The morning call., 1893-01-14
TALK OF VIOLENCE.
PlOtters Again Busy in
France.
SOCIETY NEEDS A SAVIOR.
The Attack on Carnot Has Failed, but
the Enemies of the Republic
Are Not Less Active.
Special to THE MORNING CALL

PARIS. Jan. 13.--Less is heard to-day Of
the foolish calumnies against President
Carnot There has not been time for the
provinces 20 respond, but whether it was
wise TO publish semi-official denial of
them through a news agency may be ques-
ton. The usual effect of semi official
denial is to attract attention to the original
charge, aud sometimes TO create a suspicion
that there must be something in an aecuss-
ton which has to be cOntTadcted.
Few people require to be assured that
CaTnot, when Minister of Finance in 1885,
was no party 10 the suppression of Rous-
sean's report on Panama. If there was any
real curiosity it was on the point whether
Baihut, in his examination by FTanQueville.
Gid or did not accuse Carnot Of being a
party to. or aware of his own proceedings.
That is denied by the Procureur- General,
whose denial ought to end the matter. but
will not.
Yet the paper which started the story
now says. with its usual GOODNESS. that
nobody doubts the personal integrity of
Carnot That declaration follows hard
upon the rumor that this paper will be
prosecuted. which 1t may be hoped is not
true. The Presidents character does not
require clearing in the courts.
The Radicals and Reactionaries agree, as
they so often dc, in their estimates of the
new Ministry's first appearance before the
Chamber AS they cannot say it was fall
uTe, they say it was not great success. a
majority of 123 Is pretty solid fact, bat the
enemies OF the Ministry Insist that it was
not a vote of confidence, that 1t was only a
vote for tie order of the day. 1t
was, nevertheless. Ribot himself,
who invited the Chamber to vote
on that custom. What is true is that
no serious attack seems to have been in
tended, and therefore no very energetic
defens was needed. Nor are the comments
Of to-day very serious, WITH perhaps, one
exception. Maynard publishes in Figaro a
curious article, Of which the main object
seems to be to foreshadOw the approach of
q crisis more alarming than the present one,
and to suggest that the respectable classes
are again looking about for a savior of
society. Ribot. he says, inspires more
esteem than confidence. There has been
during the last fifteen years but one Minister
of zeal energy. Constans, and the people are
beginning TO think that Constans is the man
who may save the situation. There may
be. says this cool observer, more in Ribot
that has yet to come out, but this Is un-
likely. The public will not give him its full
confidence.
Neither Maynard nor anybody else ex-
plains how Constans is to take charge of
affairs. Garnet VIGOROUSLY dislikes him.
He was elbowed out of the Freycinet
Ministry last year, just as Freycinet has
now been elboWed out of the RibOt Min
istry. That the President should send for
Constans If Ribot goes. that Constans
should be able to form Cabinet, aud that
C0nslans Cabinet could collect a majority
IN the Chamber, are three very unlikely
things. But the mention of his name by a
journal which has never been his friend is
remarka bic.
If, as Maynard thinks, general anxiety is
increasing, ii can be due to nothing but IN
certainty aud vague apprehension. or per-
haps TO the possible doubt whether the at
tack on Carnot may come to something.
True, the revoIutionIsts are stirring again
and various sOclalistic groups are once more
trying to unite. Their union consists in
holding two different meetings and issuing
two new manifestoes. But for the union
there might have been twenty-one meetings
held and twenty-one manifestoes issued by
the socialists
The manifestoes Issued were sent out,
one by the Deputies in the Chamber. of
whom there are fifteen, with Cluseret for
leader, and the other by i've factions of the
party which calls itself tie socialist-revo-
Intionary, with Guesdo, AllemaDe. Valiant.
Camelinat and Dervilliers as chiefs. Both
manifestoes are in the same tone. CluSeret
ard his company cry out against the re-
public Of Panama and against middle-class
rule So do Guesdo and his colleagues
The Cluseret clique appeals for universal
suffrage. but in the revolutionary sense,
demanding complete revision, both political
and economic, of the present order of
things. The signers of this document COM
prise, besides the more adventurous like
CluseTet, socialistc Republicans like Miller
and pure socialists like Moreau and the
Boulangists. Like Lazant, there is no party
which the Boulangist group is not ready to
join, provided it be party of disorder.
The Guesde faction. meantime, has re-
Versed its scheme Of organizing its CON-
mittee in each of the eighty sections of
Paris. It's tone is not only militant but
military. Its manifesto announces, not
for the first time the decomposition of So
eiety as thing which has at last really oc-
Cured. There is no appeal to universal
suffrage. Parliament is to disappear. OPP
portunism is to be crushed, the bourgeoise
and capital and other hateful things are
to be crushed. In that it is pure reyolu-
ton and calls itself such.
The committee Of public safety chosen at
the Malson du Republic having somehow
vanished into air, new committee of ten
an executive committee, is now formed 10
take charge Of the new revolution, and
these are gentlemen with whom the radi-
Gals were not long since ready for coalition.
aud perhaps still are. Such programme
can be carried out by violence and by vio-
fence only.
The Panama trial takes less sensational
course, but not less damaging one to all
concerned. The experts and l.quidators are
terrible witnesses.
"The company never did anything but
delude and deceive the public" declared
MoDchlcOurt. and, like, Fontane he regards
the French press as its accomplice in this
work of systematic fraud. But If the COM
pany robbed the public it was itself robbed
by everybody and once more the operations
of Baron Reinach are laid bare as the man
whom Charles de Lesseps himself regarded
as a swindler and employed in the work Of
corruption.
CARNOT'S KNOWLEDGE.