It has long been suspected that there was some under-
ground connection between French Royalists, most of whom are Clerical, and the Anti-Semites, and it would now appear to be almost proved. The Gazette de France publishes a confidential report from the Prefect of Police to the Procureur- National, in which he states that the Royalists had secured M. Guerin, the Anti-Semite leader, and his paper, together with M. Deroulede, the chief of the Patriotic League, by heavy subsidies. The former was enabled to live luxuriously, and the latter on one occasion received 30,000 fr. The Duo d'Orlaans expected through them to seduce the troops, and when President Faure died was so confident of success that he kept relays of motor-ears between the frontier and Paris to enable him to enter when summoned upon the scene. The Royalists, in fact, spent £12,000 upon that particular plot, which, it will be remembered, was frustrated by the refusal of General Roget to have anything to do with M. Derotilede. M. Guerin and M. Deroulede will, of course, defend them- selves by declaring that they accepted bribes in order to ad- vance their political objects, and that is probably true, but then they never informed their followers that they were in
the pay of the Duo d'Orleans, or that if they succeeded he might occupy the throne. One understands why Pretenders have so seldom any wisdom, for they must trust followers on the spot who neither see nor hear the truth, but what puzzles ns is why they have no dignity. What has the head of the House of France to do with men like M. Guerin or M. Derou- Me, a Jew-baiter and a foolish fanatic ?
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