New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-29
SOCIALIST MENACES.
. " HyNpMAN ON THE ACQUITTAL OF THE
de GUESDISTS.
CAREFUL ORGANIZATION GOING on AND THE CAUSE
OF SOCIALISM GAINING STRENGTH IN
ALL COUNTRIES.
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rpr CABLE TO THE TRIBUSE.l
Copvricht; 1886, North american cable Ners Co.
I,oSpox, Sept 2S.-A profound impression has been
..u.ed in Paris by the acquittal Of Guesde and his
companions by the jury after their prosecution BY the
ooverument for avowedy threatening the next
voution to send Rothschil6 aud other capitalists TO
nrson and con6scate their property. Guesdc visited
Fp land recently and participated in the meetings OF
,be English democratic Socialists. MIR. Hyndman,
leader of the latter makes the following statement
The acauittaI of Guesde, Lafargne and Susni by
most respectable jury from which they expected moth
ing but condemnation and after speeches in which all
three reiterated the statements for which they were
brought TO trial. is certainly sign of the times oniy
a very little while ago an acQutta by weli-to-oo
middle-class Jury would have been impossible the
rather that two of the three of the accused men
belong to the small viruent class of colect'v'sts VINO
have made themselves obno o1ions TO all parties by
furious personalities.
"Of course all sorts of given for this un-
looked for leniency. Whatever may be the cause
three 6uesdists acquitted and Louise Michei IA
still in ial Moreover, the statements In the ooch
remain on record as an Indictment against the capi-
taIst Republic of France. The acqmttai VIII uh
doubtedly strengthen the Socialist movement IN
France inst as our acauittal did here After ALL what
matters the cause of any isolated eectf This or that
NAV have momentary influence but the main reasons
for the growth of socialism and revolutionary IDEAS
are not far to seek in any country Neither Rousseau
nor Voltaire could have kinded hre unless inc iue
had been all ready just so to-day, can any ono oouo
that in Paris the gulf between the propertyieSs pro
,etariat and the wealthy capitalists is daily wueuhg
or that in the underground workings OF our cNiIa-
t;on more than Charleston shake is being prepared
by the pressure from abovei Here Is even Loru
herv. the husband OF Rothschd. waking up to the
,,iata sQpm
the surface IN this great London of ours. lie hnds
that the ferment is begun and he is not te scafcu
at the magnitude of the possible CONFUSION.
9rhe ideas permeatmg the masses OF poverty
stricken people in the great cities on hoth sides o
the Atlantic nav indeed easily give rise to days OF
September in them ALL for theories this time, at any
rate can be verified by direct appeals to facts. All
can feel their poverty and Can compare IL WIN
the excessive wealth around theu Now, too, not
mere amless denunciation is &C n but careiu
organization, which the tremendous concentration oil
population in this latter part OF the nineteenth century
piyes multiple effect to. The rich who heard but now
Of the sIread of social democratic opinions with IN
credulous amusement aud even to-day read accounts
of the great proletarian movement as they mlght
peruse the statement of interesting scientific ex-
perment ought be the first study seriously what is
going on around them In America, as in England,
France Germany, and In every other CIVILIZED
country the sympathy with socialism owing to the
growing pressure of competition is spreading IRON the
workers to clerks, small shopkeepers and even the
highly educated professional class. Confscation is
gong on at their expense all the time They are all
beginning to recognize in the great capitalist class
universal expropriators, enemies OF human kind
Take care, then, "mcssieurs les bourgeois, as the
blacksmith Blondean cried at lioborn restaurant
dinner to the French delegates, take car messeurs
We have learned from sou how to take order with
our enemies We shall use the educa we have
forced from you to overthrow yourselves Lord Rose
berys wall over the huge and, for him, unmanageable
forces of London-orces which he and his can neither
inspire nor control-may, therefore well find an echo
on the American side of the Atlantic where the antag
onsm of class is still manifest than 1t is with u.s.
where the majority of he wealthiest citizens are but
men Of yes,crdav- rpwth whose fortunes all can
trace and whore NIB. power of combmaton-secret
combnat., ciOged among workers 10
still greater g. o lLau Europe. great interna-
tonal social revolution has i'll short, already began,
and the acquta of the Guesdsts, like the condenna-
ton OF the noble Domela Niewwenheis the German
social democrat and the Anarchists OF Chicago, is but
another straw which shows the flow OF the curren."