Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-11-11
THE RED FLAG.
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CHAPTER vi
on the Ramparts.
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and many a wounded MoDlot was car
ried to the ambulance on litter. never
to leave it alive; and many mothers
heart was tortured with fear for her
sons; and many a Rachel wept for
those that were not But though the
roar Of canon Numbered, or grumbled
sullen and duly in the distance, the
National Guards within the walls had,
what their American friends called,
a good time The watch upon the ram
parts was the most onTous duty, and
it was only the night-watch-the cold
shelter Of tent, whore the sentinel.
returning from duty, generally found
an intruder snoring upon his own par
dcular knapSack, and under his own
particular rug which the honest citizen
soldier found In somewise hardship.
For CASTOR Mortemar young, vigorous
fun Of enthusiasm, ready, like Flourens,
to lead FIVE battalons to the fray, IL
need were. the cold nights Of October
and the canvas quarters were as moth
ing. His mind was charged with en-
thusasm as with electricity That
bitter defeat. that day OF humiliation
yonder. on the Belgian frontier seemed
10 him the Justice Of the gods, the sal
walton Of France The Man Of Dccem-
Der ana Sedau-it was thus BlanquistS
and Internatiouals spoke Of the late
Bmperor-was dcthroned That Bm-
pire of cliuquant and fiouerie had crum-
bled into dust 7 Infame fut ecrase, and
France was free 10 achieve her glorious
Destiny. MS the Eberator Of the world,
and TO establish the millennium Of
Communism the peaceful reign Of
blouses, blue and white, the aporheosiS
OF Bellcville and Mcuilmoutaut
In many "A fcryd speech CASTOR de-
picted the glories Of that coming age,
youder at the club of the Foles Ber-
CERES, at TWO steps from the Boulevard
Mouum8rte, where the talk ranged ever
from grave 10 gay, from the passion
ate OrltOry OF the fanatic TO the low
est deep of plague and hutfoonery.
There, ana in the Sale Fayre ANA in
many other such places, Castor
preached his gospel Of free labor, every
man his own master, every workman
his own capitalist, no concentration OF
profits, no man permitted % grow rich
boy the sweat Of another mans brow
gFhc civilized world has outliyel
black slavery he cried, hut SO long
as we still have white slavery the
slavery of the jouIneymau under the
heel Of the capitaHs,-the is no mean
Ing In the word civilization; there is
no such thing ON earth as justice
lie paced the ramparts, ohassepOt I'M
hand fun of such thoughts, ready to
repulse the prussians, who had not
the least idea of attacking lastiou or
curtain while the gradual work OF eN-
haustiOu was going on within the
charmed circle; and it was only q ques-
ton of SO many months, 50 many
weeks SO many days, when starving
Paris must surrender Already there
had been talk of au drmistice, and
already that heroic cry of jules Fayrc,
hurled like "a gauntlet In the teeth of
the enemy "Not an inch of our terri
tory. not stone of our forJreSses,'
sounded bittcrc~t mockvry.
Gaslou's belief i'm the power of
France against Germany was growing
fecblpr every day, but his faith in the
great French people, as represented
by the blouScs of Paris, and in the
Commune, as the perfection of govern
mcnL grew day 10y day We're not
the people showing every hour OF what
mobile stun they were madef See how
steadily they faced the tcrrors of a