Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-30

in the year 9S7," he says proudly, the
kingdom of Huges Capet was limited to
the lie de France. Around that nucleus my
family grouped Its acquisitions. Philippe I
bought Berry with his own personal saw
ings. Philippe-Auguste tore Normandy from
the English
And so on. Down to Louis XIII. who
took Alsace from the Germans. and Louis
XIV who added Lorraine and Corsica, the
acquisitions of his forefathers were the
making Of France.
ION the eve of the French revolution the
France of Louis XVI was far greater in
extent than it Is today he boasts, truth
fully enough: ''and it was made, formed
and united by the valance of my fore
fathers, Its kings. by their money and their
marriages.
Biff!
It is curious to follow the arguments Of
this dead cause-that does not even now
know itself dead.
Has the republic given you liberty?' he
asks. Monarchy does not exclude liberty
the English and Belgians have more liberty
than you!'
Does the republic give you equality" he
continues. You will say that average men,
not mobiles, now have opportunity to aid in
directing the state. But who were Jacques
Occur, Colbert, Luvois, Letellier, Chamil-
lard. Vauban, Catinat, Fabert, Jean Bart,
Turgot and Neckar but plain citizens ?
They were the men who governed France
under my forefathers. Bourre, treasurer
of France, was the son Of a shoemaker;
LIE Daim, minister Of Louis XII was a bar
Der; Colbert, the minister OF Louis XIV,
was the son of a draper; the four chancel-
lors, Poyet, Montholon. Boucherat and
seguier. were the sons of a grocer, tailor,
a bootmaker and a notary
''Of all my family, Louis XIV had the
longest reign, he winds up. We'll, dur
ing the seventytwo years of his reign he
took only minister from the aristoc-
racy. All the rest were from the common
people
Bfr! Bin.
You see the thing is true What the I'M
happy Flip cannot understand is that
while it is true 1t makes no difference.
Flip" has not the making of Henri " or
a Louis XIV in him. The French people
know it.
Kicked at the Tricolor.
There was moment in 1873 when the
Comte de Chambord was waiting at Yer
sailles to be crowned king. He might have
had it-and he kicked at the tricolor French
flag! In 1889 the French people rather
wished Bouianger TO proclaim .'Flip's"
father. and 1t was twenty-three for him
because he could not make a combination
reconcilng various interests Old Henri w,
who said Paris is worth mass" would
have made it all right And there was a
time round the Dreyfus affair when Flip"
white horse. But Flip was not ready He
had not the organizing genius. The plot
OF the time was still-born, and the high
court sent Paul Deroulede to exile In Spain
with It's secret locked in his bosom.
Biff!
Now listen. There is no doubt that
Flip" continued vaguely plotting.
In the month Of April last he was con-
fiding enough to imagine that he held an
option on the general strike proclaimed for
May day.
Something ominous was in the air of
Paris.
Yes.
There were labor conflicts all over France.
The General Confederation of Labor-hold-
ing the strings of a thousand uniens-had
proclaimed its long threatened direct ac-
ton" to obtain an eight-hour day There
were to be manifestations. Paris was I'M
easy? Paris smelled a brooding mystery.
Then. suddenly, the government made per-
QUESTIONS and arrested high-placed people
, of two different ategories-aristocrats and
labor leaders!
When Griffuelhes and Levy the secre-
tary and the treasurer of the general con-
federation, were thrown Into prison on the
open charge of royalist plotting, Paris.
thrilled and said: There Is plot again.
All is over And II is mark of the high
business acumen Of the present government
that, having squelched the plot Ii passes 10
new business without noisy explanation.
Twenty-three to you, Philippe, 1t SAYS.
you're 1t, stay out! Indeed there may
have been some high-class business blum