The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-10-21
ANOTHER FRENCH NIGHTMARE.

What the Marquise de Fontenoy picks up and
publishes in American newspapers is enjoyed by
readers in touch with conditions in Europe be-
cause of this writer's close knowledge of notable
individuals. In recent contribution she talks
about Prince Louis Napoleon.
As long as France kept her national purse open
to Russia and lived up to her professions of devo-
ton to her ally the banks of the Neva, she says
Prince Louis Bonaparte was kept in the back
ground by the czar and was not even permitted
to join the forces in the field in Manchura during
the recent with japan, lest by distinguishing
himself as a Russian commander he should become,
through military fame and prestige, danger to
the republic in France. Since last summer, how
ever, the altered relations between France and
Russia have led the, emperor to refrain from show
ing any longer such consideration for the feelings
of the people in power at Paris, and it is notewor
thy that just at the moment when the FrancoRus
sian alliance has reached almost the breaking point
and when Muscovite statesmen of the Importance
of Count de Witte are publicly contrasting the
friendship shown Russia by Germany during the
recent war with the indifference, of France, En-
peror Nicholas should have selected Prince Louis
in chief the troops of the Caucasus, but likewise
to assume the office of viceroy.
The Caucasus is at the present moment the
most disturbed portion of the Russian empire
Chaos reigns and among the principal sufferers
are the Rothschilds and all those other great for
eign capitalists who have invested money in Rus
sion industries. Should the prince succeed in re-
storing order he will earn the good will thereby of
the most influential element in the word--namey,
the financial and industrial element, whose good
opinion viii be of inestimabe value to him should
he ever yield to the entreaties of the Bonapartists
and indeed, of the entire monarchcal party in
France, and attempt to overthrow the republic and
to bring about restoration of the throne at Paris
What the bourgeoisie and the industrial classes
who constitute the backbone of Paris dread beyond
everything else is the inability of the government
to preserve order and to protect life and above all
property from sociaistic and anarchistic outrages
of the kind that almost reduced all Paris to ashes
in 1871, and should the republic ever show itself
incapable of preserving order the people interested
in the trade and industry of France would welcome
the advent of a man such as Prince Louis, who
would have the vigor and energy as well as the bold
ness to deal with the situation
Should Prince Louis Bonaparte win his spurs
i'll the Caucasus as commander and as an able adj
ADMINISTRATOR he will become serious menace IN
deed to the French repubic--a menace which the
people in power at Paris thoroughly realize 1t is
not so long ago that one of the most eminent
statesmen of the republican party in France,
man who has held high Office, and who in the ma
tural order of things is likely to hold it again, re-
marked in the course of conversation: ''If Prince
Louis Bonaparte landed at Marseilles today. walked
into the nearest barracks and exclaimed: 4 am
General Bonaparte of the Russian army I hold
commission from the car. Now shoot me if
you\ like, there are few soldiers or officers of the
French army who would not cry Vive Fempereur'
and place their services at his disposal for better
or for worse. Our governmental fact, all re-
sponsible people in France-know this perfectly"
The statesman was then asked what the social
lists would say to any such move the part of the
prince "They would accept him-that is, the bulk
of them would. When the prince was in Paris
year or two ago, some twenty or thirty radical and
socialist delegates, representative men every one
of them, called upon the prince. What he said to
them is unknown. But they came away deeply i'm
pressed, and ever since they have referred to him
invariably with the utmost respect"
The statesman went on to say: "You see, he has
so many things in his favor-the mighty name,
the imperial rank, fully recognized at every court
in Europe, and, above all, the masterful person
atty. Personality is everything in France. The
princes very GOODNESS, reserve and absence of
diaty have had the effect of strengthening his po
sition as the coming man in France"