fine
wines and exquisite cheer: the burden of the scarcity is transferred to
other shoulders.--At present, the class which suffers, and which suffers
beyond all bounds of patience is, together with employees and people
with small incomes,[42141] the crowd of workmen, the City plebeians, the
low Parisian populace

* which lives from day to day,

* which is Jacobin at heart,

* which made the Revolution in order to better itself,

* which finds itself worse off,

* which gets up one insurrection more on the 1st of Prairial,

* which forcibly enters the Tuileries yelling "Bread and the
Constitution of '93,"

* which installs itself as sovereign in the Convention,

* which murders the Representative Feraud,

* which decrees a return to Terror, but which, put down by the National
Guard, disarmed and forced back into lasting obedience, has only to
submit to the consequences of its own outrages, the socialism it has
itself instituted and the economical system it itself has organized.

Because the workers of Paris have been usurpers and tyrants they are
now beggars. Owing to the ruin brought on proprietors and capitalists by
them, individuals can no longer employ them. Owing to the ruin they
have brought on the Treasury, the State can provide them with only the
semblance of charity, and hence, while all are compelled to go hungry, a
great many die, and many commit suicide.

* On Germinal 6th, "Section of the Observatory,"[42142] at the
distribution, "forty-one persons had been without bread; several
pregnant women desired immediate confinement so as to destroy their
infants; others asked for knives to stab themselves."

* On Germinal 8th," a large number of persons who had passed the night
at the doors of the bakeries were obliged to leave without getting any
bread."

* On Germinal 24th, "the police commissioner of the Arsenal section
states that many become ill for lack of food, and that he buries quite
a number.... The same day, he has heard of five or six citizens, who,
finding themselves without bread, and unable to get other food, throw
themselves into the Seine."

* Germinal 27, "the women say that they feel so furious and are in such
despair on account of hunger and want that they must inevitably commit
some act of violence.... In the section of 'Les Amis de la Patrie,' one
half have no bread.... Three persons tumbled down through weakness on
the Boulevard du Temple."

* Floreal 2, "most of the workme