Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-11-10
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France and Her Troubles

1t WOuldn pc surprising TO see Franco
| close the nineteenth century as a NOV
archy. The. French people love the sbo1.
and glitter Of q court.-Boston Traveller
Altogether, France presents picture q,
utter decentralization, in what is supnosos
to be high civilization, that should be
warning to other nations.--Pittsburg Dis,
patch.
All men who sincerely desire the main
| tenance of the French republic will hon.
for the triumph of the civil authority, fn.
otherwise a sound republican system q,
government is not possible.-Omaha Bee
France should not make the mistake ~
going to war with a foreign foe in or]e,
to prevent trouble at home. Spain tried
that and, in addition to getting licked re-
tanned her domestic woe.--Washington
Post.
This is the first time since the republic
was founded that the congress Of Franco
has subordinated the civil to the military
power. Unless Frenchmen are unlike 9th.
err nationalities they are dangerously near
a eyolution.--Kansas City Times.
The Brisson ministry, opposing revision.
found in July a solid chamber behind #,
The Brisson ministry in October advocat.
ing revision, finds itself beaten by 29B
against 243 Evidently truth is mighty
and will prevail.-New York Times.
If there were in France now a strong
bold, ambitious man he would have great
opportunity. Such 4 man could lift the
Government off its hinges. But there is
no such man. France has no Danton, no
Napoleon l., not even a Napoleon III
Atlanta Journal.
The present crisis was brought about
by rascality and corruption endeavorns
to conceal rascality and corruption. The
Dreyfus case is at the bottom of it, and
the Dreyfus case may pull down the re-
public before it is well over with.-Mem.
phis Commerc;al-Appeal.
Paris is kept in order only by the display
of a large military force and there is no
certainty that the military and the mob
might not at any moment fraternize, or
that part of the military might not side
with one mob or another part with a rival
mob.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The French republic is that only in
name. 1t has already fallen. 1t now only
" ueleIullle w nat SUI vi NONtlJr
ment will follow the despotism which the
army is in fair way to establish by the
will Of the people, and which itself cam
not endure.-Washingto Times.
Once France at the sound Of foreign
alarm rushed to repel the assault Of the
oppressor on her borders, no matter were
his forces fvefold her own. Now when
the same note is struck it incites her only
to the fiercer persecution of the oppressed
within her boundaries.-New York Press.
Under whatever nominal form the ac'
tual administra ton in France is essential
ly military. While this is in one sense a
security, it is always a cause Of weakness
in the civil government, and just now the
drift appears to be toward some sort OF
avowed Philadelphia Times.
AS long as militarism prevails in France
it can be republic but in name. The pro-
motion of the rights Of the people, the es-
Enlistment Of personal freedom and all
the elements which enter into republican
government are at war with the idea OF
military supremacy.-Atlanta Constitu'
ton.
The internal weakness of France at the
moment of England's aggressive stand on
the Fashoda question, causing the for
mer's pitiable reputation of Marchand's
mission, was largely due to the demoraliz'
ing effects of the Dreyfus scandal in its
influence upon the national spirit.-St
Louis Republic