The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-06

q sNVyS\N Women 9s n@D mobility itg,
"a enthusiasm. Par
Il Is underground has cellars. vaults, sew
81 ers, Plutonian haunts, darkness, salt
3 peter and death. But life is there with
II ieath-a kind of life-and the two some
b times conspire Then comes fermenta-
81 tion, a sort of horrid foaming, and the
q underground sea spGmes up through the
Il cellars, floods the streets and the whole
& world Strange that the cellars of Paris
h should hold not only the soil but the seed
e germs of civilization
= In the broad country side Of the nations
4 the under man lives in hut or cabin. a
B bird sits on the roof comb and sunlight
81 creeps through the chinks But in Paris
"a the under man lives in vault. This is
y true also in London and New York, and in
q all your great massed populations. The
81 under man, the bottom man, the real earth
& man, lives in a cellar; his wife also, and
4 his children. 1t is not good place to live.
The French Revolution began above
! ground, in the kingdom of thought but
q the drippings of it fell into the Partisan
j cellars. Within year from the beginning
i the very sewers were full of foam. With
q this subterranean effervescence all shapes
j and forms were cast to the surface. 1t was
as if the sea had vomitedl Unknown
q creatures came up from the pit of that
z horrid stomach and began to swim and
81 shrek and fight. Among the rest there
81 was spewed forth a doctor-Dr Marat,
Il DR.. Jean Paul Marat, or Mara, as his
3 father spelled it-a sort of spectral pygmy,
u not five feet high, but bearing monstrous
q head and hideous face. He was DR.. Marat;
9 his enemies said horse doctor. But that
q was a SANDER. True, he had been veteri-
q nary surgeon to the Comte d'Artois, des-
i timed after thirty-four years to be King
u Charles Y of France. But Jean Paul was
! also doctor of men, good one, too who
Il had spent many years in London, where
! be wrote essays and books and learned to
! hate the British aristOcracy. The Comte
Id Artois made him physician of the guards,
has well as of his horses-this in 1777, for
This hour was not yet come.
a Marat had for his mother Louise Cabrol,
kIa Genevese Calvinist, which accounts for
Hone part of him, but he had for his father
EIJean Paul Mara, of Cagliari, on the south
{iern coast of Sardinia, and this accounts for
k;another part. He was a cross between
ltalian and Calvinist-a sort of hybrid of
assassin and fatalist. He was born May
IA, 1744, being five years older than Mira
beau and fourteen years older than Robes
pierre. In his youth he studied medicine
FOR two years at Bordeaux, and presently
Became an oculist of no mean skill.
4 At this period of his life he absorbed his
social and philosophical opinions, which ne
carried with him, first to Paris, then into
Holland and afterward to London. In his
thirtieth year he began as an author and
In VA published his first political treatise,
-.x,l
of Slavery" He remained in London
three years longer, writing on medical and
social questions, and was then recalled to
France to prescribe for the guards land stud
also) of the Comte d'Artois, who gave him
an annual salary of 1900 livres for his SER
<gices A promising man already was DR..
Dean Paul
But we must pass over much After ten
Years the call was issued for the assem-
bling of the states general. Now it was
that Marat plunged into the swim and be-
gan to trouble the already trou bled waters.
With the opening of the states general
Enany patriot Frenchmen were disposed to
Jake the English constitution as the model
for new France But Marat had seen enough |
pf the British system, and in September of /
kS9 he published a powerful monograph en-
Titled "a View of the Vices of the Consti- |
button of England" Already the pygmy |
with the moIstrous head had become a |
democrat and Notwithstanding to |
he gospel of Rousseau.
With the beginning of the conflict proper |
behold Marat in Parisl lie has become a |
journalist, the most audacious that has |
ver yet appeared among men. First he |
founded The Moniteur Patriotic, then The |
Publiciste Parisien, and then, on the 10th |
Il September, 1879, The Ami du Peuple, or |
Friend of the People, journal which from |
hat day became the vent of the Faubourgs,
he very mouth and soul of the sanscu- |
bites
In this paper Marat began to pour out |
Without measure the very essence OF radi-
alism and audacity. His attack was on
verything-on the monarchy, on the king,
n the royal family, on the aristocracy, on |
eudal France, on everything that was
bove the earth Whatever was in power
was his lifelong policy to oppose. Now
was man. now an institution. and now
principle at which he spat his venom.
he Ami du Peuple became the mouth
iece of all discomfort, vomiting floods of
hvective, acrid as vitriol, fierce as fire.
It was not long until the authorities
ounced upon Marat and his dangerous
ngine, but he dived and fed to London
he pyg1ny with the monstrous head had
ow become an unQuenchsble volcano
lis fires had caught behind him, and he
Tas soon able TO return to Paris and re-
sue his paper. Nevertheless he had to
i've and duck out of sight. He disap-
cared from the kingdom of daylight and
ecame the god of the neither world. Sub
erranean Paris received him. Hsdes gave
loving gulp and he was safe. Dark, IN
Recoverable vaults opened for his print
hg press and editorial stool. Ami du
Peuple, from being the mouthpiece of the
aubonrgs became the mouthpiece of hell.
nce and again the specter was routed |
om his hiding place, and in the close of
}9l be escaped TO London. There he wrote
is ''Ecole du Citoyen," or School for the
itizen," sansculotic text book Of insur
Action and blood
In four months, however, the Club OF
pe Cordeliers called him back 10 Paris.
he war with Austria famed up on the
orizon, and the revolutionary party in the
Apital needed every euxiliary-even the
On of Marat. The Ami du PeUple burst
ne more furiously than ever 1t is prob
PIE thao the atrocious scheme for the mas
ere OF the loyalist prisoners was Matched
the brain of Marat. and that he inocu-
Ted the giant Dsnton with his nalirn
lrpose. At all events, the September
assacre WAS the glory Of Ami du Peuple
ID its editor. The five foot goblin rose in
bloody arena, and was chosen one of
representatives to the national conven-
pa from the commune of Paris
But his work In that body By no means