Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-07

possible. He WIN get none but of11c.al in-
vitattons. Al the officers club he win ind
the atmosphere chilly. His chiefs will never
be content with his service. He Will be q
lonely man.
Now had the thing limited itself to the
army and between republican and royalists
1t might have been stamped out. Unfortu-
nately 1t has spread-until these spying net
works hold the whole French population.
Civilians began to get involved in It's
meshes IN connection with the confiscation
Of the properties of the religious coulmuni-
ties. All over France those communities
had put their property In the names of lay
sympathisers. The conf1scations we're enor-
nous. Why? Because the properties OF
the Dead Hand were enormous. There
painful.
Where is the Money!
Where have they put all their money? '
It is a question that has set spies working
underground In every town In France.
Mems clerks have betrayed them Wallets
have sold the information for few francs.
Ladies' maids have told what they have
overheard In boudoirs.
Now that the system has been tried, the
question is coming to be asked In far
larger and very different matter.
Where are they hiding their money!
the socialists strong in the present gov.
their income tax.
All over France countless families liv-
Ing on the income of investments are max
ing ready for 1t.
money have gone, this present spring alone,
for investment in the single money center
of Brussels. Geneva has received o4o.ooOooo
francs. London. they say, has mad foo,-
coo. COO francs.
You understand? It is all to escape the
income tax law which the present socialist
led government is bound to pass AND the
outgoing flood of money has been such that
as you must have read--the government
imagined asking foreign governments to
help it stop the movement. =,
Where are they hiding their money!
All over France the shopping and spying
is now in full blast. Vast lists are pelng
prepared Families incomes are being esti-
mated Families who have sailed down a
large part of their capital IN Belgium,
Switzerland or England repeat victor
Hugos famous phrase:
Take Care What You Say.
Braves gems. prenez garde aux chooses
que vous dites-Good folks, take care what
you say!'
Ladies make appointments with their bro
kers in churches-not to be noticed. They
have their banking correspondence come
to their hair-dresser's. Promenadlng to-
gether, they whisper investment talk to
each other-lookins over ther shoulaeis
guilty.
French business men are tinid Also In
different Up to now they have been Will
ing not to bother the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing they be allowed to pile up money tram
gully. But now they. too, are talking IN
Here is a land in which the socialists are
ready to attack big businesses AS start
er they are going to begin with the INDUS
try Of petroleum refining. One more year
and a y.
After that-the thing has been completely
studied-they will take sugar refining as
another national industry. That VIII make
already four great industries taken out OF
the hands of business men-petroleum su-
gar, tobacco and gunpowder and matches
the two latter being already government
monopolies.
Attacks on Private Property.
Business men are whispering together
about these socialist attacks on private
property In France the thing Is very close
and real to them
The socialists are feeling their power.
They want to know its limits and extent.
what forces are against us?'' they are
asking. The great business world Is silent
1T is the sphinx they question.
Their spies are everywhere In the bust
ness world Such a firm is dtvided-one
partner is fearless and incorporating.
the other temporizing. Here is list of
firms already doing active politics. These
give lectures to their employees. These have
secretly agreed with other firms to form
lockouts when the necessity arises. Here
is a list of firms trying to sell out in order
to set up new factories In Belgium OF swift
erland.
Most of all they want to know the names
of houses that are, secretly engaged IN
wedding out all socialist clerks and work
mer and all employees given 10 active
trades-union work.
This is counter-spying. Militant business
men, taking what measures they can, en-
ploy spies to keep them informed about
their men There are firms who will en-
ploy no union labor. That is one thing.
But there are others who, while openly
submitting to the union. secretly wage war
upon It. They will not discharge union
man to make place for scab; but they will
discharge an active union man to replace
him by union man without CONVICTIONS
That is what they aim at-the disc )1raging
of union and socialist activity. Every little
helps and, besides, it Is revenge.
Keep Their Mouths Shut.
So prudent workmen hold their union
cards and keep their mouths shut. Clerks
pay their syndicate dues and neglect to at
tend the meetings.
Everywhere there Is watching and whis-
pering and guessing There are French
manufacturers who cannot succeed now
adays. A giant occult hand works against
to rivals; their product comes out second
class; their machinery wears out and
breaks down, and there are masses of
workmen and clerks who seem haunted by
occult misfortune. While they find moth
ing tangible to complain to their syndicates.
they cannot keep a place.
VIII the majority of Frenchmen stand
for socialism? They have elected an almost
socialist government Are the majority OF
Frencbmen even republican? The popular
vote tells nothing-a third of the great
bourgeois class does not go to the polls.
Here Is the secret OF this strange state OF
affairs. The moneyed middle class Is silent.
It wants to escape notice. 1t wants to go
on enjoying in peace. When 1t stands to-
Eether 1t becomes all-powerful.
When the crisis comes where will 1t
stand? VIII 1t be royalist or republican or
permit socialist experiments? All the sying
Is to guess this riddle.
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.