Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-23

TO extend my influence beyond the nat
ural line ] have pointed out to you"
NapOleon's zeal for the honor Of
France was nothing less than majestic
During his reign he would allow no
insult TO be published either against the
former kings or against Marie An
toinette or even against the Bourbon
claimant. Louis XVIII. No one ever
succeeded in gaining his favor by abus-
ing his predecessors or rivals. In a let
ter to his brother Louis, king Of Hol-
land he said:
II do not separate myself from my
predecessors and regard myself as re-
spOnslble for them all. from CLOVIS
down to the committee of publice safe
ty, and all the harm that Is lightly said
Of governments that have preceded me
is said, | consider. with the intention
OF insulting me. | know II has become
the fashion among certain people 10
praise me and 10 cry France down, but
those who do not love France do not
love me, and those who speak IN OF my
people, l hold them for my bitterest
enemies.
your majesty win find a brother in
me II | find a Frenchman IN you. II
you forget the feelings which attach
you 10 our common country, you will
not think 1t wrong that should forget
the ties which nature has placed be-
tween us"
Meneyal, who accompanied Napoleon
In the capacity Of secretary, says that
after inspecting large factory at Jouy
he took the cross OF the Legion OF Hon
or from his buttonhole and handed II TO
the manufacturer saying:
Here IL my cross. | like to reward
services Of all kinds to the motherand
Peaceful war made against the enemy
I'm your workshop Is no less efllcacious
than the war waged on battleheds."
To one or his ministers he wrote from
the battlefield! "As q general rule, the
best way 20 praise me Is to do things
which may inspire the nation, the
young and the army with heroic feel
ings"
Napoleon's liberal treatment of van
Qulshed foemen Is frequently depleted
In the annals OF his reign, not merely NJ
q phase Of gallantry 20 be expected in
q warrior, but as n shining trait in his
character, ConsplratOrs who sought his
ruin and even his likelihood and traitors
who betrayed his cause were forgiven.
Says De Bausset, project OF the palace,
"Once the first feeling OF annoyance
over. Napoleon always pardoned."
IAN that ! know ~ him proves that
he possesses n great soul, whioh quick
ly forgets injuries" wrote the Duchesse
d'Abrnntes. In this vein she recalls
the words Of Napoleon to q minister
who handed him the names Of dozen
powerful consplratcSs that had been
detected I'm the work with the query,
what does your majesty command
with respect to this affairw
"Nothlngl"
The other looked at him with aston
ishment and again offered his list, but
the emperor smiled and repeated:
Nothing at all, my dear count. I pun
ish my enemies only When their mach
nations interfere with my projects
for the good OF my people II Is for
that. not because they oppose me, that
punish them am less Of a Corslcan
than ] am thought"
In the island OF llba, speaking OF his
possible return 10 France, the emperor,
abandoned and already betrayed by his
best friends. exclaimed
IL win punish nobody ! wish TO for
get everything"
And when on his return 10 the Tut
lcries ON March 90, 1915, he received Mt
one and the same time documents sign
ed by those same projects and officials
declaring their adhesion TO the restored