The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-26
TUESDAY, yyY'E4Ss6 g. 1894 8
The Death Of sadi Carnot.

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The Death of Sadi Carnot.
Without n desire to underrate
the services of Sadi Garnet to France.
it may be said that in his death he
has brought a greater good to his
country than he could by any posi-
bility have conferred in his life. The
French are a passionate people, and
the grief and anger aroused by this
dreadful tragedy at Lyons may do
more to cement their attachment to
the political ideas which President
Carnot represented than any amount
of good government or popular rule
which might have resulted from his
regime.
What France most needs is stabll-
ity. Since the famous day on which
the despotism of centuries fell to h
ground with the Basrile, she has been
wracKed by a series of violent changes
such as no nation of less elasticity
could have withstood. 1t is h
marvel of the ages how through a
history of republicanism succeeded
bv imperialism, in turn displaced by
reactionary Bourbonism, and then
with republic again followed by en-
pire and again by new republican *
periments, she las held her place in
the first rank of arms and of civiliza-
ton. Desolated by disastrous wars.
torn by wild bursts of internal frenzy,
she has still maintained a power on
land and sea before which the strong
est nations quail, and her men of
science. letters and art have still led
in the procession of human destiny.
But to those who have looked into
the heart of French life, the demora-
lization resultant from political in
stability has been a CHASTITY spectacle.
The fin de steele craze which is SO
finpantly spoken OF. above all by the
French themselves, is in reality a
sickness of heart and brain loath-
some to contemplate, and deadly in
its consequences if the remedy be not
found. We are inclined to trace this
state of morals almost entirely to the
political conditions that have existed
for a hundred years. We see similar
conditions In business where the
volcano of revolt is ~momentarily on
the point of an irruption, where in
every mans mind political chaos is
merely a question of time. This is the
history of South American republics.
1t is the condition of many of them
today. We see it spring into prevail
ence in a year or two in Brazil as
stability and confidence give way to
change and instability. We see the
slow but steady progress of purifica-
tion in Mexico, as the firm and peace
flu! rule of President Diaz lengthens.
out from year to year.
It cannot be said that at any time
the republican form government has
seemed to be firmly established in
France. Changes in popular senti-
ment, differences of policy which in
other countries excite only the ebb
and flow of party predominance in
variabiy become a menace in France
to the structure of the government
itself. No year passes without its
alarms; on the most trifing occasion,
the nerves of the nation are wrung
with vital throes, and the destiny of
the country and the peace of Europe
L., ~.1,a &l,nn Nnaa hoan in uOluad in
the jingle of a popular song.
Perhaps in the spectacle of the
deadly assault upon their National
organization by. a spirit of general
~malignity, the French people may find
new inspiration Of loyalty and a new
motive for resisting change. The blood
of the martyred President may conse-
crate the system of which he was the
head in the hearts of the people and
the contrast between the peace and
protection of the rule, which springs
from their own suffrages, and the lurid
demon Of blood and turmoil which
presides over revolution may sober
them to a resolve which may give the
country that confdeuce in its future
which it so terribly needs,
To say that,M. Carnot was a great
man wonldbe an abuse of terms. But
he had manysef the best and most
useful qualities ofogreatness, and was
r from the dangerous ambitions OF
genius. He was a sincere, deyout,
patriotic man, with benevolent i'm
pulses and a2good9 comprehension oil
the needs of the hour for the good OF
France. He favored peace. He stroye
to strengthen the republican institu'
tions Of the country to the best Of his
ability. Living he did the best thai
was In aim forathe good of his fellow
men, and If helhad not the privilege
of dying for al great cause, there il
hope that from his blood may spring
great and beneficent results.
Glass Under High Tariff.
The making Of window glass began at Salem
Mass. during the reign OF Charles l., and has beer
prosecuted continuously in various parts OF tn
country ever since. If 1t was an infant in the yea
1895. IL must now be in its dotage, for whereas j
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