Scott County kicker., 1916-01-22

stake.
Princes of state and Princes Of
Church rode in their grand coach
es. drawn Ey four horses. enjoy
ing the roads the forced peasant
labor had made. and il they
deigned to lCok upon the peasant
a nd his horel at all. it was with
superci.iCus feeling Of a'iena-
ton, as thou gh the peasant werp
a creature of lower scale OF
animal life.
Princes of state and Princes OF
Church luxuriously dwelt in the
most artistic palaces, set in glor-
ious parks, and, with them, each
day and each night was priced in
proportion to it's sensuous pleas
ures-lovely gardens classic foun-
tains ornamental shrubbery,
marble statuary, gorgeous flow
ers. volumptuous music, delicious
, banIuets. and beautiful women.
To afford all this. they SO franz
ed "the law" that IL robbed the
peasant of everything except his
! black bread. ma de of the ieayings
of the grain. If the peasant had
! any friend in the Church. it was
! the parish priest, who lived with
the people. witnessed their strug-
Tles. sa " their poverty and shar-
ed ii.
! As to the Bishops. ArchbishOps
and Cardinals, they were as hau.
ty. and rapacious, and as profli-
gate as the Princess of the State.
All prelates being gallant" it
crea ted no surprise when the Car
dinal de Rohan intrigued to Sc
duce Queen Marie Antoinette.
cardinal Richelieu had made
love to Queen Anne. wife Of Louis
XIII. and Cardinal Mazarin had
lived with her many years before
her dea ath-the charitable suppos-
ed they had been privately mar
ried
Upon this unnatural state Of So
Iciety, came the thunder-clap OF
the American war for independ-
ence.
France eagerly seized upon the
topportunity to do England an
Ievil turn in retaliation for the
losses England had inflicted upon
France, in India, in Canada, and
Tho \orth-western portion of Col
onial America.
| THE French statesmen received
.merican enyoys. and began
through underground channels to
odvanoo money to aid the Colo
ME. Younr Frenchmen came
over in shoals to enlist in the A.
merican army. To most Of these
II was an adventure: to I.aFay-
a++a and a few others. ic was a
,,rincinIe u was inevitable that
whnn nlain old rustily-dre>scd
Ron EraukIin became the fashion
In paris ond Voltaire returned to
rerolIe a SPONTANEOUS, enthusias-
tic ova1;ou and the handsome
vnun.r John I.aurens crossed the
seas 70 kreel at the rcec of King
and Queen asking for the aid OF
tho Erench fleet-and additional
cash. and the Joint arms of Amer
ica and France forced the sword
ort of Enrlond.s hand at York
Town: and all the gallant French
officers came hurrying home. to
lf;rh+ their battles over again: it
w5s inev;to ble say that a new
snirit should begin to brood upon
| tho yast dark waters of the I'M
naturaI 0,d Order
Almost before anyone knew OF
tho imnend;n,r cha the change
,r,s manifest The tone of con-
versotion eyerywhere was differ
ont In the salons of the aristoc-
rncv naon,e nrottled ahout Liber-
80 NJ, ~,
hroatb of tho Enc,vc,onedists, of
Po,;sear and yoltoire. Of Thoma :
noino no anS Cordnrcet and Diderot
IA ~, ro+ onIv rnfrled the surface
n%S % Tho OCEAN If thought but had
al Sistnrhod tbe deems 4 yarue as
niration % for the natural life, was
fai+ ana disn,aved The king pus
l.. ' inat thop o,,ron and notterod
ohou+ Oh the forre ,earninr to make
SuoIn np ,rna n1oen craated in tho
,Te WenSo ;,,aS part . rustic mill
so'hano and Soir,.. and mis-
dammhtor 81 tbe Ceasars .nlaved
ot ho;nro fo,ner,s Vie and sold
az ,,. peits a ~ mnh;i;+w ~ France
man o,H huo+hnr +ho Emnoror of Ans
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