The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1891-04-24

T3 iWf"tN ~ women, moDlHtyt
enthusiasm Par
is underground has cellars. vaults, sew
ers, Plutoniau haunts, dark ness, salt
peter and death But life is there with
death-a kind Of life-and the two some
times conspire Then comes tcrmentl-
tion, a sort Of horrid foanling, and the
underground sea spnmes up through the
cellars, floods the streets and the whole
world. Strange that the cellars of Paris
should hold not only the soil but the seed
germs of civilization!
II the broad country side uf the nations
the under man lives in 4 hut or cabin. A
bird Sits on tic roof comb and sunlight
crceps through the chinks But in Paris
the under man lives in Il vuHt This Is
true also in London and New York. and in
all your great inassed populations The
under man, the bottom man, the real earth
man, livea il q ccllAr; his wife also, and
His children It y nat good place to live.
The French Revolution began above
ground in the kingdom Of thought. but
the drDpings Of it fell into the parisian
cellars, Within a year from the beginning
tie very sewers were full of foam. With
this SuNtcrraut:tu ctfcrVrscence all shapes
ana fortns werr cast " the surface 1t WA
rs if the sca hal yunited. Unknown
creatures came up from the pit Of that
horrd stomach and began to swim and
Shrek and fight. Among the rest there
w;ls spcwe,l forth Il d0ctor--Dr Marat
Dr. jean Paul Marat, OF Mara, rs his
father spelled it---Et sort of spectral pygnly.
not five feet high. hllt bearing a Inonstrous
head and hideous face. He was DR. Marat:
his enemies said Il horse doctor. But that
was slander. True he had been vctcr-
nary surgeon to the Conle d 'Artois, dcs-
tined after tHirty-7fotlr years to he King
Charles x Of France But Jean Paul was
also doctor OF men, a good one too, who
had spent many years IN London, where
he wrote essays aud books and learned to
hate the British aristGcracy. The Comte
d'Artois made him physician OF the guards,
az well uf his horses--this i'll LIT, for
his hour was not yet come <...
Mnrat had for Ills mother Louise Cnbrol
n tiencrese Caivinist, which accounts for
one part Of him. but ho had for his father
Jean Paul Mara, of Cagljari, on the south
ern coast ol SARDINIA, and this accounts for
another part, lie WAS cross between
Italian and Calvinist--u sort Of hybrid OF
assassin und taialist. He was born May
a, 1144, being five years older than Mira
beau and fourteen years older than Robes
pierre. In his youth he studied medicine
for two years nj Bordeaux, and presently
became All o&l1Ist Of 10 mean skill.
At this period Of his life he absorbed his
social and philosophical opinions. which he
carried with him, first to Paris, then into
Holland and afterwarl to London. In his
thrticth year lie began as an uilthor, and
in II published his first political treutise,
under the significant name Of the "Cliuit4s
of Slavery" He remained in London
three years longer writin.; Oh nte,iical and
social questions, and WAS then recalled to
France to prescribe for the guards f;tnd stud
of Il riF h
an annual salary OF 1900 ivrcs for his ser
vices, y promising man already was DIR.
jean Paul ". 3-4z. ,my
But we must pass over much. After ten
years the call was issued for tho assem-
bling Of the states general. Now it was
that Marat plunged into the swim and be
gan to trouble the already troubled waters.
With the opening of the states general
many patriot Frenchmen were disposed to
take the English constitution as the model
for new France But Marat hal seen enough
OF the British system, and i'll September Of
$50 he published a powerful monograph en-
titled "A View Of the Vices of the Consti-
tuition of England" Already the pygmy
with the monstrous head had become Il
democrat and olutionst--according to
the gospel Of Rousseau o.
With the beginning Of the conflict proper
behold Marat III Parisl He has become Il
journalist, the most ludacious that has
ever yet appeared among men First he
founded The Moniteur Patriotc, then The
Publiciste Parisien, and then, on the 10th
OF September, l7s9, The Ami du penplc, or
Friend Of the People, journal which from
that day became the vent of the FAubourgs,
the very mouth and soul of the sanscu-
lottes.
In this paper Marnt began to pour out
without measure the very essence of radi-
calism and audAcity His attack was on
eyarything-on the monarchy, on the king,
on the royal family, on the aristocracy, on
feutal France. on everything that was
above the earth. Whatever was in power
it was his lifelong policy to oppose. Now
it was a man, now IN institution. and now
u principle at which he spat his venom.
The Ami du Peuple became tho mouth
piece of all discomfort, vomiting floods of
invective acrid us vitriol, fierce AS fire.
1t was not long until the authorities
pounced upon Marat and his dangerous
engine, but he divcd and iiod to London.
The pygmy with the monstrous head had
now become an unqucnchabe volcano.
His fires had caught behind him, and he
was soon able to return to Paris and re-
issue his paper Nevertheless he had to
dive and duck out of sight. He disap-
pcared from the kingdom of daylight and
became the god of the neither world Sub
terranean Paris received him. Hadcs gave
a loving gulp and he was safe. Dark, un-
discoverablo vaults opened for his print
ing press and editorial stool. Ami du
Peuple, from being the mouthpiece of the
Faubourgs became the mouthpiece of hell.
Once and again the specter was routed
from his hiding place. and in the close of
1871 he escaped TO London. There he wrote
his tEcolc du Citoye,l," or ''School for the
Citizen" a snusculotic text book of insur-
rection and blood.
In four months, however, the Club of
the CordcIicrs called him back to Paris
The war with Austria famed up on the
horizon and the revolutionary purity in tho
capital needed every auXiliary--eYon tho
pen of Marat. The Ami du Peuple burst
out more furicusly than ever. It is prob
able that the atrocious scheme for the mas
sacre of the loyalist prisoners was Matched
in the brain of Marat, and that he inocu-
lated the giant Danton with his malign
purpose. At all events, ttp September
massacre was the glory Of Ami du Peupie
and its editor The five foot goblin rose IN
the bloody arena, and was chosen one OF
the representatives to the national conVeh-
ton from the commune of Paris.
But his work in that body by no means
took him from his editorial stool. He had
learned that his journal was the real weap-
on of power, aud though he presently
changed the name to Journal of the French
Republic he never .elinquished his throne.
He now came up. however, from tho sub
terranean world-came up reeking; for he
had lived in cellars, and starved and sut-
fered and raved and cursed until horrtd
diseases had seized him. His skin was COLI
RQmed with sort OF scrotulous eczema.