The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06


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''riare ha oertain fierre ami Wild anlnRla,
malls md female. whirh ara @nattsred ~
and duun orr cunntryuids. They are SIM
burnsd to q art Il dull bIauh. and walk
bent toward the earth they dslve; IN straiRht-
ming thempeive. thsy show. 10 In true,
o hnEnEn face, and. in fart, they are risn
and women; they withdraw from the fislds
AZ nigttfall tn their dsne, where they mp
On blank hrsad. roo,A and Sater. They
spaTe thair fellow msn Inc labor n seed
time and harvest, and do not dsasrvs To
Lark the bread thsy Sow
Mr.. Beealy, for his part, makes no conn
paEtaon II France under ths dncisH regime
with other countries. Neither DOES he
assert that all France was suually miaer-
ahls, or that there wers no other causes
Of the Revolution hut misery and misgov-
nme What he does say iA that misery
ami miagovsrnment are the main causes
~ revolution all tina world over; that, in
fact, revolution poEtilatea them, and that
thsy and the accumulated memories 81
them were this main incentives 81 the French
revolution. IF a PEASANTS memory In
one of inherited degradation he Graves
for revenge. r. his belly pinches him he
takes revenge when he has the &ance.
unless, az sometimes happens, sentiment
Restraints him.
"Ths chance came in France, and 10 vas
taken. It has been taken when it came in
other countries. IL has bean taken during
the last twelvemonth in Russia. Give a
rustic pdne,n st circenses IA loaf Of bread
and amuRsment). and hs will grin and
bear his lot, and perhaps vota for you
into the bargain. Subtract the circenses
and he will bear it without the grin.
Subtract the pdnsrn and il he cannot
rebel he will shoot from behind a hedge
or burn rfcks, II he IN an Irishman,
though he may take it lying down and die
il he in a Hindu" Our author sees many
points Of resemblance in the state Of things
in Francs on the ave of the Revolution and
the situation in. Russia to-day. Famine
and luxury cheek by jowi, hatred Of the
mobiles and their tools, rancorous memories,
long lingering awe Of the monarch. The
parallel IL plain, n the story OF the one
country might almost serve for thai Of the
N 40. ~ ..-n az Naa
Revolution the Provincial Assembly Of
Auvergns declared that unless measures
Of relief were speedily taken the province
would loss half it's population by famine
and half Of it's area would become a waste.
If now we turn for a parallel to contem-
porary observers, we read in the news
papers that the rising among the PEASANTS
Of Kief, Podoiia, Voihynia and Kharkoff
ia due partly to the widespread distress
and partly to harsh administration Or
aaain: The imminsnce Of an economic
catastrophe ia ths goad which has driven
them to clamor for a revolution" Once
mora: Political agitation has only sue
ceeded because it found the ground pre-
pared by economic Distress
Why, then, it MAJ be asked, was La Ven
d4e % long the stronghold Of royalism?
Why did it not welcome the Revolutic-?
Mr.. Beesly replies that at first il did well
come it. One reason why it ceased to do 40
was the compulsory conscription. Far
from the scene Of war themselves, the
Vendsans lent all the reader an ear to
those who told them that their sacrifices
we're not only disproportionate, but made to
a false idol. In La Vendee, moreover, the
petty mobiles not only resided at home, but
managed their own estates, and their infiu-
ence was not exhausted, because among
them feudal obligations still retained vital
ity. Their influence was reinforced more
over, twentyfold by the priests, who,
brought to bay by the Republic, appealed
to rural ignorance and superstition with
effect. "-rhoss who say that the Revolution
was not caused by material misery, but a
in the air. would be puzzled to explain how
it got there. The rustic listened TO his
priest. He had no halfpenny journal, and
he did not read Diderot, who. according to
Mallet du Pan. WAS in his own person the
TONS ct oriqo Of the Revolution, the didboils
er n1dchitd to whom were due all its crimes.
Diderot, he says, had preached (procidmsl
equality before Marat, the rights of man
hefora SiayAa. the holiness Of ipsurrectiou