The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-13
THE COMMON PERIL
That is Threatening Europe is
Socialism.
THE WARNING OF JULES SIMON.
Let europe Beware-His Views on the Conn
ing Labor Conference at Berlin-it
is Dream

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatcb I
New YORK, March 12.-The Hsrnld,s
Paris correspondent to-day had a talk
with Jules Simon, who is to represent the
FRENCH government at the Berlin labor
congress. ut is with the greatest reluc-
lance" said he, ''that l have accepted an
invitation to be one of its representatives..
In the first place am simply overwhelmed
with work, and at my age can i'll spare tho
necessary time. Besides that, the more I
reflect upon the character of the confer
ence the less certain l am that nv time
VIII not De wasted. 1t is a grave RESPONSE
bility which L am loath to undertake.
1t IS only out of Difference to
the solicitation of M. Spuller and
others that L have finally consented.
To be perfectly frank, consider the action
OF the German Emperor in calling the con-
gress 1ll-advised. He is a young man with
high ideas and doubtless sincere in think
ing ne mas found remedy for the DANGER
Gus situation, but older and wiser heads
look ahead with concern and do not see
now the danger can be lessened by the
means he has proposed. After all what
can the labor conference hope to accom-
pllsh! Absolutely nothing, unless it be to
OF diplomatic character. When the sec
ond conference is called, as L think it will
be some months later, what can it accom-
pllsh. Very little. Perhaps it NAV be
| able to make some agreement as to the
employment of women and children Per-
haps little more. For myself have no
Ia1th In the congress being able to come 10
any agreement whatsoever. Regarding
the hours of labor or any of the more i'm
portant features of the labor question,
there are too wide differences in the char
acter of the interests and the resources Of
the various European nations to make any
| such understanding possible.
| but suppose, for the sake of argument
that the proposed programme should be
actually carr ed out as many hope. Will
that have done away with the danger
which IS now threatening the German en-
| plre! No, indeed. On the contrary, the
danger to which | refer against which the
young sovereign hopes to guard is the ris-
ing tide of Socialism. He fancies in his
lnexperience that by showing himself con.
cilia5ory and philanthropic he will win the
Socialists from their discomfort. He is
mistaken. He will find the Socialists 50
constituted that the more you concede the
more they demand. He will find that hav-
ing taken the first step or the road to con.
cession it will be impossible for him Ia
draw back. He will have to take other
steps, to make other concessions, his enc.
| mics growing in the meantime stronger and
more exacting, while he finds himself in
capable to check the avalanche which he
has himself, in part. set moving.
! - look forward, therefore, with grave
| apprehension to the effect upon Europe of
the present labor agitation. | regard the
Emperor's rescript as marking an import
1 ant epoch In the progress of the Socialistic
movement. Already can hear the NUT
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future, the bitter struggle between the
many and the few, between the toiling mil
lions who have thus far suffered silently
and those who have made them suffer; be-
tween capital and laoor; between luxury
and starvation; between misery and
wealth. No human being can avert
the struggle, but human power must
do much to hasten it's approach
[ shall not see the day, and you may not
see it, but the day is coming when the
autocratic powers of Europe viii be forced
to unite against the united Socialistic
army and to stand or fall together Your
ancestors in the new world were able to
build up out of fragmentary governments
what is to-day the United States of
America. Why may not our descendants
in some way succeed in establishing the
United States of Europe Look back a
few centuries and you see where France
now stands number of independent
provinces. In the course of time these
provinces united for their common interest
and were better and stronger for the union
with the progress of civilization. Europe
of to-day is as was France of that older
; time. The task of uniting the existing con-
tinental powers is hardly greater than was
the task of uniting \ ormandy, Brittany and
other Gallo provinces. The United States of
Europe idea is received with an incredulous
: smile by the thoughtless mind; but think,
history shows many strange friendships
brought about by common peril. A com
mon peril is threatening Europe now-it
is growing greater with every decade. II
is the common peril of Socialism. Let
Europe beware"