Show CONDITION OF or FRANCE SO CIAL AND ared POLITICAL to rd erla cila enable ble bie the public to understand tile tiie real cause Of events which h a ave v e already taueu place in F france rance as well weil as those now transpiring I 1 will give ea a brief sketch of the social condition of that great nation arioli of that haft country is separated in into anto to three classe classes s r the uppers middle and lower lover to TP the niri firs belOng the dig clergy and nobility t to 0 tho the tho the second the bour bourgeoisie gebis it rhen nhen chants trades people and those possessing h a share of wealthy to the third that portion of the t he population lation ii wiio wilo ai are arp dependent dent for subsistence si upon their daily toil toll the first of these are the tor leaor ar conservatives so serva rv at ies tives ot 0 france frang T they hel bel cling with willi great tenacity to the privileges C and traditions of their class and resolutely oppose any n y innovations which 1 would abridge the ofte one ono or come in in contact with tb theother the other eother middle classes aro more liberal and democratic demp 4 1 cratic in their tendencies th they ey are re inclined to encroach upon a and ad break through the tho distinctions and privileges privilege s assumed assum eil ell and claim C edby dby the aristocracy the tile worl working drig classes t fratie france e as is of otha coun tries as a general thin thiu thing awe afe are aro not sui sufficiently educated eif and e enlightened to td think for fbi thein theiu themselves selves and they follow lc adeis adels now of one party now of another this state of things exists more or less in all western nation nations not except excepting ing lug 0 the tile united states but in no country perhaps is the distinction so apparent par nt as in france each of these classes obeys obe s a par the members 8 of said bald class clasi takes tho the precedence of all ot others beis heis the conservatives conserva tivis vivis aie aio non regressive inertia is their motto ido do not mean absolute inertia but bt that state of repose or rest to which all niem men think they are entitled when they have accomplished a certain task these people balon belong 9 to the we rather than to the C century and their beau ideal af pf f society is that of the j reign eign of louis XIV landwere and mere were it possible they would now reestablish establish re in franco france I 1 a regin regime similar to tho iho one whiz whig which then theli exl exi existed sted all the greatless great lessons ons of trench french history from the lath to the century are 10 lost lest st to 6 them as much as if the events from which they sprang had never J happened alpene we can agree with them in in believing that tbt the reign of louis XIV was superior in F france franco rance ranco to all which precede dit it burits chief claim our admiration lies lies lles only in the flip foci fact that it was a period of transition the dawning of ot a brighter day in the social and ad political history of the country but this furnishes no reason with the pe people 1 1 of france today to day for fot in indulging 1 g i in idle of a man g lik ilk like ilke louis louls lou wilo was notorious for his hypocrisy and intolerance and any attempt to restore a regime similar to his hh at the present play flay would be opposed by the people almost without exemption exo exe eption and would he be defeated no matter what the cost of 60 doing the nation advances and in iu 1 ils its S marob march the wheels of progress crush all who clin cling to the traditions of th the past T tile 1 e attempt pow being 1 made by the conservatives of france to place tho the count de do chambord on the thio throne ne of his fa hers is an enterprise which might piave ave succeeded a c century ago but present I 1 it t cannot buebe regarded as extremely chimerical if however avei it should prove successful that success will surely be accompanied pan 1 kd by the unmistakable indications tio lio of speedy don downfall fali rall the middle classes of france are governed by the tiie law lav of progress progress Is their motto matt they have attal attai attained ned qed to their present status statta in the nation by labor and intelligence 1 g e til the ehe 0 power leowen and influence e th they A now on possess they thes can retain and nd 1 increase crea creao e by the same saint mean means they will bovery bevery be very unlikely t to 0 resign their future ith with alth BO so full of promise toan to an authority of which they are doubtful they once onee made the tho mistake of themselves with the tiie aristocracy Y bu but t as they have been fe severely verely punished for their folly there is ilo jib muei of their making ranking alike a like ilke mistake aguin toke to he be ahem faithful to the law gos goX governs erns orns them lb they must shun an a alliance an M if they would iii ill thal that 1 it which wl tell they ubey alred already possess fulfill fulfil their theil destiny and realize ize aspirations iko iho X nip anut st march margh boid bold hold I 1 ly forward throw aside as ide ido the class distinction which surrounds them and reaching tot to those boso below beloy them con consider themselves the advance of the army of progress and humanity mm anity the law of the working classes is that which underlies and forms the very foundations of the whole soc social lai fabric fabrie namely labor lalor despised by savages labor is the index and abd co com in j ant of all civilization yet the lg ignorant almost brutal and servile condition of tie tle the great majority bority of or the tile laboring populations of all ail lands lauds lia ha manily m assisted in keeping society in in a medium condition between civilization and barbar ism in proportion as intelligence becomes difre diffused ed among am agthe the mi masses ses jabor jaber enn ennobles itself an the laborer learns his rights and how to obtain and maintain them this transformation is a wore work pr slow biow progress but butt would be more quickly effected if the labo laboring dug cla cia classes ases could could free themselves from the pernicious I 1 ious lous influences fluen ces which assail awall them inthe in the townsand towns and cities they are more noro or less subject to demagogues in the country they aro are under the tile domination of the priest priests sand and other agonia and supporters of the aristocracy it 1 how however upon the ela cla classes ses of T I 1 france prance ace ice that the solution of the tiie political puli pull problems of the times it in a great measure depends depend si for they porm form the great majority of the electoral eJect oral orai body of the country the intelligence i in n the use of the suffrage which they have df displayed splayed duding during the last inko inho two ivio or three yeara ilis liis inspires pires me with the hope teaty in uniting with the bourge bourgeoisie ome oWe or middle middie classes their united efforts will save the country from threatened evils As to 0 the future of the masses that depends first upon the he of tho the republic and second upon the formation of cooperative associations tile the only permanently freeing labor from the domination and tyranny of capital larona the tile pre preceding ceding and for many other reasons which I 1 have not space to refer to 0 o alerc kent lent aris es e the st struggle lugge now taking irace pace in ir f rance ranee and from the phase which tha that t 8 r lobas assumed assum edl edi J con clude elude that the machinations of the aristocracy oi or privilege privileged d classes for tho tilo restoration of the monarchy will be defeated and that sooner or later intern a general election will r reinstate ein eln state the illustrious pelic petit bourgeois 31 tillers as P president r of the republic blie ii A bertrand |