Chapter 29： polar star

I vaguely remember that it was May 2, 1848. The content of The Times was like a charging horn that reignited the fighting spirit of us (the Charterists), who had already been beaten out. For a time, the whole of London seemed to be about to be rekindled. Recreate the "pomp" of a year ago, but sadly the initiator of all this is not a real proletarian, not even a democrat/republican, all he does is to achieve A tool of his personal ambition.

—Haney, "Polaris and Me"

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In the early morning of May 2, the "Polaris" newspaper, which was the base of the Chartist public opinion and an advocate of the labor movement, was gearing up to prepare the "ammunition" for the next round of the charge. The Charter Movement of 1847 made all the Charterists in the UK unite. Up, they formed a group to submit a letter to the government in April this year, but a month later, the coalition government still did not take any action. respond. [Note 1] (Lord Palmerston did not think it was the credit of the voters)

The Chartists can no longer tolerate the government's arrogant silence as a confrontational gesture, and they are ready to teach the government a "lesson" in the near future to let them know the power of the workers.

At this time, Hani, the editor-in-chief of Polaris, was sitting in his office, holding a pen dipped in water, thinking about the next content. The white scratch paper he pressed under his arm was full of scribbling marks.

After thinking for a long time, editor-in-chief Hani frowned. He lowered his head and reviewed the content he had written before, but found that most of the content he had written before was clichéd content before. It is almost impossible to expect these clichéd content to arouse the empathy of subscribers. Just delusional.

The more editor-in-chief Hani thought about it, the more upset he became. The more he read the unfinished manuscript, the more he felt unpleasant. Feeling restless, he simply crumpled the white scratch paper under his arm and threw it on the ground at will, and dipped a pen in water to rewrite it. Returning to his original position, his hands pressed his head tightly like holding a basketball, his eyes stared at the desk made of rosewood, and his mouth made a crunching sound.

The writing of the article obviously brought a lot of trouble to the editor-in-chief of Haney.

The trouble of not being able to write a manuscript lasted for a long time, until a hurried knock on the door from outside the office pulled editor-in-chief Haney out of the trouble.

"Come in!" Editor-in-chief Haney adjusted his movements slightly, moving his hands away from his head and clenching them tightly on the desk, his eyes changed from resentment to softness.

Don't bring personal negative emotions to other members, especially subordinates. This is a "truth" that Hani's editor-in-chief has obtained after serving as the editor-in-chief of the Polaris.

The office door opened, and a reporter walked over to Haney holding a newspaper and said, "Editor-in-chief Haney, look at this!"

When the reporter came to Haney, Haney realized that the reporter was holding a newspaper from The Times. The newspaper exuded a faint scent of ink, and it seemed that it had just been printed.

The reporter put the Times newspaper on the table, pointed to the headline on the front page of the Times newspaper, panted and said to Haney, "Editor, look at this article!"

"From Bonaparte to Bonaparte...? What's the title!" Hani read the title word by word when he first saw the title, with a little doubt in his eyes, as if he was asking the reporter what was going on. .

"Editor-in-chief, keep reading! After reading it, you will understand everything!" The reporter impatiently continued to urge Hani to continue reading.

Hani put aside her doubts for a while and read line by line.

Because of the word count and typesetting of the article, Haney read the entire article in less than 3 minutes.

After reading the article, Hani felt like a stormy sea, "equality", "freedom", "democracy", "universal suffrage", this article said everything they wanted to say.

The Chartists of the 19th century were not, in the final analysis, a revolutionary party. They carried the imprint of bourgeois reform from the day they were born. They did not have the desire to overthrow the government and realize democratic dictatorship. Realize that what you call freedom, equality and equality is just a phantom that can be broken with a poke.

Although some of the comments on Louis Napoleon in the article are somewhat out of place, the so-called "Bonaparte Thought" in the article points out what Britain needs in a succinct manner.

[Haney once met Louis Napoleon in a certain club, and still has some impressions of Louis Napoleon]

"Who is the author of this article?" Haney eagerly wanted to know the answer.

"I don't know!" The reporter pointed to the blank space on the signature column of The Times and said to Haney: "It seems that the writer doesn't want to reveal his name!"

"Give this newspaper! Cut it out and give it to Mr. Karl Marx and Mr. Friedrich Engels. I think you should know their addresses!" Hani said to the reporter with excitement. .

[As early as the Charter Movement in 1847, the Chartists had already known Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. At the height of the Charter Movement, Engels was also invited by the Polaris to serve as a bourgeois radical opponent. 】

"I see!" The reporters who were full of admiration and longing for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels immediately agreed to Haney's order.

After Hani explained a few trivial things to the reporter, the reporter left, and Hani, who was thinking about it, picked up the pen again to write.

This time the content he will write is "On the Thought of Bonaparte and the Movement for the Democracy of Britain"

"Yesterday, a great fighter for freedom and equality left, and he brought us... The British government should not continue to ignore, as Louis Napoleon said, what a government needs is to establish an equal rights choice for the people..."

This time, Haney, uncharacteristically, no longer takes false freedom and equality as the keynote. Instead, he uses Louis Napoleon's tone to criticize Britain's existing system from the perspective of universal suffrage and responsible government.

The 3,000-word article is eloquent, but it is extremely spicy.

After writing all this, Haney reviewed the manuscript again and sealed it.

PS: 1. In the election of 1847, Mr. Haney, the editor-in-chief of the "Polaris", was elected as a candidate for the Member of Parliament of the Charterists by the district of Tevierdo; this district also elected Lord Palmerston, the foreign secretary, to the parliament. But when Lord Palmerston called for a vote, Mr Haney, who had won the primary by show of hands, dropped his candidacy.