New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-14
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Tying N TuE PANAMA TRIAL.
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cery,is,f. 1903 nv The Tribune A'seeanOn.
p.,,s Ian. i3-Icss Is heard to-day Of the
,.olIsb calumpce against President Carhot.
s,ere has not bccn time fer the Provinces 10
.,ond Whether II was wise 10 publish semi
aselal denial Of them through news agency may
4, /. question The usual effect Of semi Official
I.,ial. il 20 attract attention 70 the original
,A,rse and sometimes 10 create IA suspicion that
,bers must be- something in nm accusation which
A.. 20 be contiadicicd Few people require 10
NJ aSurcd that VI Garnet, when Minister OF Fl
nance I'm 1885 was no party 10 the suppression
Al NJ Rou-seau's report Panama. II there
~aa any real curiosity IL was on tho point whether
n Rsihaut m his examination bv VI Franque-
,elle did or did not accuse NJ Garnet Of being
Marty TO- OF aware Of his own proceedings. That
|. denied by the PIocureur- General. whose denial
ought TO end the matter. hut Will not. Yet the
s.uer which started The story savs with its
,.sal coolncss that nobody doubts the personal
Integrity OF NJ Carnot. Ihc' declaration follows
hard upon rumor that this paper will bc prose-
cu,el. which 1, may bc hoped is not true. The
Presidents character does not require clearing
In court.
Radicals and Resctonarios asrcc. az they so
eten do In their estimate Of the new Ministry's
srs, appearance before the Chamber. As they
cannot say II was failure. they say il was not
crea, success 4 majority OF 1913 is a pretty
,old fact; but tie enemies Of the Ministry insist
,ha, /, was not vote Of confidence il was only
n vote for the order Of the day. 1t was, never
,beless. NJ Riho, hims.f who iavtcd the Chamber
to vote on that question. What - true is that
no serious attack seems 20 have been intended,
and therefore 20 very energetic defence was
rceded Nor are the comments Of to-day very
serious with perhaps one exception. NJ Magnaro
,nhlshes In the Figaro" "A curious article. oi
which the main object seems 10 be N foreshadow
,he approach Of crisis more alarming than the
preaen, one. and 20 suggest that the respectable
classes are again looking about for q savior oi
society VI Ribot lie says. inspires more e''ecin
than confidence There has been during the
Las, fifteen wears hut one Minister Of real energy
NJ Cons,ans, and the people are beginning 10
think of NJ Constans A. the man who may save
The situation There may be. says this cool oo-
server. more in VI Ribot than has yet come out
bu, this Is unlikely The pnblic will not give
him their full confidence. Neither VI Msgnar"'
nor anybody else. explains how NJ 'ons'sns Is 70
take charge Of affairs NJ. Garnet notollorE
dislikes him lie was clbowed out Of the Frey
oinet Ministry las, year. just as VI. dc frFcihc'
has now been elbowed ont Of the Riho' Mi'h''N.
rha, N. presiden, should send for VI Consians. II
NJ R,bot socs that NJ ConstaDs should he aoie
10 form a Cabinet. and that a Constans Caone'
couN collect majority In the Chamber. are
thrcr very unlikely things Bat the mention oi
M, name by n Journal which has meyer been ms
friend 4. remarkable.
IT, as W. Maynard thinks, the generai ann
iety Is Increasing IL can he due 10 nothing ou'
uncertainty and vague apprehension, or perhaps
20 the possible doubt whether the attack Oh
NJ Carnot may come 70 something. True, inc
peyolutionisfs are stirring again, and the various
Socialist groups are orcc more trying 20 unite
Their union consists in holding two different
meetings and issuing two new manfestOcs Blt
for the union, there might have been twenty.
Ono meeting is held and one manifesto issued
by the Socialist Deputies in the Chamber, Of
whom there ore fifteen. with NJ. Cluseret for
leader The other meeting included the five
fractions Of the party which calls itself Socialist
Revolutionary. with NM Guesde. Allemane, Vail
lant. Camelinat. and Dervillers as chiefs. Both
nanifestoes are in the same tone. VI. Ciuseret
and his company cry ont against the Republic OF
Panama and against middlc-ciass rule. So do VI
Guesde and his colleagues. The Cluseret clique
sppoas TO universal suffrage. but in revolutionary
sense demanding COMPLETE revision. both po-
h,ioal and economical. of the present order OF
things The signers of this document comprise,
besides mere adventures like VI. Cluseret. no
cialstic Republicans like W Mlerand; pure So
ciallsts, like VI. Morcau, and Bouangists. like NJ
Lasant There is perty which the Bouanglst
group is not ready 10 join provided it be a
party Of disorder The Gucsdc faction, mean
time. has revived its scheme Of organizing com
mittccs in each Of the eighty sectors Of Paris
lts tone is not only militant, but military. lts
manifesto announces not for the first time, the
dccompoSlton of society thing which has
Of last really occurred The hour OF the
people has struck. II always does strike
In these documents There is no appeal 70 uni
versal suffrage Parliament is TO dhappcar
Cppor'unism is 10 hc crushed. The bourgcosic
and caritsl and othcr hateful things are 70
be crushed. In that il is pure revolution, and
calls it4clf such The Committee Of Public
Safety chosen al the Mason Ia Peuplc, hav-
Ing somehow vanished into air. new Commit
tee Of Ten. an executive committee is now formed
70 talk" change Of the new revolution. and these
are the gentlemen with whom tho Radicals were
not lorg slucc ready for a coalition, and perhaps
s''ll are. Such programme can be carried out
by violence and bv violence only.
The Panama fiial takes u less sensational
sourS'. but hot less damaging 10 all concerned
LNper's and liqni'atoTs are terrible witnesses
The company never did anything but deinde
and deceive the puhlIc" declared NJ. Monchi
court and. like VI Fontane, lie regards the
frencli press ~ lis accomplice in this work OF
systematic fraud B,t, i: the company robbed
Tie puHe, II was itself robbed by cvrryboGy, ah'
once mere the operations Of Baron Kenach are
laid lare, whom VI Charles de- Lcssops himself
regarded swlndlcr and employed in the "ork
OF corruption VI. Rousseau. the engineer WI"
examined the wo Ks. thinks that IN lsSd the com
pletion OF lock- canal was still possible but IT.
lsss, when the public was again asked for money
II was known TO Lc too late. The money was
gone Not less than lO6,C 900 francs had Deh
tquandeicd on what. are eTplcmis;ically ealico
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