Workmen's advocate., 1886-07-25
men who had crushed the National

men who had crushed the National Guard.
 There k not a workman living whose, heart would not be stirred to it's depths ] ii he could know all the facts relating to 1 that nneNampled struggle. History may he searched in vain for its parallel. The day will come when the picture of those heroic patriots who, the editor of the i ifgoaam witnessed, contested every inch | of ground from harricade to barricadr | from one open space to another disputing | every curhstone" until driven to Pere i, | thaise, the cemetery, and there, ''alnid l the graves of the dead, the last of the 1 strugglers laid down their lives in hone less desperate N;,lor." 1 say the day will come when the scene of that contest be tween armed Spolialion and yalorous | Labor will engage the brush of the paint CT and the pen of the historian; and thtse 6 pale faced men-eInerging from the un- | speakable misery and sacrifices of the five months siege e-their cheeks still stained with tears from loss of relatives by starvation, their bodies weakened from anxiety, sorrow, and insufficient food will be eulogized for that incomparabe manhood. sternly shown in one of the
 
 eight days without intcrmiSSion. in the streets of Paris
 Into That great city. crowned with so many memories of oft repeated Repubii- can yalor, and whose streets were yet wet at every stone with the blood n1 hon est labor, now crowded the hordeS of that corrupt civilization against Which It had made so daring and desperate a stand. Thieves, gamblers. honlevardicrs. spectators, deMi monduilles, cmbmen, foreign idlers all the army of parasites. who had fled in alright at the uprising of Labor
 Even a Tory correspondent of a Lon don newspaper grew aiSgusted, and wrote to his journal; "With stray shots still ringing in the distance, and untcnded wretches dying amid the tomhstoncs of Pere Ia Chaise with COCO insurgents hurried through the streets to be shot down in scores by the mitrailleuses it is reVoltlng to see the efifes filled with the votarlcs of ahsinthe, billiards and domi- noes; female prohigacy perambulating the bouleyardS and the sound of revclfN disturbing the night from the lHirate rooms of the fashionable restaurants"
 Mr, Edward llerve wrote in the .jotrHm de iuIts feactionary paper, suppressed by the Commune Paris has now a fefe day appearance, which is sadly out of place; and. unless we are to be called Ertsifn de Id decadencp, this sort of thing must come to an end" And he quoted this passage from Tact,s "Yet on the morrow of that horrible struggle. even before 1t was completely over, Rome -degraded and corrupt began once more to wai.ow in the voluptuous slough which was destroying it's body and pol hitting it's soul.
 The captalistic hosts. everywhere. all fraterlized and reioiced even the con querer and the conquered of Germany and France over the ruthless massacre of the proletarians.
 Bismarck remarked that it indicated the final repression of new society. It was rather the beginning of the crumb- ling of the old. The story of the unpar- alleled struggle of the Commune began at once to capture the sympathies Hf the proletarlans of the world. 1t has sho , n its effect in tbc ,tforts for the universal organization of Labor against that spur ious few who have a vested right in the products of the proetaire. and authority to rule over him. and who showed by their unnatural ferocity in his massacre alike their greed for wealth and their hatred of the men who produce it.
 The French working class of the Com | mune was only the advance guard of | modern Labor. And thousands of work | men know this. They saw by this strug- gle that all governments are in accord | against the wage-slave. That these gov ernments form a sort of international as- sociation for the degradation and ensave- ment of Labor: and therefore. they have | begun to form an international brother | hood of themselves. and their brother | hood Is already beginning to show its | own determinations.
 With the heartfelt prayer that it may keep up it's courage in spite of small fail ures here and there,
 l am cordially yours.
 ELIZABETH NJ DEi FSCJI-IT