The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-11-26
THE FRENCH REPUBLICS NEW
PERIL.

chamber of deputies should be JUST.
fed, fine illustration would be given
of the tendency of French history to
repeat itself. The dread is that the
ultra-conservatives and reactionary
elements may secure majority of
the chamber, IN which event there
would be chance that the republic
would be abolished and the throne
restored under member of one or
other of the old dyn9sties. The dy-
nasty which the Republicans think
would be established by such cham
ber is the Bonapartist and not the
Bourbon Orleanist Robert Duke of
Orleans is the tltular head of the
latter family, while no Bonapartist
since the death of Napoleon IIFs son
at the hands of the Zulus in 1879
has been accepted as the undisputed
head of the Bonapartlsts, although
Prince Victor, the son of the Prince
Napoleon who died half a dozen
years ago, seemed for a few years to
have had this distinction. His
younger brother, Napoleon Louis,
who is an officer in the Russian army,
appears for the moment, however, to
be heir to the Bonapartist pretensions.
He is the man the Republicans
fear.
This foreboding, says the Globe
Democrat, will give the coming gen
eral election in France an intense
interest for intelligent people through
out the world. Upon what circum-
stances is the possibility of Bona
partlst restoration based? It is
based on the revival of sentiments
and traditions such as would mean
little in any other country, but which
may have important consequences in
France. The revival of interest il
everything relating to the founder of
the Bonapartist dynasty in the past
few years has given new birth to
the Napoieonic legend, and has sud-
denly added to the dramatic posi-
bilIties of French politics. Theirs in
1910, in order to hold the waning
favor of the French people for Louis
Philippe, had the bones of the great
emperor removed from St. Helena to
France. 1t had the opposite effect,
however. 1t produced renaissance
of Bonapartlst sentiment, which
found effective voice in Beranger's
stirring lyrics and in the published
"reminiscences and recollection of the
heroes of Borodino and Waterloo,
many of whom were still living. The
concrete result in one of its manifest,
atlons was disdain for the bourgeois
tsCitizen King his overthrow In
1S4S in the ''revolution OF contempt .
and the establishment of the cheap
adventurer, Napoleon Ill, into
power.
To the outside world the third
republic would seem to be eternal
With its twenty-seven years of exis-
tence it stands far above any Other
governmental system which France
has had since the overthrow of Louis
XVI. century ago in the scale o
longevity. 'sFrance has broken will
kings and kingcraft forever" de
clared the late President Carnot il
a speech year or two before hi
death. That was doubtless the opin
ion which the majority of tn
Thoughtful people of the world ha,
then, and which they have still
ssThere is plenty of esprit in France,
remarked Chateaubriand, after th
Bourbon restoration under Loui
XVIII, shut reason and soun'
common sense are wanting. A cou
pie of phrases intoxicate u.s."
French character has grown great
Iy in stability and balance in th
three. quarters of a century whic
have passed since the eminent litter