New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-17

,dea Of political liberty possessed by the so-caed
Parliamentary Republican, Of France lie satIi,
70 the Republic, and that they. could not expect
the bona hde Republicans % admit them to any
share in Government. In G,ner republics it would
decide this point, and not to belong to party
Minister NJ. Dupuy smilingly added that as for
Socialists either they were for violent revolution
and then they were not TO be treated with pOitl-
cally-or else they propose acting by constitutional
methods 10 which no one could object. The few
weeks which have passed since his prophcsylng
have shown what Socialism can do.
Until now French Socialism has never been
strongly organized; it has not properly formed
political party at all. IL has had as many wings
AZ ie,ders-Br0ussists, Aemannsts. Guesdists-and
as many programmes as the passion for classifying
distractions. which is common to Frenchmcn high
and low, could find a name for. Possibilist men
for making haste slowly occasion offered
evolutionary for immediate action. no one seemed
10 Know just how, and so on. If Socialism IN
France were linked 10 the fortune OF these niue
groups, it would he of practical Importance only
10 the student of political theories and to the
French police in time of riot No one Is more
astonished ut the present sudden rise of Socialism
in French politics than the average Socialist leader.
II has come up independently of him, and, largely,
in spite of his vain chatter Given the actual
social difficulties IN presence OF universal suhraEc
and the necessities of POLITICAL parties, ana SOCIAL
ism of some kind was bound to come to the lore
as a practical solution.
such Socialism necessarily begins from pro-
rressiye regulation Of all the relations between
capital and labor by the public authority OF the
State instead of leaving them to private inltlatNe
and agreement following on competition ~
calIy il ought to end. were such system possible
of realization, in the destruction of private prUp
crty and the administration of capital 10y ue
State alone. 1t is the former Soclaiisni. run run
mentary but under it's own name. which mas SUI
denly come forward in France as the one u"cs
zion on which universal suffrage mas 10" u
decide -, -, chic vear
The two great epeNcheS VI o,,oom
mainly recognize this Radical-Soclalist coheeh-
tration Because of il. VI. Constans mas mace
direct appeal for a counter concen'Ia'ioonn Tl.'i
The once despiscd Republican Right: i ,'on-
mart i'm the name of the vcgy young LlDeral IHit.
Is not far from doing the same amt lie paS.s
The whole necessity of the new grouping on tnc
one imperative need of resisting SOCIALISM, ~
tbe name of the liberties of the Revoiutlon'
Meanwhile NJ Floquet. quondan Radical leader
~ Tho Republican concentration, remembers
gra,cfullv that he said long ago. " Socialism is
The legitimate development of the Revointion.
What is instructive in all this Is that the
..mo fling may happen in other countries: when
lest expected. There. too social diiic,lit'S are
hrouoht IN for the decision OF universal suIlraer,
IN connection with the necessities OF poiiilcal
narties The French voter may be more loeiHal.
;mnnlsive revolutionary: and the En9lishman or
American more practical. time-servlng ana law
obiding But tho human mind. under the pres
snrc OF the saIfs ideas and motives Will eventually
worl, the same the world over.