The morning call., 1893-06-25

ously oppose the engulfipg Of taxpayers
money in public works, whose unique
utility is to make easy the reelection of
Deputies.
81 wish this were possible, but the Senate,
a result of limited suffrage, can never con-
troll chamber born of universal suffrage
And. were President Carnot to accomplish
half the acts suggested by these good
FrenchmeD, he would Immediately be
called dictator. and compelled to resign
his position. The President will always
be annihilated by the Chamber. the Cham
Der will be ruled by politicians, and the
people alone, remain. Alasl the people
in no country count for less than in France.
The people have no more power in their
position than has the President as chief of
sta to-"
When asked il he would be a candidate
at the coming elections, Emile Olivier re-
piled: I'm any case, | should not be the
socialist candidate. That term now only
belongs 10 communists and anarchists. |
have nothing in common with them, and
should find myself in their company only
as an opponent. | am a socialist, as the
term was understood during the reigns of
Louis Philippe and Napoleon III-that
means, | believe, the form of government
is of secondary Importance.
should be the study of every Govern mi nt
are those which treat of the amelioration
of the condition of the masses. The pn-
litical passion of my life has been the
study of these problems, which really ad-
nit of no solution. The PRINCIPAL idea OF
a great nation should not be TO have a Ger.
tain form OF government, but to make the
best use of the existing government in
order to work reforms necessary for the
good OF the people. But by the cOmplais-
ance of the higher classes, as well as by
the Will OF the masses, we shall soon have
state socialism.
1--WE now have compulsory military
service. compulsory education, and soon
everything, down to the culinary art, will
be compulsory. We shall have compulsory
corporations, compulsory charity, COM
pulsory religion and perhaps compulsory
atheism. Those who think they are not
sufficiently governed will soon have no
think and act for Us and we shall only bow
our heads and pay the tax. Happy those
who do not live to see the day."
When Emile Olivier became Minister
under Napoleon III, according TO him the
most socialistic sovereign who ever
reigned. he said TO the Emperor one day:
Sire, | have a great passIou-the ameli-
Grafton of the condition of the masses. You
have great power. Place your power at
the service of my passion"
The Emperor agreed, the compact was
made, and the result was freedom of
speech, liberty of the press and the rights
OF cooperative associations. just before
his fall Emile Olivier placed before the
Chamber OF Deputies proposition to form
workineman's association that should be
to workingmen what the Chamber of Com
MERGE is to their employers.
Emile Olivier is preparing work on the
war of 1870. and he commences with this
extract from his speech that caused his
downfall:
''From this day begins responsibility for
my colleagues and myself. We accept this
responsibility with light hearts, but 90 not
believe that mean with joy; | have told
you myself of my sorrow of being con-
demned to wal. | mean a heart I'M
weighted bv remorse. heart confident,
humanity possible to avoid this war; our
cause is just and confided to the French
army"
Mons. Olivier intends TO prove that his
actions have always been in harmony with
his words, and that he took an active part
in what he had done all in his power to
combat. However, Alnhonse Daudet says
of this statesman HE wished peace. de-
clared war. and, not with light heart, as
he says by unfortunate inspiration. but
with irremediabe bright Judgment, he
drew US, with himself. into the abyss
from when we have escaped, but In which
he has remained"
AT the overthrow of the empire Emile
Olivier retired from public gaze, quietly
bearing all insults and receiving 10 silence
the accusations of having caused the dis
asterS of 1870.
II is fatality that the names of some
men are ulfavorably connected with un-
fortunate words. pronounced in some i'm
p0rtant circumstance of life. When all
tOrOOttan
was an orator of talent, an intelligent
writer, politician of broad views, whose
only fault was to take or wish to take from
the empire all the liberty possible for
+ ance, all Will still remember the man
with the light heart" For Emile Olivier
dreamed of a democratic and liberal en-
Dire, and by the French he was called a
Minister PAmercaine
During his administration the Depart
ment OF Justice lost all its pompous char
acter. He would not occupy the splendid
apartments reserved for the residence Of