The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14
MARCELIN ALBERT
 MAN OF THE DAY Was Called "The Savior of the
 South" HALF MILLION DOLLARS
Is Leader of Wine Growers In South ern France-Paris Is Crowded With BustIina Ameri-
 can Tourists.
BY MARQUIS DE CAsTELLANE.

Special cable to The Age-Herald from the
 Hearst news service. Copyright, 1907,
 by W R. Hearst.
 Paris, July 13.-The man of the day is,
 or, rather, was, Maccelin Albert, whom
 many called "The Saviour of the South.
 Bald, palid, worn with emotion and fa-
 tigue, with an ecstatic look, the air of a
 Christ going to Cavalry-this is the man
 who at the present time is, by means
 of his inhammatory words, causing the 1 population of large French region to rise in revolt.
 l Who is he and what does he want? He is q simple being, say many-one of
 those whose simplicity and obstinancy
 have set at naugh the finest intelligences in the country. He is fifty-ive years of age and was first of all an agricultural yaborer; after that a small proprietor very small. in fact possessing only few acres of vineyard and only harvesting d
 few thin bottles of. wine
 As he never led any but a laborous life, without a shadow of political ambition,
 and only preached to his fellows the
 raising of the banner of revolt against misery, there was, first of all, nothing but shruggings of shoulders around him, or even mockery; but in time a few be
 came convinced, others followed the ball became greater, and finally now 1t has become a perfect avalanche.
 Three months ago this new "Redeemer
 had following of barely ten thousand of his fellow citizens today he never stirs without being followed by half a million men. What this army of unhappy people will do tomorrow and the day after to-
 morrow nobody knows, but one thing in
 which 1t has an unshakable belief is the
 justice of It's cause.
 Such demonstration have in them the germs of revolution. The government
 may well show itself pitiless, but it will
 not enable the wine to be sold In the
 south cent dearer. Misery Is not cured
 with soldiers, and the grave events which
 are now taking place in our southern
 provinces mark the beginning of the end
 of the republican regime.
 Universal suffrage is the greatest Of
 Jewellers; indeed, It's mission is to put on
 an equal footing and an equal uhder- standing kings and people. One has only to cast ones eye over French history for
 tine last sixty years to find that, thanNs
 to this panacea, all heights have been
 lowered all nobility debased, all superior ity lessened.
 We are all equal, and all equally capable
 of becoming chiefs if only we get the suffrage of our fellow citizens. There are no longer any rights connected with birth, and one by one we have seen dis appear from the political guidance of the country all those to whom 1t would seam
 to have been conferred heretofore by some
 superior right. The same thing Is now taking place in Austria.
 The Emperor Francis Josef, having
 granted his people universal suffrage the
 representatives of the nobility at once see their numbers and their importance
 diminishing in extraordinary proportion
 In the old parliament there were four
 princes, thirty-five counts, twenty-oae
 barons. thirty chevaliers and six men or
 gentle birth-ln all ninety-siX members
 of the aristocratic regime. In the new parliament. which is the result of the application of universal suffrage, there are only three princes Charles Auers- berg Andre Lubomrskl and Alois Lien tensteln four counts, six barons, nhe cheyaliers and eleven esquires-altogether thirty representatives, of the nobility Ana
 what happened two years ago in Aust.la
 Is more than likely to take place in aris- | tocratic England. Truly, our ancient ho- | bilty is disappearing.
 Right and left of one, in front ot one, and on all sides, one sees nothing put Americans Whether they are twenty
 years old or fifty, they are all robust ana splendid. with their clear eyes and lair hair. ,a.z When l hear in Paris that the days of pleasure and beauty are past, l can but suppose that those who make thls remark have forgotten the women or the 1 IFnited States who arrive here in shoals, l anxious to see our French land. In love with our fashions and delighted with nur arts The beautiful American ladies are not very personal in their toilettes, these | nd | beauty like slaves and not like friends. Whyq The Parisenne expresses her l on II dividuality in her toilette, but this | is not the case witt the exquisite cIea-
 lures of New York and Chicago They 1 represent something else than themselVes' | They represent the elegance and lmpet- | sonality of general ideas. Without know | inp ,t they are the advance guards of 1 the cosmopolitanism which will reign su- nreme one day over the entire world | a day which is not very far distant 
 | parisians are people who were born at l Rueno, Ayres, London, Lisbon or New York: they come to us from Sicily, kams- | chatla, the Ural, Japan, Cairo, Havana | and tho North Cape. Henri Germain, the l founder of the Credit Lyonnais, who was | A great financier, held the opinion that l our agriculture and commerce had lost | their superiority, and that the two Ia | nous sources of Frances nourlshmeh. | celebrated by Sully were dried up. And yet" he added i've continue to be- l come wealthy"
 l According to this celebrated economist 1 the money brought into Paris each year
 by foreigners who wish to see the Pa | ri5ian women amounts to not less than | fifteen hundred million francs. Without l our women, who show themselves In their l pretty toilettes and precously preserve l tbair raDuto tion elegance should
 be greatly embarrassed, if not, indeed | bankrupt.
 remember that in 1871 when we had | to pay German the enormous war in- | demnity of five hundred millions, M | Thiers, whose duty it was to raise this | sum, gave France this advice from the | tribune of Parliament: Carefully keep | the sceptre of fashion-it is that which
 enaba,s us to live and which will save |