The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-13
Russia's Car

and make his home in the event of his
abandoning Russia
Paris Is no longer the home of
Kings in Exile as it was in the days
when Alphonse Daudet gave that title
to the most dramatic and yet truthful
Of all his novels. At the present mo-
ment there is but one eX-sOvereign
whose abode is established in the
French capital. namely, the former
queen of Naples. who figures under
q most transparent pseudonym as
heroine in the romance mentioned
above
The atmosphere OF ancient Lutetia
has ceased to be congenial to those
victims of revolutionary movements.
1t is not so much that the govern
ment and every one of its members,
from the president down to the hum
blest sergeant-de-ville, represent a
regime that is absolutely antagonistic
to monarchy. and that the strains of
the "Marseilaise." with its threats of
death to royal tyrants. are to be heard
at all hours of the day and night; but
1t is that Paris has become the head
quarters of revolutionary leaders from
all parts of the earth. and that fallen
kings and emperors are more likely
to encounter there than anywhere else
in the wide world the men responsible
for their overthrow.
Revolutionist Headquarters.
They know, too. that many OF the
revolutionary movements have been
financed from Paris; not, it is true, by
French bankers. but by members of
that gang OF foreign spectators es-
tablished there. who are always ready
to fish in troubled waters and to lend
themselves to more or less venture
some and shady enterprises, both in
France and abroad.
These are among the reasons which
would render Paris the least desira-
bic refuge for the car and for his
family should he leave Russia. He
must know full we'll. too. that he
would be most unwelcome guest,
since the French authorities would be
at their wits end to protect him from
harm and from indignity. For there
are thousands of Russian refugees on
the banks of the Seine who look upon
him as responsible for their exile, for
the sufferings of their relatives, and
In many cases for the Imprisonment
and death Of husbands. fathers, broth
ers. and even of sweethearts, wives
and sisters.
The Slav is not Of forgiving ma
ture. is prone to revenge and the
temptation to give practical expression
thereto If the emperor and his family
were to set up their tents in the Gallo
metropolis would prove irresistible.
Rome Was . Haven.
In olden times Rome was a favorite
refuge for rulers who had abandoned
their thrones. The king and queen
Of Naples spent the first eight years
of their exile before migrating to
Paris, when the Eternal City became
the capital Of United Italy, in 1870.
King Louis of Bavaria also made Rome
his headquarters after his association
with Lola Montez and caused his SUBJ
jects to insist upon the surrender O:
his crown to his son. Macmillan; while
Queen Christina Of Sweden, a convert
to Roman Catholicism, in spite of her
being the daughter of that champion
of Protestanism. King Gustavus Adolf
phus, took up his residence on the
banks of the Tiber after her quarrel
with King Louis XIV, who, having
placed his palace Of Fontainbleau at
her disposal, took exception to her
making 1t the scene of the private ex-
efution of her principal chamberlain.
Monaldeschi. whose high treason had
consisted in writing letters in which
he was indiscreet enough to express
his preference for a young beauty of
the French court to the mature charms
OF her hump-backed Swedish majesty
But under the popes Rome was ruled
with rod Of iron, and the closest kind
of watch was kept by the pontifical
authorities over all people suspected
OF revolutionary tendencies.
Modern Italy In Advanced.
Nowadays there is no great city in
the world where people are so free.
not merely to entertain. but also to
air the most advanced opinions. Italy
simply swarms with native and for
etgn socialists and anarchists, who
usually find their way to Rome, and 1t
was owing to their presence there and
the acknowledged inability of the Ital-
ian and Russian police to keep them
under close supervision that led the
car and czarina In the autumn of
1904 to abandon at the very last mo-
ment their projected visit to the court
of King Victor Emmanuel and the
vatican after all arrangements hao
been made
Much the same condition OF affairs
prevails in Spain, which has been the
scene of 80 many anarchist outrages
in recent years, eliminating in the
tragedy that signahzed the wedding
of the young king and queen last June,
while as for Switzerland, swarming,
like Italy, with foreign tourists, who
cross its frontiers in such hordes as
to defy any surveillance, it has for
the past 30 years been the favorite
rendezvous of the members of the
nihilist party. most of whose people
have been organized either at Zurich
or on the shores of the Lake of Geneva
Austria q Refuge.
Quite q number of depOse,i rulers
have found an asylum on Austrian soil,
among them the ex-grand duke of
Tuscany, who maintains sort of min
iature court at Salzburg, where he
lives with the grand duchess, sur
rounded by a little band OF north
Italian adherents, who have remained
loyal to the old regime
Then there Is the ex-duke of Parma.
who was but IL years old when he lost
his throne. to which he had succeeded
as child OF 6 on the murder of his
ignoble father, Charles Ill.,, whose as
sassination has remained unpublished
to this day, no attempt being made to
bring to justice his slayers, one of
whom died number of years after
wards in a public hospital In Phila-
delphia