The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-13
TRENCH SOCIALISM BEING DISCARDED Jean JaureS Makes Sensational
 Speech BREACHES TRAlT0RlSM He Says the First Duty of His Political Friends In War Would Be to
 Turn Against Their
 Officers.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

BY MARQUIS DE GAS ELLANE'
 Paris. October 12.-The numerous Amer jeans interested in French affairs will
 have learned with grief of the abominable language used at the Stuttgart congress by the leader of French Socilism. Jean Jaures took occasion to say that should
 the French army be engaged in any war the first duty of those who sided with him politically would be to turn their
 arms against their own officers. This shameful language which could , rot have been used in any other coun- try without its author being seized and
 thrown into prison, will have and already
 has had the most happy results, and Is such as to bring back into their proper
 focus again the great Conservative in
 terests which the republic is entrusted with
 i As a matter of fact, the Premier. M.
 Clemenceau, the official protector of these
 interests, has been obliged to break with
 the left wing of his majority. AS soon
 as parliament opens again, the Premier,
 it Is evident, radical and violent as he is,
 but after all good and loyal Frenchman,
 will be obliged to cut himself off from
 Jaures and his disciples.
 As no one can govern without major
 ity, he will haveato look to the right for
 the same number of men, or rather of i votes, which have escaped him on the left and as these votes will be those of the Progressive party, which Is party or reaction-and a more violent reaction than is generally suposed-it follows that ] NJ. Clemeneeau, thanks to the violent re-
 marks and other doings of the famous 1 Jaures will pursue a policy infinitely
 more moderate than that which has been l followed up to now by himself and his predecessors, France returning to a mod l crate policy, thanks to the imbecility of | the Socilists-such is the policy we are
 about to see and of which our friends
 will certainly not complain.
 It is plain that our great navigation l company, the Compagnie Transatlantique | Franchise must renounce any thought 1 of priority The recent race against time ] of the Deutschland and the Lusitanla ! leaves us but eyes to weep over our in- , feriority But we must not give too free 1 vent to these tears. The two world s 1 champions raced at a speed of 235 knots l and 231 xnots but at the same time ] and in the same week La Provence, the 1 leading French steamer, covered the same
 road at a sped of 22.5 knots-that is to say, about 24 knots less in the ] o4 hours, which makes total l of only 125 or 150 knots for the whole
 journey.
 | In view of this small difference which we may almost call insignificant, are we
 not justified in asking if American pas
 sengers do not find some compensating
 advantages on our boats? One which l l can point out, and one which is generally
 recognized, Is that of a sumptuous table, l which is infinitely more delicate and
 recherche than those of the English and
 German boats. For people who are sub iect to the terrible affliction known as
 'mal de mer." is 1t not preferable to be l under a chef who is true gourmet and 1 who knows how to make us things which
 our stomachs would reject at once if i they were served by any other cook. Be- fore throwing stones at our French lin- i CTS, my friends the Americans, think of
 the delicious cuisine to be had on them. 1 In Rusia as everywhere else, all the i political parties are taking their holi- l days-a1l except the Revolutionlsts. Mur-
 der and pillage have this summer. as III previous summers, not for an instant 1 stopped anywhere in the empire. Incen- l diarism has, above all, held a record of l destruction, and not day has passed 1 when tho buildings of some landlord or | other have not been set on fire. This
 year the flames. lit by mischief makers ;! have destroyed estates to the value of l more than two hunded million dollars l and it is calculated that in this simple
 way in less than twenty years all the forests of Russia will be reduced to cin-
 ders.
 l The Siberian mail train. which was at tackled the other day by masked revolu- | tionaries armed with muskets. did not 1 lose any liyes but in the confusan which l followed the firing on the carriages l hundred thousand rubles disappeared Ac- l cordng to interested statistics, which will 1 be published shortly. the victims of the l revolutionary movement numbered during 1 the year 1906; February 642. March (dur- 1 ing the elections) 439, April (during the l sittings of the Duma) 519. May $50, June 9f1, July 1924.
 | The figures for 1907 show a monthly | list up to the present of 700 victims. while | for certain months they reached the to- | tai of 1000 Eighty governors have met l their death or have been severely wound 1 ed. And while all this is going on their 1 charming Grand Dukes and their ele- 1 gant Grand Duchesses continue incessant- 1 ly to adorn our race courses, restaur- 1 ants and small theatres with their im- | perial presence.
 Pope Plus x, in spite of the mask of good fellowship and amiability which is the characteristic trait of his counten- l ance is possessed of an abiding bitterness He is particularly spteful against poor
 President Fallleres. who has done noth- | ing to him but Is the victim of the repub- 1 lican government. AS the Pope cannot l show his dspleasure in an open and public manner he does his best to do so l in little petty ways. Thus he has just | forbidden the famous Cardinal Math- leu, who was recently elected member l of the Academy Francaise. to present | himself in accordance with the usual | custom to the chief of the state. Sc
 the great literary body, which more than any other is desirous of making nc l changes in It's customs and traditions | is placed in a very embarrassing situa- tion Every week the cardinal makes a 1 show of wishing for an audience with | President Falleres. but each week also one of the two sponsors who are sup | posed to accompany his according to the 1 academical etiquette, finds himself acci-
 dentally prevented by some cold in his head or pain fin his little finger. Is there really in the fold of the church no better means than this to punish athelstic and | fmpolte republicans for their indecorous attitude toward ita august head?