The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-03
Worlds Most Strenuous En-
eny of Strife; Has Been in
Prison for Four Years.
Special Cable to The Tribune,

Special Cable TO The Tribune,
~A ARIS, Dec 2--The man OF sorro~s.
the Nazarenc Of France today, is
4 Gustavc Bcrve. edtor-in-chieC Of
i La Gucrre Sociale" and
international anti -miitarist lie Is
the Scapcgoat OF every ambitious pohtl-
clan wishing 10 become minister TO-DAY
be Is punished for a word, tomorrow for
an article, the next day for some act.
He has been In prison Tor the past four
years and there are condemnations
against him which make a grand total OF
ten moro years incarceration.
Unless indeed, the cause for which he
stands be successful there Is no outlook
except TO pass the remainder OF his days
Ministers get the reputation from the
| bourgeois class OF Standing no non
sense because thcy keep sending him
tho dungeon OF Ia Santo, from Paris to
CiairvauX and from ClairvauN TO Paris.
from pillar TO post, from Tlerod 10 Plate.
What manner OF man is this much I'm
prisoned mortal?
His First Trouble.
| CustaSe IIervc was born at tho seaport
town OF Brest In Brittany in 1871. He is
! the son OF a master mariner and the
grandson Of a maker OF military flags.
The eldest OF four children. he lost his
! father when 10 years old. Thanks To the
protection of the mayor OF Brcst he
studied In the local lyceum and became
a school teacher at the age Of 1e, His
salary was Sll month, most Of which
he sent To his widowed mother TO fccd
! herself and her three children,
For time he filled the chair Of his
tory in q small college conducted by &C.
clesiastcs and the social rcvoluuonist
OF today refers rceltngly to the pleasant
games Of ball ne played with the church
| men. An article entitled The Flag Of
WaSran" iirst got him into trouble, lie
lost his place as professor and again as
school teacher. Then condcmnauons be-
gan to shower upon him,
Curiouslv enough his lawyer in these
early battles was Ariistide BRAND, the
frs, Socialist prime minister the worio
has ever seen, Time, however has mel
lowed The young Socialist lawyer whc
defended Uerye and the cares OF office
nave made him conservative On al
least four occasions LAWYER BRAND Sc
cured the acquittal OF his client 1at The
against against him is IN all conscience biz
enough. ..''.
Lover Of Peace,
C;ustayc Herye is an ardent lover ol
ucace Like Andrew Carnegie he 81
loves peace that he would fight for II
He holds that nations should mol go ,t
war and that soldiers should 20 on STRIKE
rather than shoot each other. lie is (;
militant antt-nli ttarist and that not ONLY
Cor France bat, for all nations, He SCOT:
at the tribunal nf The Hague as y milk
and water way OF bringing about The mil
lenium of universal peace He say:
those Hague decisions do not neCessat
. Ily bind and the Interested parties wouI'
, still have the power 10 disregard them
Brute force rather tbsr right would
, stu be iu the ascendant.
, The interliutionel arbitration treatie
: / Of President Taft and Secretary kno:
, ho treats with the same scant courtesy
> Irrcyerently he SAYS those nakeshii'
merely send the fool farther. To the min,
Of JIeryc such expedi"uts as these laci
= Unali.y. Carueeie's Temple of Peace n
The Hague Is to him merely typical .
vain nelorin,Is compromise.
Hervc's solution of the problem ot va
/ ls TO teach the people not 10 heht. SOL
: dcrs should go or strike lust like othe
: sections OF the community, II the neo
rlc refuse TO fight there is an end Z
war The emperor may ratl" MS snD"
all ho pIeases and talk platltudes aboi
ruling by divine right. But 81 the peo
. ! ule refuse 10 light he is powerless. Any
y way Hcrvc thinks that kings and on,
- perors arc an anachrcnlsm ana ahoul
If go.
:. - Appeals to Intellect.
IA Vodrines would bring about peace b
e the destructive power Of the dcroplane
IS Edison by. TIC fear instilled because G
II such destruction. But 'HcrNe says IN
" short cut To universal peace Is 10 appet
J. directly TO the lutcllcCts Of the people
and 10 tcuch them that ihcy must not :
Is 10 war ~ any price
= The monster labor meetings "h,'h al
.e being held I'm Paris. Berlin and else
L. where ln protest against all wars ar
$, evidences that The teachings OF iicIH
n arc tuklur root, The burden OF m
;" speeches is that war Us too dear at An