In one of the cantons of the Cote d'Or, at the close of the polls, only one-eighth of the electors remain at the counting of the votes, while in the secondary meetings the desertion is not less.

At Paris, out of 946 electors chosen only 200 are found to give their suffrage; at Rouen, out of 700 there are but 160, and on the last day of the ballot, only 60.

In short, "in all departments," says an orator in the tribune, "scarcely one out of five electors of the second degree discharges his duty." In this manner the majority hands in its resignation.

Through inertia, want of forethought, lassitude, aversion to the electoral hubbub, lack of political preferences, or dislike of all the political candidates, it shirks the task which the constitution imposes on it.

Most certainly is has no taste for the painstaking burden of being involved in a league (of human rights).