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Show EDITOR ROCIIEFOKT. , THE IMPULSIVE FRENCH JOURNALIST JOURNAL-IST OF WHOM THE GOVERNMENT GOVERN-MENT IS At RAID. - The Government Is not afraid cf General Boijlanger, but lienii Rochefort Is a great trouble," said the French Ambassador the other day to Count Herbert Bismacrk:an.l everj body who knows what sort cf a position Rochefort held In Pails will understand what the Ambassador Ambas-sador meant. It Is no exaggeration to say that the editor of 1,'lntratlg-canighcsanayfrom 1,'lntratlg-canighcsanayfrom 2,000 3,000 of his income every year In charity. He has loug acted as relieving of- ueer 10 au kiuus w ueeuy people, and both his newspaper office and his private apartments in Puis were p'acea of public resort, whltherflock-ed whltherflock-ed all thjse who had a. grievance. Prodigal of his talent as of his mon-ey.Roc mon-ey.Roc hefort would at any time dash olTararagraphoran article to denounce de-nounce a peccant official, and In rough and ready way he dd much good. Often unnecessarily violent, and sometimes unjust, he took up as a rule cases in which some palpable pal-pable wroug had been done to poor folk. Ho made the petty oppressor tremble, and Ids press tribunal was one which frequently caused justice to be done expeditiously and fully for people who could have obtained no remedy In courts of law. The Paris correspondent of the Cologne Gazette has been talking with a number of workmen, who all said to him: "II nouM faut J.Vcftrort" the truth being that ltochefort'a exile had left a gap which cannot be tilled. It was a great ml'take to include Rochefort in the indictment ogaiust Bculanger, though no doubt Boulan-ger Boulan-ger owes inpsl of his tuccess to Rochefort. When tho popular; openhanded journalist pronounced for Uoulanger he drew after him an extraordinary number or the weik-iug weik-iug classtv; but this fact ought tu lm e madu the Government wary, of straining tho press laws agalntr him. Kverjbody knows that Rochefort was prosecuted because M. Constaus, the Homo Minister, whom he liad repeatedly Accused of lieculatlon, wanted to be avenged of him; and the Senators who condemned con-demned Roehefort were also actuated actu-ated I y the wish to get rid of a iea-Ulent iea-Ulent fellow who had laid his lash upon them all more or less. UeverthrltSK, Rochefurt'n condemnation con-demnation was not justifiable according ac-cording to existing press laws, and it will place any Republican government gov-ernment that may come to office after the next elections In a troublesome trouble-some position, for it will scarcely be possible to revise Rochefort's sentence sen-tence without revising BouL-iDcrr-'s. On the other band, the advisability of readmitting Roehefort tu. -Paris willappear so plain that theGoverp-mcut theGoverp-mcut will not dare gainsay it. So, trobably, the cud of the matter will e an am nitty extended to Uoulanger Uoulan-ger as well as to Rochefort. llerlin Uur. G!aigow Jlerald. |