The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23
ATTEMP1 MADE
TO WRECK TRAINS
Unless Serious Steps Are Taken
Many Will Cease to Use
Railroads.
ARTICLES AGAINST ARM
Fall of Ministry Followed by
Another of Same Com
plexion.
BY GEORGE DUFREsNE.
[ Especial Cable 10 The Times Dispatch

Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch.1
Paris. July 22.-There Is no qucs-
! tion OF the attempt being made to
undermine all established authority.
All over the country. soldiers are re-
ceiving circulars invoking them TO
acts OF indisciplinc. So, serious Is the
information which NJ. Jean Cruppi. the
Minister OF Justice has received. that
the government has at last decided
to open an inquiry on this subject. as
well as Oh the acts of sabotage COM
nitted almost daily.
1t is singular thing that of all tho
acts OF sabotage committed on the
railroads during the last few weeks
the authorities have not been able TO
arrest any Of the criminals. This sys-
tenn OF wreck!ng has reached such a
stage that unless serious steps are
taken many people will cease TO use
the railroads. The recent attempt
made to derail the Havre express.
shows to what length these wreckers
viii go.
Tho sabo,eurs are apparently
Ubiquitous. For the fourth time with
in the last three months seventy-seven
telegraph wires have been cut near
Hres,. Obviously. the criminals are
men familiar with the business. They
are perfectly organized. and receive
instructions from some central body.
In their revenge on the railroad COM
panies they do no; hesitate 10 sacri-
fee the lives OF people with whom they
have no quarrel.
In the attempt made TO wreck the
express train. the railroad authorities
are following up a clue which II is
hoped. viii result in the arrest of the
would-be wrcckers II they are
caught they VIII be snartly dealt
with Meanwhile jhe anti mil!tar!st
chief-M. Gustave Harve--is the oh
jcct OF another charge. This man with
curious metal twist IS spending his
time IN prison by writing for his
paper, Guerre Sociaie violent articles
articles have brought him within the
law. 1t looks as II this martyr in
the cause OF anarchy Is in for a fur
Their term OF imprisonment But what
Is the use OF putting him In Jail.
Clearly Imprisonment .GoeR not pre-
vent him from carrying on his mis-
chievous propa ganda
The fan nf a ministry, when il ia
followed BY another OF the same com
p!eNion and of the same policy. has
no very great import What France
wants Is good and strong govern
ment. That is not attained by form
ing cabinet composed OF men re-
sponsible in a considerable measure
FOR the national deadlock OF the last
ten years For example. NJ. Messerlns.
q Radical Socialist fanatic. as Min
lister or War. Is scarcely calculated To
stimulate the enthusiasm OF French
oHicers. who were beginning 10 think
that a better time was in store for
them with General Goiran AS for tho
Foreign Department no doubt NJ.
cruppi was not an ideal person TO full
the shoes OF Rlcholieu but he did
his best. and was really in the way
81 becoming an excellent foreign MN
lister apart from the good work he
mas done during the past three months
IN using the broom al the ouai dor
say But VI de Selves seems 10 have
been given the post OF NJ Cruppi
simply on the principle of pro-
'noVeatur ut removeatur. That is the
rule at the Vatican when The bishop
OF diocese gives trouble. He is ap-
pointed archbishop in partibus High
eF rank, but put on the shelf. NJ
Cai!lauN was quite right in removing
NJ de Selves from the Prefecture OF
the Seine. but why he should raise
him TO one OF tbs laost difficult posts
in the government passes all com
prehension.
The fact is. the great interests of
Vate political interests every time
there is ministerial crisis At the
very moment that the delicate ques-
tion or the discharged railroad strik-
ers mas settled, NJ. AuSagneaur, So
eialist Of militant character, is put
In the Ministry OF Public Works. NJ.
talllauX might just as we'll have Sc
i"cled the chairman of the Strike Com
rAittee. But NJ. Ausagneur was the
a ~
CaiiiauN was anxious TO mollify the
chief agent of NJ. Compes in the Cham
Der of Deputies
The new premier till now has been
identified with financial statesman
ship. in which he succeeded in arous-
ing the wrath of French capitalists
and French landowners. The late NJ.
Maurice Rouvier did not approve OF
CailiauH, and the lattcr's income tax
ball is stil sleeping in one of the
Senate's pigeon holes. The only indi-
cation OF change of front on the part
OIL the new Cabinet Is in the announce
lnent that IL intends to govern firmly.
1t is a mirage N. Gaillaux is count
ing or the restoration of the famous
bloc. But the combination that sue
ceeded under NJ. Neldeck Rousseau and
NJ Combes has no change now. Why?
Because the raison d'etre of the bloc
was the war against the church and
the religious orders. The concordat
mas disappeared. so has the Nuncio.
The church j., separated from the
state. and the latter has laid hold OF
all the property and foundations. The
religious orders have been scattered.
and their goods "liquidated" a la duez,
Some twenty thousand Christian
schools have been shut UP. So the
clerical spectre is dead and buried
Radical and Radical-Socialist groups
nave no longer any common ground
for united action, and "au the King,
horses and all the Kings men" will
not put the bloc together again
The Due de Guiche, who has been
ident.ned with scientific pursuits all
his life. has now become doctor OF