The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-01-07

stlategists Won Ndoltke: Ia~ j %r
Il. In reading certain chapters of this book
ing cruelties of the Revolution We're, again
being enacted in Paris and elsewhere
throughout the country. 49,
4 The events which led up to the war
with Germany are thus described by the
author: * Z: af+.. -. a.:' ~. 49,
Bismarck prepared the war Napoleon
III. wanted 1T the great bourgeoise looked
on. They might have stopped it by an
himself with a grimace:, He saw in this
war our certain ruin; he knew our terrible
infeliority in everything; he could have
united the Left, the tiers -parti, the jour-
folly of, the attack. and supported by this
| strength of. opinion. have said. to the
Tuileries: to Paris if needs be, i'sWar is
impossible: We SHAH combat it as trea-
SON.. g., - .-. -.
Poor France. Who will save. thee
The humble. the poor. those who for six
years contended for thee with the Empire.
+ while the upper classes sell the nation
seek to feather. their nests under the
empire. handful of men. without arms,
unprotected rise up against the still all
powerful despot. On the one hand young
men who form the bourgeoise have gone
over. to the people, faithful children of
1888. resolved to continue the work of
the Revolution; on the other hand work
lnSmen unite for the study and conquest
of the rights of labor: In vain the en-
pire attempts to split their forces, to Sc
duce the Workingmen.''
The author then follows up with q de
scription of the terrific political struggle
| between the contending factions which
finally burst forth in all the horrors of the
Commune.
Paris, Marseilles, Toulouse and Narbon
were soon to be converted into veritable
human slaughter houses. in this fratricidal
struggle which for madness and UNI
checked violence finds few counterparts
in the history of the human family.
Many new events--that is events which
nave hitherto been obscure to the student
Of that period are brought forward by the
author. in his work which considered
either from literary or historical view
point is an achievement of no inconsid-
cradle merit
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