The record-union., 1893-01-20
They Think They Will Soon be in
Control Of Affairs in France.
WHAT THEY WILL DO WHEN THEY
COME INTO POWER
Railroads and Factories to be Worked
on State Account Great Landed
Properties to be Seized and SINH
1arly Dealt With, the Present Pro-
prietors to be Used Only to Collect
Special to the REcoRD-UN1ox.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN
PARIS, Jan. 19.-The socialists continue
to make the Panama scandal the basis for
revolutionary agitation. Citizen Guesde
says i'll an interview that the Panama de-
yelopments are advancing the hour of
socialist triumph. "The revelations" he
declares, ''as bad as they are, have told
our party nothing new. 1t long has been
known the Opportunist circles were
tainted and falling to pieces through de-
composition. The Panama affair is a
great scandal, but all the great banks and
industrial enterprises are in much the
same condition, only the turpitude is hid
den more deeply. The Panama exposure
Will help enlighten the country. The
small agriculturists, their eyes opened to
the dishonesty of their Deputies, will
recognize that it is only our party that
can promise something appreciable, while
asking nothing in return. In one sense
the occasion has come with convenient
suddenness. Fear has ripened too
quickly, and events find us in rather an
unprepared condition. The socialist
ranks are not fully equipped for the com
ing election. If we had personal policy
sutticing for the present hour; if we had
money, like the Opportunists and Re-
actlonists, we would be certain to secure
majority in the next Chamber of Depu-
ties.
Unfortunately we can contest only
part OF the electoral districts, but despite
all disadvantages we shall return forty to
sixty members from the rural districts
and retain our hold on the towns. thus
making respectable minority, through
which, with perfected organization. we
can attain victory within four years along
the whole line. Once attaining power we
shall endeavor to bring about political
economy, the appropriation Of the capi-
tallstic class and substituting the social
lst methods of production, we shall lay
our hands, in the name of the State. on
the great railway companies, the great
Industries and the warehouses. Under
social revolution thus realized, the work
ers on the railways and in the factories
and stores shall work on State account.
Salaries will Immediately be raised and
the hours of labor shortened. We will
deal similarly with great landed proper
ties. We will seize all of them. The
farmers will work on account of the
State, and the rent of the farms will be
diminished by half. The present propri-
etors will be used only as agents to col
lect the revenues in behalf of the State.
These changes will not touch the small
agriculturists who cultivate and own
land"
Guesde and other leaders disavow any
intention of using force to accomplish
these ends.
oRLEANIST PROGRAMME.
PARIS, Jan. 19.-Comte de Hussonbille.
general representative of Comte de Paris
has formulated the Orleanist programme
in long letter to the editor of SoEeik. He
denies the charge that the Monarchists
tried to aggravate The Panama scandal.
Nobody could doubt that the time has
come when strong hand and will is
needed for the head of the French people.
The Monarchists ought to assume the
leadership and direction of public opin-
ion in this emergency. A league to sus-
tain public integrity and protect society
should be formed, as the Government is
absorbed in the cares of public defense.
The organization of the Monarchist
movement is complete, and they should
now make all conservative and liberal
alliance possible, without distinction.
Precise instructions would be issued be-
fore the beginning of the general cleo
tions. Meantime it is necessary to pre-
pare for the conflict and unforeseen emer-
nin fO1a
In anticipation the Monarchists are bound
by loyalty to France to organize with all
the forces they could rally and prepare
way for the Prince of Orleans.
THE TRIAL.
PARIS, Jan. 19.-Public interest in the
Panama trial is evidently increasing as
the case draws to close. To-day the de-
tense opened, and the courtroom was
packed with people anxious to hear
Maitre Barboux's speech opening the
case for his clients. Political considera-
tions, he declared, had much to do with
the prosecution, and he emphatically in
sisted that the men he was defending
should not be made scapegoats for the ad-
vantage OF any party or faction, or to ad-
vance the designs of ambitious men. He
maintained that the probity of his clients
was in no wise affected by the indictments
on which they were standing trial. He
declared that the construction of the Pan
anna Canal was far removed from specu-
lative aims. In its inception and progress
the scheme had an honorable foundation
though speculation arose from it.
He dealt with the charges against the
De Lesseps, and endeavored to show that
they were unfounded. In concluding.
Barboux declared that he proposed to
prove that the public were mislead re-
garding the heavy outlays of the COM
pany, which he declared were fully justi-
fed.
When Barboux finished the court ad-
journed till Tuesday.
COLD WEATHER IN EUROPE.
Rivers Frozen Oyer-Sereral Deaths
From Exposure.
LONDON, Jan. l9.-The cold xyaatbar ~,