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


Anarchists in France indeed are the mas
ters of all syndical movements in that coun-
try. and for this condition
French of affairs the present gov
eminent is almost entirely
responsible. 1t has been a
favorite boast of the socialistic- anarchst!c
element in France that the morals of the
army had been so Slapped and mined that
whenever 1t was ordered to fight il would
throw down fits arms-after shooting Its Of
ficers.
The conflict in Morocco cannot be said
to arouse in any great degree the patriot
ism or military ardor of the French citi-
zen or soldier, and yet France viii be
omit IL sc"sSary in that ~Gr. whist the
French soldier has already gwen evidence
Al Casa Blanca of his perfect discipline
anu his vast capacity as 3oid!cl. Here
is a sample of the messages the general
councils of the department aIr Sc riding to
the COVER ament at Paris st the moment
as an evidence of its patri'tism ana SYM
pathy:
The general council of the department Of
The Isere, Te,,uGI,ting all IDEA of :! war OF
aggression ma which WOW d not be one
of legitimate defense, and reprovlng with
Indignation the abominable Hervelst doc
trines, accepted by French congress at
Nancy concerning a general strike and in
surrection in the face of enemy, sends
to Frenchmen. defenders of the lives and
rights of our nationals at Casa Blanca, the
testimony Of their admiration and their
patriotic sympathies.
Herve repeated at Stuttgart some OF the
nonsense uttered at Nancy. Never would
he give drop of his blood to defend ms
country etc. He boosted that the French
government could no longer trust its army
1due to Nerves teachings). The Germans
might desire to take advantage of this evil
oence of devotion to genuine socialist prln,
cple They might quarrel with france ano
refuse the arbitration which France would
offer them What in these circumstances
would the German socialists DO he Jeefeu
at the German socialists. They were an
admirable and welI-lubricated voting ma
chine. without a spark Of the true revolu-
tionary fire. Socialists had no r1ght 10
endanger the cause of this lnternationai
war by joining the bourgeois in the defense
of the country to which these particular
socialists happen to belong. When the
bourgeois are fighting each other, the work
ers should shoot them in the back
Herr Bebel replied that Herveism was be-
ing closely watched In German military
circles and that it was
Renlies to danger to peace. You have
not the merit" he added. ''of
nerve. having discovered something
new. These are the theories of Domela
Niewenhuys you have taken up, and which
were defended with talent by him"
Herr Won Vollmar, the Bavarian socialist
leader an old officer of the army, replying
to Herve, said: "A man may be an inter-
nationalist without being an anti-national-
ist." and he added. amid ringing cheers:
THE love of humanity would never prevent
his party from being good Germans.
volmar proposed the exclusion Of Herve
from the socialist party. We took Herye
as serious" said Vollmar, because he was
presented to US by the French socialist
party
The point OF the congress at Stuttgart
was Quelch. Quelch was a British dele
gate. and attracted attention by denounc-
ing the diplomats Of The Hague peace con-
gress as thieves and murderers." The
Wurte mberg government. informed Of the
language. Immediately advised the pres
ident Of the congress that Quelch must
withdraw the language or Disqualified:
that is, leave Wurtemberg territory. Quelch
refused. Thieves supper was a common
expression among British socialists to de-
scribe a meeting of representatives of cap
italistic interests. No, he would not with
draw the expression. He was thereupon
ing morning Ghe Path instanb he was
found in Stuttgart he would oe forcfbly ex-
PEELED. Quelch left at $50 the next morn
ing. 1t was the time Of his life. The gov
to go. He would go in advance!
The congress at Stuttgart has proved
great deception to the Herve-Vaillant-
Juarez combination. and may break the
back Of the socialist party and strengthen
effectually the hands of the radical pro-
gressists. At any rate, from the very rid
icule 1t encountered in the congress at
Stuttgart useful lesson will have been
given to socialism in France and elsewhere.
X
Moreover socialism-the incendiary social
ism Of Herve-has lived its life. For those
who will always seek the
Soclai1sm amelloration of society we
Universal. are like the good judge al
ready cited, all socialists.
The organization of socialism or the doc
trine of liberty and equality does not date
from the nineteenth century, nor even from
the French revolution, which Is usually as
scribed as the creator of Il new regime un-
der the declaration of the rights of man
and the Citizen but which. in fact. was
the elimination of long series of attempts
at disenthrallment precipitated by such IL
lustrious writers as Montesquieu, Voltaire
Able Raynal and Baron Turgot, of whom
love the people" by Condorcet. who be-
lieved humanity capable of unlimited de-
velopment, but who. being conventional.
poisoned himself to escape the scaffold
he VI tHe Hlluule ages nave been
ascribed by Kropotkine rather as the
structure of this social conception which
has produced both good and bad results
M. Maurice Ajam is the author in La
Grande Revue of an article entitled The
Failure Of Socialism,
The author is without doubt a cynic
for he says: Mature is an arstocrat From
the top Of the ladder to the bottom there
are inequalities. Everywhere the strong
prey upon the weak and those best fit that
is, those who are the privileged alone are
admitted to the banquet of life"
SOCIALISM," says the author after hav-
ing protited by an extraordinary good for
tune, appears now. even to the government
which has namely given 1t life, peril. 1t
perceiveS more and more that the ideal
presented to the people is only a subjective
phantasy: The theory is seductive, the
practice is lamentable."
After the failure of socialism comes the
failure of socialists. Experience has shown
that almost every socialist who becomes a
statesman or functionary ceases to be a
socialist, and he cites Millerand Vtviani
BRAND and others as examples. But for
fact this disposition is not exclusively con-
fined to socialists.
The author of 1.-The Failure of Socialism"
concludes by citing the opinion of Herbert
Spencer, who, after a life of observation
and research, wrote in 1895 the following
significant sentence: The advent of social
ism will be the greatest disaster that has
ever happened to the world the end will
be military despotism.''