Year: 1872

! UTIIUIN UlIV


Whenever he thnls H necessary. after notifying his
intention to its President" Article third and last reads


The President of the Republic ia respon, ,be (aeranO
the Assembly" Exactly his ministers collectively
and individually are.


Whether NJ Thlers's Vows in political economy are
sound or not is question That he believes the i'm
position OF certain customs duties necessary preserve
"A sound financial state-tsef the condition OF all sound
pocy-is unquestionabc ITO carry the government
for which responsible you" he said. You must
give the means: here the only large sure way OF find.
ing them you have tried and renounced them" After
his first great speech fortnight ago. could the President
have brought the house vote he desired he would
apparently gained small majority for his favorite
in the shape he originally It, The adjourn
ment that day was his first check. As the discussion
went on and he his party diminishing day by day,
personal feeling doubtless mingled with his patriotic
ZEAL and his southern temper warming in the heat Of


losing fight he became irrtated and irritating
his is-or which he prcttly apologized Satur
day But he cool enough to change h ground
before an advancing enemy, and. sacrificing the acc
dental 70 the essential he told the house on Friday
not menacngly but by way OF simply honest advice:


'You find me too insistont II is my mind ia
fxediy made up. capacity Of taking resolution 10 the
prerequisite of governing well If did not present the
question with al precision thereon four days ago was out
Yes YES they are my colleagues and auXiarles and
fIfends-these who aid me in my hard task with
much patriotism, courage and talent They feared that
the situation would become critical ii the question
the Cabinet question: were more distinctly presented
then yielded but on condition thaf the ground of con
cton should be the adoption oi the principle oI duty
on raw material"


Here now Theirs did frankly make the Cabinet cues


ton relnquishing the definite quantity Of 20 per cent


large enough concession one would say. to relieve him
OF the charge Of pure sewiiled devotion to his own
ideas. He accompanied the proposition with some
marks in his finest preceporal, irritating manner The
proposition Itself was conciatins one from him. and
certainly Ineligible enough Instead Of accepting an
+1a nv NUhi hey N
back TO Customs duties IT, further examination, no
other sufficient should be found remarkably
full House, by vote OF 377 to 30 preferred the follow
ing The Assembly, reservng the principle Of tax on
raw materials resolve that they will name Committee
of fifteen members, whose Office it shall be to examine
the tariffs and questions raised by the impost on raw
materials to which recourse shall be had only in case Of
impossibilty o. otherwise balancing the budget"


II is prOverbialy true that all questions have two
sides 70 bless themselves with This of the Customs
duty poyhedral II have spoken more than once in
the foregoing paragraphs Of NJ ThierSs iranknesS II
treating certain phases OF it, there are other sides
especially those looking toward England and the Com
ncrcal Treaty 1sGO-wIich he kept far he might
in the shade But that is noted in passing. The main
point shall still be the home political bearing CT tic crisis
Of last saturday.


It could nothave difficult to insert in the Ferray
resolution idst quoted qualifying phrase expressing
the Asemby unchanged confidence in the President Of
the Republic During the half hour preceding the final
vote on Friday afternoon members perfectly aware
that the President, who no further of than the
lunchroom, constantly emphasizing bis pronounced
purpose rctiring it favorable to the order Of
the day Unless 10 suppose that they imagined Ae
was playing a farce, we must presume that they had
looked the alternative the face and between Free
Trade principles and the President, resolved TO
sacrifice latter And yet their proceedings next dy
would prove that they had not looked the alter
native the face and never intended to meet H. The
S77 were. in largest part, Republicans and LIB
erals majority hostile to favore measure Of the
President contributed from just those benches Of the
Assembly 10 which he generally has to look for his sup
porting major1tes. His vexed exclamation, How am
10 govern when my desert me 2" strikes some OF Us
as rational. rather than pettshly passionate.


1t all very well to say, as so many do IN these
days that his Office to leave his ministers alone re5pon


ble changing them at the Will OF the House. be reign
ing but not governing BE reigns if at all on the con
dition of ruling Were he to cast of and lake ministers
at the beck of discontinued House, he WOud nave
ministry yet homogeneous than the one which, by
prudent compromise and conciation he has gathered
about him and managed to work with President OF
Republic in name he is neither constitute nGly fixed
President for definite term cOnstitu-o1aiy per
1uanent monarch. He is periOrce his own ITme MN


ter and for the rest responsible to ana rcyOcae DJ
the Assembly at any moment.


The events and scenes OF last Friday and Saturday pre-
sent neither him nor the Assembly III very dgnited


cbespecaly if looked at through foreign spectacles
But for that matter, what prospect do other peoples


with their presidents and sick princes and par
haments kings COrtes offer to critical spectators be-
longing TO any other Of the sets! The
Of Fridaysaturday made again manifest the haohty Oh
the onarchca factions in the Chamber TO combine the
ncanacitv of aDv one Of the Monarchical Red
factions to rule was already demonsraedr and revealed
the fact which should perhaps be put rather 10 the
credit their patriotism than TO the debit OF thr intel


ecs that well planned plot Of treachery TO the Fro-
visonal Republic exists among them on the outSlue'
the nveterae reckless cOnspratOrs of the Bon2parst
faction tried improve the occasion. and one OF the
Paris regiments is mentioned, o: whose officers
were ready TO be the accOmpliccs Of this faction


MacNahon behaved in his Characteristically manly
honest way and was OF the first to Theirs 20 re-
consider his resolution Of quitting his post Ihat many
superior officers, who their grades to the late re-
ge should long after the flesh pots that restored lpe
riaIism would them, and should have small afcc
ton for republc-a form Of government naturally IN
kindly TO their caste-s in the order Of things Between
that and hardly restrained desire for new Napoleonic
coD <tnf are differences The difference between the
temper Of the OF to-day and the army OF 17ol ls
furthermore, manifold, and apong the differences OF
condition between then and are two elementary ones
Then for already two years, LOUIS Napoleon was the
constitutional chief OF the army and he was not only
ysiby at hand with all grades and honors ID Ms giI
but he was the fathinspring representative anu re-
stCrer III it were not for the basphemy one might say
the fulfilling Messahl OF the Napoleonlc Iegehuay sio
RES He has at Sedan since and Is not mere Co-
mendable also the foreign watcher for signs OF an I'M
peral restoration by military force completely Is the
study of dr. but curious little statistics Of Late electoral
returns. The army vote OF rank and NE vulgar
privates, is very strongly republican.


NJ Rouher is candidate to the Assembly In Corsica.
He has Just published his manifesto II Is violent Dut
not strong That the minister OF Napoleon WHO
managed so many elections OF Government can
ddates and urgently engaged that monarch IN his latter
wears when he was inclined to try the experiment OF
.nr Iher.lisln retnrn his only bono for sl.cty