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REVOLTOOH PREDICTED.
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The French Are Not Thirsting for Blood,
but They Want Reform.
Paws, January 1. It is a ague but
safe prophecy that the year which was
ushered in to-day will be a year of great
events in France. All Europo has been
making predictions of what it has imme
diately in store for the people. The
pictures which are drawn in oher capi
tals are most of them gloomy. London
critics, such as the Tirnes, persist in de
claring that it will be a year of blood,
and that a new reign of terror is at
hand. St. Petersburg alone seems dis
posed to take a hopeful view of He
look for ilussia's republican ally!.
The eveats of the last few days, while
in some respects ominous, do not shake
the confidence expressed in this corre
spondence a week ago, that the crisis is
at least postponed. The publicpaseion
is cooling down a little foTllioTane bo
ing, and the popular mind is in a more
"fiiialyfical mood. There is n tendency
toward indifference or condemnation of
the great public crime, and the penalties
which the people's verdict will inflict
will not be severe because delayed. The
great danger lies in the fact that the
utmost advantage will be taken of the
national scandal by the enemies of the
republic.
This week's events furnish the gravest
evidence of the existence of a carefully
prepared campaign against the present
form of government. The propaganda of
revolution has been introduced this week
in every province and every village in
France. The methods are the same
everywhere. It is impossible to explains
the reports which come in from the
whole country by any arguments of
natural coincidence. The monarchists,
the reactionists, the Boulangists, the ;jjf
socialists have everywhere joined hands, aot
They preach revolution almost openly, ate
They would tear down the government, j the
or the people in power, which isthesametter
out this government of thieves" is the ee
war cry which the promoters of revlu-en
tion are putting into the mouths of the Mj
people. Everywhere save in Paris itselfj jjje
has this work been going on for the past jU9
week. pub
A different policy has apparently beer
. designed for the capital. Sedition is notx.
openly preached here, except in a fev
newspapers. The work in Paris is bein'168
done in the socialist and other organiza to
tions of the workingmen. There is a dirtirn.
position in many placed on the part acca
the votaries of revolt to openly take tbjate
name of revolutionists. Such languag as
as was used at the meeting of Mone(j
marire inursaay whb ci uuwuimuni
Citizen Cameliant, an. ex-communii?
i coldly advocated repeating the attorney
)f 1871. M. Geusede recommended inir ic
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the different sections of socialists in Paris
should unite for a determined revolution
and a " march on the" Elysse." Various
organizations of revolutionists have al
ready appointed members of a "commit
tee of public safety," which shall
organize a march against the chambers
on the opening of parliament.
All this would be terribly alarming if
the enemies of the republic had in view
a single object. The only thing they can
agree upon, hoover, is the overthrow of
the present regime. The rope now
he pedestal of government
n as it had dragged it from
sition, separate into a dozen
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guilt is f liberty would fall into the
ever, toLrcny would reign. The
which tl know this. They will not
in the cai blood again for the sake
theevidaa few score perfidious
is the obj nia? be uprising and in
plan purs'10-'' nt there will be no
series of qFrance until there ia a
nations 0f object in view beyond
, of existing institutions.
, '.We, 8 Wblican agitation con
and to thet king public offi(.jata
ask the ed'6nt alike The Bonft.
a thousandtionists incidentally ad
excite publlrojects, but there is no
honesty art response to the latter
might be al wiU develop the sec-
offense initflhe Pot lf one mum.
Thisinquisvioui of the country"
unfair and vBr ,
We do not J1 Vw make a
a defense of l.s.Dlated
petent to make Ias ,aken n0 open
do not undertaWnWBion of seditious
acts. We bell ,bably be compelled
times indiscreetible consequences.
so plainly on sps of revolutionary
sions. In fact,8Ur8ly. inflame large
view published Vd aarchiata into
Ocean during tft, fym D,a
political campaign, a . t ... ta .
Noncpnforviist has ent CRQ nofc
nection with itsCyof a Bie8 of
unwise but absolute and dynamite
but when the ingo, t hen the slt
mates that she the prefectr of
republican party,re summoned to
betraying the intei instructions by
party through the i tbe,r m
give some of the e demonstrations.
nave in its possessu - , .. .
charge. We enters w. f.
this method of assaw flff;tation. and
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THE RAILROADS.
Their Earnings Increased in Proportion to
the Decline of Western Agriculture.
