The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-08-28
French Delegates and Their
Quarrels Agitate International
Conference at Amsterdam.
"HERETIcS" ARE DENOUNCED.
Herr Bebel Draws Some Con
trasts and Speaks Well of Ger
man Emperor-COncOrdant
! Discussed by Councillors.
BY ]. CORNELY.

SPECIAL BIT CABLE TO THE 81 LOUIS RE-
PUBLIC AND II NEW YORK HERALD.
Z Paris. Aug. g,-CCopyright. 1soI)-These
eecent days political Paris has not been
IN Paris. 1t was. In attention and inter
at. at Amsterdam. at the international
socialist Congress. This is explained by
mo fact that a large share of the work Of
The congress Is devoted to France.
In the labors Of the committees. as vel!
- In the public debates. France was the
enty subject discussed. and that. 1t must
Pc said. was not out Of excess of SYM
PATTY on the part Of other countries for
ours but on account Of the spectacle that
French delegates made of themselves.
While the representatives Of all other
tations were well disciplined. and the sole
Japanese delegate, transported with enthu-
@sfasm. as are all the japanese now. always
approved what the majority said and did,
4Ehe French representatives were divided
and seemed to have come to the congress
only to excommunicate each other from
the internationa ranks.
1t IL q strangs irony of fate which pur-
sues this country. which. nevertheless.
wal nodded by Roman Capitalization. that
no group resists breaking up. The French
Socialists are divided like the French
Catholics. 1t is true they have effected
little. They have a mystical turn OF mind.
and their system only adopts the idea: OF
religions. Thus French socialism. as well
as Catholicism. hurls anathemas at the
hereto.
HERETO ANATHEMATIZED.
This hereto at the Amsterdam con-
gress. above all others. was NJ Jaures.
and the grand inquisitor was N. jules
Cuesde. In his long body, made thin by
illness. NJ. Guesde maintains a soul that
takes o1ense easily. watching with jeal-
Gus and sometimes fierce care over the
pure socialistic doctrine. over the pure
gospel according to Kari Marx. Anything
like making terms or temporizing with the
ordinary civil society seems to him like
treason, ana he denounces IL with MS
weak, but nevertheless stil passionats.
voice.
Formerly his black sheep was Jules Jof-
firm, TO whose .'~possibilism" he opposed
his own -impossipilsm. which maze ,Joi-
firm say:s"He will certainly render social
Ann impossible"
Today IT is NJ. Jaures. whom he had al
ready attacked before attacking him at
Amsterdam. and whom he strove to be-
little as much as possible with the Ger
man Socialists by representing him as A
common opportuniSt politician. dominated
above all by a desire to obtain power:
NJ. Jaures made him pay dear for ihis.
and showed all that separates the dream
from the practical idea. the cloud from the
to-Ak SoNitS hHhi s'NALt. h1N1N ht'N
be In a democracy what they are In ahSo-
lutte monarchy. and that where the cit
zen has a vote with which 20. accomplish
reforms. there would be no excuse for re-
sorting to revolutionary methods.
NJ. Jaures had no difficulty in making a
contrast Of the work accomplished by him
and his party in Parliament. as well as in
the country. to the. vacuum which results
from all conyulsioDs. and in causing VI.
Guesede and his parfisans TO wrap them
selves up in. the mantle OF defenders of
the absolute doctrine. Perhaps. this is a
hne pose. but that is not the way to save
society or prepare II for better days.
BEBEL TO II RESCUE.
II. Jaures's success was great. as great
a. that Of NJ. Guesede. and he would have
certainly won a victory II Herr. Rehel, a
German patriarch. had not come to the
rescue. He came to the rescue less for the
purpose Of defending pure Marxism than
20 contrast Germany with France.
Everything lie finer. everything H. better
2 Germany than In France" said Herr
psbel. you have q Republic, but you
AVE not an Emperor, and we've have an
AUpsror-and he left Il to be understood
1T Socialists who have not got an EN-
yefSR n the German Emperor. whom