New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-30
FRANCES NEW TERROR.
INTERVIEWS WITH THE LEADERS OF THF
SOCIALIST ANARCHIST LEAGUE.
THE CLIMAX OF THE PANAMA CRISIS NOT YET
REACHEp-FAULTs OF THE PRESENT PAR
IIAMENTARY SYSTEM ATTITUDE
OF THE PRESS.
by CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE
Copyright; 1892: Bv The TT,buno Association.

no doubt at present little enough. SO did the
Pcirn Of Terror one hundred years ago in its
earlier stages.
The Collectivists and other regenerators whose
names end in list" who held the meeting at
tho Maison du Pcuple, have been interviewed
Everybo is now interviewed They seem, to
do them iustice surprised at the attention they
have attracted. and, perhaps a little alarmed
Some of them betray an anxiety lest their pro-
oeedines should be thought worthy of notice by
tbo police Publicity is not what they most
1osirc nj this moment. \ man who has just
announced that he is going to march on the
Flvsoc would hardly cut heroic figure If his
march were interrupted by couple of constables
Most Of them. thercfsre, tone down in the private
interview what they said on the platform.
yyben the interviewer asked for the address of
C,izen AndriauX the president Of the meeting,
no WAS given two; one Of them at wine shop,
anpareutlv sort of IAssommoir. the other more
nriyatc. Citizen AndrieuX at once said that the
whole affair had been exaggerated. They were
.nrori7inr hu, that was ALL Bat he owned that
tho sections in the Eighteenth Ward had Tor
anne time been ready to march at the first SIG
oo1 and that there would be secret meeting 20
dav. the press TO be excluded. lie secuted the
notion of an alliance with Anarchists, but
omitted TO explain how three notorious Anar-
chistG happened to be present at the MASON Gu
Pcuple. or how they got on the new committee
As 70 the march on the Eiysee that was merely
a figure Of speech.
Citizen Alcmane is Of opinion that really
nod revolution ought 70 make itself There
should he no leaders. not even NJ Alemane He
declares that the Republic is at the mercy of any
sudden outbreak but does not believe in violence
at nresent I'VE are only heaters. whose hnsi-
,.ss II is 70 drive in the came" Citizens Ros7'l
and Alhert said much the same thing Crizen
vaihlant who is Municipal Councillor. was not at
,be meeting. Asked what he thought OF II, he an
svcred: 1T is good time for SOCIALISTS
and avowcd his sympathy with those VINO "o"iu
set up a socialistc Republic
Tho Anarchist. NJ Georges was interviewed.
lie does not care much abont committees OF
Public Safety He has other means OF acu"h
pc Ravachol had, and as the Irish lrreco'cla"'
have. Still he will attend the committee. lu,'
10 see what these chaps have got IN 'heH "r,,
lies" But nothing. in VI Georges - op1'l'h WIN
do any good hut dynamite.
DO Won mean TO 60 on with II
"Certain'y,'
And there is I think no law under wmch
rrcnchman who announces his intention OF o'o"-
inc vou I'm tomorrow can he arrested
Tr any violence is planning whether from these
or other sources it i for the future lhcre Is '
sign of alarm or immediate anxiety. There are
no arrests. The police patroe ar not doupi'''
the troops are not confined TO barracks. there is no
o>tro cnard al the Evsee and the President -
Allowed to 90 shooting at Rambouillct. lh"
Panama crisis. indeed, is very far from hc'hS
ended It's climax hrs YET 10 come. The meet
ing Of the Chamber and the first hearing OF me
first Panama process before tie Court oi Appeal
occur on the same day. January TO- The cIlhl-
rel trial which is likely 10 be the sensational
one. will follow That meqrs that the whole Of
January is likely 10 he ciy"n mp 70 th"sc pro-
ccedinrs, with a run1ing accompaniment Of po-
li.ical Incidents also s.rnging ont Of Panama.
the nature and end # which not even the French
roical prophet, Whose diviuinq powers are of
tie first order. pretend to foresce.
The Radicals do not TO discuss any Of
tlo,c Social or Anarchist performances. They
prefer 10 discuss the Rovalst restoration, or the
coming Caesarisn, 'hc Anonymous Caesarism which
the wretched remnant Of the Boulangist faction
lectures about. The BonapaFrists. who may be
more numerous, but are not more respectable than
tho Boulangist camp, announce a forthcoming
manifesto by Prince Victor.
The Royaists aie shIcwdcr than that. How
can the Royalists be c,n>pirng?" asks we'll
known Rovalst writer, when the Comte de
Paris is in Portugal and the Due dorleans among
the Somalis?7 PORTUGAL is, however, within two
davs Of Paris by rail. and rather less by teic-
graph
What all these groups agree in condcmnIng Is
what they call the parliamentary system as II
now exists The Bonapartists would replace u
hv a plcbiscitc: the Royasts, by the doctrine
of divine right, with little Tory democracy
grated on: the Bouangis's. by a bad poem OF
NJ. Paul Derorledc the Socialists, by a rediStrlhn
ton of property, and a rcoreanimticn Of socle'Y
the Anarchists, by the destruction OF both'
No doubt the present parliamentary WS''n
in France has plenty Of faults If NJ AndrieuN
only knew what he talking about, ne Wt'
not far wrong when he said that it wanted
Amoricanizing II is now more British thar
American. and bastard British AT that. Min
isters are responsible to Parliament, which does
not apnoint them, not 10 the President, Wh'
does The real appointing power and the rra
removing power N England are the same. th'
House Of Commons. subject 10 the right OF th'
Ministry 10 dissolve Parliament and appeal u
the conntry-a right which French Ministers az
rot possess If m" President had the powel
10 keep his Ministers in Office, regardless o
hostile votes in the Chamber, as in America o
if the Ministers could dissolve the Champer o
Deputies on their Initiative. as IN fhSi'""
parliamentary government would have. III c''"'
case "a stability il now has not
The present outcry against the present SSs'e"
ts hasod q, corruption No doubt there has Dcci
corruption: but the real evil i the contlnua
succession of crises. and the crises are dne'
part. TO the volatile character of the french peo
ne They are due not less to the imperfect dis
,ribution of executive and parliamentary power
md responsibilities.
7, all the Panama stories are true, the ffehc'
- is ot least as corrupt as the French Parn'
nent The French press received from this SIN
re company 100000 Certain leading Journal rai
sro ro,orionslv subsidized by the Monte CARL
romn,nv Many of them sell their iinancia
columns to stock jobbcrs, and seu their edltoria
opinions 10 anybody who will buy b't doe
anybody propose to abolish the French pres
free press il not much less essential than ire'
Parliament corrupt press is more banefu
than venal Chamber But Franc" h1s gone a.
usual, from one extreme to the other. lie pres
under the Empire was muzzed the press unde