The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-07
TWO CAPITALS.

lueIo IL Qulte tal6 OI TWO CLUES III
Europe at this moment. Paris is III ebulli-
ton and tumult, with barrcades thrown
up, the police and soldiers occupying the
streets and surrounding buildings in force,
and all without seeming cause except the
proclivties of the mob for mischief Lon
don. with twice the population of the gay
capital, is decorated and jubilant as it has
not been for many years, and millions are
in the streets patient and orderly TO wit
ness the procession of young royal couple
who have got married. The contrast is
striking, to say the least The mob has
possession of one city, bent upon rioting,
smashing property and footing, making
cowardly assaults upon the police. and the
and repression with sternness which may
yet require to be more forcible to be
thorough. 1t is not the students who are
now fomenting disorder in Paris. but the
anarchical, perpetually discontinued and
criminal element ever welcoming an at
tack upon the constituted bulwarks of
society and prone to shout "Vlye la COM
mune" whom they only mean plumber and
chaos. The debased and vicious who would
like to do likewise are just as numerous in
L0ndOn-perhaps more numerOus-but the
London working classes are far as the
poles from anarchical principles, and are
if anything much too conservative They
have other ways of ventilating their feel
ings. particularly in unrestrained public
meetings. frequently ia the parks and coca
sionally in the squares. An emeute of the
vicious has therefore no genuine popular
backing and it does not take place. Such
rows as there have been in Trafalgar
Square have been due to the assertion OF
the privilege of public meeting in public
places. and the assertion has within bounds
been successful. provided that traffic is not
blocked. Within this generation there have
been NJ extremes in London like those wit
messed in Paris, where, had the police and
soldiers acted vigorously ct first, the mob
would not have had a three days affair Of
it and made it necessary to guard the
public buildings.
Yesterdays demonstration in London is
apparently quite as remarkable an effusion
OF popular lubil1tion a characterized the
wedding OF the Prince of Wales in 1868
The lllum'Iations are as profuse. the deco
ratlons as con spicuously general and gor.
geous, the banquets as numerous and the
crowdS of sightseers as dense and enthusi-
astic. One marvelS that so much hearty
rejoicing can be evoked by the wedding of
prince and princess whom vast masses of
people never have an opportunity tn see,
let alone speak TO or know, and who are
only part of the furniture of monarchial
institutions. This trait of the national
characteristic ray be neither logical nor
rational. 1t is sufficient that it exists and
is boundlessly sympathetic. People who
have never seen the Princess smile vow
that she is the idol of the country, and
those who have only hearsay for the
Princes existence regard him as the hope
of the country when his turn in the success
sion arrives. Such is the force Of habit.
1t must be said, however, mere fawning
adulation have no serious part in this
demonstration. If the monarchy were to
go by failure of usefulness or duty the
British people would show quite as much
self-restraint and orderly organization of
settled government under a republic.
There are some who think the advent Of a
republic is IN sight, but they are sanguine.
The popularity Of this English wedding,
as il is called. is pretty strong proof that
throughout the country there is no discon-
tent with royalty. Whatever faultfinding
and grievances there are rest upon the
shoulders of the Government, and the peo-
pie make and unmake the Government.
As Tennyson phrases it. the throne itself
is broad based upon the peoples will"