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Socialists Still Problem in Elec.
ton Disputes Strikes on
on Last Legs.

New York Herald Special Gable Service Copy
right, 1905. by the New York Herald.
Paris, May l9.-We continue in the
election period and to prepare for the
second ballots chief interest now lies
in the withdrawal of candidates who
have no chance of election, in favor OF
more successful ones.
But will the TRADES, which one sees
posted up everywhere, regarding. the
necessity OF union among republicans,
have practical result and as a first ad-
favor OF the Rdicals and vices~versas
. Socialists, who are polite, recon;
their duty in this respect loyalty. But
polite socialists are not the most nu-
merous nor the most ardent. There is
also workmen's party. This makes
no difference between radicals and
moderates. All those who are not for
collectivism are against it.. 60
We may. expect to see some national
lists profit by this misunderstanding and
this ignorance ,....
Nevertheless the second ballots will
be a victory for the republic as the
first was. H. j !,
We are at last going to see the ques-s
ton OF Individual property brought on
the tapis, an absurd question, but one
which is as old as humanity itself, and
always regulated in the same fashion.
" 49, Russia Has Sympathy.
1t is curious to think that both
coming. summer and winter, waste time
discussing the question of property. In
France the collec6vists will explain
their dreams. In Russia the douma
will disinter the proposal for the ex-
preparation of the property Of the
nobility in the interests of the peasants
AS regards amnesty, we may expect
to see it rapidly accorded, and the coun-
sellers Of the emperor should take the
initiative and give his majesty the ben
eft of credit for the action. But in
regard to appropriations, it will be
another affair.
AS long as it was a question of ex-
preparation OF the property Of the
the, difficulty was easy Of solution.
But when it comes to regulating the
appropriation of the nobility, it will be
another affair and we will find g. in
Russia, onr ally, what we hal in
France a. century. ago with the
same question Of the property of emf
grees Of which possession is still con-
tested to such point that lands which
belonged to the emigrees have less sell
ing value than others. We will not be
surprised if the crisis comes at this
moment, a crisis accompanied by blood
shed. But what is the good of fore
seeing trouble from SO far9 Let us
content ourselves with our own
troubles. 1850
| ~. Strikes Near End.
| Our. strikes in the provinces are
nearly, terminated. Those Of Paris
have, however, tendency to decrease
but there are still matter of 10000
Partisan wOrkmen on strike, for all
that have not had the same tact as the
/ compositors, who have obtained what
they wanted and who have returend to
2. work TO- do nine hours work day
which will be paid as if they were ten
In Paris many employers still resist
for foreign competition does not allow
them to make the least sacrifice and an
incident has just happened calculated
to encourage them to resist. .al@
| The metallurgists have met in a gen
eral meeting consisting of all the EN-
ployers who work metal to transform il
into machines Of tools. They have
met together and formed fund for re-
sistance, into which they have paic
81, 100000 and declared that they under
take not to accept an eight or nine
hour day and not to permit the inter
ference Of syndicates between them ana
their workmen. They undertake t.
stop their works rather than to give in