The morning call., 1894-06-25
BOHEMIAN AND FRENCHMAN.
WE'LL Speaks of the Political
Aspects OF the Crime.

Aspects OF the Crime.
The clubs of Americans where the
Frenchmen enjoy associate mem oership-
and what club is there where the French
man is not as good an American as the
native citizen ?-djd not escape the somber
overcast from the great shadow Of death.
There was no one in the reception-room
of the Bohemian Club when Mr. Wein
en- tered 10 repeat his story. save
the eompanionship of the famous
counterfeit presentmenis on the
wall. The Seven Ages of Shakespeare
were pictured there as The melancholy his
tory Of life from the infant. mewling ard
puking in its nurses arms TO the one
stage beyond the clean and slippered pam
taloon: second ehildishness and mere OBJ
HvioD. sans teeth. sans eyes, sans taste,
sans everything. DreariDess and death
ana the unletJered future were the spirit
of the envIons into which Mr.. Wein
stepped and tried TO give expression to his
own sense of grief.
Yes, Carnot is dead" he said quietly,
''and good and houored man is gone.
France will suffer as must every nation
when virtuous man, its chiefest officer, is
taken from her. The news has come to Us
a
we have little left In mind TO say. 1t bears
some parallel to the assassination
Of Lincoln. Sometimes, it seems, these
calamities must come, and usually the in
Docent suffer. Henry " went down
under the knife of the fanatic Ravalllas.
Garnet was so quiet and unpretentious Il
man that il seems preternaturaiIy cruel
that be should have been thus carried off,
to leave behind a widow than whom Z
mole beautiful and blessed woman could
not be found. Then to leave behind a
nation who honored him and looked rev.
erently up to him, because be had helped
her through a pass in history that none
but his kind could have done. was a cruel
blow Of fate upon the men that still abide
this side the grave.
France is brought into no danger by
the assassination, but that does not dimin-
ish the grief, for Carnot rendered the state
a peculiar service. He came into the
Presidency when there was danger that
the chief executive power would fall into
the hands of the extreme radicals. M
Jules Ferry. since President Of the Senate
and deceased within the last year, was his
powerful opponent
"CaTnot was compromise man. descend
ant OF an old Republican family. He had
won fame and honor In his career as Mn
ister of Finance under Grevy, by insisting
upon an equitable tax levy, and by break
ing the power of ring which had hith-
erto obtained fayors at will from the Gov
eminent. The credit of this coura-
geous deed brought demonstrative
public approval when his election to
the Presidency was announced. Entering
upon the duties OF his office. be at once
refused to recognize the Extreme Repub-
licans and commenced to concilate and
draw together the Moderates. In that
work he was engaged until this sad tidings
came to US to-day.
"Under the presidency Cabinet after
Cabinet has fallen on account of dissen-
sions in the Parliament. but you will
notice that CaTnot has never allowed the
new Ministry TO 20 beyond the member
ship Of the moderates to form its con-
stituency. Through the most trying diff
culties he has held 10 that policy, which
has never differed since the presidency of
Grevy.
He was never a pronounced man in
any regard. 1t was his aim TO hold him.
self strictly within the limits OF his execu-
u
belongs to the President OF the United
States, for the Chief Magistrate OF France
is not even the head OF army and navy.
Carnot never hesitated to carry out the
wishes of the Parliament because Of
any personal fear or prejudice, so
while not outspoken in his hostility 10
anarchism and socialism. he always sp-
peared 10 the advocates of these philoso-
phies as an inevitable block in the way of
their progress. When the anarchists Ra-
vochol and Henri were condemned petit
tion made to him for Communication of SEN
tence had ne effect, and that is unGoubt-
edly why he was assassinated.
"But why should the murderer have
struck at bim9 Surely he is the head OF
the nation IN name and form. but tile Dep
uties and The Ssnate are the real seat Of
Government. Al them the blow should
haye been made as Henri made il, il the
anarchists wanted revenge for grievances.
Carnot did not deserve it.
1t may not throw much light on the