Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23
FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY TENDENCY

There is certain analogy in the pres
ent conflict in the republican parties OF
France and America The
International revolutionsts in France
Similarity. . under the suise e., of the the
eraI Labor Confederation. the Ma
tional Railwaymens Union and
other unions. all under the leadership OF
Herve and Jaures. have held France until
now in a grip of vertable tyranny.
A cablegram OF the 18th instant from
Paris announced the end of the revolu-
tion-the Railwaymen's Union had called
of the strike and had confessed its fail
ure. The conflict i'm the republican party
in America continues. 1t is a complex
matter arrayed under the euphemism of
new nationalism. a matter. like that in
France. Of specious pretexts and personal
interests.
In France the man was found at the
right moment to deal with revolution
with GOODNESS. courage and patriotism.
NJ. BRAND. the president OF the council OF
ministers. has taken the so-called strikers
in hand and treated them as revolution
lists. in revolt against all law and order
which government was in duty bound TO
maintain.
On the 10Th instant. when Herve, Pa
taud. Jaures and company had organized
a gigantic movement to paralyze the rail-
way and industrial interests of the coun-
try. and 1t was an accomplished fact, II
looked as II anarchy had triumphed. and
republicanism had merged into complete
anarchy and the horrors of another com
mune
M. BRAND. notwithstanding his past
association with the Herve company
1t should be borne in mind. is not a
recent convert to his pacification
policy. but abandoned that association
early in his administration. In the
chamber of deputies. on the 18th instant.
he boldly declared - that 1.-The present
movement is not strike. bit a revolu-
ton" The premier reminded the cham
Der that these worknen WHO were he
ing used as marionettes were at the
| same time reservists. He. therefore. bv
virtue Of section Of the law provided
in such case. would issue a decree
mobilizing these sokier-strikers. II
mobilization was resisted. the men and
leaders wonId he considered as in q
state of sedition and insurrection. and
would incur the nenaltieS. NJ. BRAND
declared that 1.-The instruction was
founded unon purelv criminal basis
1t had been called. indeed. by its lead
ers while negotiations were going on
through himself and NJ Millerand. the
minister OF pnblic works. for an ad-
iustment of grievances. and he promised
that the instigators of the strike should
be punished.
This announcement was followed by
the prompt arrest of five of the prin-
cipal malefactors. amone
Vigorous whom. it appears. is
the redoubtable Gustave
measures. Herve. editor of the
Guerre Sociale. who occupies in France
very much the same situation with re-
gard to anarchy and anarchists as that
once held by the almost forgotten Herr
Most in America.
The army, which the revolutionists
boosted had been gained over to tneir
cause. was loyal and firm. and their at
titude was sufficient refutation of the
calumnious insinuation that it would
make common cause with the anti-milf-
tariStS. The vigorous and prompt ac-
ton of the French premier, in fact.
gained complete victory over an out
break which has been crushed.
Just what part the congress of the
radical and radical socialist party played
in the conflict which met at Rouen from
the 9th to the 9th instant has not yet
transpired. The executive committee ad-
dressed an appeal to its adherents in ad-
vance in which it affirmed that the party
in the late elections. The committee pro-
posed the discussion of the following SUBJ
jects: First. defense of the lay school. the
monopoly of primary instruction, the law
Fallouse. and technical and professional
instruction.; second, electoral reform and
administrative reform; third. relationship
between patrons, workmen and employees.
labor contests. participation in the profits:
extension of syndicate capacity and
the regulation of conflicts.
IN 'ro in MI cnU n a G
well as the public have been much eX-
ercised these last months over the eX-
traordinary augmentation in the cost of
living. The French government being
more paternal than that at Washington,
the French premier had received numer-
Gus parliamentary delegations and spe-
ciaI syndicates which wished to learn
what, remedy he proposed to apply for
an af1iction generally assumed to be the
result of speculation. NJ. BRAND sug-
gested in September that it was neces-
sary to wait the end of the harvests.
when the situation would be examined
and if necessary the duty on foreign
wheat could be temporarily suppressed.
1t is a part of the history Of the
present crisis in France to cite what
was said at the session of the Con-
sells Generaux" in August. The presi-
dent of the general council of the Puy-
de-Dome. in discussing adversely the
pacification policy of NJ. BRAND, which
has arrayed against him the hostility
of the united radical socialists, said:
Since the coming to power of the
present ministry a new direction has
been given to our policy,
Ministry a direction which per-
oA::, mits the reactionaries of
VIlIiCiseu' all colors to hide under
the name and language Of the chief of
government Why that equivocation?
We cannot live in that uncertainty. If
the president of the council leans to
the right he will not find my friends
or myself fighting for him, but against
him."
At Charlons- SURNAME NJ. Vale, former
minister attacked the policy of pacitica-
ton NJ Leon Bourgeois also attacked
proportional representation and appraise-
ment or pacification policies of NJ
BRAND. and declared that ''pacif1cation
was an empty formula. We have never
been aggressors.'
: OF course NJ. Bourgeois is speaking to
electors especially. He knows, as we do.
that the party whose favor he courts
is nothing if not aggressive, and while
he was speaking was attempting TO de-
stroy the state NJ. Bourgeois would
doubtless save the state rather than have
NJ Rriand do so. \ remedy for this
weakness for office would be an implaca-
l,la lau nernitting man to hold Office