The Washington herald., 1915-05-02

No man had risen from the lower
ranks of the people to represent the
masses for the Revolution S ;sa, was led en
deserters from the privileged orders. The
Partisan populace who asked for bread
had received only constitution from
the lawyers Of the Assembly. They had
lost their illusions and hopes. while the
idlers among them had become hardly
more than a stage mob in the revolutions
and counter revolutions that distracted
the republics.
Government by C1aque.
France now was ruled by Partisan
claque. When a gay cavalcade with
blare of trumpets acclaimed Napoleon
Emperor in 1904. the announcement was
received by idly curious and sometimes
laughing crowds, which ten years be-
fore would have drenched those very
streets with blood at the suggestion OF
had passed. the conquerinE sovereigns
of allied Europe. with an escort of Co.'S
sacks. We're greeted in the same streets
with welcoming cheers and their path
Bourbons.
In less than a year Napoleon was back
from Elba. As the Bourbon king. took
stuffed their white cockades in their
pockets and pulled their tri-colored cock
AIDE out of its hiding place. The returned
Emperor groaned. The people have let
me come just as they let the others CO."
And at the end of the Hundred Days
they let the vanoIished of Waterloo go
in silence.
Louis XvIII put on again the crown
of his fathers and contrived to wear it
for nine years. when, at his death. 1t
passed to his brother. Charles Y. After
he had reigned only half a dozen years.
however. the Parisians took to the
streets and threw up barricades. In three
swift davq that ravnlutiOn of 1870 waa
ended and the last of the Bourbons was
in flight from the throne which Hugh
Capet had set up on the little island in
the river s43 years before.
A cousin of the Bourbon line. a MEM
Der Of the Orleans branch Oft the family,
next reigned in the person Of Louis Phil
lippe. the Citizen King who adopted the
tri-color of the Revolution instead Of
the white banner Of his ancestors. Az
ter only eighteen years, however. barri-
cades once more were thrown up In the
streets of Paris and, as plain William
Smith. with a cotton umbrella under his
arm. the Citizen King fled the scene in
a public hack.
That Revolution of rs brought in the
Second Republic. and Louis Napoleon
The Prince President bided his time four
years, when. in 1852. he reared anew the
throne Of his uncle. As he set II up he
laid a heavy hand on the rebellious
elements in the city. But having given
them a taste of steel and fire. the new
Emperor mounted his horse and rode the
boulevards without an escort or n COM
panion.
To Berlin: To Berlin:
For eighteen years the second Napo-
leon had worn the crown of the first.
and for twenty-five years in all he had
dwelt in the TuiIleries. when he plunged
into the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870.
In after years. Bismarck chuckled aloud
as he laid claim to having played upon
the passions of Paris in the crisis pre-
ceding the outbreak of hostilities. From
whatever source the infection came. the
city grew feverish for war and positive
ly delirious when the ministry boosted
to the Emperor the readiness of the
army, ito the last gaiter button. sire,'
The solemn hush that rested upon the
nation as the soldiers marched to the
front in 1914 naturally has been con-