The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-01
ON JULY a THE FRENCH WILL. DANCE AROUND
THE CORPSE OF A DYNASTY TW1CE99kKIILE
The Coming French Fourth Celebrate the Recent Syg of the
Lingering Hopes Of Royasts to Destroy the Republic as
. Well as the Tearing Down Of the BastIe
FLIP" WILL NEVER BE KING

Versailles to be crowned king. It
slipped by his refusal to accept the tri-
color French flag. There was time
in 1889 when the French people
rather wished that Boulanger should
proclaim /" Flip 81 own fathers; but he,
zoo, was man Of a past age, who could
was a.stime around tfe DreYfns affair
when Flip himself might have come
rldlng in on a white horse according
TO the ancient prophecy Of the Monk
Olivarius, ":Come, Young prince, quit
the Island of Captivity?S But TFlipT
had not, the organizing genius. He was
not ready: Nothing was prepared. The
sssplot' of the time died still-born, and
the, high court sent Paul Deroulede to
exile In Spain-with the secret of it
locked in his bosom. E|4@ tx i.
49,. The Recent Strikes.
. And now his plot Of May 1 last, it
TEL flat because. the goods on which
Flip held an option could not. be
delivered. 1t was not this sort of old
fogles and confding5 weaklings who
created France. ,&vS<4sE #S># -, =. .-.. =
Listen. It is certain that on May l
Paris lris' was in "a blue funk. The giant
general labor Confederation had pro-
clalmed q general strike, 'ostensibly to
force II general Ell ght- hour working day.
s;Ihat strike still lasts in parts but now
/ it troubles no one. What made May L
the, already legendary day of fear was
"a vague brooding suspense. -
Something ominous was in the air.
There werc mine strikes and factory
strikes all over France. The general con
federation had proclaimed it's long
threatened "direct action It : was
known to, have a marvellous organiza-
ton @m" SSss* .E E<4
Then, suddenly: and mysteriously, the
government began making wholesale
arrests and perquisitions.
1t threw into Jail the treasurer and
half dozen officers of the general
confederation of labor.
IL. Prominent royalists, at the same
time; were perquisitioned:
- 'aFhere is plot!' all Paris whis-
Spered:s
ss%*sh Yes. there is plot!'' the govern
ment, faeimitted. And while the whole
mystery is NOW being quietly stified,
the Paris dailies got hold of one piece
OF astonishing evidence.
H.. A Written Bargain.
1T was a letter written by Philippe
in which he confirmed a. bargain speci-
fed as existing elsewhere on paper.
Philippe was delighted that the labor
the goods be delivered and Philippe
would stand by his promises. Full pow
ers to negotiate details were given to
such and such persons, indicated by mi
tials. , . r..
In the light Of later developments,
everyone in Paris can tell you the
secret Of, it, The arrested leaders 4of
the general confederation had made
q :Fip'' an option in due form to turn
tho strikes If Nav ESWard = royalist
option--and the goods were not "sde-
liverable9 In any case, they were not
delivered! So died the cause of French
royalisn once again. S'". ". @1F.
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.Dreux is splendid old town Of 5000
inha bitants, in the valeysof the sBlaise,
some fifty miles from Paris. In old
times it was the scene of sieges and
battles. az. ,'-.' -; -r=.t. ... ,..,v
" There are quaint oold burghers'