The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-01

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account. On the other hand the German
Emperor has Cancelled the order which has
hitherto forbidden French theatrical and
operatic companies from performing in
Alsace and Lorraine, and Mile. Reichem-
berg has already arranged an autumnal
tour IN the two provinces with Partisan
company. Nothing now remains on the
horizon but possibly an entertaining
wrangle about Chitral and it is assumed
that the House will rise Thursday for
good.
] he chief interest in the brief session
has been in the way in which Healy
climbed over his rivals in his party and
took both the symbols and the substance
OF leadership away from them in the
house. His curious personality has al
ways interested the members of the Com
mons, but in this session he has been prac-
ncally the only man on the whole opposi-
ton side who has commanded individual
attention. This will follow him now to
ireland, where he has three stiff local
tights on hand in by-elections and where
the only sport of the season will be af.
forded to those who need political occupa-
ton all the year round. He has gone to
Ireland to arrange for a candidate in West
Waterford against peculiarly incompe-
tent young London hanger-on, whom the
committee nominated, and both here and IN
South Kerry his nominees will represent
real as against spurious Irish Nationalism,
and will probably win.
The trade-union congress, beginning at
Cardiff Monday, bids fair to be the storm
lest on record during its career of twen-
ty-eight years. The questions arising for
settlement at the very opening session
are undoubtedly of exceptional impor-
tance, and feeling already runs very high
over them. At the last two congresses
Belfast in 1898 and Norwich in 1894
purely socialistic resolutions demanding
the naturalization of land and of all
means of production and distribution and
exchange were passed on the second occa-
sion, on Keir Hardie's motion, by the i'm
mense vote of 219 against 81. This has
frightened the older and more conservative
organizations of skilled labor, and they
have set to work, through their control of
the parliamentary committee, to prevent
such things happening In the future.
In the hurry and confusion of the closing
session at Norwich the revision of the rules
was left to this committee. They i'm
proved the chance during the year by
adopting new standing orders, which not
only severally restrict the choice of dele
gates to actual workers in the trades rep
resented, but establish a system of plural
voting proportioned to the strength of
each union, which will place the power in
the hands of the big unions and make GER
tain majority against the socialistic
party. The first fight will be over the
power of the committee to declare, as it
has done, these new rules in force without
first receiving the sanction of the congress.
1t will be a prolonged and bitter struggle
of weeks, and each side swears now that if
beaten it will secede from the congress.
Advance extracts from long article in
the coming Revue des Deux Mondes by
the Comte d'Haussonville on the late
Comte de Paris indicate that the paper
itself will be of unique biographical and
historical value. The writer has not only
a peculiar inside knowledge of his subject,
but is the possessor of an unusually fine
sense of character and Of the relative value
of events and motives. He gives at length,
with much frankness, the whole story of
the Orleanist connection with Boulangism,
which, as is well known, he personally de-
plored and resisted, but which the Comte
de Paris believed was good politics. The
Princes idea was that it would never be
necessary to go the length of making Bou-
LANCER President of the Republic, but that,
once Monarchist majority was obtained
in the Chamber by the Boulangist alliance,
a clever handling Of it would compel Car
not to make terms with the monarchy.
1t was fatal blunder, OF course, and a
discreditable one too, and the Comte
d'Haussonville can only explain it on the
theory that the Prince regarded his exile
as crime which had put the republic out
side the pale of morals and entitled him to
use any weapon against it that he could
find. If this be the final apology for the
Prince, and it is difficult to see how any
other can come from a source equally init
mate and authoritative, it is pretty poor
one.
By the time the French Chamber meets
again it is evident that there will be con-
siderable provincial agitation against the
proposed exhibition of 1900 to confront.
The general councils Of the Vosges,
Rhone, Meurtheet and Moselle have al
ready protested against it, and the de-
centraizatlon league is busy at work get
ting others to follow their example.
Some of the arguments are familiar, such
as that Paris will gain at the expense of
the provinces, that foreign manufacturers
come and copy French designs, and so rob
and use the knowledge to hurt French
trade, and that concentration of interest
and temporary activity and high wages at
the capital demoralize business and labor
throughout France for years after. but
there is another reason advanced now, that
during the five years of preparation France
will lose freedom of action in foreign pol
icy, which the Chauvinists in the Cham Der
are likely 10 make more use of. Inasmuch
as the Government has already adopted
plans and entered into many contracts. it
is unlikely that the Chamber will now
turn round and refuse the credits which
will be voted, but such possibility vexists.
Paris is amusing itself daily with the
current discussion in the papers by emf
nent women on the subject of knicker-
bockers for cyclists of their sex. Nine.
Adam is esthetically against them, and so