The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-08
A CITY OF MANAGES.
What Colonel OchiItrce Thinks of
Gay Paree.

Gay Paree.
Col. Ochiltree, traveller and racon-
teur, has returned Nine months In Paris,
two in London, COL Ochiltree has had a
New York absence OF eleven months. It
was the other day we met, I was the
gamer; it Is worth ones while to en-
counter Col. Ochiltree. To know him
is joy; to be his intimate friend, an
education. Merely to meet him becomes
an inspiration, says a writer in the
New York Verdict.
What of PARISH" said Col. Ochiltree.
repeating my question. Cray sir, abso-
lutely crazy! Paris is a municipal man
lac. You have seen luuatic? That goes
without question, for q recall that you
put In six years about congress. Well,
Paris comes to be simply lunatic, or
gained as city. 1t is camped midway
between the madhgusa and the barri-
cades.
What has done #? kbsinthe and ut
ter moral vileness- There is no doubt
Of 1t. have watchsd Rsris for 81 years
and it has been going down hill men
tally, morally. physically, nervously, for
81 years, Slapped ana under dug in each
particular by it's Vile drinks and viler
morals. Perhaps 1 should say immorals;
Paris has no morals worthy of the word.
Eyes, the topic OF all topics is the
Dreyfus case. 1t curlsi every lip, wags
every tongue, fills every Partisan
mouth. Dreyfus will yet prove the rock
upon which Paris will split. France,
for weeks, trembled on the brink Of
war with England One heard nothing
Of It in Paris. The cafes rang with
Dreyfus, while the bicker with England
over Fashoda hardly gained notice.
What would England have done to
did to Spain. The British would have
sent the French navy to the bottom
like lot Of anvils. The French navy
wouldn't have lasted as long as drink
OF whisky. A Frenchman at sea is a
Frenchman lost. He should keep off the
water. To begin with, he fears water like
cat. And he Is too hysterical, too fan
tastic, to sail boat and fight at one
and the same time. Billows and broad
sides in conjunction overthrow the
French reason. England would have
thrashed France out Of hand. It was
the French good fortune that some of
their quarterback gang had wit enough
to see it and get Marchand out OF
Egypt.
What of the French army? A mere
muster of degenerates; mankins in red
breeches. The French army hasn't the
discipline Of gang of section hands.
Dirty, dissolute, debauched; the French
army would be popular menace were
it not for its weak invirility. It hasn't
manhood enough to be dangerous. The
army Is thing of tinsel; as sordid as
it is tawdry, with morals and mentality
is no wonder those blonde. healthy
giants Of Germany thirty years ago
went over the French army like a land
slide. If Germany and France should
fight again, Germany would in month
leave nothing Of her but rags, and not
enough of them to flag handcar
Tell you of the Dreyfus case? There
is no doubt among fair minds of his in
nocence. The court sof cessation will say
SO. When it does, slook out. The mob
will rise and the mob will be the army
recruited, with all that Is thievish, sew
er-bora and mud eAsendered In the
wb1le city OF Paris The doings of the
commune will havesredoang. 1t will be a
day of blood and torch and barricades
of loot, rapine, pilage ard murder
THE Jews will b tn first objects of
attack. Even today the cry Of "A Jew! A