Year: 1873

gravely significant importance, and l omit all the
picturesque particulars to the kernels Of the
Incidents


ApropOs Of a dire provocaton, Gambetta took
the opportunity to explain what he meant by that
famous phrase of his famous last years discourse at
Grenobe, the new rising social strata cOnches
soc'des) He set FORTH with much ability and calm-
ness of housekeeping certain pyrotechnic rhetorical
effects to the last-what should be patent fact
needing explanation, that the accession of all the
people in 1S4S TO political right hitherto exercised
by privileged class Of less than 100000 voters, had
Of inevitable. necessity social as well as political
uprising Of the mass Of the people to the level and
communion of the directing classeso In a
word, like it or not, democracy has arrived" To
pretend that with the political there is no insepara
be relation in this popular advent to expression of
its right to vote and power to control is either blind
denial of q staring truth or declared purpose of
falsifying that truth. In the last contingency, if
that be your case Right Majority case SO much the
worse for you.


This semi-defant language, which M. Gambetta
kept for the end of his discourse, may or may not
have been wisely cracked at the bowling majority
of Monarchists


In the course of his talk, Gambetta let slip the
phrase of Two Frances" meaning the France born
of 1885, and reactionary anti-revoutionary, modern
France. Minister ETnOul mo fool he eitheT snapped
at the phrase and called out with sham indignation
his rhetorcally patriotic response France is one;
there is but one France" This was very fine indeed,
and vociferously applauded by gentlemen sitting
the Right benches, no one of whom regards Repub-
hcan as other than an intimate foreigner
hostile to the decencies and honest men
and prosperity of his France But in the very next
BREATH Minister Enoul after asserting grandy that
there was but one France, separated its population
in two the gems de bien and les dures-the honest.
respectable folks and the rest. Who the honest de-
cent, proper folks are, we pretty well know. But
the others The underlined Others all those who
do not enlist under our reactionary banner. They
are all those in that exemplary RhOne depart
ment and City of Lyons, with whom our select
Prefect, NJ. Ducros necessarily picks quarrels and
steadily presses by conservative" irritating man.
ners and TepresSive ordinances, toward a material
resistance to spirit of streetdghting manitesta-
tion or to something that be made to pass for
street revolt. That that is the consummation de-
voutly wished fOr-excuse and prOvocation for more
thorough measures and better things-by some con-
servatives of social and "moral order" know.


NJ Ernoul he is the de Broghe Minister Of JUS
tice brought in bill, looking to the impending
vacation of the Assembly, empowering the Perma-
ncnt Committee, which the Assembly always leaves
behind it, to prosecute during the vacation all
offenders against the Assembly. The veritable sig
nifcance of the bill not so clear in its ministerial
wording as it became by the speeches OF its unski
full defenders in the debate, is this Any French
man, excepting perhaps members of the Assembly,
who during its vacation make themselves guilty of
offenses against it, may be indicated to the Govern
ment prosecuting attorney by the Permanent Com
mittee and be pushed on to trial and condemnation


Any frank argument going to show that the As
sembly has come to its term is not constituent and
had better be dissolved not being representative Of
the nation would belable to prosecution, and at the
order of committee of twenty-five members Of theAs-
semby to whom the eUtire deputation of all France
transfers not only its administrative but its delib-
erative authority. Hitherto it lay in the very es
sence of prosecution by tine Assembly that the As
semblys decision for prosecution must be preceded by
dGliberation of the whole offended Assembly. The
drift of this new proposition of the new Minister
of Justice for protecting the exposed rights and
dignities of the new Assembly against attacks,
which in the last two years. and by Thiers it safely
BORE is patent.


In the stormy discussion which this proposition
occasioned, Gambetta again spoke. Some needless
Monarchist who, in his fine concet, imagined that
he was making an uncommonly good remark, said
in answer to some objection of legal decencies of the
Tribune. "YOu want not the liberty of the Tribune
(the Assembly's speaking stand) but the liberty of
the Balcony The allusOn was to a speech last
year. uttered from a hotel balcony by Gambetta.
The Deputy would have done better to leave Gam
betta alone. The latter taking the Assembly trib-
une, pressed ON his hearers the eminent importance
of free speech from the balcony. stump-speaking in
fine. W. H. H.