Evening journal., 1893-01-17
NEWS BEYOND THE SEA.
A Budget of the Days Events
In Old World Centres.
FRANCE FILLED WITH TRAITORS

The French Government Prepared to
Strike AN Effective Blow at RoyaiIst
Plotters Whose Antagonlsm to the
Republic is not Half so Tame as Was
Thought-other Foreign News.
PARIS, Jan. 1.-THE government will
soon strike blow. 1t is reported on ex-
cellent authority that there is now ample
evidence of a royalist conspiracy, and that
arrests will be made at an early date.
The conspiracy has been Matched in
London and Madrid, and the Count of
Paris, instead Of having been especially
close in expenditures of late for the
Royalist cause, has been unusually lavish.
He is not himself managing any details,
and it is not desired that he should but
his leading representatives are more ac-
tive than ever
Royalst influence and funds have had
much to do with the recent activity in
revolutionary circles in Paris, and it is
reported that much of the applause of
the extremist speakers at the Tivolivaux-
hall was furnished by paid Royalist
clacsuers.
The Royalist plan appears to be to over
throw the republic by some means, no
matter what the means are, and to To-
ment and promote disorder in the hope
that the French people will turn to the
Count of Paris or the Duke of Orleans
for rescue or protection.
Hotbeds of Revolution.
The headquarters of the Royalist
Socialist intrigue just now is said to be
the Maison du Peuple, and it is there
that the police through their spies, have
acquired much valuable information as
to the designs of the enemies OF the
republic.
The Maison du Peuple is a modest
structure on the heights Of Montmartre,
access to which is by no means easy. 1t
was built by the people and for the people.
Like the Bourse du Travail of which it
may be called second edition, it was
originally intended for the free and gra-
tuitous discussion of everything con
cerning the working classes. but both
have degenerated into hotbeds of revo
luton. The Maison du Peuple contains
hall capable of holding 1000 persons
1t is decorated with red blood flags, bear
ing revolutionary inscriptions, the plat
form is covered with red draperies, and
overhead are two busts of the republic.
with the Phrygian cap, also surrounded
with red flags; in fact everything is red
and everything reminds one Of the
Reign of Terror
A. -. t,11 a
week, when the flow Of soul is more ap
parent than the feast of reason, for there
is a large refreshment bar which is well
patronized.
NO doubt the intention was good wher
the Maison was constructed; it was e
be confined to social question of high or
der but in France the line lis so difficulf
to draw between socialism and revolution
that no wonder the anarchists soon got
possession of it, and now 1t is regarded by
the public with an evil eye
There is no doubt that as far as thl
Extreme Socialists are concerned the
Propaganda Par lie Fait is again in tn,
ascendant and this exactly suits tn,
Royalist plotters The more dynamite the
more riOting aud terrorism and the more
the yearning of the middle classes VIII,
have supported the republic for tn,
peace and order the Royalists promise t,
bring with them.
The fact that NJ Andrieux started to
day for London is looked upon as evi
dence that he is after mo ammunition
and that, so far as charges against tn
government are concerned, the forme
stock has been exhausted Andrieu.
made no secret of his departure ant
seemed, on the contrary, to be rathe
ostentatious about it. He is said to b
disappointed that NJ. Ribot has no
honored him with either duel or a
arrest, and to be meditating some fres
provocation that may sting the ministr
into taking personal action against him
The truth is that the government doe
not consider NJ Andrieux to be in th
secret of any plot. The ministry has n
doubt that he has been mad
use of by those who hav
deeper designs but thorough inves
tigation has convinced the authOritie
that the enemies of the republic hav
not invited M. Andrieux to the inne
mysteries NJ Andrieux has therefor
been permitted apparently to his chs
grin, to start for London without eve
the poor distinctions Of police survei
lance.
Ex-Minister Of War de Freycinet h,
resolved to keep in the background +,
the present. His friends say that M. {
Freycinet believes in waiting for tn
calmer public opinion which will folio
the existing storm, and that then he wi
present his case that will amply Wind
cate him from any shadow of suspiciS
of improper influence in regard to &
Panama enterprise.