The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
EFFECTUAlLY ExTlNGUIsHED.

When a puffed-up hero, so-called, col
lapses, the outcome as to his career Is gen
orally discussed to an extent equal to the
range of his notoriety. When the great
NAPOLEON fell, the question as to what dis
position would be made of him was one
which occupied every tongue and every
print throughout Christendom; so like
wise with NAPOLEON III; and now that
BoULANGER has been laid on the shelf
among the back numbers, the question as
to what he will do hereafter, if anything,
although not as important now as it would
have been a year ago, is discussed with
some show of interest in many quarters
and casually in nearly all. The French
press of course furnish the most interest
ing reading on this point. a concensus of
opinion gathered from such sources
shows that politically lie brav gen
eralem is completely laid out, and
the suggestion is almost universal
that he will end his days in poverty and
obscurity. This leads the New York Post
to note the fact that poverty has already
overtaken good many of his followers,
who were, as is common in such cases, ad-
venturers down on their luck who saw
a chance, by attaching themselves to pre-
tender of the Napoleonlc type" to obtain
places of honor and profit. Just where
there is or has been anything resembling
the little corporal or his chief successor,
THE HERALD confesses its inability to dis
cover-an inability, however, which is
based upon the absence of the facts them
selves.
The memory of the coup d etGt of 1851,
says the Post, and of the good things it
brought to MoRNY, St. ARNAUD, PERsIGNY,
FLEURY, and the rest, has not died out in
Partisan cafes and billiard-rooms. To
many of these men their connection with
BoULANGER brought them not only free
board and lodging at the headquarters"
but a most grateful respite from the pur-
suit of their creditors. The election has
been a cruel blow to them, and has, accord
ing to Figaro, reduced some to restitution
already. AS to BoULANGER himself, there
are many curious confessions of shame for
ever having believed in him. One very
interesting one describes the Intoxicating
effect produced on party of artists dining
at a restaurant one night by the spectacle
marching to serenade BoULANGER at his
house, in the early days while he was still
in the service and in command. They
were so carried away by the music and the
spectacle that they would have all voted to
make him dictator had the opportunity
offered itself at that moment. Looking
back now to that incident, the party can
not understand their own frame of mind.
1t is interesting as showing the standing
danger to French politics, which lies in
the excitability of the national tempera-
ment unrestrained by strong political
traditions.
The mercurial nature of the French,
coupled with unquestionable bravery and
devotion to their country, is their principal
characteristic 1t has doubtless been a
knowledge of this shifting and uncertain
quality in politics that has caused the ad-
herents of the fallen general to hang on to
the hope that something would yet take
place by means of which he could returnin
triumph to Paris; it is this, also, which has
caused contributions, now diminishing
every day, to flow into him before and dur
ing his exile But this was shown to be
1allaclOuS Dy GHS ldSG S4SCIlOHo III AahOC'
and vet there remain few in whom the
flame of hope still family t1ickers, but it
will go out eventually, If not Immediately.
The expectation of crisis which would
precipitate general rush and turn things
upside down, thus creating confusion out
of which profit might come to them, must
be utterly dissipated by this time.
The worst of it for BOULANGER is that
in his complete prostration there will be no
sympathizers and at his funeral no mourn
ers. 'sThe enc man of standing and re
spectability," says the Post, ''who has lost
seriously by the election is universally ad-
mitted to be the Comte de Paris, the rep
resentative of the old monarchy. He knew
BoULANGER to be liar and a charlatan, and
vet he gave his followers directions to sup
mort him, in the hope that if BoULANGER
succeeded, the subsequent and inevitable
confusion would give the crown back to
the Bourbons. There is degradation of
rovaltv in all this which is now causing
hitter tears to flow in select circles. The
king in a conspiracy with a paltry adven-
turer to make the only regular government
of his own country the laughing stock OF
the whole world, is spectacle which the
faithful now can not bear to recall. And
then the Republicans who expelled him are
able toplead it in complete justification of
their course. which at the time seemed
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