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Show AN EXEMPLER OF LAW AND ORDER - -j ..WASlflKCTON. D. '., May t. Ou May fi, occurrnd the wntennai v p'the deatb oj "JV.ipoleon", the Idfi of. France," notbs the lie.pnbllcj'i Publicity 'atKOvlatlOR, through Hi president, Hon. Jonathan nournP J( "The occasion Is one for the revtr. of l lie life and accomplishments or the great man to fee If we cannct draw fiom his caieer leshons', -"foe present da application. The world Is prone to think of Napoleon nolel as a mighty military ' man, paylic; little attention to his civil record ;is emperor of Fiance. It is true Omt ho was one of tho givutest gunerala lhat ovef lived. As Murbot tells us !the l,oldler who understands Napoleon's Napol-eon's stategy has nothing morn t leal ii. Hut Inure Is another side to the ch'aj-.ii'tor or the Kiwieh ledej-tjjat ledej-tjjat Is Tforlh) of stuif) In thesa ah-uonnnt ah-uonnnt times. I "To Vosln with. Napoleon was nrl a natlve'VJ'enchtuiri. le' was born JiJSilr IJUbd'of C?o'ifitf,i Wrttfh po- sesslon. u H true, but the life nml though of whose people had llttl 'in common with the Kronen. When the younn man landed in France mvl entered u luilltaiy school at the aue of ten ho was, to all luteutx an 1 purposes an immigrant. His ultimate ultim-ate rise Irani that humble station to tthe dictatorship of Franco should V .nn Initiation to every emigrant to a .foreign land. The prefidency of the j United States Is limited by the con stltutlon to native bom American;, but timer Is no other olllce or social elation In the wliole laud that ts ( not available to every Hew comer o our shores. The Immigrant Is limited lim-ited only by his own will, ability, and good buhitvlor. "At theage of 23 Napoleon wai brought fsc! to fac- with mob- i.uie Up was in l'arl on that fati'fiil 20iJi of Juuef 17!)2, when the lebblo Ii tuded the Iliillurlffi nd.wai a clotn obseivtr of the events .1 Iih4 follow:-!, (todtug In the gulllotlutng of the loy.-al loy.-al family tand. many .of thfi Fru-ncn aristocracy. For ten )cars thereafter thereaf-ter he was occupied with in II l.tji , duties, but when hi was prueluiine I consul In 1S02 the trnprcxKloiis th'it had been made upon his mind by Urn hororrs of (he revolution found or-piiisslnn or-piiisslnn and ho devoted hlmselr t Betting up a gn eminent baved ( n law and order. He established an education system, the Hank of FrHtio the Legion or Honor and the NnpV eonlp Code of Jaws which Is the guide of Kieiich law today and has had a piofound I n fin en r.. on JiihiIc,. throucn out the world. 'It would he ver dltllculi to disprove the statement ' declares on writer, "that tho superb inheritance of order, progress and 'prosperity which Napoleon bequeath td made the Franco of 1014.' "'In (he knapsack of each-of l prlyatcB-ls . roai-shRl's batoni' In a fimllUi4 iu.qtntjon'(rom the: gisut Cor!cu. He racattt that the opbor tttntlj fas thfreVnd tl remained on ly I'' lio individual to giasp anI d. op It to become a leader aumn. J mi. Success and wealth am with In the grasp of ewity Individual a i on us today, be he native or imm'-giant, imm'-giant, and so long as the) are P' sued In accoidancp with the law or he land no impediment will be placed plac-ed In the way of highest attainment If Napoleon could 'do It I can do l(,' Is the proud boast of ivery Frencn-man, Frencn-man, and with him .is their Id'-.-, tl.ey strive for success. I.el ou,v ImmiKiant to our shores be an I ma tod by a similar tepole--to forge to th front bv every lawful means tlwt presents Itself and radicalism br 'ii of Idleness will disappear and contentment con-tentment reign once more." |