The Portland daily press., 1895-01-26
Hugo. None Of these deputies are strong |
men" properly so-caIled, but they well rep |
resent their party.

Hugo. None Of these deputies are ''strong
men' properly so-called. but they well rep
resent their party.
THE LIE WAS PASSED.
! AS to their principles. the workingmen's,
| or Marxist. party works for ''the political
and economical appropriation of the calf-
| talist bourgeoisie and the Specialization of
all the means of produc tion.' 1t is strongly
internationally and is in close communi-
| cation with the Belgian and German work
| ingmen's parties. This often lends handle
to its various enemies to brand it as unpa-
triotic and un-FreLch. Indeed, the recent
temporary expulsion of the Deputy Jaures
| arose from such taunt from the mouth of
the president of the counil of ministers.
Jaures is the orator of the party in 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
Guesdes himself, Baudin and ThivrieI. the
curiosity, he make it his business, when
ever a strike declares itself in any part of
france, to pack his vaiise and carry the
good word to the center of ebullition. In
his love for the workingmen he knows very
little of nationality. Nevertheless, he does
not like to have it throw up against him
Ia the debate from which he was expelled
he declared that court-martIal law condems
common soldiers to death for mere acts Of
temper against superior officers, but-it was
in the time of Dreyfus-''you do not shoot
real traitors!" Then he went on to defend
his party against the aspersion of interna-
tionalism. 1t is audacious to speak of in
ternationlaism on the day after that in
which the president of the council tried to
shield band of cosmopolitan Jobbers."
You know you lie!'' replied the minister
of public works. Which led TO the expulsion
of the socialist professor and a duel in
which none WAS hit. The minister of public
works, who said. lyon le!'' was not ex-
PEELED. Perhaps that makes another curios-
ity of the French chamber.
THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES.
The possibiIist socialists are called 60 be-
cause they havo no other name. AS TO
their ligin, they were expelled from the
Marxist party because they lacked the nee
essary nerve. They are TOO Partisan to be
internationalists. They look to get as much
socialism they possibly - can in the or
binary course of agitation. They are scarce
ly revolutonists. The BIanquist party is
MADE up Oh OlQ-faS610neQ communists. 1t
declares itself to be ''revolutionist, atheist,
materialist. TRANSFORMED. republican and
international" They differ from the other
socialists III being ''communistic.' as op-
posed to 'collectivist:'' which is supposed
to seize the property of capitalists they
wish eao b town and village to administer
the spells in its OWE way. instead of having
the great centralized machine of Karl Marx
running the whole country. Lastly, the re-
publican socialist party is kind of inter-
mediary between the other factions.
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 sleepers on the
benches. cultivat 1rs of restaurant fat, CAPT.
talists, defenders of robbers. iobbers.
pirates. Pharmacists that is to say, the sop
in a word. the present gov
eminent. According to radicals and social |
lists. the "opportunist'' is half a skeptio. |
half selfish person. He is neither republi- |
can, Orleanist, radical nor socialist-he is |
opportunist. His object is power; his OBJ |
jective point, his own well-being. His am
bition is to grow fat. Good dinners. ex-
quisite cigars and all the beer you want. |