The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-22
DOWN WITH THE SCEPTEB.
A Congress Of King Haters Soon to
Assemble in This
Country.
Republics Will be
Represented at tho April
Conference.
of tho Representatives and the
Basis OF Observation-Disclosures
stand from Under.

| [Special Correspondence OF THE I~NDEpENDENT.l
WASHINGTON, March ~16.--Judge Arnoux,
of New York, has commanded the general
committee of two hundred to meet nWash-
ington ON April 8 to complete arrangements
for the assembling of. the n-Republic
congress in this country next year. Pan"
means all, and the congress is meant to be
a gathering of representatives Of all repub-
lies and of all republicans in the world, all
who are opposed to kings and kingcraft.
One of the objects of this Washington
meeting il to decide whore the pan-con-
gress shall be held-whether in this city,
New York or C~hicago-and another is to
perfect the schedule of the "plan and
scope"
April 10 is the anniversary of the signing
of the first American patent by President
Washington, and this date has been selected
for the meeting in recognition of the debt
that free institutions owe to mechanical in
ventions within this century. As Brad
laugh puts it, EVERY machine hates a
king"
1t should be mentioned that this pan
republic congress is in no way connected,
except in point of time. with the great Co
lumbar centennial at Chicago, or with the
bureau of American republics which has
been invented and organized by Mr.. Blaine
and its director, MIR. William E. Curtis, the
journalist and author.
The war for the union and it's outcome
gave a tremendous impetus to the self gov
erning ambition OF the people OF Europe,
and flied the friends of freedom with a
new resolve. Almost Immediately they up
rose in in every nation from Sweden to Tur-
key and formed q holy alliance for the
furtherance of republican principles, and
in 1869 one of their leaders was exiled from
France by Napoleon n sent to this coun
try.
I was at work at my desk on the New
York Tribune in that year, whom one morn
ing Mr.. Greeley sent for me and presented
me to Gen. Gustave Cluseret, asking me to
take him to certain persons whom he indi-
Gated. I knew that Oluseret has been a
captain in the French army, a colonel aun-
der Garibaldi in storming Padua, a pictur-
esquea and dashing general under Fremont,
the editor of the New Nation. and finally a
recognized foe of the French empire; but I
was not prepared for the tale he told. He
said he was an officer in the alliance of En-
ropean republicans; that they were secretly
organized in every, land; that France would
become a republic "as soon as she had
shaking up" that the seeds of s~elf-gover-
ment were sr routing in Italy andsSpain and
sOWn In Russia. After this visit to New
York Cluseret returned home and in 1870
mounted to the head of the armies Of
France. He was o suspected of treason
and arrested. but just before being led out
to be shot he again escaped-after also
lodging a sentence of death in Switzerland.
He published several books-among them
1.-The Democratic Army''-the foundation
of this pan-republic congress. a~a
This congress to meet next year will
mimic the congress of the United States in
having two brnnches-a senate and a house.
The senate will be the superior body and
will consist of delegates appointed by the
presidents of all the republics in the world
of which there are. I believe, twenty-three
-one delegate-at-large and one delegate for
every five million citizens. This will give
the United States a round dozen of dele
gates in the senate. The house, the infe-
rior body, will be composed of delegates
from the great patriotic, civil, commercial,
educational and industrial organizations.
Each of these, emitting religious organiza-
tions, shall be entitled to one delegate-at-
large, and one delegate for each 10000
members in good standing. All monar-
chies may be represented in the house by
one elegate-at-large each, and one delegate
for each five million of citiZens-thouph