The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-25
M. DOUMER RETURNS
INTO 'L|MEuGHT"
Brilliant French Politician
Who Was lnconspicuous for
Time Stirs Nation.
MAKES TIMELY SPEECH
Declares His Country Must
Hold Place as World Power
or Disappear.
MAKES TIMELY SPEECH
By GEORGE DUFRESNE.

By GEORGE DUFRESNE.
Special Gable to The Tribune.
PARIS, May 24.-M. Paul Doumer
whom the late M. de Blowitz, the most
famous of all foreign newspaper CORE
spondents, prophesized would be next
president of France after NJ. de Fal-
Heres, but who suddenly dropped out
OF sight, has just stirred UP all France
by wonderful speech on the burning
questions of the moment, and IT is not
likely that the people Of France will
permit this brilliant and patriotic pol
ltician to remain in the background any
longer at time when France has need
Of her best at the helm Of state.
NJ. Doumer himself had definitely
made up his mind to disappear forever
from the political arena but his patriot
ism did not permit him to remain silent
throughout the present critical period
and the speech followed, which will un-
doubtedly change his fate.
ESees Vital Issue.
treat was the question Of the national
defense, which to him is the only ques-
tlon before the country. He believes
that the life of the nation depends on
its solution. He has not seen eye to
eye with past governments on many
questions, but on the subject of the
three years. military service he gives
the present cabinet his whole-hearted
support. and urges that it is the duty
of every Frenchman TO follow its lead
He said:
"On the day when the government,
on the advice of all the competent mil
ltaTy authorities, declares that its duty
was to safeguard the integrity Of our
territory, so that France could play her
role In the world, every citizen ought
to accept this duty. One has not only
a duty. of thinking well, or voting well;
there Is also the duty of pursuing the
necessary propaganda in order to spread
throughout The country this idea of mil
future than it has been in the past.N
Trust the Army.
These words sum up the situation in
France at tho present moment They
will have the effect Of trumpet call
throughout the country. M. Doumer
has every confidence in the French
army. He believes that If it is weak In
numbers at present it is superior in ma
terial and as regards the methods for
employing it.
"We may have confidence il a con-
f1ict were to break out, he says. "But
it Is not question of today, it is a
question Of tomorrow. / am confident
that the country is prepared to make
the necessary sacrifices and those who
lead public opinion ought to make an
effort to bring about unanimity."
M. Doumer concluded his remarkable
speech In sentence which moved his
audience to outbursts Of fervor.
Of the world he said, ais constrained
to be a great nation or to disappear. -
The warning Will not fall on deaf ears.
Tt will carry conviction where the full
[ limitations Of the anti militarists fail.
The Socialist element is strong in the
| body polite in France, but even the
| eloquence Of M. Jaures fails to impress
many Socialists when IL is q question
| OF national security.
dream Of Balkan crown has faded
away all too rapidly after brief visit
to the country which he had intended
, to honor and now that he is back among
| us once more he does not conceal that
the very thought Of those, whom he in
| tended to make his future subjects
make him shudder with horror, for on
no stage even has he seen any such
fierce looking bandits.
| 1f the powers will take the advice of
the heir presumptive Of the Duke Of
| Orleans they will turn the whole bad
lot over to Essad Pasha who knows
| them and who will probably know how
to handle them rather than to send
some unfortunate European prince down
there to be murdered if be is not scared
to death before then.
Justice Not Escaped.
There is naturalized American in
Paris today, native OF Corsica, who
curses the day when he left the safety
Of the land Of the stars and stripes,
where he was the owner Of large
hotel in New England.
The American in question had been
| in the transport service In his native
land, when some fourteen years ago he
appropriated sum of $4,000 which be
carefully concealed in safe hiding
place. He left Corsica and enlisted in
! the army, While stationed at ST. Malo
he learned that he had been traced by
n judicial inquiry, and suspected Of the
robbery, He at once deserted and dis
appeared. he travelled in the United
| States and Canada and settled down
as proprietor of hotel in one Of the
large towns in New England. Four
| teen years had passed and he thought
that his escape had been entirely for
gotten.
Had he remained In America things
would probably have been nil right for
| him. But, Hhe many announcer VINO has
seen Paris. feeling Of homesickness
brought him back, and he had to visit
| the capital once more in his life, Tho
I poIice had kept q careful record OF his
doings and when he least expected il
they laid hands on him.
When he came to Paris he took rooms
| in fashionable hotel, where the police
discovered him. When taken to prison
no had the sum Of $4,000 in his pos
session.