Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21

| to say, street rioting-they applied imme-
| dately to Caesar Vasseur and Georges
LANCER. 1t made no difference that tens of
thousands of walters. BARRIERS, butchers
| and grocers' employees, the rank and file of
their syndcates were with them heart and
soul.
| To organize proper Paris "manifesta-
ton you must apply to specialists. Once
well started. your own men will carry it on
famously. But only after it is well started.
The heads of the syndicates knew this by
old experience: So they cheerfully paid out
so much per head to Georges and Caesar
for old hands to do the starting!
Competition and Prices.
The price per head varies. At 40 cents a
head you cannot expect to have the pick of
the flock. The late Marquis de Mores once
gave as much as 81 a head During the
Dreyfus campaign 30 cents and the papers
free became good pay, because fifty copies
of a 2-cent newspaper ought to count as an
extra dollar in brisk times
What sends up the price is competition.
During the last elections rich young swell
contested workingmens stronghold. Sud
denly one morning he sent to ''the king of
the camelOts for 100 extra first-class men.
Within hour the socialist leaders of the
district placed exactly the same order.
Both insisted on veterans. THE king Of
the camelots,'' having his army distributed
all over Paris in election time, could have
found LOCO half-experienced loafers in, say.
half a day; but he could not possibly put
his hand on 200 troops d elite at such short
notice
Both the young swell and the socialist
leaders were tirst-class customers. What
should he do? He enrolled 100 camelots-
his best.
Cry 'vive la socialer for five minutes
he instructed them. Then for five minutes
cry "A baS la sociale,'"
They did it; and everybody was content
including the camelots.
Shortly before his death old Hazard quar-
relied with Edmond Drummont, the editor
OF the Lfbre Parole and leader of the anti
semitic party. In an interview he gave away
some of his methods.
Tricks Of the Trade.
What an ungrateful person is that
Drummont!' said the old king of the cam
elots. He has forgotten that it was l who
saved him, not once, but twenty times. 1t
was who organized his return from Alge-
ria. Thanks to his money. 1 modified
twenty carriages, filled with well-dressed
business men,, to acclaim him all the way
from the Care de Lyon to the office of his
paper. l got together sixty first-class cam
elots to cry along the route 'Vive Drum
| mont" All that time / had other men burn
ing red fire and green fire, so that it should
appear that the householders along the
route were Illuminating for him! Thanks
to me he could write in his paper the next
day:
People of Paris. 1 am deeply moved by
your enthusiastic reception"
This scientific stirring up of enthusiasm
or indignation is modern thing. The last
years of the empire of Napoleon III were
troubled by real revolutionary spasms.
Blood flowed in the streets, yet the word
manifestation was not known.
Then. with the fall of the commune. came
the disarming of the people-that is to say,
the disbanding of the national guard. De-
prived of it's militia arms, overawed and
powerless against the new quick-firng guns
the revolutionary spirit of old times was
broken. Boulangism itself would have been
powerless without a new weapon.
Boulangism found this new weapon. A
way was found to rouse the people. Sci