The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. SATURDAY. JAN. 19, 1895 THE FRENCH CRISIS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 172, 19 January 1895, Page 2

The Fielding Star, OROUA & KIWITEA COUNTIES GAZETTE. Published Daily. SATURDAY. JAN. 19, 1895 THE FRENCH CRISIS.

Ax this distance, where it is imposBible for even the most diligent student of European politics to keep himself up to date, it is not easy to form a very correct opinion as to the real state of parties in France. Wo know enough by recent cablegrams, however, to feel somewhat alarmed at the threatened results of tbe precipitate and apparently ill-judged desertion of his post by the late President, but it is not impossible that the reasons which presented themselves to him for so doing were good and sufficient. He haa diodosed only such of them as he dared. Although a successor has already been found in M. Faure, the position has not been improved. The socialists displayed great violence when his election was announced, and the President of the National Assembly was compelled to close the proceedings abruptly in order to avoid a worse tumult. If M. Faure is a scroag man in the best sense of the term, he may, with the assistance of those who havo the welfare of the nation at heart, resto-e affairs to their nominal condition ; but he has a stupendous task before him. M. Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of tho London Time**:, and probably the most likely man in France to give a it-liable opinion, said in one of his letters recently that France was on the very brink of a ro volution, and the accuracy of hi.-* judgment is proved by the events of tho last few days. Tho attitude of the Due d' Orleans, who hopes to see a King onco more on the throne of France, can ouiy be explained by as suming that he is supported by one of the political parties of the nation, or by those who are desirous of promoting a revolution in oidor that they may profit by the anarchy which would necessarily ensue. The scenes enacted during and after the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1848 wero all accompanied by bloodshed, while the horrors of tho Commune in Paris are yet fresh iu the momories of many. Unly in 1830 when Charles X was do posed was a change effected in the system of Government without vi dence It is noc surprising, therefore that the nations of Europe now look with dread on incidents which in former times preceded events that in the end involved tho peace of the world, cost the lives of millions of n*.en, and the sacrifice of vast treasure Let us hope that wise councils may prevail, that the peace of the nation may be maintained, and law aud order upheld without the sacrifice of human lifo, for once the lower orders in Paris have tasted blood it needs to flow in tor rents to assuage their terrible appetite. nil i i i-niMii-TTrrim fYilrfTftin