cartoon appeared in The Journal comic , December 1848.
" Hurrah! Hurrah! the stock is rising! Rejoice, lynx bank, knights of the slide, the hero of lansquenet, gentlemen of assizes! For ten months, you have meager fare, your teeth are elongated, but, as you will give heart joy, as the quarry is going to sound delicious! The stock is rising! Hurrah! Hurrah!
And you, credulous people, you will benefit from the lesson? We told you when the stock is rising is that the honor and dignity of the countries are falling. The day after Waterloo, while thirty thousand corpses lay in the French plains of Belgium, took over five percent favor, and you should now understand how you made a mistake by giving your vote to Mr. Bonaparte, who became the boss of 'speculation, the first day of his triumph!
After all, your wonderful instinct thee may be served; you wanted revenge on you and you want your revenge. Thanks to you, we are never issued for this coterie as ferocious selfish, who have long stifled the republic. Now the question is whether raising the bulwark of the emperor's nephew, you do not want to show the emptiness of all hereditary claims that threatened the republic.
But know, to successfully end this dangerous experiment, we must be vigilant at all times, ruthless logic. We must not falter or permit to carry affect your sovereign will.
The republic had promised equality, right to work comes from its beginning to the perfidious advice of the reaction, it gave you a little more misery than before, there adding, by way of compensation, force of guns and rifles. It always depends on you, despite the election of Mr. Bonaparte, that the republic pays the debts of the provisional government. To do this, you have only to want.
Among the competitors who competed your votes, you took one that offers were the most beautiful, and could most certainly get rid of M. Cavaignac. Confident as always, you gave your vote without requiring a deposit. May you do not experience another disappointment! You do not want more indirect contributions or grants, you want the right to live by working, you want your son are the only ones to pay the blood tax, you're tired of seeing your daughters used to debauchery idlers. You know there's wealth in the work, and you want your place in the banquet of equality. We promised you that, and those who came to beg your votes for their favorite, although promised t'eussent more ...
Now they are rubbing their hands and believe thee wrong. Show them that you took seriously the commitments they have made to you. It is through your work that crops grow in our fertile plains, the harvest that gild our hills; what are your strong arms that draw from the depths of the earth the riches that nature has placed on deposit, and whatever serves to and embellish life, to thee we owe, and yet die of cold and hunger from revenue earned by your sweat, thou hast no clothes and fabrics you have woven pile up in stores. You do not have a shelter to rest your tired body, and thou these buildings that students are the pride of our cities. It is time that the division of labor and product to become fair. It is your will, it is your right, it is your duty.
And we who have only one desire: to turn all children as brothers of the great French family, we beseech thee not to abandon your work. Do not let yourself be fooled by empty promises. You are still sovereign, you can order.
The joys of senior bank claims show clearly that the exploiters of yesterday have not renounced their guilty industry. We need the power of money and disappear before the bows of sovereignty work. Until now, money ruled the world, money has conspired against the Republic and sentenced to misery to punish you for your victory in February. Watch these merchants franc pieces that you can better spend their services so dearly paid, they can not do without your work. Men deeply committed to your cause, not lull yourself these empirical rhetoric to get litter your pain, but imbued with the need to accommodate the science and law to the necessities of the day, you will enable him to no longer resort to the patronage of usurious money sellers. Listen for their lessons, teach them that the laws of human solidarity is not a lie, ask the association and voluntary exchange means to meet your needs and your dedication to freedom. That done, you will become what you must be a creature of God.
However, remember that the republic is the essential form of equality human, and if ever a hand rose to touch the holy ark of the revolution, remember that you only need three days to fight and to defeat despotism in whatever form it presents itself.
Now lynx bank, knights of the slide, the hero of lansquenet, gentlemen of the court of assizes, make haste to enjoy the benefits of rising, your reign will not last long . Equal forward and soon you'll be forced to reckon with the work.
Delescluze Ch, editor. "
The democratic revolution and social , 1st year, No. 39, Friday, December 15, 1848.
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