CLEMENCEAU'S HATE
TIGER-SPRINGS "WAR TO THE DEATH WITH KINGS." Those who want to kuow what kind of a man Clemenceau was will find some clues in a short study of his life, "The Tiger —Georges Clemenceau," by Mr. George Adam, an English journalist in Paris. Clemenceau was a Jacobin. He was '' the watch-dog of the republic.'' lie knew in his youth Joseph Cormier, who had been a friend of Marat —beside whom some people think Robespierre was almost an angel! Clemenceau's father was arrested under N:tpolean : 111.
Clemenceau himself was arrested at a later period under Napoleon 111. lie was a "son of the Revolution," and he had a deadly hatred of royalism, which in France was the enemy of. the republic. He made his tiger-spring and brought down Ministry after Ministry simply because he believed that one Ministry after . another . was failing the -republic.'. He became Premier at last to save the republic. His savage hatred of royalism is illustrated in. a,letter which Mr. Adamq'uotes; Clemenceau wrote it to a woman at the time when the Archduke 'Maximilian, who, tried to set up as Emperor of Mexico, had been shot by the Mexicans. The Empress Charlotte, Maximilian's wife, went mad after Maximilian was killed. "Good heavens!" wrote Clemenceau. "I naturally know that all such folk are always charming! I grant you that at the start; they have been that for five or six thousand years. Merciless Hatred.
"Well, I am going to tell you one thing; all these emperors, kings, archdukes, and princes are great, sublime, generous and superb, and their princesses arc everything you like to think of them. "But I hate them with a merciless hatred, with the hatred of 1793, when people called that idiot Louis XVI. an execrable tyrant. "Between us and such people there is war to the death. "Maximilian wanted to commit a real crime. lie has been killed by those he wanted to kill. I am delighted. His wife is mad; there could be nothing more just. It almost makes mo believe in Providence."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 10
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