New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-08-05

lidiuliS anu INT AOHSiSSS' ihdt oui
Ship OF State will sail on, despite
never-so-well organized an appetite
Tor office, by the party OF slavery,
secession, reputation and interna-
tionalism; a party without capacity
OF a true national vision, and with
out a record Of successful construc-
tive effort.
At this point OF unamerican erup-
tons, it is reassuring to Americans
10 emphasize certain bits OF history
pertaining TO the infancy OF our Re
public. Such unamerican tendencies
as have been developed by the World
War, democratic misrule and post
war conditions. when compared with
tn, Wild freBzies with which Wash
ing on had to deal, seem as MID at
tacks OF dyspeptic irrigation, COM
pared with a roaring case OF de..riam
tremens.
From April l793, well into i7o6,
rabid anarchy swept over :he baby
Republic, from Boston TO Savannah,
like a prairie fire.
The little Nation seemed wildly
drunk for the greater part OF these
three years. Certainly liquor was
sprinhled, poured and soaked,
throughout the orgy. The reeK of
it comes to us strongly across o
than Il century and a quarter OF
lrmo, II, the frantic speeches, luas,s,
printed articles. and crazy, lipping
' rs;ilcation, vociferously applau1ed
by crowds at banquets, spread 10
elorify the red cap and the guilloi.i E
-emblelns Of the revolutionists OF
France.
Cities, sections, and classes seem to
have We'd with one another in howl
ing threats to destroy our own gov
ernment, and all government, and 10
make here a reign of terror, in faith
ful limitation OF the worst excuses
of the French Revolution. The
thoughts, the talk, and the songs of
men. and the columns of newspapers
and pages of pamphlets bristled and
sizzled with threats for the b%ourgeoi-
Der; the AK for all aristocrats, with
daggers for the hearts of Senators
and rulers. the torch for the homes
Of wealth-the tumbling over and
tearing down of all authorities.
Mind you, this was in the happy,
simple, and sturdily patriotic early
days OF our land, which orators lam
with pathetic glibness and extol
with blatant belittling of the pres
ent. The school histories. and most
of the others, cater to national van
ity and ancestral pride, by gliding
over this period of contagious lunacy
and treason, with dutiful daintiness.
Apparently it has been thought not
good, to inform oncoming generations
that so many of those we are taught
to revere as the founders of this Re-
had their desperate spree,
tried to fire the temple before il had
been completed, and were' far more
dangerous than all the wild-eyed and
wild -ideaed foreigners we %dcnounce,
and seem really 10 dread.
The occasion for this unseemly,
national yearning after the So
~cialists elysium, the pandemonium Of
the anarchists. and the chimerical
and impossible, was the arrival in
this country from France. of Git
zen" Genet, agent of the new and
hallucinated French Republic. Pro
badly the most humiliating elements
of what we would now call bolshev-
ism, in l193-l76-. were the absurdi-
ties and incongruities it developed.
Genet came accredited by the per
calling themselves the French
Governmental many respects the
inc control of Russia. He landed at
exact model for the Trotski and Len
Charleston April 8, 1913, three months
after the execution of King Louis,
head filled and perhaps hands stain
ed with slaughter. intent on rushing
this country hcadlonp into alliance
with the French and war against
Great Britain, His ship carried at
her masthead the bonnet rouge, tho
red cap itself, emblem Of the ideas
Of liberty then prevailing in Paris,
and Of the flow OF blood so ardent
demanded by the patriots there.
II happened that on the day Genet
.anded. President Washington issued
MS proclamation of neutrality, as be
.wccn France and Great Britain. He
lad omitted, however, the word
neutrality. in Difference to the
of Jefferson. who feared that
he American public would be driven
o uncomfortable rage by the sigh
and sound OF that word.
Then it was. that the grim and ugly
demonstrations began. Citizen
Genet and his red cap. were received
BY throngs of South Carolinians.
headed bv Governor Moultrie and
yelcomed with ecstacv OF reclamation.
jenct's journey TO Philadelphia. then
OF the country, was a con-
inuous triumph. a series of ovasions.
-hurch bells were wrung everywhere
II honor of the representative OF the
Nation that had Just repudiated all
and desecrated such churches
is il had not destroyed.
The Carolina gentry rode long dis
ances in Genet's train, shouting for
and fraternity. the rights of
nan. and the equality of all men; fud-
Hing themselves continually with
casts TO the same great principles.
priding themselves on des-
,ent from the British nobility tossed
,ff bumpers and tossed away costly
hats. in enthusiastic honor OF
he unbreeched. and for the damna-
ion Of England and all aristocrats
md aristocracy.
Communities. in which proposals
o celebrate Washington's birthday,
lad been met by bitter and enraged
as savoring of monarchis-
&c customs. cheered stormily for the
Misguided Frenchman and rejoiced
,ver the sanguinary prospects.
Neither can it be said that this
vas an upheaval of the p~rolepariat,
he working man. or the "peasantry'
IN these were erbowed aside and