The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-13


s~titucnoies where Social Democrats ran
no candidate OF their own. they were 20
vote for any other candidates who should
take certain specified pledses. such a. 20
resist all tampcring with universal SUI
frase and any a~b1dgmcnt Of TIM rights
81 combination. 81 meeting or Of the pres.
80 prevailing has become the practical
spirit thus ~engendered that. although tho
German Social Democrats are rabidiy
anti-clerioal. importing into their opPo-
rition to religion and To the Catholic Church
a peculiar bitterness beyond what they
b--tow on their natural enemies. capt.
tali-m and capitalists. II Is with the
Catholic clerical party. the Centre. that
they ally themselves a: the elections Tor
the 1andtag In Baden.
BY comparison with th. Social Demo-
Gratis OF Germany the French Socialists
present q very disuniied front. The last
ten years nave witnessed several fresh
divisions The Pos-ihilist- split In 1890
on the question Of a general strike into
Brous~ists and A~llemanists-- named
after the respective leaders Of III. -%ertion-
and the Allemani-t- again split In ieeo into
Allemanists proper and dissentiont Ale
manists on the question of their Parln-
msntary Representatives paying their Off
cial salaries, or part Of them. into the party
treasury. Then the B~lsnquisis. a small
body Of followers Of the rcvolutionisi Blan-
qui. were rent on the Boulanger question
into B~lanqui-ts pure and simple and Roche
fortist Blanauists, the latter. Of course.
named after their principal leader Roche
fort. who was a friend and supporter of
Boulsnger. In isaa n new Socialist party
known ~ the Independent Socialists, was
founded 10y the Minister 81 state, Cob
let and the present Minister 81
Millerand. which i- now. perhaps, the most
important Of all the Socialist groups In
influence. II not In numbers Numerically,
IL IL nlighly exceeded. 81 far as prcTon-
derance may be te-tsd by tho vote al the
Parliamentary elections. 10y the old So
cialistic labor party, tho MarSistS or
Gue-di-ts. a. they are commonly terIn'Ni.
These two groups 81 nearly equal magni-
! tude divide bet " cen them seV.n-cighths
OF the Socialists Of France; they return
twenty-eight deputies, OF fourteen each,
the other Ave groups are Of small ana d.
minishing Importance and return but ten
deputies in all All seven groups work
tremendously together NJ the general
elections, though. occasionally, AT a by
election. they oppos. one another
Since their incrca-e II plrlismeniarv
weight, the French - c~ial-ts. like the
German. Ia W. turn.si their backs more and
more ssainst the old r-volutio nism, and
ttsir vanguard 10 juinins hands with a."
ordinary Radical. Revolutionary methods
Of action nv. for ia" present ahJurod nv
all. elcrp, the two little group Of Plan
! quis,s. Even the Ali-msriist-. win" wen"
expelled. along with IA" ~Planquis's, from
the London International socialist Con
gre~s of 1895 hecause they refused Ia &C
opt POLITICAL and parliamentary action
M the means of winning the COZ qu~~t OF
political power. will not lear Of political
revolution. Their Revolutionary method
h. = univrr-al strike. which would hc. ~
courss. a purely economic weapon. The
ret o. the French Socialists ar rnrlia-
mcttarisns and have come, like their Ger
man comrades. 90 ~ ardent general social
~former<. According o. what - called
tho II. Mand- programme of the indie
rendent Socialists. a programme outlined
IN che .sp-cct~s Of Jaur.s and Miller and
~. Manic In isQa. their distinctive p-cu-
liaritv is that while they desire the uti-
mate raciAlzation Of all Industries. 'h"y
would proceed In the meantime by AUG
@ -sivc narionAlizations, according rs in
dusiries become ripe Tor the charge.
Their socialism IL thus temrered by a en-
stan APPEAL Ia connection With every
contemplated innovation to practical and
oven EXPERIMENTAL -ianda ride NJ Goblet
would ~ pr srn, Nationalist %notl,irs hut
lanks mines and railways. while VI. Nh-
i-rand. II II -aid, g - a. far ~ sugar ~
hninx, bu, draw tho line against peiro-
l-um. VI Jaura- In lsa, s,icCy-Niei IN car
rying a hill In N. Chamt~r for the purI o~r
~ tho purchase OF PEASANTS mortgages,
with a view 10 the diminutipn 81 the In
,er..t uu them. He and hi- friends have
brought in an unsncces sful It'll for making
tie ~prnduction and sslo 10 alcoholic hover
as~- q State monopoly, and for abolishing
th.. drink DUTY. AMI another unsucces--
ful hill for giving every nottingham at
N an old-ag- per sion ~ 200 a year. every
sick w~orkingInsn fro medical advice and
medicine, and every unemployed work
ing,n.n W cents n day Will" out 81 work.
half the inou.v Ia te provided ly H'a'"
subvcntion, and IN. rest by subscription
81 ~ cents a month from employed work
ipgmen, and ~ vents a month frnm Their
employers. The state subNcntlon was 70
c,ne rarity frnm al incr's~Ss. of -uc'N'ssiol
duties and partly frrm a new sugar mo-
norol, The position 81 't- independent
y ~ciali~,.. In f1., IL very much that 81
the old Possibilis,s. WHOSE rulr Wa Ia do
what w,s possible NJ the time. and they
work very h~armnniou-ly with tia, divi-
sion 81 the Possihilis,- which rjects the
ide. - a universal strike, namely. the
Brous-isis. Nho sce. however. more pos
sihilitias ir municipalizs'ion than In ma
tionaliznticn of induStrirs, and d"vn'"
themselves almost exclusively 10 N"
former branch ~ tn. movem"tt.
II IL we'll known that VI Mill"rand, on"
Of the leaders 81 the independent Social
lists. has been, since lsas. Minister 81 Com
MERGE in the waldeck- Rousseau Cabinet.
His acceptance ~ ONCE was condemned
by the French MarSi-t- at their Congress
OF isea as a reasonable compromise with
a bourgeois" government. Feeling was ."
strong on the suhl-c, that Il rent n
Socialist faction in the Chamber into tw"
equal divisions. one half going with Nil
Ierand and the other half against him.