The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-06
CAR In FRANCE
TRAGEDY OF THE REVOLUTION
SUGGESTED BY THE DATE OF
HIS VISIT.
IT'S SIGNIFICANCE HIDDEN.
FAR AS POSSIBLE by
OFFICIALS.
SPLENDID CEREMoNIALs PLANNED,
by an Unfortunate Combination of
circumstances Mime. Faure Is in
an UnenViable Position.

PARIS, Oct 5.-Suggestive dates
coincide with the cars two great
visits to Western Europe. AS he
landed at Leith, his wife's grand
mother. the good, the true. The consti-
tutionaI Queen Victoria, completed her
sixtieth year on the throne and the
longest reign Of any British monarch.
or of any other monarch, save Louis
the Fourteenth. who. however. in
herited the crown of France at the age
Of four. His effective reign was not
therefore so long as that of Her
Britannia Majesty. Thrones have been
shaken and overthrown around that OF
Victoria. Monarchs have been muir
dered with the knife, pistol and bomb;
but the fair, delicate-looking girl who
succeeded William the Fourth. is now
the senior monarch of the world, and
has survived during her regal career
three emperors Of Russia, one of whom
was ~dynamited. Her first aspiration
at the age of ten. on learning that she
was to succeed her Uncle William.
was ito be good" She repeated to
her governess ST will be good" and
she has kept this vow, which time has
SHOWN 0mDOQleQ the nlSn0SI pOtlllCdA
wisdom. Surely the date OF her SiXtIeth
anniversary should be an object lesson
of the highest import to the car and
his gentle young wife, and especially
e now that the moral sense of mankind
is shocked with the repeated n.aSsacreS
of Armenian christians-maSs acres for
which the cars late chancellor,
Prince Lobanoff, and his representative
at Constantinople, NJ. Neli1off, are
greatly answerable in the eyes of
history, and what is more important,
in the eyes of God.
The date that comedies with the
landing in France of Nicholas and
Alexandra is the hundred and seventh
anniversary, of the march Of the mar
ket women of Paris on the palace of
Versailles to bring back the king,
queen and their children hostages of
the revolution. Their capture was eff
feeted next day, October 6, 1889, on
the anniversary of which the car en-
tiers Paris for the first time and with
that spectacular show which the
French are so skilled in arranging
The blind worms now IN power here
are doing what they can to divest the
date, which is so far as M. Hanotaux
and Prince Lebanon (who sketched the
ceremoniaD were concerned, of its true
significance. The severe lesson that Ii
should fnculate is being hidden away.
Despotic monarchs are, humanity speak
ing. assured of irnpunity. The power
that shapes the ends Of nations as Of
individual men and women catches up
such potentates in their posterity and
often the seemingly innocent are made
to pay for the guilty as in the case of
Louis the Sixteenth and Marie Antoi-
nette. This lesson should at the pres
ent time when, with the tacit com
plicity Of France and Russia, Armen-
ians are being massacred and exiled
: IN tens of thousands, come home with
RweSome force to the minds of Nicholas
:. and Alexandra and make them trem-
bic for themselves and for their in
FAINT daughter, the darling of their
? hearts.
LESSONS OF HISTORY.
The only daughter of Louis and
Marie Antoinette was apparently born
TO the most brilliant lot Of any princess
of her time. Yet she was fated to SEE
before she was thirteen years old, her
father, mother and aunt led out to exc
cution, to be a solitary prisoner during
four years, to Witness in the course of
her life, three revolutions in France.
and to die in exile with cheeks fur
rowed with the tears that had flowed
during sixty-three years. That
daughter OF sorrows, like the Infant
grand duchess, was also on the mater
nal side descended from one who glor-
lousy reigned in her own right and
Theresa. but whose goodness did not
counterbalance the maledictions that
weighs on the House of Bourbon.
The car and czarinr are not escorted
to France by Russian warSh1ps The
French government was most anxious
that they should do so and give an
object lesson in the roads of Cherbourg
of the naval strength of France and
Russia united But Nicholas was too
much the gentleman &c lend himself to
that game OF brag, which doubtless
would have been most gratifying to
the president, who wants to figure In
the eyes of Europe az the sea king and
head of the French army. He never.
to place himself on the same n arftfme
level as Victoria, misses an opportuni-
ty to make excursions in men-of-war.
with a whole squadron in his wake.
The car, seeing through his purpose
of posing as a rival Of the queen on
the watery element. sent word that he
would be merely escorted by the sister
yacht of the Standard In which he and
the cZarina crossed from Portsmouth
TO Cherbourg. To make up for this
disappointment (for Prince Lebanon
had come into the idea OF q Franco
Russian review at Cherbourg), NJ
Felix Faure.. whose vanity grows on
what 1t feeds. caused part of the At
Iantie and Toulon squadrons to be Or
dered round to Cherbourg.
There viii be, therefore, grand
naval spectacle In honor Of the i'm
perial visitors. 1t was hoped that
they would go to witness 1t from the
Fort du Roule. on a high hin behind
the town; bat since the dynamite scare
this idea has been waived The streets
through which imperial and presidential
party would have to drive are narrow
crooked slums, and present sharp
turnings and steep gradings. extremely
inconveinent fer carriages and four
1t would have been impossible to sur
round the vehicles with a cavalry
escort IF desperate nihilists or anarch-
fists hung about. they might be able to
execute their wicked will The whole
ground was gone over by the French
minister of the interior. the director
Of public safety and French and Rus
sian detectives. All agreed that ii
would be running a great risk to take
the emperor and empress into such a
den. Any nalefactor standing at q
window could throw a bomb into their
carriage. The Fact that they did SC
: shows that the talk at Scotland yard
about a conspiracy to blow up the
car and Queen Victoria is not so idle
as tie Paris press would make believe
seart.m NJ. FAURE'S AIMS.
NJ. Faure has. however, been able
70 secure the presence of the car, in
company with himself. at re- lew OF