The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-26
THE GOSSIP FROM PARIS.
Boulanger Has Taken Quarters at
Brussels and Is Trying to
Enter Society.
Why q Political Patriot Prefers
Imperialism to a Repub-
lican Form.
The ROthschilds Will Furnish More Money
for the Cxar-Batting Was Not
Abolished.

Especial Correspondence of THE INDEPENDENTS.
PARIS, May 1O.-There is a good deal to
be heard in Brussels about Gen. Bonlanger.
that arch fraud. As all are aware. he has
left Jersey, where there was not that oppor-
tunity of making a 'splurge" SO dear to the
rider of the cavortinR black horse, and has
determined to live in Brussels. What the
good people Of Brussels have ever done to
have Boulanper inflicted on them no one
seems to know; but there he ia. Boulanger
tells his friends that he is going to enter
Brussels Society" He possibly may enter
society Of a certain kind, but Brussels 90
ciety, although pretty mixed, will draw the
line at B%oulanger and his encourage. He
brings the madame with him, for with
out her he could not live-not senti-
mentally, but financially. Boulanger
probably speaks the truth when he says he
left France a poor man, for after all he had
not worry many opportunities Of stealing,
and his friends took very good care that
he did not neglect them when the "divvy''
came of what he did manage to make sticks
but he left it indirectly a rich man, as the
caracolling of the black horse and the gla-
mour of prospective power put Madame
Bonnemaine's thousands at his disposal.
An old imperialist was talking last even
ing about the current saying that ''Imperi-
alism was dead" He is a politician first
and a patriot sftewards-that is to say that
he cares little what king he is under pro-
vided he has a share in the piokings. He
says very frankly that he prefers imperial
ism, rs he the cam make more at
that game than at republicanism.
There 10 plenty Of money flying about under
n republican government, but, as he truly
is a case of too many cooks. His idea was
that Imperialism was as much alive in
France as any form of government, but it
was dead as far as the Napoleons were con-
cerned, for the simple reason that none of
the present generation we're smart enough.
Given a clever Napoleon, and there would
be an empire in France at the first sign of
trouble. and should any man of genius
arise. whether his name be Napoleon or AL.
phonse, he would run a very good a of
being emperor of the French, and he would
keep it just as long as he had brains to do it.
intimate with the Rothschilds and ali their
doings. says that all this talk of that emf
nent arm not financing the proposed
Russian loan on account of the persecution
of their people in Russia was sheer rub
bish. The loan was postponed purely and
pAiiRAy Will U uuO Il III UhO i
Things financial are just as bad here as
they are in America, if not worse, and
shares in a mountain of gold would not go.
The public never, as q rule, tumble over
each other in their haste to take up a
Russian loan at the best Of times, and they
never identify themselves with anything
that does not go" and they are simply
waiting. Besides, if they refused to finance
this loan they would simply be playing
that very senscless game of cutting
f face. 'h The Resf iH Sp p1e de shslT
interested in financing the car, and if any
thing happened to prevent another loan it
would be these same people who would
suffer. Most Of the money subscribed on g
new loan comes back to the Rothschilds in
the shape of commission, bonus, or interest
on some previous loan.
In spite of the Introduction against bet
ting. there is plenty of it going on. A bet
ting bill will very shortly be passed, and,
from all that can be learned. things will be
very much as 'they were before they was."
The chamber has not so much changed its
mind with regard to the evils of betting as
that n. Constans will probably come to
some 'arrangement'' with the opposition.
The government must have quite a tidy lit
tie sum at it's disposal, which M. Constans
will no doubt be willing to place where it
will do the most good-and that won't be
1or improving tne Dreeu OF horses. III he
could improve the breed of some of the two
legged opponents of the bill it would be
money we'll spent.
M. Blanc, they say, is furious about his
treatment ct Newmarket on the Two Thou
sand Guineas day, when he was refused ad-
mission to the Jockey club stand. The
French Jockey club are an extensive body
Of men--in many cases more so than their
English brethren-and they refused to num-
Der among their members either Baron
Hirsch or NJ. Lefevre. The English Jockey
club draws the line at keepers Of gambling
bells, which, to call a spade a spade, M.
Blanc undoubtedly is. He doesn't exactly
stand behind the tables at Monaco, but he
owns the biggest share of that well-furn-
ished and p~rettily situated shell on EARTH"
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