The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-06
The Way They Have.

N1ME out or mind, the disturbing
element in the city Of Paris has
acted on the policy that the thing
to do is to strike down the individual
who happens to be in power, as if crime
against the ruler could settle griev-
ances or advance civil rights or pro-
mote personal liberty.
A little more than a century ago a
mob in France, protesting to have the
good of the country at heart. fattered
itself that the way to strike out for
real reform was to start a march of
royal Bourbons to the, scaffold and
Louis the Sixteenth. was made the
leader of sufficiently-long procession
whose members made their exit from
the world by that route. 1t was al
most anything in France during the
succeeding years, until the first empire
went down and Napoleon went into ex-
lie. Then, for a very few years, the
| Bourbons got back into power again,
the same as it, in the long and bloody
| interval, nothing of account had hap
! pened.
| That was the period which developed
the doctrine that thes Bourbons could
learn nothing and forget nothing"
The last of them -rule France had
to abdicate, after the mob had once
more sacked the palace of the Tuil-
leries, and the Orleanists came into
power. That was in 1880. This junior
branch of the Bourbon family did not
last long. In 1880 Charles the Tenth
abdicated in order to keep his royal
head on his shoulders; in 1S4S, Louis
Philippi of the Orleanist branch,
| prompted by the same motive, abdi-
Gated, assumed the unroyal name of
Mr.. William Smith and closed his in
glorious career by an inglorious flight
| from Paris in a public cab. Then as
the reader knows, came Napoleon the
Thirds upstart career and the second
empire, which went down at Sedan and
had its successor in the present re-
public.
Since 1871 the attacks on the republic
efforts to strike down the man in
power, as if, under a normal condition
of public opinion, a republican govern
ment could be stricken from it's foun-
dation by the murder of the ostensible
head of that republic. In France IL
has been a long era of plotting insti-
gated by the heirs or the self-consti-
tuted successors of Bourbons, Orlean'
lists, Napoleonites-each of these fac
tons ceaselessly occupying itself with
efforts to arouse the rabble to out
breaks against the powers that be. Ant
experience has proved that the leas
! trouble these disturbers have is tt
find in the populace an element that 1!
, ready and willing to be aroused. There
is a Boulanger for every opportunit!
that presents itself in Paris.
F The French government. under tn
new president, has shown itself wei
nerved to face the agitators who fint
. their excuse in the Dreyfus affair-las
Sundays indecent assault on M. Lou
bet is simply a passing illustration o
, this elements methods. The scheme
as again illustrated, always is to strik
down the man in power, if that be pos
sible, the theory being, that by this pla1
political chaos can be most readily pre-
= cipitated Fortunately, experience !
proving, as the republic grows older
that this murderous policy has less an
less to commend it even to the elemen
in the cutters that courts confusion II
public affairs.