Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-15

Much publicity has been given In Europe
to the proceedings of the International So
cialist congresses al Nancy
General and at Stuttgart. Great impor
rn+or.s+ tance is attached to the dec
larations of Juares and Herve
on the one hand. and to those of Bebel
and Vollmar on the other. The interest
that Europeans and Americans have in
these congresses. which affect to hold God
and country in contempt. relates to the
present and prospective violence and dis
order engendered.
The London Times in it's issue of the 3Oth
ultimo, referring to the meeting at Stuff
CART. saws:
The object of this congress and the
methods are'much the same as its fathers
in 1871 and Its grandfathers in 1s4S. No
good purpose Is served by trying to con-
eeal the fact that the infection OF these
ideas has spread to our own country. as
some recent elections show all too plainly.
Are the sensible men of either great po-
litlcal party doing anything to counteract
it,"
Proudhoun. the celebrated socialist. cele-
DRAFTED as the author of the insane declara-
ton that property is robbery" and of the
sane principle. on the other hand. of the
Cancellation of the proletarat. the capitalist
and the salaried when brought before a
Justice of the peace was asked by the JUS
tice, What do you mean by socialism 2
Proudhoun replied: 1T is every aspira-
ton toward the amelioratton of society,"
Then reioined the Justice. I'VE are all
socialists
Socialism in France which formerly was
not the appanage of any particular party,
but the progressive object of all parties,
has been allowed to drift and finally be-
come the special protege of Juares, Vail
liant and Herve.
The international socialist congress at
Nancy may be cited as evidence of the
called socialists. those who. under the
mask of socialism. are simply anarchists
of the most dangerous type.
Citizen Renaude1 is member of the
executive commission of the socialist
party. He Is. therefore. an
Renaudel's authority. and has COM
n municated to the Matin the
present situation Of social
ism toward radicalism since the congress
at Nancy. Citizen Renaudel declares that
socialists in France propose henceforth
to oppose all bourgeois parties Of what
ever shade and color, and among these
the radical republicans. The Temps In
citing the action Of Citizen Renaudel
says: 1T Is well to recognize in effect
that the congress of Nancy has neglected
nothing to render the divorce inevitable.
and the Justice should be rendered the
congressists that If their attitude has
been scandalous it has at least had the
merit of being clear"
The adhesion of the Nancy socialists to
the anarchistic program Of Herve. Juares
and valiant is an event of vast I'M
portance In France and elsewhere be-
cause 1t marks the parting of the ways,
the final separation of government from
the mad methods of what is now termed
"Herveism." NJ. Lanessau has already
proposed rapprochement and unifica-
ton Of the radicals and progressives as a
permanent opposition to the socialism Of
Herve and Juares.
If the scandal at Nancy was not sufficient
to have divorced socialism from the re-
spectacle wing Of the party, the ridicule
at Stuttgart has summary accomplished
that fact. The Temps declares, indeed:
NO one for an instant may pretend that
radicals can continue to fraternze with
the party OF antipatriotiSm and the direct
action. Today the socialist party has re-
vealed its real nature in such manner
that 1t can no longer make dupes Of any
one"
The London Times is little logical in its
cialist congresses are much the same as
formerly" but 1t does not seem to bear in
mind that internationalsm Is new ele-
ment. internationalism being another term
for antipatrtotiSm and antimilitarism. For
mer congresses were almost entirely de-
voted to the discussion Of the rights Of
MANTLE rights Of the working man and
the amelioration of his class. Present con-
crosses have said little or nothing of these
questions. but have had their eyes on the
political machine and the ways and means
to run it. The peril, for there is peril in
the so-called socialism of Herve, lies in the
fact that behind this party, especially in
France. is the "Confederation Generate du
Travail termed in brief the c. G. T. So
cialists and confederation alike are COM
pletely under the whiplash of their ac-
knowledged masters - Herye, Valiant
and Juares.
In the congress at Nancy Valiant pro-
claimed that the confederation had become
the essential element of the