Washington, January l.A prelim
inary report on the income and ex
penditures of railways for the year
ending June .30, 1892, compiled by the
statistician to the interstate commerce
commission, will soon be made public.
The gross earnings of 128,310.99 miles of
railway are shown to haye been $951,
02G,1G9, from which the pross earnings
of the entire railway service of the
United States are estimated to have
been $1,222,711,603. This is an increase
of $125,950,303 over the earnings of the
previous year, or an increase of $608 per
mile of line. The operating expenses for
the year were $814,722,080, being an in
crease of $32,334,189, which leav s an in
crease in net earnings of $18,116,111, or
$2,472 per mile of line. A comparison of
passenger and freight service shows the
larger proportion of increase in earnings
from operations to have come from
freight service. The actual increase in
revenue from naasenger service was
$31,500,023, or $247 per mile of line as
against m increase in the revenue from
freight service of $91,506,671 or $:U9 per
mile of line.
It is observed that the railways on
which there has accrued the largest in
crease in gross earnings per mile of line
are the lines connecting the wheat grow
ing territory with the seaboard, and the
lines in the southern states bordering on
the Gulf of Mexico. It is significant,
however, that on these railways there
has been an increase in operating ex
penses nearly equal to the increase in
gross reveaue. The report shows that
the aggregate gross earnings of sixty two
roads, each of which enjoys an income
in excess of $3,000,000, is $794,476,331,
being an average increase of $12,814,171.
The average gross revenue per mile of
line for all roads is $8,840; a classifica
tion of the sixty-two roads in question
shows that eight receive each an income
in excess of $20,000 per mile of line, for
ten the income per mile of line is be
tween $13,000 and $20,000, for thirteen
tha income per mile of line is between
$7,443 and $13,000, while the incoq e
from each of the remainder is less tha.
87,113 per mile of line.
The density of passenger and freight
traffic ia also given for the roads whose
gross revenue exceeds $3,000,000, from
which it appears that in some parts of
the country there has been healthy ex
pansions of trade during the last two
years, while in other parts the increase
in traffic of 1892 does little more than
balance the loss of traffic in 1891. In the
southern gulf states, Tennessee and Ken
tucky, the tonnage per mile of line was in
1890, 894,096; in 1891, 405,905; in 1892,
the other hand, in the territory of thi
trunk linea east of Buffalo and Pittsburg! jV
theltonnage per mile of line was in 1890,
1,900,295; in 1891, l,7G3,a30, and in 1992,
1,935,404. The poor relative showings of i
1891 is in part accounted for by the new I
lines built in the state of Pennsylvania,
but the figures indicate a decided lluctu-
ation in business. fi
Chicago, January 1. The year just
ending has been a prosperous one forth; j
railroads centering in Chicnco. Evrf
one of them is able to show handaom
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been comparatively low diirimr th l
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irreaiwr van 01 me Year. AL.-iima na in
there been such a rush of business as tjf
gonuuoij ciuutuiiwa any ul iliv ruima, v
taking the twelve months togetbi 1
volume of freight and passenger f
has been erormous. 'J he atnouiA
freight, exclusive of livt stock "
into and taken out of Chicago
estimated, reach a total cf 1(
tons. At the same time the man'
the various lines say that it h
very expensive year for them on jg
of the heavy outlays necessary innch
ing to handle next year's busiije
very large proportion of their r
have been set apart for thispurp
for this reason some of the coti--1
are compelled to postpone contempi
increases in dividends.
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Mexican OonsDiracv.
Monterey, Mex., January f 1
Mexican government, through thf
of Gen. Bernardo Reys, governor
state of Neuve Leon, has secuf V
uv eviuwuu luipucJiiing juu p
Mexicans of the state of T?v
and the Mexican frontier in ti v
revolutionary movement. Thi A
is in the nature of a secret rev j
pronunoiamento distributed oi
those believed to be ineymi f
the cause. The document ou'
policy of the proposed new gofv;
and the plan of revolution. '
The pronunciamento pronoum V
to be a tyrant and a traitor I
robbed the people of their JrightfK';
who could be overthrown only by fare
Mexico is declared to be in a state il
siege, and the Mexican people are calle J
to arms. Catarino Garza Ja naned V
supreme chief of the revclitiouut3,,ai
he will, the pronunciamenti) says, call
general election for a conatitntbnal
vention as soon as the revolutionists
possession of the capital. ree suj
and a real election ia th '
revolutionists. The doou J , '
by Prudanoiano Gonza; : '
Juarez, Julian Flores, Jus f
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