Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-07

to France from socialism" said M. Pierre
MISSY, a young wine merchant of Bou-
logne at the Metropolitan yesterday. Ill
deed, the creed or faith ore political belief
or whatever you may1call it, is greatly on
the wane there. and recent elections have
shown remarkable dropping off In the
socialist vote. 1t is easy to account for
the prevailing dissipation 6f the disease in
France. 1t is due to the fact that SO many
OF the peasantry, among whom such
party must look for its chief support, are
land owners themselves. Something like
S,OOO,OOO peasants in France own their
small farms, and the man who possesses
something, you know, soon finds out that
socialism will not do him any personal
good and selfshness is the basis of politi-
cal opinion after all. The idea seems to be
holding it's own in Germany, however, and
1 have heard that the recent announce
ment of the new car in favor Of a contin-
uat1on OF pure and absolute autocracy Is
occas1on1ng considerable excitement among
Russian socialists, who become nihilists
when they reach the art of making bombs
and using them. I think in this country,
where l was partly educated, you have
more socialists than all of Europe put to-
gether. All the great strikes you have
over here are nothing more than eruptions
from great volcano of socialism that UNI
derlies the surface of your system. The
violence is different from ours only in the
fact that it is the violence of the ignorant
and the hasty, who act upon the spur of
the moment, while ours is the result CT
carefully thought out plans, matured long
In advance of their actual operation. THIS
sounds platitudinous, I am sure, but all
your socialists reed is education and then
the results will be terrible unless the au-
thorlty or the government and the states
stop temporizing with the element that will
bring them about in order to get its votes
for the parties that happen to be in power
or want to get there"
Il see there is sentimental movement
spreading among tender hearted people in
the east in favor Of sending Geronimo and
his band Ct fellow murderers back to their
CID stamping rounds cut west so they may
pass their declining days amid the scenes
Of their YOUTH" said Gregory Scott OF
Sarta Fe, at the st. James, yesterday. IF
some of the people who are so charitably
inclined had seen what have seen they
would not let their sympathy out to such
he:rtless scoundrels. TO matter how bad
pred1cament they might be in. Indeed,
believe they could stand by and approving
ly watch every one of them being burned
alive over the slowest fire that could be
kindled and kept up. What was it I saw?
You couldn't publish one-tenth of it in
The Star. The whole story would appall
your readers and make them throw down
the paper and run away from 1t. No hui
man mind can conceive of the iniquities and
cruelt1es practiced upon innocent and de-
fenseless men, women and children by
Geronimo and his band. What would you
think Of riding up to friends rancho and
finding his dead body mutilated beyond
power of words to describe; to find that of
his wife even in worse condition, and to
see their baby hanging impaled on q hook
upon which it's poor little head had been
pulled down with fiendsh force. That's
only a small part of the horrible picture l
saw, and l can't be blamed for feeling as do
when I hear Of sickly sentimentality being
poured out for the savages who created it.
am not one of those who does not believe
in such thing es a good Indian, for l
know lots of good Indians. but never saw,
and the man has never lived who ever saw,
an Apache who was not million times
bad as the worst fiend in perdition."