Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-19


&&4KA kxaS lessons and six school
X9ES \ MA teachers. There are
HHE&S3&SkaSt n VS. mer
&1a4En<1.9.oS' h n t S, forty-SiX
manufacturers, thir-
ty-two farmers seysne wine growers, five
bankers, nineteen eX-army and navy Off
GERS, ten workingmen, three clerks, twenty
one politicians functonaries, two priests,
four druggists. three architects, four IRON
masters, three contractors, three designers,
three librarians, eight eX-diplomats and
fifteen engineers. OF painters, tanners,
brewers, printers, chemists. surveyors there
are one each, and there is one poet, one
tailor, one barber and one broker. But
there are stu siXty-eight journalists, in
Guiding owners hackers and managers.
many of whom are mere property holders
and properly included in the eighty pro
prietors'' already mentioned.
For the capitalist, as for the working
man, the surest road to the chamber of
deputies is to obtain possession of a daily
paper. Country doctors and country law
yers need neither capital nor the Influence
of the press. Large landholders often have
the power OF electing themselves or their
friends. Most all the Others get in on
some special cry. 1t is supposed TO be the
special mark OF the present chamber that
it lacks strong men; that it is filled with
curiosities and types
Spread of Socialism,.
Among these cUriosities the socialists &c
serve IA foremost place. Have Americans
any just idea OF the extent to which social
ism is spreading itself officially and FOR
lily, in Europe:- Among the 5Sl French
deputies there is a group OF ntty CT these
revoiutlon!sts. There is "a the WORKING
,Ifs-t
the Blanquist party, tD the republican So
cialist party. and2(5y the socialist revision
list party. rhat they contain some curiosi-
ties Will be seen at d glance.
The most taIked-of member of the work
ingrncn's party, or tie MarXist or the
Gucsdeist party as it is variously called. is
the barber-deputy, kene Ch&nvin. lie got
himself elected by means OF Ills Popularity
among the over classes OF a Pans suburb
IN the Partisan CariC:iturcS OF the day NJ
Chauvin IS regularly represented in Che act
OF fondling the long hair CT the rossib!l-st-
socialist, Jean Nulliod. otherwise known as
the cannon-ball Catcher. who always sits
directly on the bench beneath him. Nuil-
led, " no has dorc most everything, from
acting police Clerk to running gen
eral store, earned hls own notoriety by
working cut with n.athenla Zeal eXactness
the precise amount OF powder thar wou.d
be at once safe and needfUl to throw a
cannon bail across a theater stage so that
Il man might catch it III his hands. lie
actually carried his theories into practice.
There was no preteESc about his act
the cannon ball was actually thrown by a
charge Of powdeT-Eot a srrinG-;ind his
success was great in many a cafe spectacle.
Directly beneath him. in the same extreme
left, is the place of Clovis Hughes, repub-
licaIi-radic il-socialist, and the enc poet of
the chamber He differs much from Victor
Hugo. None OF these deputies are ''stron:,
men properly so-calIed, but they Well rep
resent their party.
The Ike Was Passed.
AS to their principles, the workirgmens,
or MarXist party works for the political
and economical appropriation of the cap
italist Eo,rgeo;sie and the sCcialiZs.t.on' of
all the means of production" Ii is strong
iy international, and is in close com
mUnication with the Belgian and German
workir gr:ens parties. This often lends Il
handle to its various enemies to brand it
as unpatrotic ard un-French. Indeed the
recent temporary expulsion of the Deputy
.iaures arose from sLch taunt from the
mouth of the president of the council of
ministers.
Jaures is the orator Of the party il the
chamber. From his place Of dignity and
leisure professor of philosophy IN the
University of Toulouse he became the
commercial Traveller OF strikes" With
Gucsdes himself, haudn and Thiv;'ier. the
man with the blouse" another socia!istic
curiosity, he makes it his business. when
ever a strike declares itself in any part a
F'raEce, to pack his valise and carry the
good word to"the center of cbullition In
his love for the workingnlan he knows very
little of nationality: Nevertheless he does
Tot like to have it thrown w against him.
In the debate from which he expelled
he declared that court-martial law con-
dennis common soldiers to death fer mere
acts of temper against superior officers
butt was in the time of DrcyfIs-''you
do not shoot real traitors!' Then he went
on to defend his party against the asDer-
sion of nternationalisr. 1T is audar:ouS
to speak of internationalism the day
after that in which the president OF the
council tried to shield band of cosmopol-
itan johhers!'
You know you liet'' replied the minister
of public works. Which led to the expul-
sion of the socialist professor and a duel
public works. who said, You iier' was not
expelled Perhaps that makes another
curiosity Of the French chamber
rho Different Varieties.
The possiblist socialists are called so be-
cause they have other name AS to
their origin, they were expelled from the
Marxist party because they lacked the
necessary nerve. They are too Partisan to
he internationalats. They look to get as
much socialism as they possibly" can in |
the ordinary ccursei of agitation They
are scarcely revoiutionists. The Elanauist
party is made up of old-fasilioned COM |
muniStS. 1t declares itself to he "revolu- |
ZIONIST atheist materlalist, TRANSFORMER,
republic and International" They differ |
from the other socialists i'll being com |
munistc" as opposed to "collec TWIST
which is supposed to mean that when the |
good time comes to seize the property Of |
capitalists they wish, each town and vii |
lage to administer the spoils in its own !
way instead of having the great central !
lied machine of Karl Marx running the
whole country. LASTLY, the republican So
cialst party is a kind of Intermediary be- |
q
On their SIDE the socialists declare that
the real curiosities of the French chamber
are not generous prophets like themselves,
but sodden and self seeking seepers on the
benches, cultivators Of restaurant fat. cap
italists defenders of robbers, jobbers, pi-
rates, Panamists-that is to say, the OPP
portunists''-or, in a word, the present gov
eminent. According to radicals and social
lists, the "oppcrtunist' i- half skeptic,