Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-15

I'm troops into Rome.
HN,, There was the cente-
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EN W. Valmy TUESDAY week.,
and on Thursday (the
22d September), the centenary of the proclama-
ton Of the French republic. This republic
the third republicans now existed twenty-five
years. The hundred years that make up the
French centenn ial are thus accounted for: The
first republic between the convention and the
directory lasted seven years: the consulate
three years; the first empire, twelve; the bour-
bon restoration, sixteen; the government Of
Louis Philippe, eighteen; the second republic,
four years, and the second empire, eighteen
years.
THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
Last Thursday the third republic celebrated
the hundredth ami versary Of the declaration of
the first republic. At 8 Am. there were salvos
of artillery around about Paris. which began at
noon again and Mt o'clock in the evening. At
| 10 am. there were commemorative speeches
and ceremonies at the pantheon, under the
patronage of President Carnot The pantheon,
| as everybody knows, stands on the highest
ground on the left bank of the Seine and is now
kind Of memorial temple of the republic, in
| scrlbed "a grateful country to her great men,"
| 1t occupies the site of the tomb Of Saint Gene
We've. the patron saint Of Paris, who died in
her tomb was succeeded by a church, which
having fallen to decay was removed about the
| middle Of the last century. The foundation
| stone Of the present edifce was laid by Louis XIV
/ In l764. and 1t was completed in 1880.
| In 1871, however, the convention resolved
! that 1t should no longer be a church, but a
! memorial Of the revolution. 1t was restored to
| religion in 1906, but again made a temple
in the. revolution of $780, Once more it was
consecrated in 1851 and Inst of all secularized
In 1888 for the obsequies Of Victor Hugo. The
very latest news Of this old church is last weeks
stroke of craftsmanship, by which 20, 900 francs
we're voted to pull down the golden cross which
| still remains on its roof in honor Of Thursdays
| fetes. This strikes the keynote Of that radical
| sentiment dear to the heart of the Partisan
| popuace, for whose benefit and gloriication all
these shows and parades are organized.
| THE PARADEs
began at o'clock in the afternoon-one on
each side Of the river. That Of the north side
the side of the tourists and most familiar to
Americans -marched from the Place de la Con-
corde. traversing the entire length of the grand
boulevards to the place Of the Bastile. The
! immense crowd of unwashed Parisians ILL
| tempered and cynical rather than enthusiastic.
They seemed to look on the affair as a spectacle
prepared for them rather than thing of their
own doing. The eide streets for half a block
on each hand of the route were impossible, with
platforms, ladders and seething, sweating, ILL
| smelling and screaming mass OF Humanity. with
the capital II, Of course. There a great
| deal in the PROFESSIONS to see and, true to the
principles of liberty, equality and fraternity,
each citizen attempted to see more than his
| share at his neighbours expense.
The procession moved very slowly as il was
hard for the police to push the people back,
which, to their credit, they did very gently.
| There were a number Of minor sccidents-ono
woman had her leg broken, several children
were hurt and some men arrested for resisting
! the police. The heroic songs Of death and
revolution fell rather flat on that section Of the
sovereign people which is naturally the loudest
| those who have nothing to lose The re-
public has been SO long accomplished fact
that the taded enthusiasm OF the Paris mob is
best aroused by the demands of still more ad-
| vanced reformers.
SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS AND WHAT NOT
The anarchists have been scattered but the
sovereign unwashed people, which has been the
force Of every revolution in the past hundred
years, remains. Tho prompt suppression by
military force Of recent violent strikes in
America has been watched over here with ad-
iniration b! the better class Frenchmen; and
| they reproach the government in general and
the municipality Of Paris in particular with
trucking TO the vain demands of these low and
| unbearable Parisians, who proved themselves 80
ungrateful Thursday as not to veil at the spec
tacle provided for their amusement and glorifi-
Csstloi as mucn as IOt anything else.
"a REPUBLIC OF CAPITAL"
late instance Of the vain ideas that are fl
tering through tho Paris mob is as striking as
it is characteristic Of a people who have. after
all, little in common with the workingmen of
America. The municipality Of Paris had the
idea Of erecting the Bourse du Travail-a palace
Of labor-not far from the Palace Of Capital
1t was handed over to the workingmep on the
anniversary Of one Of the bloodiest days Of the
| commune OF 1871. The official ceremony was
| pompous and inane, but when the working
| mems turn came cheers were given for the COM
mune, then the bourgeois middle classes were
blasphemed and the present government de-
clared to be the republic Of capital, and the
| principles Of On international war against
society as at present constituted were laid down
boldly. To emphasize their love Of liberty,
equality and fraternity it was declared that ali
workingmcn who did not take employment in
union with the regulating measures decided on
by the committee should be excluded from the
Palace of Labor.
THREE oBJEcTIoNa
As stranger am indebted to the Parisians
for residence In the pleasantest city Of the
world. But as the citizen OF q self-governing.
common-sense republic am constantly re-
PEELED by three things The first II the theatre
cal defamation concerning liberty, equality and
fraternity, which here have so little meaning
The second Is the fear which the better class
Frenchmen feel for the loud, underbred, igno-
rant self-denominated" workingmen." The third
Is the grosping, greedy cowardice Of the lower
middle-class Partisan shopkeeper. To all Of
them liberty means liberty, not only to over
reach ones neighbor, but to make the govern
ment help one in the attempt. This is the only
way could account for the vague resentment
felt as looked on Thursdays show.
The French idea Of the use of q government
is well illustrated BY story in the souvenirs
Of Count Joseph d Estourmel, Of socialist who
had taken refuge in Geneva. To gain liveli-
hood he began publishing weekly paper called
lie Pdrfage. The sum Of his articles was
that all wealth. whether real estate or personal
property, should be divided into equal portions.
Shortly after relative died, leaving him $4,000
francs. In the next number Of his Journal he