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further was done, by organized labor toward tak- 

 ing possession of its own. 



A new election was at hand, and the mayor's 

 party issued a call to the workingmen to rally to 

 his support. 



" All who believe in the grandeur and splendor 

 of France, that honesty is the best policy, that 

 the tricolor should ever wave victoriously over the 

 most glorious land the sun shines on, and that the 

 Issoire idea of a perpetual octroi is the best secur- 

 ity for the defence and development of home 

 interests and the elevation of home labor; all 

 who would reduce city taxes and prevent the ac- 

 cumulation of money not needed for city uses, by 

 the perpetuation and extension of the octroi; those 

 who are opposed to all schemes tending to de- 

 throne this policy and to reduce Issoire's laborers 

 to the level of the underpaid and oppressed work- 

 ers of Clermont and Jonas, are called to join in 

 the re-election of Mayor de Roncevalle and of his 

 supporters in the Common Council." 



The mayor spoke from the steps of the H6tel 

 de Ville in defence of the octroi, on the success 

 of which agency he justly based his claim for 

 re-election. 



He showed how the octroi had changed Issoire 

 from a dull and peaceful agricultural village with 

 few industries, and those only the ones for which 

 the town possessed special advantages, into a mi- 

 crocosm in which a little of everything was made 

 and sold. Issoire was no longer a town where 

 nothing happened, and in which the procession of 

 grain-wagons, the same yesterday, to-day, and 



