New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-24
THE DUTY OF THE STATE.
M. DE FREYCINETS OPINIONS ON SOCIALISM.
lFRVa REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or rRIBUSg.l

| IFRon REGULAR CORRESPONDENT rRIBUSE.l
PARIS. October 5.
| NJ. de Frevcinets political tour the southwest
| had u quadrupe object The first to obtain
personal prestige so that what his and conf
DENTAL representative at the Court of Berlin says
there on the Egyptian. Bulgarian OF any other
question may have weight. The second was
to prepare his own candldature for the Pr esidency
OF the republic The third was to make ready for
the launching of q great engineering scheme-.the
creation of a canal to join the Atlantic and the
Mediterranean. And the fourth 70 show the differ
ent cabinets OF Europe that NJ de Freycinet is
mere man OF straw. Ii Is remarkable that in the
many addresses delivered TO- to say nothing of hrs
great speech at ronIonse he did not once mention
the name Of NJ. Grevy. He dwelt greatly on tho
necessity of Republican uuion-which certainly is
n thing very good Republican should wish for if
it is not to be effected at the cost of the obtera-
ton Of Radicaism bv Radicals 10 make themselves
agreeable to ;imorous and wealthy politicians who
baviDg themselves to be satisfied with the
pres mt state of things desire nothing better than
that France shonld stand sill
NJ. de Frevcnet his really able speech said :
great deal about nothing. because a grand. e..
long, Grafton wa, exDecte1 OF him. But there |
was good deal of weighty matter in the fiux Of |
neatly adjusted words. He warned Republicans |
not to be presumptuons or overcontident for they |
were not. in his Op mon. well out Of he wood.
The RoyaIIst snake perhaps was only scotched.
not killed. and there was unque stIonably
growing tendency in the country TO call into ques-
ton the benefits Of the Republic and to look susp-
ciously and askance at the Republicans. France IS
not vet ripe for the application of VI. Cemenceaus
theory Of two rival parties in the Republican BODY,
which wOuld each do its best TO govern according
to its theories. Nor will she be until the
.f..
disappears, because this one always reduce TO
inacton the that power if 1t does not yield
to a great degree TO It's demands.
"As to Socialism," said NJ de Frevcinet, 81 have
come to the conclusion that there is something
nav, a good deal-n 1t. YOu must Yourself have ex-
perenced the importance and the urgency of certain
Sociastic problems They problems which
cannot be Shirked, because thew interest the great
est number namely the working classes. Do Won
seriously believe thai you long delay their
sOutlonf don't speak here Of state Socialism
taking the place of private initiative and setting
Itself uD solve all questions when should be left
to individuals. | speak of more eflicaclous duty
" itch the State has to discharge. 1t shouid be
Kindly protector an a conn 'eor; it should take
he initiative in proposing reforms. and when
public opinion sanctions thea devote its energies
10 their acco nplislm mt. 1t should set
examples, make the experiments to
which private initiative is unequal. and so
% speak furnish the specimens which are 10 serve
Is patterns 1t onght. above everything else. to get
avs carried which will remove shackes from the
Individual who has to make his way IN the world
lnalde by paternai fortune an whose energies q
ire. IN the present state o. things. to- much ham
Dered To- them TO cOme usefuy ntOpay. Remem- q
Der well that he conditions under which human .
energies in the working classes are br0ngnt into /
play not what they used to be. We are no
onger under the. same social and fiscal regime 8
mat existed fifty years ago. though the :
legislation is unatered lbe substitution
If machinery for hand labor in all
branches of ndusfT, and small. has radically
changed The IN itlOns of emp OyerS and employed
he RepubIr IS bound 10 study no to req Ter the
tua ion Of the toier less precarons. and to put
nd TO tho hostile Social ant agOnSm and war he '
ween the members OF the nation which bursts
0rh from time TO time ~ a destructive crIss q
This antayOnIsm simply arises from tine deep feel
nG, OF which perhip' there - not full intellectual
OiSciOusless, that tho problems speak OF are yet
insolved. he Republic thus mas vast field for {
efnrming energy open TO her, and II
depends the Republicans by, agreeing :,
IN n programme of National utility which Z
he condition Of the working class imposes
HON. TO put an end TO the hostile antagouIsm aud :
warfare III lis n"mbers."
| give word for word translation or what NJ "
les FreycInel said about Socialism. Naturally 1t ;
auSes the respectable and semi -Dreanist Debas
o snecr Thai journal treats the above passage OF "
he l'rrmier'S speech The LODiOa Times might be
uppo ed TO deal with an OratIOn of Mr.. Gladstone
n which he took up Tor his parable say the I
ldress Of John Burns to the electors of the u
Division of Nottingham against Colonel Neey.
ihe Debdfs Is tine organ of VI Leon : ~ and to a
re 1t extent at the Oreansts who pocket the best
ART of the wealth produced by the Auzln coal -
INES IL remembers with terror that NJ. de Frey Y,
met il extremely susceptible OF beng squeezed by u
he advanced epubcans. and that ne expelled 2
he Princes, and handed over he War Office to a !,
aud intimate friend OF NJ. Clomen- l.
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