Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-16
NEW ERA.
Change in Government of
France Is Looked For.
REPUBLIC SEEMS DOOMED
Price of Beef Has Gone Up 1885 Per
Cent Since 1902.
MAY RESTRICT MONUMENTS
Number Too Great-Three Young
Men Commit Wanton Murder
in Street.
REPUBLIC SEEMS DOOMED
MAY RESTRICT MONUMENTS

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS. July 15.-The more closely one
studies the signs of the times the more
firmly convinced one becomes that France
is on the eve Of a new era. The writer
prophesies that before long France will
have ceased to be republic. The people
all over France are thoroughly disguised
with the muddle the various republican
governments. following one another in
rapid succession. have made Of the coun-
try's affairs.
We are cursed with a greater amount of
official red tape than any other country
in the world, Russia not even excepted.
The authorities are unable to command
the respect of the people, and one COM
munity after the other practically revolts
against the government, The laws of the
republic are no longer respected. Young
men by the thousand refuse to serve in
the army. and are not punished for their
disobedience, and during the last few
months fashion has grown up among
discontinued communities to organize
strikes. with a view to paralyZing the ma
chinery of administrative government.
The wine growers IN the Aube refused
to carry on local government and dared
the tax collector to appear In their midst
The Inhabitants of Cietat near Marseille,
have taken leaf out of the book of the
Aubois. The men employed by the Mes
sageries Maritime came out on strike
The shopkeepers closed their establish
ments In sympathy with them, and joined
them in procession through the streets.
Three thousand people marched through
the little town. At given signal all the
demand papers distributed by the tax
collectors during the last few days were
collected. placed in heap and burnt
This was the strikers way of showing
their defiance OF all constituted authority.
Not content with burning the tax papers
they conceived the idea of stopping all
railroad traffic. The strikers. with their
wives and children, bivouacked on the
railroad, their idea being to prevent a
sary, tactful man, finally prevailed on
the strikers to allow the train to move.
While making this concession. the strikers
do not intend to give up the struggle.
They mean to fight to the last ditch.
Anarchy May Follow.
If things of this kind are allowed to go
on unpublished nothing in the world can
save France from the horrors of abso-
lutte anarchy. and as the republican au-
thorities have lost their nerve and grip
the way seems open for Prince Victor
Napoleon. who. though he may have
cestOr, at least Is a man who is gen.
orally respected.
1t Is known that Princess Clementine,
or Princess Napoleon, as she Is now, is
engaged in active propagation of her
husbands interests. and that she Is re-
ceiving great encouragement from a
number of very influential republicans.
1t is limited that NJ. BRAND and his po-
litical friends are favoring a movement
that will place I'm homme de valeur at
hoo Of ho
d'etat of peaceful kind. the writer has
reason to believe, is in contemplation.
but what form it will take it is at pres
ent impossible to guess.
The continuous rise in the price of
meat has opened the eyes Of Parisians to
the inevitable consequences Of the pro-
tectionist regime. Since the coming into
force Of the tariff law of 1902 the price
of beef In Paris has increased 1875 per
cent, that of veal 40 per cent, and that
of mutton Al per cent. These figures
were given at great meeting held the
other day by the Paris retail butchers.
Protection Is Blamed.
The president of the butchers syndi-
cate, NJ. Lefevre, declared that the prin-
cipal cause of the rise In prices is
protectionist legislation. In the first place
exorbitant tariffs have been set up on
imported cattle and meat. and. as though
this were not enough, number Of re-
strictions have been placed on the i'm
portation Of cattle. ostensibly for SAM
tary reasons, but really with view to
insuring to the home breeders the mo-
nopoly of the French meat market.
These measures" said M. Lefevre,
were voted in 1902. and their aim was
against foreign competition. The result.
however, had been that our focks and
herds. instead of increasing. have, dur
ing the last few years. decreased. 1t is,
therefore. necessary to aorosate the pro
tectionist tariffs, which do not enrich the
state. The meat trade Is being ruined,
and the working classes in the towns
have to go without an essential article
Of food
posed by the tariff Of 1902 amount to
about one-third of the value in the case
Of live stock. The duty on meat amounts
to 5 cents a pound. When the carriage
and octroi duty are added to this beef
or mutton imported from abroad pays
roximately 8 cents per pound. pro-
hibitiye sum- 1t Is not surprising that
the meeting passed resolution In favor
Of the abrogation of the ultra-protectton-
list tariff established In l9O2, and OF the
total exemption from duty OF live stock
imported from French colonies.
Too Many Monuments.
So many monuments have been erected
in Paris during the last few years that
the authorities now consider the time
has arrived to impose restrictions. In
stead of raising so many statues 1t is
contended that space would be saved II
commemorative bas-reliefs were placed
beside the names of boulevards and
streets 1t has also been suggested that.
in the interests of true art, the munlclpai
council should not give its consent for
a monument to be erected until the
model has been passed by technical
committee.
BY way of avoiding premature glorin-
cation a municipal councillor proposes
that no monument should be raised until
the person whose memory 1t Is designed
to perpetuate has been dead ten years.
The famous Partisan Apaches are astir
again. Three young men. who spent the
night In carousing and picking quarreis
in dozen different establishments.
wound I'D their revel by numbering
man in the street for the pleasure OF the
thing.
The young men, each Of whom is about
twenty years Of age, proceeded from one
barroom to another. In each case tney
made it a point to pick quarrel with the
other persons in the place. FOR some
time their fun was limited to taking up
glasses and hurting them over the coun-
fer or flinging bottles at the heads OF the
customers Once or twice they had hand
to-hand fights with persons whom they