The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-24
French Departments Submit to
Associations Law.
PAN-GERMANlsT MOVEMENT
Europe Begins to Realize Plan of Ho-
henzol'erns TO Unite All Teutons on
Continent Under One Rule.
French MINISTRY in Moral.
BY Max O'ReIl.
Especial Gable to Tho Times.)

:
PARIS. Aug. 23.-F1fty departments OF
to the rQuirement of the Associations
Law. and now that tho bitterness en-
rendered between all the enemies OF the
governmnt and the government is be-
ginning to subside, 1t is plain that the
victory will remain the side OF Prime
Minister Combes.
A semblance Of resistance has been
kept up long enough to satisfy the
Faithful" the schools Will be quietly
vacated, and the agitation will die Of in
nnition. For that matter, in no other
country than France could such mani
1estations have taken place on such
small prete1t as the enforcing Of law
passed by large majority OF the Par
lament and accepted by the nation.
In England and in America, whenever
a meeting is announced to take place,
ut which some free citizen will air views
or grievances, as the case may be, they
DO SO under the protection Of the police
who see that they are permitted to ex-
ercise freely the CHEF right OF repub-
ucan; that is. that of airing his views.
But in France. soon as meeting
Is announced to take place, some oppo-
site secure enough seats in the hall 10
create a disturbance, SO that the meet
Ing is dispense. by the police and nobody
has been heard.
The French have lived under a repub-
lie for thirty-two years, but every
Frenchman has yet to learn how TO
make a republican Of himself.
All tho succeeding parties that come to
pffice Invariably send a message 10 RAJ
lament in which they appeal to feeil-ss
of appeasement. forsetfulness ana iots,
Now that we are in power, they
.ay. ..let us forget oil our differences
,ome to us. let us all work together, like
the members OF a happy family; and
the first thing they do is to take revenge
of their predecessors, put their tr1enos
In office. and the French people go on
singing the old song: -,
And the more 1t changes. the more II
Is the same thing.
In common with many republicans.
have ofen- criticised the American Con-
.t,tntion for its allowing the Pres!oeht
~ the United States to have ministers
responsible to him and not to congress-
that is to say, to the people. IN lac.'
tho American CONSTITUTE presents TINS
anomaly. that. while me lep.ssen.a ..o,'
OF the people Is democratic, the eAecu-
.,,,o ,o1rer Is autocratic: but many OF u.s.
iil,e myself. have changed our Ideas.
hf,er al, with restrictions and sulilcleht
vrneryision. the government by one the
nblest, is not the only possible govern,
1nent Why, even If the conductor was
rnnI # would be better to have the Or
,"a..rs ,cd nv fool than by five hundred
Of them.
Whatever the present French Ministry
g ar As not, they are moral. true lhes
nave not yet attempted to ciean .hs
ho,,,eyards Of all the unmentonable NTH
that is seen on the newspaper kiosaues'
but they have dismissed Aollliiai os 90
,n,nt commander Of the most powerlui
.,,a,;,;ne station of France, for having,
IN an official occasion, respectfully sa-
Smtoa beautiful lady and spoken 10 her
q few words.
Or course the story says that 'ne laoS
Nh. something more than an acauaihlaiic"
"a the Admiral. 1t is amusing 10 ilo.lce
with what exemplary aiacii,s a ..:r;.4e,.
tni,al cbeyed the orde" OF the -ni"istet
NJ Marine Less than an hour after ne
ta5 received the telegram relieving nm
,r his functions as maritime protect, ne
eired back:
~ our orders executed
This is what man should 90 aor ioN :
If n ,aey. The Admiral has now retired
h h.s chateau near Bicis. and is going.
t,o> cav. 10 write his memoirs Ihes
Eeula prove piluant reading; as piquaht
tad,rr rs those of General de Galllfet,
tcw out
j, may be unsafe to lightly make such
ie prophecy as the following: Ll LIZ:
H. ii,,ir i.eopie are realizing the ainbi-
=. nnavowed as yet. but none the less
irndfastly refused. which is guiding the
taisor That ambition is no less than
reconstruction OF the ancient German
iirc. one that shall extend from the
t"itic and the North Sea to Trieste, from
Etine 10 the eastern limits OF the
sl-itory Occupied by the German-speaklHG
hnIiat;on of Austria.
srS little attention has been paid IN
ropc 10 The work of the Pan-German-
4 mt rec.ole are beginning 10 realize
tet their object is 10 unite all the 1'eu-
&C Europe under the rule OF .ie
hen-orarns When the occasion is ripe.
IS to say. when that moment so
| ,aed Tor the peace OF Europe, arrives.
cath Of the Austrian Emperor. thiass
be ready.
f',e hrr.rsan Empire. which is doomed
ool,apse, Will see its Gernanic pro-
ccs absorbed IN the existing German
fapire. People are somewhat con-
tined about the future map OF
world. They see Slave CON
t'eration. composed of Hungary. Bos-
b Herzegovina, Montenegro ROW
tnia. Scryia. Roumel:a and Bulgaria.
ire diYlomatists. rather sound on the
/ s,ion Of European equilibrium. declare
~ Holland would have to enter. the
oman Empire by force of arms or other
te.
Inn. Now what shall we do with Bsl-
I'm? Would she become absorbed by
lance, whose language the Belgians
lax? There would be one way OF sat