il
these columns, and, owing to the length
of this report, it is omitted at this time
but the sketch of the Mother of tn
Commune" as prepared by Conrad
Peet, follows;
LOUISE MICHEL.
Over fifty wears ago Louise Michel wa
born in an aristocratic French chateau
Her mother was scullion, who worked il
the chateau, and her father the master
of the house. She was educated accord
ing to her fathers rank, though her nat
ural inclination led her to associate witt
the friends of her peasant mother. Thu
combination resulted in nature at one
time possessed of all the tenderness OF
sister at another she became fend in
carnate.
When she bee ,me a woman, havini
her mother to support, she went tt
Paris and opened school for children
1t was here that the Commune founc
her, in which she took an active part
and with other Communistic leaders sh'
was sent to New Caledonia. After belnf
amnestied she returned to Paris.
Again, in 1888, she appears leader IL
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