Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-15
BOULANGER AND THE POLITICIANS
Tho Political Situation In Franco with
References to ihe Dspossd GencraG.

References to the Disposed Gsncral.
New York Graphic.
The de cision OF The FreHcl War Office,
sustained by President CArnot, to place
General Boulsnger on the retired list Of
the French army, is one CT those political
blunders which may a. any moment
assume the proportions Ct great
crime. There is something TO be ssld
for the French President, but the
dilemma in which the popularity OF Bou-
LANCER apparently Placed him has only be-
come more DANCE. Gus by the action now
taken. That ACTON eff ,rds an opportu-
nifty to briefly sketch the causes of such
effects; all the more 81 because the shift
ing and shifty details of French politics
move so rapidly as TO obscure fsir I'M
Outstanding by sny outsider who does not
make special study thereof. Before
sketching these causes it is well
to give some words to BouIsnger,
and to the Ministry by which he is
urquestonably sacrificed to the phantom
that the possible early demise Of Kaiser
Fritz snd the accession of his SOD, the
'Brummsgeu" successor, in the Junker-
German "mind's eye" of Frederick the
Great, has projected upon the mental re-
tina OF nearly every French statesman at
his writing. There is d good deal Of
force in the idea which is probably at the
bottom Of President CARROTS poll ".
That is, the great need Of finding line
and room for making the internal admin
istrEtion Of France fl with the external
forms OF the republic.
IT'S GRAVE DANGER
10 40 net - Gfs
fact that the internal adm 'nistrstion,
policy and staff, has been anti-dsmo-
cratic and easily pro-monsrchlcal or in
perisliet except az few great ceuters.
Even the removal CT chiefs mas rot cured
this. In the multiiarious rural army OF
sub Officials, which practically includes
magistrate, parish priest, school
master, mayor, gendarme, octroi and
tax collector, as well as courts
and the clerical force Of the
great buresuX, departments and
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, the old order is still
strongly entrenched. On the other hand
there is enormous dissatisfaction in all
the great industrial centers. Socialists
and communists, not by sny means the
same thing, have provoked and DOW carry
forward powerful agitation. There are
other factions as significant, dangerous
to Whist such elements call the bourgeois
republic. Outwardly there is the great
fear of Germany and the enormous
drain Of the French military, which now
rises to over 2,500, 600 men liable
20 duty, one-hslf OF whom are under
arms. Whist controls NJ. Carrot and Pre-
mier Tirard is tie ghost OF "oppertun-
ism,"s noble and exalted policy when
first presented by Leon Gambetts as 6
guide for French craftsmanship, but OF
Lister years timorous and psltering ex-
cuse for good deal of corruption and
some cowsrdice. What opportunism WAS
will be briefly indicated herein. M.
Tirard, the present Premier. was one Of
the smaller, though a very respectable
follower Of Gsmbstta.
General Boulsnger is still syoupg nsr.
He was discovered as soldier by Gam
beta, who, during his wonderful six
weeks Of dictatorship at Tours in the late
winter Of 1870 II,
CREATED NEW ARMY
Of 6G0, 900 men and Offered them largely
by men of his own selection, wisely
tahiog the younger line ana field officer,
who hid shown acter in the war.
Bcuianger was major. He was made
q colonel and then chief Of brigade.
Recalling the personal impression he
made when wishing this country st the
York town Centennial celebration, and
follow ing later career closely, Boulsnger
impres 7ed an impartial critic as man of
soiM organizing ability, an immense
Snount Cf quiet self-poise, more English
Sven than French in manners, with plenty.
Of ambih on, but not one ssof thsi
teu;psxs.oses style for coup E d'ets5E
8 European soldier says thkt Boul-
anger's place Is chief OF stsf-thst shig
equivalent in the German army might
be Count Waldersee, or In the Russiaps
servicei the present chief Of the CzazS