Evening star., 1909-05-23

May day. which was to be a crisis In
the fortunes of socialism in France. has
come and gone. and al
Unrest though the hands Of the
maIcontents-the fedora
tions, the general labor, the
posts and telegraphs and the government
functionaries-were successfully held up
by the government there remains
manifest feeling of unrest in France
The danger point has not been passed.
has not been reached. A cable. dated
Paris. May 49, may be cited as an indica-
ton of unrest. 1t says: Two reunions
are being held under the auspices OF the
Union of Syndicates, in which revolution
airy speeches were made, and in which 1t
was declared that the 1893 of laborins
men was near"
Nj. Pataud, surnamed king Pataud"
by reason Of his authority. extolled the
attempt to overthrow the parliamentary
regime. He declared he would issue call
for general strike when ii was least ex-
pected by the government. An appeal in
this sense to the different federations was
placarded through Paris, May 10.
Another cable dated Paris. May 16, de-
clares that the French parliamentary
regime is being submitted to rude test
M. Clemenceau had made the issue tnat
the chamber should choose between order
and revolution. and the chamber rallied
to the side of order by a large majority
While the strike of the postmen has
had the effect of obliging the divers groups
of the radical majority to take side with
the president of the council, 1t is manifest
that they have been forced to do so in the
presence of the revolt against parliament
and against the republic. In the opposl-
ton and as future leaders of the mai
coptents will be found such names as
To, DnrfAo all
The tragi-comic scene which happened
in the chamber OF deputies last week may
be compared to that which took place IN
the same edifice May 10. 1S49, when the
revolutionary agitator Aloysius, the secret
agent of the reactionaries. ascended the
tribune and proclaimed the fall OF the
national assembly.
The royalists are busy profiting by the
actual situation in order to regain pow
err At the recent relig-
|Rovalists ious fetes organized at
Paris in honor of the
ActlVe. beatihcation Of Jeanne
dare the royalists acclaimed the name
Of the Due d'OrleaLs by cries of "Vlve
Ie roi' and "A bas la republique."
The royalists endeavor to persuade the
people that the best means of putting an
end to the present regime Of discomfort
and disorder is to re-establish the mon
archy and proclaim Philippe VII King of
France. Reunions are being held at
Paris Versailles, Nantes and Lyons. At
the last place grand popular banquet
was held under the control OF NM. Roger
Lambelin, Count E. de Lur-Saluces, A.
DesperamoHs. Flachaire de Roustan, etc.
M. Lambelin in his speech of inaugura-
tion defined his idea OF what the mon
0rchv would he
The monarchy, he said, would be
strong. 1t IS necessary that the govern
ment of France should be strong to
maintain her prestige and authority, and
confer. 1t is necessary to have power
full army and a navy of which the king
would be the supreme chief.
The monarchy would be decentralized
because the monarchy would reform the
abuses Of functionarism. "Decentraliza-
tion," said the Count de Chambord In
1862, lis indispensable In order to place
upon a solid foundation the representative
regime, the just object of the nation
wishes"
The monarchy would be the protectress
of public liberties and national interests.
Strong because decentralized, the mon
archy would defend liberty, vague name,
sometimes a shallow idea.. equivocal and
THAT all political programs are attractive
in appearance, but their application is not
always easy THE best government, is it
not always that of the morrow cried
M. Lambelin, who added, what disen-
chanted republican had said, 1t was thus
the republic appeared to US under the en-
pfre.' I;
/. A cable dated Paris, May II. announced
that NJ. Pugliesi-Conti, nationalist intro
duced in the chamber a
Parliament resolution demanding that
NJ. Falieres dissolve par
'oeAeu' lament because. of its ut
ter impotence to deal with the situation.
NJ. Pugliesi Cont accused the majority of
throwing discredit upon parliament by
neglecting entirely the interests of the
country, etc. M Baudry d'Osson, royal
list, exclaimed: lit would be better to dis
solve the republic"
M. de Pressense. socialist, declared that
he approved what NJ. Pugliesi-Conti had
jority in parliament had completely
failed. He explained. however, subse-
quently, that the socialists refused to
join the reactionaries.
NJ. Clemenceau. replying to NJ. Pugliesi-
Cont, said that there was more liberty
than ever In France today, and that the
only liberty that was not tolerated was
the liberty of violence"
M. Clemenceau, defending his policy
with his usual energy and independence
challenged the chamber by submitting the
question of confidence, which obtained a
vote of 379 against SO.
NJ. Clemenceau has been and is still
fiercely assailed for his temporization
with the assaults Of socialism upon the
state. Doubtless there is some truth in
these accusations. But 1t is no time to
change horses while crossing a stream
Besides 1t Is not by what NJ. ClemencAu
was. but by what he is, that the president
of the council is to be measured. If the
republic of France is to be saved NJ
Clemenceau Is the one man only who
may save it.
the council of ministers in this emergency
such men as Jaures. or Herve. or Pelle-
tan, not to name others. France would
ere this be in the midst of bloody revo-
luton as a satisfaction to the f1endish
spirit of collectivism and anarchy which
these latter represent
A cable. dated Paris. Llay Is, mentions
the iridium in honor of the beatifica-
tion of Jeanne dare,
Jeanne D'Arc's which terminated that
day by imposing religious
Beatification. services at Notre Dame
The Parisians generally. and principally
those of the left bank of the city. re-
spending to the invitation of the Patriotic
League and the committee Jeanne dare
decorated their houses profuseiy. A ban
uuet of 800 plates was given the: evening
of the 10th by the Paris royalist commit