Show THAT CRISIS THIS time the crisis in ia france is less shadowy than usual and it gathers force and substance as it pre presses floquet and have each after invitation and pressure from various sources given give aup the task of forming a ministry as being too irksome and consequential a burden for them to bei responsible for behind the scenes and only waiting for his bis cue to make an entrance and proceed with the performance Is clemenceau who if all accounts are correct is likely t to be summoned today to day by president grevy and the formation of a cabinet entrusted to him he might have been had bad in the first place it if wanted lor for it seems he has been a kind of political barkis all the way through he is a radical is in favor of a restored france and aad a crippled germany and would readily support any war measure if it were thorough enough the president of france is something in disposition like the president I 1 of the united states dignified slow to anger and unwilling to provoke unnecessary conflicts hence his hesitation he yesterday made an appeal to floquet that was almost pathetic it was made a question of love fur for his country to make up a ministry so that the machinery of the government would be clogged no longer thus 8 showing howing that any combination headed by clemenceau must be accepted as a last resort if at all and it if the latter should be called and tail fail the situation will become so embarrassing that the resignation of the executive will be almost an enforced conclusion this would make up ap a crisis with a big C sure enough for the govern government m men en would go into the hands of the ass assembly em composed of the senate and chamber of deputies and in the pres ent eat temper of the french anything might then take place they are a mighty and a prosperous people when properly controlled and directed direct iA but a idt ru rupture u re at headquarters has the same effect e t upon them that a red flag has upon a bull another fruitful source of discontent which day af after ter day adds more and more to the volume is the pro ro posed cosed exclusion of general boulanger er from rom the cabinet to such an extent is this man idolized that ibaan in A an election held a few days ago for a deputy for the seine he received votes aj al minority but in view of the fact that they were merely expressions of the peoples will since no officer of the army is eligible to a seat in that body it is very significant then from all quarters and every grade 0 of peo people come petitions for his bis retention and it these are unheeded there may be a crisis of another and more serious character on the other hand with clemenceau and himself as the powers that be in france the field for speculation a as to what may occur is sot not thereby contracted ta in any degree our sister aister republic is in a critical condition just now no matter what the concordance and regularity succeeding existing affairs may may be A few fire brands are always lurking in the near neighborhood of the citadel and outbreak would gladly adly greet any kind of an outbreak that they might rule tor for even a brief season and enjoy luxuries and licenses which as occupants of the gutter they can only dreamon dream of these gentry never showed themselves so plainly as malefactors as when paris was wa unvested Yn invested vested by the german forces InI 1872 the government was paralyzed the commune held f ul sway and the streets swarmed with carbonari and petrol petro louse suse who destroyed right and left what they could not immediately use and all monuments public buildings etc demor ial izing in any way the past victories of france the entry of the german troops restored order out dut it was es ea in the midst of grand gloomy and peculiar ruins charred walls and the debris of mighty structures after authority was restored to the French these canaille were snot shot in squads but enough of them were left and have grown up to repeat what was so severely and yet so deservedly punished after that bloody and brutal reign of terror if they ever get an opportunity port unity the growth of the war spirit in france is the stimulus of their hopes and being so numerous and nearly alIl Frenchmen all united lin in hatred haired of germany and the project of a war la ra vanche at the proper time it is no wonder the law and order and we mig htay say good sense party have so hard a time keeping things straight till that time comes |