Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-06

Tor the reason that the army did not wish
/ to be brought In cdnf1fct with its brothers.
The memorable retzeat a. governments
pals. + has been covered, somewhat thiniy
It 3 true. by an effort to throw its respon-
i ability upon the opposition. The Count de
Beaufegard was arrested and charged with
/ throne OF France. Count Beauregard fs the
| iRegitlmate son OF Napoleon III. He is
| man OF wealth., but It is we'll known that he
visited Brussels some time ago to visit
Prince Victor, who refused to receive him,
after which the count publicly declared that
/ he had no attachment or interest WITH lne
prince. For this reason 1t Is not peaeEeo
| that the government has any serious Gauss
1 of suspicious against the man whom II mas
| arrested, and the act may prove TO hass
been an imprudence on Its part.
| It would be highly interesting. as Wen e NJ N
/ e,,r,ous to learn the apprecations OF M
Juarez on the subject of the retreat OF gov
ernment-the abandonment of government
| of socialism. and to learn what nsaiis' ~
1 any, the chief of impiacabie socialism, SO
| cialisyn- collectivism proposes to employ to
punish those who have denied him or inter-
ally thrown him. Jonah-like, into the sea-
NJ. Juarez at this moment Is at Toulouse
where he is attacking with violence NJ.
| Bougle because the latter. having been OF
! the bloc" deserted and declared: Social
ism is anti-republean, anti-patriot and
economically dangerous" NJ Bougle now
/ afiiiates with the radical republicans. What
| a blessing for France If the issue between
socialism and radiealism could be confined
| 70 Iouiouse blessed city and country Of
Tartarin de Tarascon.
We shall be curious, likewise, to learn
what may be the attitude now of NJ Mile
rand, who has recently committed himself to
| a confession of faith in socialism in the Re-
yue Politilue ct Parlementaire The opinion
| or M. Millerand is respectable. He is not
| militant. he does not appeal to violence or
Slsorder or arms to accomplish his ideal
| Socialism for NJ. Millerand is contained in a
| very simpie progTam-.the suppression of
the salary and the classes
| what should be the social policy Of the
| 'epupiicf ne asks. 1T seems that, despite
~;,,.,, the progress OF philosophy
| OF laws and customs two
Manifesto. classes are opposed to each
| other, whose economical in
| terests cannot be reeonciled except by the
] absorption of the one by the other.
socialism aims to raise tho saIo-ioa g..
n rae nisnlty OF associates. 1t aims fin the
| new ne nun humanity (which NJ. Millerand assumes
| dividraI p pren created magically that In
uiriuudi property may be not Suppressed
| wien is an incomprehensible pronosition
| puG, on the contrary. transformed
| Hot any more than in the French revo
luton does socialism propose 10 JagisI -
| Tor the French, the German or .to 80
isnman, put for man. Wherever the sama
| oegree of civilization has develoned VIII
| tte same grandeurs. the same misaries
the necessity seems to impose unon bfn, ~ -.
same trans orma tons A ---Ai liie
nus the sentiment Of an Ideal commune
| unltes In spite of the differences Of raee
| two worlds. ' va tiie
| our object Is not to erect on a mia, no.
| cepteo according to prescribed rites an m
changeable edihce; It is not to construct a
u,nra ioI sect, but to render the world
| more hapltable for every man. by the sue
cesslve disposition OF social iniGrities by
.ne education Of man progressively enamel
pa.eo from interior tyrannies. as from exte-
| Education indeed is the word I, ,vb,,b
tae ioture or humanity Is inclosed 1t is
true. or truth that is profound that the
tha nes. or those who work must be
| ,ie result or the workers themselves Put
now 10 accomplish it? And that question
| Is ~ not cruel irony under a social regime
| wHere all the forces of the laborer ara
| oai!y exhausted In the service of his na tran
| without leaving him other 1aisura tbs -
tnat OF repairing his energies wasted in the
| day? u 'iie neAt
| Thus the Intervention of sootat, tho
nrst interested IN the regular and normal
! inarch or progress, Is a necessity in order
e GO lnfhre to all Its members the humane
| days work. hygiene, and the prevention 81
| accloents are no longer contested And
| laws are being elaborated to prevent mr. at
| ;enuate the eHeets of strikes or of sickness.
1 A
| mead or this new code Is assurance and
savings banks. to which should be adda5
the PROCLAMATION of the Rights of Men:
| The right to live"
| M. Millerand finds himself Obliged to
| throw overheard some of the ideals of his
| party. He confesses that
surviving Tor until an unknown date,
Reforms. when governments are
agreed to lay down at the
| same time the heavy burden of military ex-
penses. disarmament would oe a pure
| folly. crime against the ideal In which
| socialists salute in France the first soldier"
! Unfortunately for NJ MilIerand's theory,
he APPEARS to be the only socialist who does
| not manifest furious hostility toward the
| French army, whose excellence Is cause in
| large degree that the heel Of the invader
| Is not actually on French soil. NJ. Miller
and wishes his party to call itself revo-
/ lutionary because for fact 1t Will be the
| most real and the most profound reyolu-
| ton, leading to the disappearance of the
| salariat. He wishes his party then to take
| the name of "reformists." He passes In
| review the laws and rules on the subject
| of ameliorations OF the conditions of labor
! which should be considered by a repub-
| lican government.
| The government wished to put an end
| to the conflict deadly to ALTO the Ia
borer. the individual and the publicly
| friendly settlement OF collective conflicts
| between laborer and patron A project of
| a law was submitted entitled The
J Friendly Settlement Of Differences Rela-
| tive to the Condition Of Labor"
| Such, In resume. are some of the works.
social and national, undertaken during
several years by the government of
! France. NJ. Millerand does not claim that
| tho work has been accomplished entirely by
the socialists; for fact no one party
can-caim TO have done more than another
| for the welfare of the working classes,
| and the two extremes in the chamber have
frequently met in accord on questions az
fecting the veal of the workmen of France.
No one may surely forecast the result
of the elections today, but the parties COM
POSING the famous bloc-the radicals and
socialists-are far from sure of the victory.
There are. indeed. Indications that a cur
rent is running in favor of moderate re-
publican ideas. In which case the present
cabinet will find itself confronted by a
hostile chamber. A. dislocation Of the bloc
may effectually disslpate the agitations ere
ated in France by the baneful ministry or
Combes Andre and Pelletan.
CHI CHAILLE-LONi.