Evening star., 1909-04-26
D|SQU|ET IN FRANCE
syndicaIism Still the Topic
Kept Uppermost.
DEPENDING ON THE ARMY
Government Feeling Secure Against
Revolutionary Outbreak.
SECULAR EDUCATION VIEWS
Newspaper Controversy Aroused by
Chance Remark Of a Syndicalist.
Speaker-Germany's Attitude.
DEPENDING ON THE ARMY
SECULAR EDUCATION VIEWS
Special cablegram to The Star.

| Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, April 28.-Syndicalism continues
| to monopolize the attention of public
| opinion and the press, though 1t is not
expected that there will be any serious
| manifestations before May /. Moreover.
| the Partisan is skeptical about Labor day.
for his alarms have SO often proved to
be unfounded that he is disposed to re-
| gard the festival Of the pro'etariat as a
second edition of April Fools day.
1t is argued that SO long as the govern
| ment can depend on the army the mis-
chief Of which revolutionary syndicalism
is capable is limited and this, indeed. is
admitted by the revolutionary leaders.
who make a special feature OF anti
| militarist propaganda among the con-
scripts. A Movable Soldat Hernard,"
by NJ. Paul Acker-which has just been
published. deals with the question Of
younger solder under the influence Of
discipline, and still more under the tact
full guidance of one of his officers, is
gradually converted from anti-militarism
NJ Acker dwels on the self-sacrificing
devotion that the nation requires from
Its officers. who have but little chance OF
distinguishing themselves In action un-
less 1t be in strike riot against their
own countrymen and who at the mercy
Of the politician live out a weary life in
poisonous propaganda of haf-educated
revolutionaries.
At the same time disquieting parallel
is drawn between tho present situation
and the events whicE preceded the riots
in the south consequent on the wine
crisis. Then 1t was freely prophesied that
everything would end in "a burst Of
laughter" but the government let things
&nv tnA>
prevent serious disorder and bloodshed.
German Attitude Irritates.
The necessity OF a cool Consideration Of
the question has been brought home to
the Frenchman by the attitude Of the
German press. which suggests that France
is on the verge OF anarchy and revolution
The Radical suggests that Germany
might be more indulgent to the difficulties
Of France, since the French press main
tanned an attitude OF discreet reserve in
the crisis through which Germany has
recently passed. AS Partisan Journalist
remarks: I'm Paris as soon as the cry Of
All is lost is raised everything ends hap
ply
A remark Of one Of the speakers at the
syndicalist meeting has started a contro-
versy that is not without interest. NJ.
Negle, q dismissed school teacher, de-
clared that revolutionary education should
Temps published a series of extracts from
the pastoral letters of various bishops
dealing with the question of secular edu-
cation. The most moderate dWelt on the
necessity of fathers of families insisting
on the strict observance Of neutral atti-
tude toward religion on the part of teach
ers, while others even suggested that
fathers of families should form syndicates
the education proposed by the state. "A
strike is admitted in industry in the case
of 1agrant abuses" says the Bishop of
Autun. why should pacific strike not
aaz u e. when all that you hold
remarked that If the proposal of NJ.
Documergue is carried, fathers and moth
ers should take to themselves Mirabeau's
declaration: IF this law is voted, I swear
not to obey it,
Summons to "Revolt."
The anti-clerical Lanterne finds in these
declarations an excuse for leaving the
question OF the threats Of anti-republic
syndicalism aside which several days ago
1t qualified as bluff. though the day before
1t had declared that the republic was
sacrificed and Knocked by the meeting at
the Hippodrome. Today 1t characterizes
the quotations published in the Temps as
summons to revolt, and calls on the
government to prosecute the authors of
SuCn 6uOVeESlVe proposals. tulS general
movement Of revolt organized by the
opiscopate seems to u.s. it says, Tar
more dangerous to the republic than the
violence OF few revolutionary syndical-
lists"
Apparently. says the Temps. the Lam
terne suspects NJ. Pataud Of being a dis
guised papal legate and the General Con-
federation of Labor a secret branch of
the Jesuits, so that an anti-clerical cam
paign is all that Is needed to ensure
peace and order.
The Rappel also chooses the present
moment to suggest that the radical-social-
list majority must seek its support on the
left and regard the progressists and mod
crates as an enemy rather than "a red
specter." In this connection it Is inter-
esting to quote from M. Duinont In the
radical-socialist Action, which cannot be
suspected of moderate tendencies: Two
days of anarchy in Paris would mean
twenty years Of dictatorship for France"