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wonderful work ever struck off at given
time by the brain and purpose OF man."
L will not now attempt to repeat any
part Of the remarkable story of the
American Republic from 1889 to 1892.
1t speaks FOR itself. 1t is read of all the
world. Ii the builders OF the temple had
their doubts and their fears as to It's sta
bdiiy, how much stronger were the
doubts OF the supporters OF monarchical
forms OF government, and how strong
were their hopes that the American ex-
pertinent Would prove failure, for they
keen to enable them TO see that if this
should prove successful, their own
absurd claim OF the divine right of kings.
The history of century shows az with
continuous flashes of lightning, that the
fears OF the usurping despots and
their courtiers were well founded.
They proudly and defiantly said
that republican government in
the new world would be weak. 1t
has proved itself strong 1t was said,
and it has been continuously repeated
since, by sincere doubters and by selfish
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free Republic answer for America, it
could not be successful in Europe. In
saving this they did not stop to think
that ii Republican government would
not work well in Europe, it was because
the intrenched despotisms which they
defended and controlled, had so crushed
the people. had so eaten out their sub
stance, had so kept them in ignorance,
superstition and servility, that their re-
sisting force, their native manhood, was
destroyed.
TIE new light from America ard the
progress of philosophic thought in Ell
rope soon stirred France to her depths
and kindled fires on the affairs of Free
dem. The Bastile was torn down, be-
cause it long had been the living grave of
some OF the best men of their enslaved
country, the dungeon for the victims of
corrupt and unrestrained arbitrary power.
The government of Louis XVI. thought
to stifle the cries OF the suffering people
and to resist the tide rapidly rising to
sweep away the barriers of corrupt and
despotic rule Louis XVI. was a weak
man, with kind heart, often misiled by
beautiful, ambitious and unwise Queen.
Destruction speedily swept them both
away, and their base agents and servile
| court favorites, living on the sweat and
blood of the French population, met the
same fate. The republic sprang to life
amid the storm. The monarchists OF the
other European nations banded to-
gether ana sent forth their armies to
crush the young republic. France new
! ly organized, hurled back her assailants
in defeat and dismay. For a quarter Of
| a century Europe was the bloody field oil
conflicting ambitions, in which mon
archs, courtiers and peoples suffered and
persisted. There came the peace Of 1915
The Republic of France had died twenty
years before, tramplsd beneath the iron
heel of Napoleon, aftec it had been badly
formed and unwisely nursed and admin
| istered by those whose teachings, char
acter and circumstances rendered them
unfit for their work.
Who had created the facts and circum
stances making it impossible for the
first French republic to succeed? The
monarchs. their ministers and agents,
their corrupt courts and favorites. Louis
XIV. in bis sixty years of reign had
treated his people as his property. Louis
XIV. was one of the most corrupt and
misguided men that ever lived. Psri;
was then France, and the official life o
Paris was sink OF impurity and vice
The mass of the French nation were in
reality slaves, taxed to death to support
the extravaganza of the government, the
princes, the courtiers, the higher mobiles
One has to read the work of Arthur
Young, an English agriculturist and wri
ter, who spent many months in travelling
through all parts OF France, mingljn,
with all classes of the population, anC
carefully learning how the people lived
just before the great Revolution com
menced. More than confrmatory OF al
that Arthur Young's book contains as t.
the frightful condition of France at tina
time, are the testimonies of the bes
recent French historians, notably the
great works of Martin and OF Taine
Nothing is more fully established thar
that the crimes and failure of the frs
French Republic are chargeable to those
who asserted and practiced the DOCTRINE
that government is not of the people, b.
the. people, and for the people. So O
the French Republic of 1S48. First or
ganized and controlled by men of loft,
ideals and patriotic purposes, they founC
it hard to withstand the unfavorabl
circumstances which monarchists ha'
created. Louis Napoleon shamelessl
il
with members of the Assembly and tn
best men of France. Deep in corruption
and surrounded by court favorites, h.
rules eighteen years. Seduced by hi
ambition, blinded by his vanity, an,
crushed by Germany, he went inglori
ously to his end. Twenty-Five years ag
the present French Republic was born
1t was created because it was found i'm
pocrihln IN nStah liSh INV othar OOvaru
ment 1t was created because even tn
ablest and most experienced statesmen
who had long sustained monarchy
had the courage to declare tina
only a Republic was now possible il
France. Its twenty-five years OF life
longer than any other government ha
lasted in that country within a century
In that twenty-five years France ha
powers. Crushed by Germany in tn
war which Louis Napoleon and his satel
lites had brought abont, despoiled of he
two rich provinces of Alsace and Lon
raine, compelled to pay 81 600, 000,0 900 i
gold to her conqueror, she adopted tn
Republic while bleeding with terribl
perils. She arose rapidly to her feet
She promptly paid the vast indemnity t
Germany. She grappled successful
with the terrible Commune, and enable,
the genius of order and law to do it
work as it rarely had been done before i
French history or in Europe itself. To
day, France, so fallen, SO Inundated, il
1870, stands with the United States
These two Republics are the most pros
porous and the wealthiest countries il