http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0373720
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1913-06-28
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note: The Week ii British Columbia Newspaper and Review. fol. XI, No. 20--Eleventh Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, June 28, 1913 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year The Lion and the Lily MONSIEUR POINCAIRE, tlio worthy son of a respectable wine-grower, and President of the French Republic, is visiting England in his official capacity, nnd in the words f the London daily press is receiving a welcome rarely accorded to ings. All this is as it should be. It may bo regarded as the ftermath of tho successful endeavours of our late king to establish ie most friendly relations with the neighbouring republic, a policy 'hich has been continued by His Majesty, King George. The mere let that the president of n republic is a man of humble origin, and lat the republic is a democracy furnishes the strongest reason for •eating him with the utmost respect, possibly even with a little lore than might be considered necessary in the case of a monarch, hit one can hardly help recalling the seas of blood through which ie French nation waded to republicanism and its present form of ivernment. It is impossible at such a time to forget the horrors of ie French Revolution nnd of the Second Empire, or even of the lommune after the capitulation of Paris. Neither is it possible to irget thut the French Republic is built on the ashes of a dethroned ristocracy, which provoked its own destruction by the ostentatious ixury which characterized its regime. These reflections are in- vitnbly recalled when one reads of tho Royal gold plate being used n the occasion of the Poincaire banquet nt Buckingham Palace, 'robably tit such a time President Poincaire thought only of his llustrious host and the courtesies which were being extended to the omitry which he represented. It is hardly likely that he thought f the poverty and misery which drove his own fellow-countrymen o bloody revolution, or of the tens of thousands nf starving children ti the East end of London who never eat off a plate nnd who typify n this century, as t…

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