Show PRANCE FRANCE what that was a strange error of our eminent compatriot or let us hope of the reporter who misconceived conceived mis him our heart Is not on that side it goes out gut toward france toward france the close ally and bosom friend of absolutist russia france dominated illy militarism and clericalism france her jew baiting her travesties of lie justice the condemner of drey tw and zola but for the name of A it a caesar or a napoleon might as be at ate head where such things are done one freemen respect the arll national intellect which seems of f itofe to have gone so for far astray they mire ire the splendid literature of I 1 ance ce they are thankful her great ugh h spasmodic services to liberty in past they have watched anxiously fc efforts to stoer steer between the rock rack urbanism urbon ism and the whirlpool of by and they sigh to think that CT destiny may be like that of the s aher latin races that she may sink 0 o decadence cadence the victim of her own h onate si pate errors rent by internal con ns destroyed by false ideals and 1 ral incapacity her watchword Is I 1 lory not duty she stands not tor for anity but for herself suone mone chau chad tic to the core she has only jealousy when another power the wilderness or delivers a from C oppression ip she would se ie these wild lands if she could in 4 old spanish manner and told them methods not wholly dissimilar to se 0 of f spain three hundred I 1 years i she was ruled by a hero who fought r ile once oce for his crown for national 1 f tation t and for human rients in r d days a ys of real glory she was the land 0 f henri IV now she is a republic terA and the land of paty du cham |