The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-05-05
.SAVAGERY IN Man IS 7. \
NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPS
Bigelow Sounds Note Of Warn
ing Taken From Happenings
In French Revolution.
Saws Mirabeau Was the Great
Rake In History-What Took
Place After His Death.

Herbert S. Bigelow. in a series OF
Sunday evening lectures at the Vine
Street Congregational church. Cincin-
natl, Ohio, discussed the Count Of Mir
abeau. Mr. Bigelow said:
1--WE uve,' said Mirabeau, in time
of great events but little men, He
would have said that he was an excep-
ton to the rule, al indeed he was In
spite of his egotism.
Genius covers multitude of sins.
The French revolution produced two
men Of commanding genius-Carlyle
says, three.
ION the field of battle the world had
never seen the like of Napoleon.
TN the stress and storm of a popular
assembly, the world had never seen the
like Of Mirabeau.
If Napoleon was the greatest OF
fighters, Maribeau was the greatest Of
all the tribunes of the people.
Carlyle would add the name Of
Danton. No other. name OF the time
can claim the charity which history &C.
cords to greatness.
Equal to Napoleon.
I'm genius, Mirabeau was the equal
Of Napoleon. and If one was a monster
of cruelty, tie other was a monster of
lust. 1t might be truly said that one
was the greatest butcher and the other
! the greatest rake in history.
yet the cruelty of Napoleon cannot
| break the charm Of his genius, nor the
| lust of Mirabeau sully the glory of
| his achievements In spite of the hor-
| rors Of war, the heart leaps at the
| name of Austerlitz, and memory ling
| ers among the mournful rocks Of St.
Helena. So the licentiousness of Mir
| abeau may have shocked even an age
when every noble was a roue and
strumpets sat in the place Of queens,
yet, when a man rises out Of an as
sembly Of tigers to become in two
short years the master Of the factions
and the commanding genius of France
history applaud and forgives his
faults.
HE died at the age Of forty-two
I cary in my heart the dirge of the
monarchy he says, after my death
It's remains will be the spoil of the
factions
He begs for opium. They put 9
glass of water to his lips. 'Kormiu,' he
mutters. The eyes close as If in sleep
His agony is over.
Cave Of CannibaIs.
Marat was scurrilous, Robespierr<
indecent in his glee. The herse JAG.
oolns sneered at the grief of the peo.
ple Whmen he was dead, terror came
on with hurrying boot. And when /,
arrived they took his ashes from thu
pantheon and buried them in a grave
yard set apart from criminals. In thu
honored place Of Mirabeau they pu,
the body of Marat Soon the body Of
Marat was snatched from the tomt
and cast to the dogs. Thus fury fol-
lowed when Mirabeau was gone Hi.
voice was silent and the assembly be-
came cave of canibals'
| What might have been If he hat
lived? Idle question. We know onl,
what was We see the guillotine-tht
throne of the revolution; on it Kins
Terror, around it. mob of friends
grim courtiers of the street-lusttns
for blood
A Danger Signal.
| what has been, may be. The saw.
age In man is not dead, but sleeps
Woe unto him who stirs that s1umh.
ering brute.
The gu1llotine is busy. And every
4gory head that falls is ghastlv sig.
nal of the danger of delaying libert,
until it is too late.