Arizona republican., 1899-04-03
A SPIRIT OF MURDER
Seems to Constantly Hover Over the
 City of Paris.
The Signs Are Right for Repeti- tiOn of the Bloody Scenes of Revolution of 17SS
 and 1871.

History seems about to repeat ltse,f in Paris. That unhappy city, baptized so often with blood. is threatened again with a murderous disturbance such as those which have so frequently black ened it's fair name It is but q thin barrier that stands between Paris aud q slaughter of the innocents. Uprisings in which blood has flowed freely arc of such recent occurrence as to be with in the memory of all, and the further back one goes in the c0untry's history the worse are the deeds ot this highly strung people.
 The terrible days of the revolution during which the whole country wa deluged with blood. were succeeded by q Hull that was broken after the caPture of Paris by one of those terrible niur- der waves that have given the Partisan populace so unenviable a reputation On March Is. 1871, the city was in the hands of the red republicans, and niro days later the commune was declared the only lawful government. Nothing was safe from the wild mob after that The column erected to the memory O. Napoleon and his army in one of the principal squares Of Paris was pulled down as a monument of tyranny systematic war was begun on all pub lie buildings. petroleum being used |, ignite them and the flames being fec with oil to make them burn the faster No one was allowed 10 interfere witt the progress of the flames, and the los! was incalculable. many priceless relics being destroyed.
 Murder stallled through the streets by day and night. Human life wa: counted so cheap that the sight of the dead lying in the street excited scarce ly any attention al all. While the mur- derers were killing they were them selves being killed. for the government troops under Marshal MacMahon fierce ly attacked the insurgents. and behinr hastily thrown up barricades of paving stones. wagons. household furniture and anything that came handiest. the strife ran red in the streets of Paris Cannon shot were fired at the barri- cades. vollevs were fired up and dowr the streets; the sight of a man fleeing for his life. pursued by q mob of demons firing at the fugitive until he fell riddle6 with balls. was a sight that could be seen almost every hour of some of tho days. So demouiacal had become the murderous mobs of Paris that women were shot down in the streets, and the fiends who did this. not content with killing the living, would empty their guns again and again into the facciC corpse in sheer excess of passion and wanton eagerness to kill.
 The commune came to an end only when 5000 prisoners had been taker and Paris had been so torn by strife that it seemed hopeless task to bring order out of chaos. Many of the pris oners suffered death, while number were transported. The commune was beaten down, but not killed entirely during this terrible era. The spirit ot the commune survives in Paris, and as the late riots prove, it needs only aE opportunity and leader to break ou1 red-handed once more.
 The commune and the spirit of the commune are old and familiar phan- toms of Paris. The war that gave America it's freedom gave birth in France to the hope that there was re- lief to the people from the lash under which they had groaned for so long Contemptuously kicked aside by the nobles. treated far worse than the horses in the aristocratic stables. the French peasants covered and shrunk from their prosecutors, but nursed feel ings of revenge nevertheless.
 The storm broke at last, and for once at least the people had some cause to kill. The tide of murder rose in every part of the country. Blood was first shed on July 12, 1789. in fight be- tween the people and the kings troops 1t was the first blood of q terrible era that left France satisfied with killing The streets literally ran blood Ths guillotine. called into existence by tn necessity for some means of putting an end to life that would be more eN- peditious than the comparatively slow method of execution by the headman'2 aX. cut off heads as fast as their owners necks could be barred and placed be- meath the fatal knife. King. queen. family. nobles. suspects. passed by tD the guillotine, until there was no mora aristocratic blood to be shed. and still the people thirsted for more. Then
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