Evening journal., 1893-01-19
REVOLUTION AGITATED.
French Socialists Openly Hos
tile to the Government.
WILL BE VIOLENT IF NECESSARY.

II Peaceful Methods Fail to Gain for
Them the Control of the Government
the Socialists VIII Demand 1t with
violence-Utopian Visions of Socialist
Government.
PARIS, Jan. 19.-The socialists con-
tinue to make the Panama scandal
basis for revolutionary agitation. Citizen
Guesde says in an interview to-day that
the Panama developments are advancing
the hour Of a socialist triumph.
"The revelations" he declares, "bad
as they are. have told our party nothing
new. It has long been known that
Opportunists circles were tainted and
falling to pieces through decomposition.
The Panama affair is a great scandal,
but all great banks and industrial enter
prises are in much the same condition,
only the turpitude is hidden more deeply.
The Panama exposures will help to en-
tighten the country. Small agricultur
lists, their eyes opened to the dishonesty
of their deputies, will recognize that it
is only our party that can promise some
thing appreciable, while asking nothing
in return. In one sense the occasion has
come with inconvenient suddenness. The
pear has ripened too quickly and events
find us in rather an unprepared condi-
ion.
To Retain Control of Rural Districts.
Unfortunately we can contest only
part Of the electoral districts; but de-
spite all disadvantages we shall return
forty to sixty members from the rural
districts and retain our hold on the
towns, thus making a respectable minor
ity, through which, with perfected
organization, we can attain victory
within four years along the whole line.
We are rather disquieted for fear that
the Panama developments may assist the
Reactionist coalition, and that the rural
districts, knowing us imperfectly, may
at this time be likely TO give their suf-
frages to syndicates hostile to the repub
lie Yet we are certain to have complete
success in 1897.
Railways, Etc, to be Operated on state
Account.
"Once attaining power we shall en-
deavor to bring about political and
economic extinction of the capitalistic
class, substituting socialist methods OF
production. We shall lay our hands in
the name of the state, on the great rail
way companies, the great industries anc
the warehouses. Under the social revO
luton thus realized the workers on rail
ways and in facories and stores shal
work on state account Salaries will be
raised and hours of labor lessoned. W.
will deal similarly with great LANDED
properties. We will seize all of them.
Violent Means If Necessary.
'eThe farmers will work on account o
the state, and the rent of the farms vii
be diminished by one half The presen
proDrietors will be used only as agent
TO collect revenues in behalf of the state
These changes viii not touch smal
agriculturists cultivating their OIL
land
Citizen Guesds further enlarged on thl
vel known program of the socialists. II
has apparently changed his mind since b.
advocated militant methods, short tim
ago. "Why," he asks, SHOULD We hav,
recourse to violent meansY Legality vii
suffice At the present momeni legaht.
is lighting for US, as glance AZ IN
situation will prove At the same time
however, we shall not repudiate violen
means if we find them requisite"
Citizen Allemane, another prominen
chief of the revolutionists, will not liste
to violent measures. 81 know too well.
he says, "what an armed insurrectiol
costs the people to take upon myself tn
responsibility of engaging them in
struggle in which 80 many Of them woul
find their death.