The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-01
The Advance Agent of Prosperity.

' "I am the Revolution" Napoleon ap- nounced to France and the world. in truth, he was it's son and he'r the sole legatce! Out of all that forest of bikes came his sword alone, out of that babel of sound and fury one clear. coni- manding voice. out of that multitude of thoughts and purposes and plans one powerful will out of that era of dreams there issued this reality.
 In the eyes of France. the Revolu- ton had moi been overthrown; it was embodied in Napoleon. With a sense of peace and justice, the exhausted Ma tion reposed in his strong arms.
 Mathieu Dumas tells us that Napoi- con did not injure liberty as il did anchary and saved France" .anacrhy and saved France"
 Chaos vanished before his frown. The hateful law of hostages was repealed and he went in person to throw open the prison doors of the temple. impris- oned or banished priests who had taken the republican oath, received the free dom of the. country The National se- curities rose from I ? to 20 in five days.
 The masses and the classes well comed the advance agent of prosperity. The banks trustingly opened their strong boxes to him and an individual citizen came forward With a, loan of s100,00O to a government that had lacked the money to pay the expenses of a courier to it's army in Italy. a3 M A Crowded Three Months
 In a month there was a new constitu- ton, which provided that Napoleon should be first consul for 10 years. with full executive power and d salary of S1OO,000 q year, the second and third consuls being almost as powerless as the vice president of the United States and retained only to disguise the one man despotism The people were lief. in possession of manhood suffrage but removed far possible from the control of the government. The, 5000. COG men of voting age in the country were to choose 500.000 persons, who. in turn. were to choose 5000o and finally they were to choose 50o0 From these 5000 notables all the offices were to be filled.
 There were to be council. u sen ate, Il tribunate and a legislature The consuls were to appoint the council and majority of senators. after which these latter were themselves to conl- jleto the compositioh of the senate, which, finally, was Co choose from the notables the members of the Fri bunate and the legislature. No one Was to be directly elected by the peo- ple.
 | Hc~ tOuutii, pitSlutu over ny tnt first Consul. was to propose all laws to the trihunate. where they were to be debated and then referred to tho legislatufe-"a deaf and dumb as sclnDly' was to adopt or reject tEc proposals in silence, aftes whicn the laws were to go before the sen ate, also mute body. but which had the power of veto on Legislation.
 In two -months this elaborate scheme of government was in full operation, and. as one member expressed il, "hur- ried away in a whirlwind of urgency by Napoleon. In less than three weeks after the legislative bodies hadn>as .senibled the judiciary and tile entire government of France down to the s;lallest municipality were completely reorganized: a new system of taxation was devised and the Bank of France established.
 At the same time Napoleon brought to an end eight years of civil war in Ven dee and elsewhere in Brittany and Nor mandy. where royalist and cathob population had made a stubborn resiyi ancesto the revolution and the republic. Peace and prosperity were the twin bless ings yreceived by France in a crowded