The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, AND Saturday Morning. Saturday, April 6, 1889.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 283, 6 April 1889, Page 2

The Gisborne Standard AND COOK COUNTY GAZETTE Published every Tuesday, Thursday, AND Saturday Morning.

Saturday, April 6, 1889.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country s, Thy God’s, and truth’s.

BOULANGISM RAMPANT. French “politics” are again a disturbing influence in the pacific prospects that have prevailed for the past few months. Boulanger is the cause of the trouble, but there is a color ot madness in the actions of his prosecutors. Instead of stamping out the Boulanger element, the French Government is making a martyr of him, and it is as near a certainty as anything can be certain that the course they are taking will react to their own disadvantage. Our telegrams inform us that Boulanger says he will not return to the country, to be judged .by a Senate who is blinded by personal passions, that he is willing to answer any accusations that may be made against him before a Magistrate or jury, but otherwise he will wait until the general elections result in the return of “ men who will make the Republic habitable for honest, free, and honorable men.” It might be all that and not be habitable for Boulanger, but the blindness of his opponents seem to suit his plans to a nicety. The very measures which they are taking to suppress whatever remnant of power he may have left, are those most calculated to restore him to that pinnacle from which he was ignominiously dislodged not so very long ago. And moreover he is to an extent in the right. Why should he be judged by a Senate blinded by personal passions ? For there is no questioning on this point to those who are not biassed on either side. The French Government find that Boulanger is very inconvenient to them, and they are resorting to extraordinary methods to suppress the power that threatens to increase and overwhelm them. They have not the sense to see that they could much better gain their own purpose by letting him severely alone. M. de Frycinet is opposed to the extreme measures that are being taken, and he is one of the best men in the Senate. At present there can be nothing more than conjecture as to what the result will be, but the outlook is a most unpromising one. If the trouble were confined to France it might not concern Englishmen a great deal, but there is no knowing what a widespread effect such complications might have. Events now are tending in the direction of restoring Boulanger to power, and the near approach of anything of the kind would cause an uneasy feeling abroad, and generally lead to an unsettled state of things. Possibly the French Government will see the mistake they are making, and draw out of it the best way they can, but it is certain, even if the Government hesitate midway, to operate enormously to Boulanger’s advantage.