New-York tribune., 1905-07-08

the revision in the Dreyfus affair; and in spite OF
the bitter attack him, based on the confirmation
Of his daughter in the Roman Catholic Church IN
1901 he kept his place of the foremost lead
ers and greatest orators Of the Socialist party He
was reelected to the Chamber OF Deputies in 1s02
NJ Jaures Is a firm believer that internatonF-
peace is to be maintained by the economic rsia-
tions Of the world. That his choice TO speak AT
Berlin the task of socialists of all countries IN
the preservation of the worlds peace and the
solidarity OF the international proletariat was an
excellent one is demonstrated by the following
paragraph from a speech made by him before the
French Chamber of Deputies January 2S' IN
reply TO charges made against the French SOCIALISTS
of lack OF patriotism. He said
In the order Of international relationships many
hopes that seemed not long ago very distant ana
to take substance. The fact which dominates
time the fact which rules the action OF our party
is the fact that even now peace IS possible III
Europe mean a peace pro4Iouna' 4+ GuraDie. @ OF
hope that this regime of peace viii continue is the
fact that Europe is now CLASSIFIED IL Two great
systems of alliance which. without clashing, re
strain watch and moderate each other and check
the ever possible impulses OF latent JngolsIn ana
the reviV1ng resJeSsness OF national or dyuaS-
tic ambitions. The comfortable fact which en-
%ete5s of aa6ee e 't& origneIy estabished one
against the other in secret hostility or distrust
peace They bring about interviews with each
other; they draw closer together and u negln 20 20
appear a tentative organization OF europe a
preparation and draft Of VasJer aiIlance-the
European alliance Of labor and peace.
I do not believe that the Triple Alliance was es-
tablshed with plan deliberately offensive TO US.
OF difficulty if in this period OF calm we cannot I'M
1 repeat NV belief that neither the Triple Alliance
nor Germany has during the last thirty-one years
prove against me that the Triple Alliance or Ger
many has sought d fresh c3n:lISt WITH VII US US you you
0oV5arr,II in EUROPE that they have cS,unelsd an
organization of attack and combat itself
little by little into defensive systsm Why
ocation toward France? Why does Germany mani
festly seek TO establish between uA Peace1Il ana
almost cordta! relauons2 Why does Italy, though
adherfug the Triple Alliance, though renewing
by a recent signature the pact which binds her
to it? Why she able TO declare TO our Foreign
Minister that there was nothing IN the renewed
why, gentlemen. the causes are evidently complex
There is the growing rivalry Of Germany and Eng
proved strength the recognized constancy. Of the
Franco Russian alliance; there is the deTnocratic
and liberal evolution OF 4taIy Tld OF Stlspi i ana
of the republican spirit. which is spirit OF peace
easiness. 1t is this progress Of public reason and
8 republic Enthusiastically mistress of herself which
has contributed little by little to strip the Triple
you, arrogant and disturbing, according 10 me-
You see gentlemen, that the tissue OF the inter
national economiG life is day by day more % closely clos ~
legislative acts d purely national character.
sugar; another day first international conference
as to the limitation Of work for women and chill
II q
labor extending over the whole of European tOers;
II will be the Of social insurance against ac-
cidents the of Insurance against dlsa element
and old age. protecting the workers OF all couns
tries throughout Europe and creating sort or
European social Fatherland for the whole of the
proletariat.
Thus ii is by the concourse of these two great
forces the finally victorious French revolution
and the dawuing economic international life or
labor that an unprecedented stability has been
given to peace. and that we are able TO say the
6eace of Europe is no longer a chimera, it is
profound possibility, and all that is required to
assure its peru1a nence is that the people snail
take consciousness of the possibility.