Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21

| ing terror and death to the bourgeois.
| Rather an instruction than war;"
| tterve has written several books, and In
one of these, entitled 'Leur Patrie' (Their
! Country. he tells his readers that social
ism groups men. the poor against the rich
| class against class; that the proletariat
| has no country: that there is only one war
| worthy of intelligent men-civil war, social
| revolution
LIE Temps of September Is has an edi-
| torlal entitled La Majestic lie Syndicat:"
The violence which covers the strikes
| with blood. the troubles which precede or
| succeed the enactment of this or that law.
all these public accidents are the results of
the same social malady now termed syn
dicatism.
"The syndicate has become in the hands
| or anarchists mob of rioters who
| In the eyes of our parliamentarians appear
only as voters. In this double role are con-
tanned all the privileges which this rioter
and elector takes and which he is permitted
| to take. The syndicate by its own acts
suppresSeS all laws that are disagreeable
| to 1t, abolishes freedom Of labor. liberty OF
opinion and modiies at pleasure such and
such legislative action. Before this syndi-
cate the government and Its deputies bow
down in abject servilty. The syndicate is
a tyrant who reigns by force and by fear.
When under its empire workmen are led
astray. violate, plumber and Kill, immediate
ly recourse is had to pardon and amnesty.
Political misdemeanors they call it. Charm
| ing! Why should we be astonished at the
| spirit of the working class under such
regimen
The London Times of October 9 contains
a dispatch from Rome, October s. relative
| to the Italian socialist congress, which was
| then holding its first session. The extreme
section, led by Signor LabriOla, manifests
anarchical doctrines. The conservative sec
| ton. led by Signors Bessolati and Turau.
| hold to the idea of socialist legislation by
| the aid Of parliament. Another section,
| termed "integratists," under the leadership
of Signor Enrico Ferri. adopts every IDEA
submitted by the congress with no POSI-
| bility of reconciling the contradictions. But
Signor Ferri cares little for such details
his policy Is divide ct impera-divide IL you
| wish to reign, and the impossible mlxup
will help him. Incoherency seems to mark
the proceedings, in which, 1T is encouraging
to relate, the Italian socialist appears 70
| take far less interest than formerly IL is
! manifest that in Italy. as In Germany, anu
| militarism plays but a small part IN soclai-
| ISM unlike that OF france anu nussia'
| where it is dominant.
The Courier des Unis. alluding 10
| the elections In New York on November 9,
says: THE New York American 'sociails ,1
was a powerful lever in 1905; 1t is more
powerful still in 1906, as may be seen oy
| the number Of members of the workmens
fedora lions, workmen's syndicates and work
mems unions which proclaim their ad-
hesion to the ticket at Buffalo and the
candidacy of Hearst, not only in New YORK
| city and it's suburbs. but in the interior
cities of the state"
-Apropos to the recent publication OIL
| Prince Hohenlohe's memoirs the London
| Times publishes what purports to be a
conversation between the emperor ana
| Prince Hohenlohe on April "a, lsSO. curing
| q drive to the shooting box at Sunenhelm
'It appears that the estrangement be-
tween the emperor and Bismarck began
| in December 1889. when the latter opposed
the emperor's desire to take up the labor
question. The emperor had urged that un-
less the government took the initiative the
reichstag which means In this case the
socialists. the clericals and the radicals.
1 to- or, md a W
eminent would have to follow their lead.
The chancellor wanted to renew the ex-
piring socialist law. and If the new reich
stag did not vote 1t to dissolve Inc EN-
peror opposed. He would be tainted with
shooting down his subjects. He was quite
ready to act. but he wanted to be able
to do it with a good conscience after try
ing his best to remedy the legltlmate
grievances Of the working classes
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But to return from this DEPRESSION to the
subject of pacifism and anti-militarism, the
writer invites attention to an
A French article in the Nouvelle Revue
View. for September and October,
by M. Jean Tarbel, conclud-
Humanity. because of socialism and
anti-militarism. has it become wiserf The
new element of pacifsm and universal
good sense. will it enter now into the drama
of history? There is reason to doubt it.
"Once eliminated from the slow metamor-
phosis of the prehistoric period. the indi-
vidual, the human animal. does not appear
to have progressed. The Egyptian of the
oldest dynasties the Athenian of the time
of Pericles, the Roman of Augustus, were
not men whose soul and physique were in
ferior to contemporary man. The superior
ity, perhaps, might be In favor of the an
Gent who kept his race pure. In any case
man has not progressed. We are neither
more vigorous nor more intellectual than
our ancestors. individually we are not
better. However. Aristophanes. Plautus.
Terrence and Horace have described the
man of today According to the Latins.
Moliere and the modern authors. Balzac
or Flaubert, man is the same narrow
minded, debauche, vindictive. malignant,
jealous. avaricious and shiftless creature.
BY nature man Is imperfect. He cannot be-
come good any more than he can escape
death. The moralist cannot add an iota
to his capacity for virtue. and the physi-
clan cannot add a day to his life. Masses
of men of mediocrity cannot become great.
There will always be individuals. superior
by their intelligence. sensibility. love of the
beautiful and the good, and the crowd In
which folly. vice and wickedness will domi-
nate
Progress has been shown in the rights
Of man. But 1t is due rather to the idea
OF MS WeliDelng tnan TO love OF justice.
Man is capable Of selling the sense Of: DO
not to others that which thou wouldst not
that they would do to thee But he is little
touched by the Divine maxim: Love one
another Unitarian he will cease useless
cruelties; he will no longer make war for
pleasure, but for profit. Incapable of low
ing justice for the sake of justice, DESTROYS
of possessing and enjoying more removed
from the angel than from the brute, he will
seek without doubt to break by violence
the obstacles which separate him from his
material wants. A humanity of ascetics
only will stop war.
Present nationas may become modified
other groups will be formed and the in
stinctve sentiment Of country will be
solved. Life is a perpetual transformation,
other features and other hags will be
fought for, and fighting will go on all the
same"
To those who have lived the simple life
the appreciation Of mankind by NJ. Jean
Tarbel may appear exaggerated. To those
who. on the contrary. have lived the siren
uous life the picture appears quite natural
Manifestly pacifism. socialism and anti
militarism are not effective agents for the
metamorphosis of man.
CHI. CHAILLE-LONG.