The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-07-14
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Dreadful were the dongs Of that day and the days that
followed They should not be forgotten by any whose bust
patience
Foulon seventy years old whom the stupid King placed in
power when he dismissed Necker who might have saved
France FROM the revolution Lucky that he did not It was
q revolution needed
Twice they hauled the old man shrieng and screaming
for mercy to the lamp post Twice the rope broke and he
fell to the ground The third time he dead The crowd
carried his head on pike jaws dStended his mouth filed
with grass
extoron ganbed in the necessities of life And when he
was told Sir the people are hungry" his reply had been
That was mistake. The people who may safely be
told to eat grass today may be difficult to handle tomorrow
The who practices extoron monopoly profteering
should always go softly. he is never quite safe.
Berthier another minister and soninlaw Of Foulon,
suffered the fate His head carried through the
streets pike beside that of Foulon soldier ripped
out his heart from his chest and held it up in the air.
"Great God what peOplel''- GOuverneur Morris ex-
to be driven too far. Royalty and nobility learned it in
1879. The Germans are to learn it soon
Remember as you read of horrors perpsrated by the
enraged mob that they only initiating their beters
Royalty had taught them.
Those who starved and tortured the people had no
cause for surprise when they on mild scale applied to
their tomentors punshmens that had been inflicted upon
themselves.
What did they do to Damiens the hafwitted religious
fanatic who slightly wounded the royal body Of Louis the
Fifteenth with penknife?
he was sentenced to be torn to pieces by horses
first he tortured for hours with dhot pncers and
melted wax, lead and boiling oil poured into the
wounds.
RavaiIlac another hafwitted fanatic who killed Henry
the Fourth, had been tortured even more horribly.
Those who invented such things could not hope to
cape their share when the time They treated
savagy however than the supreme power had treated
those whom it hated
The miserable peasants, the millions had endured
everything They had stayed awake at night after working
hard all day With their threshng fails in their hands
they beat the water the ponds to keep the coang frogs
from disturbing the nobeman And the young peasant by
law must let the nobeman take his wife to the castle the
first night after the maage-that the right Of the
seigneur
They had lived in huts made of clay no doors
no windows sleeping on rshes on the hard ground They
had ptfully and vainly appealed to their King
eve do not blame you; we love you. We crushed
with taxation Gould you see our wreched homes and food
you would feel for
"Those who possess the most pay the least. Why dc
the rich pay the least and the poor the most?"
The was, "Eat grass and the beautiful Queen
when told that the poor had bread wondered why they
did not eat cake.
The England of Arthur Young's day was none too
happy day for workers Yet Young could not even try
to make Engshmen understand the miserable animals
he called them that the French people, Such hor
ribe misery he had never The who waited
him at an inn he described walking dung hills" their
condition of filthy misery was beyond words.
There came the day. People rose, the Bastlle fell,
kings wiped out
That day is celebrated in Paris on this happy Sunday
Happy it is in spite of the invader French soil Happy
in spite of the noble dead that lie in No Man Land Happy
because the French have in their history, their lofty
ona intellect and courage the assurance that autocrat
from across the Rhine will ever undo the work that
done on the 18th of July, 1889.