Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

ing pace with the daily increasing number
of General Boulanger's electors and ad-
herents.a
Quite recently fresh outcry was raised
against us a propos of the Atchinof incl
dent. We were denounced as traitors, The
cry came, not from the street, not from the
people, but from Parliament. We were to
be called to account, not they. Here was
France and the Republic prey to disorder
and shame; Parliament without principle,
Ministers without authority, State with
out direction, the mother country forgotten,
and the national will despised.
1t is easy to see that all this noise against
the League by those in power is not the fruit
of the Sagallo affair alone. The real cause
is General Boulanger. Perhaps the new
Ministry, which rather piques itself on its
energy, thought that by ransacking the
drawers and cupboards of the Leagues OF.
fee, it might come into possession of some
secret documents that would damage Cen
eral Boulanger's cause in the eyes of the
people. But it was egregiously mistaken.
BoULANGER's POWER.
And here again is proof of the Generals
power. 1t is shown by the fact that he is
the cause of all the effervescence. Every
thing done in France to-day is done for him.
But anything the Government may now try
to do to save itself is In vain. The country
is downright sick of parliamentary
bungling. 1t is anxious for change of
some sort All parties are thoroughly con-
vinced of this. In the opinion of the coun-
try elector things can hardly be worse than
they now are, and they might be great
deal better. The whole current of popular
feeling has set in the direction of revision.
1t is useless to blink the fact. 1t is useless
to try and breast the stream. The present
Parliament, which is rotten TO the core, will
be hurled to its doom, irresistibly: From the
force of attraction exerted over the masses
by General Boulanger. from the hatred of
what exists, from felt need of reform, and
from many other motives, the country is
manifesting its will to emerge from the
present muddle; and the League of Patriots,
unless it belied its name and proved
recreant to its trust, was bound to throw in
its fate with that of the popular leader. Sup
pressed, as it now is, it will be resuscitated
under new name.
CALM BUT MENACING.
From what we have said it will be seen
| that we were the forerunners and promoters
of the movement, and that we have re-
mained faithful to our cause in thus reso-
lutely guiding the currents of public opin-
ion, and adopting, for the welfare of the
country and the salvation of the Republic,
the programme set down by General Bou-
LANCER, who now heads the National
party. The man who looms greatest in the
public mind shall always be our leader, be-
cause he has the masses by his side. In a
country where universal suffrage is recog-
nized as the supreme arbiter, the real
| traiters are those who act in opposition to
the national will. General Boulanger stands
calm but menacing, with one hand on his
sword, like a true soldier, and the other
pointing, like true patriot, to the un.
known future, while his adherents shout:
s'Revision! RevisionT' Just as the League
issued spontaneously from the patriotic
breasts of vast crowd assembled to receive
flag seven years ago, SO the National par
ty, with General Boulanger at its head,
sprang into being from the hearts of an en-
tire people. 1t is party free from conflict
ing groups and corrupt malpractices; par
ty opposed to cringing and trucking; a
party whose whole care will be to secure
honest labor with dignifed peace. We want
Republic to which the people will rally,
1 Republic without Parliamentism. No
party has right to modify the form of gov
ernment. That right belongs to the people
alone, and the people will not be slow tc
use it. PAUL DERoULEDE,
President of the League of Patriots.