| Show boulanger IS STAR STAB RISING AGAIN THOSE who have been supposing for some time past that the boulanger spirit in france was dead will have cause to change their views by reading late telegrams from that part of the world it can be easily comprehended how it is and why it is that this alleged disturbing element among the peacefully inclined stands less conspicuous ly y and prominently before the world thu formerly his bis motto of peace witti with honor has been construed as meaning peace by war and thus the alarmists alarmiste alar mists precipitated a scare resembling that which lately culminated in the ove overthrow arthrow of the administration in the united states State sonly only free trade was the gonfalon gon falon of the conflict here the masses ba as a rule are easily led by shrewd le leaders agers and aad all the horrors of a war with germany were presented before the people of france in vivid and aad glowing colors while boulanger was made the scapegoat he and his friends however claim and the facts seem eem to bear them out that the chief sin ln that he has committed is the placing of his country bove above a any part of it or any party in it and that while not courting war nor looking upon ii it t as a necessary alternative he has all along objected and still does object to the french ministry being so many on off duty agents of the german empire his devotion to this idea has cost him his generalship in the array army and been the means of driving him from civil places of honor and profit but he has under any and all circumstances maintained the correct correctness ne 08 ot at his and neither threats entreaties sor or persuasion er sulon have been able to change lim aim in ia the slightest degree with reference to the fated or fateful general there were lately two or three interesting telegrams among our dispatches oneff one of them shows now bow he is held by the essentially french party of 61 france another bow he be looks upon the situation himself putting this and that together it is not stating it too strongly to say sav abat he is as popular a man now as he be ever was A report was sent on saturday that the french republic was tottering to its base and it rosy may be that this is so the present government is regarded at home and abroad as aa at the best beat but a makeshift make shift bolstered by policy and guarded by suspicion it has accomplished absolutely nothing not even pacification and Is looked upon with distrust by those who super trust it in the event of a great crisis or national nation a calamity coming from within or without it would be difficult to te conceive of anything more inadequate to the occasion than the carnot administration the splendid organization and excellent discipline which boulanger baulang as minister ot at war infused into tife army are well nigh niah it if not alt altogether ozether dissipated by nonuser non user and the want of that patriotic example at headquarters headquarter which makes soldiers sal diera patriots th the exchequer is la an unsatisfactory con there is but little more soang on la in thel chamber of deputies than mere L quibbles between factions and cross countering by law lawyers vers and if added to all this a 4 foreign complication were to arise it is not assuming too much to say that the government that was born in a night would be in a day in that condition of things whre wh re is the man maa among amog the french more prominent or to whom all eyes would more readily turn thin than to the presently tabooed commander commander |
