BODLANGER SUMMED UP.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4534, 8 May 1889, Page 4

BODLANGER SUMMED UP.

♦ . If the speech delivered by General Boulaoger at Tours on Sunday, «ay« the Chronicle of March 19th, is a sample of other* yet up- < spoken, the Ministry lmvo only to give the General rope enough when ho will assuredly commit political euicido. Intended to catolr the votes of all parties, views suoh as thoio put forward by the General at Tour* mast, when stripped of thoir rhetorical fringe, ond by satisfying nobody. Of living policy it. is plain the (Joncral hni none, the eternal burden of lii« oppPii/s being to ho givon carle hlaneks to dfittroy the present ConntiUition And to build up another m iti stoad. General 9oulangor protests against the ocou-

sation that be n aiming at a dictatorship. 8o did Louis Napoleon, whose history the general had not Btudied m vain, and whose methods he is copying with marvellous fidelity. Bis conception, indeed, of the Republic that is to effect the political and social regeneration of France is precisely the same as was Louis Napoleon's of the Btate. "La Bepublique, c'est moi " is m effect what General Boulanger says to France. His Republic, he openly | avows, is to be non-parliamentary — that is to say, a Bepublic m name and a I Dictatorship m reality. This view seems at length to have struck the Patriotic Leaguers— the backbone of Boulangitm — who are reported to be about to sever themselves from the General. Hitherto the latter has certainly disproved the commonly accepted theory that it is impossible to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds ; but a few more utterances such as that of Sunday laßt must infallibly have the effect of compelling the General to say on which side he fights— with I the party of Beaction, or with the genuine upholders of the Bepublio.