The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-02
WARNING TO
 SOCIALISTS French GovernmentDea
 Firmly. NO ToLERAIIoN OF RADICALS Leaders Ambitious to Overthrow
 the System. Teicphone Girls strike Blow at Rights of Women by Appealing For Male Leaders of Their or
 ganization.
nv A. W. L,ARMoURoUx.

BY A. W. EARMoUROUX.
 Paris. Sept. 1.--The sudden out break and the equally sudden sup pression of the Revolutionary oociai ists in Paris furnish useful warning and lesson to people everywhere.
 For d long time past the advanced sactions of the French Socialists party have openly advocated violent revoiu- tlon as means of attaining their desires. The usual phrase by wnich they express those desire is The SO cial Revolution" but 1t Is not qulte certain that they understand what they mean. and very few members or the rest of the community would care to guess at an interpretation.
 Tha phrase vaguely expresses hone that in some mysterious way the lot of the working classes may be rendered inde initely better than It now ls while the capitalist, who is regarded as the enemy of mankind, may be removed from the face of the earth. The accomplishment of such program certainly would require vio- fence and the French Socialists are so far right In their, analysis of the situation. Where they are wrong IS in assuming that they can command the violence necessary to overturn the existing social order. and that even if they could commana 1t. they could accomplish improvement of the lot of the manual worker.
 stoned the Troops.
 For a moment the most interesting fact Is the complete failure of the Rev oiutIonary Socialists in Paris to com mand the physical force which they rightly declare to be essential to the oarryng out of their program. They began fairly well. according to revo- lutionary standards of success. At the little town of Villeneuve Saint Georges, ten miles from Paris, they spent a few days in stoning the troops who had been sent to maintain order. It i says much for the discipline of the French army that these young soldiers sat their horses without retaliating while they were being pelted with | paving stones. Finally the order to | fire was given. and three of the strik- CTS were killed and fifteen wounded. The strikers themselves appear to I have been provided with firearms, for l bullet-marks were found on the cuir- asses of the cavalry. How far the trouble might have extended under a weak government 1t is impossible to | say. Happily N. Clemenceau, although l an advanced Radical. has no sympathy l whtever with Revolutionary Socilisn. | He gave prompt orders to suppress the | revolt, and NJ. Lepine the prefect of | police. himself took the best of all | olCRS pS AAAEAtAA8 sa0 ASNAoh" @s | their headquarters. This prompt &C., l ton settled the question.
 The General Confederation of Labor I made. fi1deed, show of further resist | ence, and elected new leadrs to r. | place those who had been arrested. but l 1t soon became clear that the power of this tyrannical organization had | vanished.
 l As response to the action of the | government of assassins"-which Is | the way In which the French Revolu- | tionary Socialists speak of those wh1 l resist force by force-a universal
 strike was decreed. The only effect | of the decree was to call out a few | newspaper competitors. Including
 many of those employed upon the So-
 cialist Press The more important
 Parisian newspapers did not suffei | much inconvenience. In all other al.
 rectlons the universal strike was q
 universal failure. The trade-Unioni
 refused to obey the organization which
 had so long been protesting to act
 in their name.
 This Socialist organization. lik.
 many organizations in other countries
 represents not the considered Judg
 ment of the mass of the people whs
 nominally elect 1t, but the ardent am
 btion of a small energetic minority.
 Women Want Men Lenders.
 What is to become of wonaan's rights
 if the ladies Themselves clamor for a
 king? ParisIan telephone girls are
 ruled by women; but they chafe un-
 der feminine authority, and want to
 be governed by man. Their recent
 petitions to the Posts Department is
 the worst blow yet dealt at feminine
 Independence. The most hardened man
 would have shrunk from striking it.
 All the day personnel of the Paris
 telephone service is feminine Men come on duty at night generally, and.
 by the way. 1t is only fair to the ladiei
 to say that the service by night is just as bad as by day The telephone girls are directed by telephone matrons called inspectresses. and 1t Is against these that they now rebel.
 Their petition to the Posts Depart ment Is both eaustic and blunt. The
 tyranny of women Is to them intoler.
 able, and they yearn to submit to the