The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26
NEWS GATHERED
FROM GAY PARIS
A New Street Named After Wag-
ner, the Composer.
MENT0 OF THos. A ] (.
NJ EN- ENTO OF THOS. A'BECKET
New Light on the Many-sided Bismarck
Publication Of the Diary of a Friend
Of His Younger Days Shows
Something ofSofter Nature
nv MAX O,RELL.

Especial Cable to The Times, Copyright,
1929
PARIS October 25.-The associations
laws have now been enforced every
where in France; every journalist has
written about 1t; every Frenchn;S1 has
been talking about it. yet it has been
given to an English Father-General OF a
religious order to give lucid eXplana-
ton Of the complicated situation which
preceded and now follows that Law OF
Association.
Father David Fleming, the General of
the Franciscans, the most numerous or
der in the Catholic world. is a speci-
men of the new monasticism which does
not disdain the accessories OF modern
life, and which teaches us that a clean
b -dv is the best tabernacle for a pure
mind.
'.As for this precious law, he says,
.'as an Englishmen I regret it. because
it trespasses upon civic equality, but /
believe that in the end it will put mat
ters strai ght- There is a great deal of
talk about Frecmasonry the Jews and
the de;il. Ny own impression is that
some sort of imp which is the cause
of the evil turks in the brains of certain
religious cranlls. When 1 take the map
Of France I see dotted over it number
Of politicians and mercantile personages
in religious garb. but very few genuine
monks. They are heirs of glorious foun-
ders, piolls men who had but the glory
Of God in mind, and now imagine that
their chief mission is to NEEDLE with
matters entirely outside of their pro-
vince"
And, true enough. the breviary Of these
monks is a business directory Their
1Soo ar ~,
these days of progress. science and free
thought: but their concurrence is most
hoIris hing. The manufacturers of Pill
grim chocolate, benedictine and chart
re Sc. make such profits that there
would be a rush in tie market if they
desided to transform themselves into
liza bility companies. Let every citizen
or body of citizens exclaims the
Father General keep in his proper
place
when Christ drove the merchants
from the temple il was not
because they We're trarsacting business,
which was lawful enough, but because
they were trading in unlawful precincts
Rue Wagner in Paris.
Who, only seven or eight years ago.
would have thought it possible that in
Ccto5er of the year of grace 1902 the
Municipal Council of Paris would decide
to call new street Rue Wagner in
honor Of the great German composer?
The news is sufficient to cause the last
generation of Frenchmen to rise from
their graves.
1t was not ten years ago that the Pre-
feet of Police had to send huge force
Of municipal guards and policemen on
the Place de rOpera in order to protect
people who had bought tickets for the
first performance Of "Lohengrin.' The
.'patriotic" press had written violent ar
ticles to excite the population to acts of
violence, calling traitors those who in
tended to patronize the works OF the great
German. II will however, say this to eS-
plain why the French were so long max
ing up their minds to go and hear Wag-
ner's music:
They could not forget that it was the
composer Of .'Tannhauser. who. in : so,
when the Germans had invaded ed France.
said he hoped his compatrlots would set
fire to the four corners of Paris and thus
revenge him for the historical Kisses
With which his ..Tannhauser" had been