Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-01
4 CONTINENTAL FRAUD.

Three short years ago the gaze of the
world was fixed on the French general
Bou lauger, and mortals everywhe won
dered at the admirable audacity of the
man who said that France should re-
venge Sedan, and receive @ new consti-
tuition. France wanted to be revenged
on the Germans, but was not so partic-
ular about q constitution, yet was
willing enough TO accept that or any
thing else in reason, from the man who
could lead the French to victory at Ber-
lin or elsewhere in the kaiser's domin-
ons. Flo- Won Moltke, chastise Bis
marck, humiliate the kaiser, and then
for constitution or whatsoever youlplease
in governmental form or reform. That
was the feeling of the French people
who looked wonderIngly and hopefully
on the hero who had returned to France
in martial triumph from leading his con-
quering legions successfully against
divers and sundry tribes of African bar
barians in the region of Algiers. That
was the miserable source Of all his fame
a few skrmishes and forays against
African savages. Yet, such was the
loud mouthed Boosting of this windy
hero, such his buster and bravado
about bringing Germany TO the feet of
France, and being compelled
to surrender up Alsace-L Lorraine
that all Frenchmen listened with mouths
wide open to what Carlyle would proba-
bly, call 1.-the mad vocables of the mud
god. All the world asked ''is he
another Napoleon, this Boulauger?'
"Yes, " said one-half of it, "Let US
wait and see, said the other half. In
the meantime while the world was lost
cal and hard-headed authorities of
France-GrevY and the rest, whose
searching knowledge had pierced the
veil that concealed the hero's nothing
ness, managed to get him bundled out of
the country as disturber OF the peace,
ana an enemy TO Republicanism.
Immediately Bonn bastes Furioso, hav-
ing gathered about him a motley crew of
sham patriots and adventures, raised a
deafening cutlery against the tyrants and
usurpers that disgraced his native land,
and organized in England q propaganda
to undertake their overthrow and the
publication of the republic. woman,
q duchess, and q most ardent admirer
aud-lover, shall we say?-of the mud
god, fried out to the tune of three mil
lion francs to put the rebellion On its
feet, and the hero in the Tuilleries. Not
a soldier was enlisted, or uniform, gun.
saber or cannon purchased, and
yet the three millions giveu
the mud god had disappeared with
nothing to show for them, nothing TO re-.
unnumbered Baochanalian reyels-wine,
women and song-with which the sham
hero, the wind bag and mud god had
solaced himself and defeated the miseries
of an exile's life. Instead of mounting
barbed steeds TO fright the souls of fear
full adversarIes, he capered nimbly in
lady's chamber to the lascivious pleas
ing of n lutte. He IS now known for
what he is, a voluble braggart, a noisy
inanity, frothy hero, gaseous bubble
fed by noxIous and noisome element,
duh coXoomb and military prig, and q
maladroIt revolutionist devoid of princi-
pie, honor or patriotism, who would, i
he could, turn the world upside down
for hour of fame, or nights revels
in the arms of Delilah. Yet he had
has little hour upon the stage, proudly
con scious that the sound and fury which
he vented, amazed and thrilled, not
some hundreds or thousands, but millions
as we'll The bubble is bursted, the
sham exposed, and nothing of him re-
mains, but the memory of a monumental
fraud.