New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-22
cAl5BEYrpS NEXT ClMPAIGM.


GAllBETTTS NEXT C1MPAIGN
Gambetta has again contrived to catch 'he
ewes of mis- countrymen. He selected the ami
yersary of the destruction Of tue Bastile Tor
his first official salon at the Palais Bourbon
where the Due de Morny, as President OF the
Chamber of Deputies, used 10 exchange coii'-
,,iments with the favorites and adventures
of the Second Empire. A Republican house
warming on that historic night OF 'ho sir"'
Revolution indicated that the leader Oh Tue
Liberals was not disposed to make any CON
cessIons to the enemies OF eXIsthR ihs'""
TONS During the same week his Sanction was
given TO the publication OF poillical p'oS-
raphv in which he appears as the hero OF the
war with Germany. The authors ann seems
Tn he TO proye that the man who couid sehu
IN tbe front an army of 100000 men three
months after Sedan, could have driven the
Germans ont of France if he had been prop
erly supported by the generals whom he
Amounted The bIographer lntlmates that
Gambetta's career as military man Is inter-
rupted. but not over and although he appears
henceforth as dplomatlst, endeayorlnc to
accomplish n result at a distant date, yet he
retains among his future expectations the con-
tingency of a new campaign against Germany
The Carnot Of defeat is TO become the Carnot
of victory. He will not forget what he Wroe
TO Jules Favre and what he said to the people
of Lille: 1--WE must have Alsace and Lor-
"raine, which have been wrested from us 10y
" violence but which we must not Tor one
single moment cease to endeayOr to tear
from the talons that hold them fast" " 10
" arrive at that result" the biOgTapher con-
cludes. eve need not adopt threatening
attitude; we need only draw closer the
natural ties which unite France aud Italy,
interested as much, perhaps more than we
" are. in the annibilation of Clericalism the
rest will come of itself, probably without
" its being necessary to draw the sword. The
| Spbinx is there, and those who fail To guess
"the enigma will be devomed."
The only possible solution is that Anti
Clericalism and Alsace-Lorraine are the key
words of Gambetta's domestic and foreign
policy. The priests and Jesuits can be sub
iected to the discipline of retaliatory meas
ures like the Ferry Education Acts, but how
can the Rhine provinces be regalned save by
drawing the sword Every patriotic French
man regards another campaign with Germany
as foreg0nc conclusion. France Is more OF
q b,rIacll under the Republic than it was I'M
der the Empire. In 1870 the military budget
called for $4,000. 900; in 1879 the estimate
is $4,000, 600 Out of population OF 81
10000, 100000 men can be placed In the
field exclusive of the territorial army; and
there are enrolled 100000 men who have
received military training. The military re-
covery of France has been an object which
the Republican leaders have kept constantly
in view Within nine years the whole system
has been rcorganized, compulsory service has
been introduced, the artillery, which was the
most vulnerable point in the French line dur
inc the war with Germany, has been recast
and every able-bOdied man in the country
can be found when he is needed. This mighty
host is not enrolled and encamped for pleas
ure. The Nation feels instinctively that there
is work to do in the future. What work can
be more pressing or more patriotic than the
liberation of the sOll-the recovery OF the
provinces which the invaders snatched away 2
This is a thought which is i'll every French
mans mind. Gambetta's biOgrapher dryly re-
marks that it has not been quite safe to mention
il before this, but the time has now come to
deal with it fearlessly. "When tourists" he
saws. FUSED TO visit Rhineland i'll bygOne
days, their guide, pointing to ruined for
tresses and dismantled castles, generally re-
"marked The French have passed that
"'way.' 1t is now our turn TO say: The
80 Prussians have been here Time does not
" respect what is done without its ad.n Gam
| beta has always cOntended that the war
ended too soon. He now points the way to
| another campaign-not this year, nor the next
but some year in the near future, when dis
| aster can be retrieved.