The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-08-23

exemplary actlon against any. VINO
should presume to disregard it. T. 4
Genet Comes From France. D
That very month april, 1888 Ed.
mond Charles Genet, youth still In
his twenties whom the new republic
over sea had commissioned minister
to the United States, landed at
Charleston. It pleased him to take
possession of the country, as II it were
Of course an appenage Of France. He
was hardly ashore before he had be-
gun to arrange for the fitting out of
privateers, to issue letters of marque
to American citizens, and to author
lie French consuls at American ports
to act as judges of admiralty in the
condemnation of prizes. -
AS he journeyed northward to Phil
adelphia he was joyfully confirmed In
his views and purposes BY his recep-
ton at the hands of the people. He
was everywhere dined and toasted and
feted, as If he had been a favorite
prince returned to his subjects. His
speeches by the way rang in a tone
Of authority and patronage. He
reached Philadelphia fairly mad with
the sense Of power, and had no con.
ceptisn of his real situation till he
stood face to face with the president.
OF that grim coutenance and cold
greeting there could be but one inter
pretation; and the fellow WINGED to
feel that at last he had come to q
grapple with the country's govern.
ment. It was, no doubt, in the eyes OF
the SOLDERING man, strange and start
ling thing that then took place. The
country itself had not fully known
Washington till then-or its own dig.
nifty either. It had deemed the proc.
lamation Of neutrality party meas,
ure, into which the president had been
led by the enemies of France, the par
tisans Of England.
But the summer undeceived every.
body, even Genet. Not content with
the lawless mischief he had set afoot
on the coasts by the commissioning
of privateersmen, that mad youth had
FASTENED to send agents into the south
and west to enlist men for armed ex-
petitions against the Floridas and
against New Orleans, on the coveted
mississippi; but his work was every.
where steadily undone. },
Neutrality Is Enforced.
Washington acted slowly, deliberate.
~ even, with that majesty Of self-con.
troll. that awful courtesy and stiffness
in wrath, that had ever made him a
master to be feared in moments of
sharp trial. One by one the unlawful
prizes were seized; justice was done
upon their captors; the false admiralty
courts were shut up. The army Of the
United States was made ready to
check the risings in the south and
west, should there be need; the COM
plants Of the British minister were
silenced"by deeds as well as by words;
the clamor of those who had vel.
coined the Frenchman so like provin-
Gals was ignored, though for a season
it seemed the voice of the country It,
self; and the humiliating work, which
ought never to have been necessary,
was at last made effective and corn.
plete.
Towards the close Of June, Wash
ington ventured: to 90 for little while
to Mount Vernon for rest. At once
there was trouble. A privateer was
found taking arms and stores aboard
in the very river at Philadelphia; JEFF
ferson allowed her to drop down to
Chester, believing Genet instead Of
the agents Of the government; and
she was upon the point of getting to
sea before Washington could reach
the seat Of government. Jefferson
was not. in town when the president
arrived.
Rebuke for jefferson.
what is to be done in the case of
the Little Sarah now at Chester?':
came Washington's hot questions after
him. lis the minister of the French
republic to set the acts Of this gov
eminent at defiance with impunity7
And then threaten the executive with
On appeal to the people? What must
The world think of such conduct, and
Of the United States in submitting to
It? Circumstances press for decision;,
and as you have had time to consider: