Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-08
SOCIALISM IN FRANCE
FAIRS DISTURBED OVER GROWTH
OF DOCTRINE-FoxH HUNTING.
Special Cablegram to Tie Star


IN the city of Paris, the throwing out of
work of hundreds of thousands of people.
the throwing of this city of light into utter
darkness has called attention to the under
lying causes in connection with the political
and socialistic agitations which have been
gong on and which may, naturally be said
10 be causing considerable anxiety For
years past there has been a steadily rising
tlde of socialism in France Bit by bit the
doctrines of Karl Marx have invaded the
body polite.
Little by little the socialistc party has IN
creased In power in the chamber of deuu-
ties When NJ. Waldeck- Rousseau took NJ
Mlllerand into his cabinet socialism en-
tered the breach. For NJ. Mierand was
NOT mere follower of the socialistic doc
trlnesN He was one of the apostles His
Famous speech al the socialist BANQUET at
st. Mande, in which he defied colectiv-
lsm,' Its aims and its methods of action he
came the magma charta of the party With
him in the Waldeck- Rousseau cabinet was
also NJ. Pierre Baudn, also socialist hut
a man of much smaller caliber In fact, he
owed his position in the political world
chiefly to the fact that he was nephew
or the deputy Baudin killed on the barri-
cades while opposing the coup detat of
Napoleon III, on December =, 1852 HIS
FAMOUS phrase as he was carried dying into
a nelgnboring wine shop was a reference
to the daily salaries of the French deputies,
salary which often exposed them to the
pleasantries of their fellow countrynen as
! being mere professional politicians in the
business forIw it brings in
But the Waldeck Rousseau cabinet was
Of the Drevfns affar, u" to t ~ AMI s1res 1
Millerand it also contained Gen. de
Gallfot, the ruthless suppressor of the
commune and the bette noire of the social
lists. 1t might therefore be regarded an
accident But since then the movement
arlf avf Loft hoe
In the Clemmenceau cabinet have been
1ound once again Two soclallsts, NJ. Vlviani,
minister of labor, and NJ. BRAND. minister
OF public education. 1t is claimed by the
enemies OF socialism that these recognitions
ON the part OF the powers that be- of
France have been accompan ed by re-
crudescence of the revolutionary spirit; 1t
has encouraged the more militant followers
OF the soclahsl leaders IN the oellet that
without any great efforts they can sweep
away the bourgeoisie and establish their
dream, the socialist republic.
The various syndicates which in France
are political-and organizations
have developed great activity, and have be-
come more and more aggressive. Strike
and labor movements were decreed by The
central committee when is purely political,
under the mask of labor organizations, and
the question is being everywhere asked as
a result of the excitement growing out of
the strike of the electricians as TO where
1t will all end.
Dovle's Clever Cut.
since Slr conan Do9ie hiaoe brisauer
Gerard cut fox in two with his sword
when he went out with the hounds French
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mn nc .,',.,,1 ~. r.,
'hey hno" iioliiiis aoou' loA huh'ihs' Ac-
cordngly, such hunt as Englishmen have
never even dreamed of has Leen aIran ed at
of dra wing coyerts the foxes have already
been caught IN the AfuenneS, ana are now