The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-20
GERMANY'S STAND
BENEFIT TO FRANCE
Party Politics and Jealousies
Swept Aside to Meet
Threatened Crisis.
UNITY OF SENTIMENT
French Resent Arrogance of
Kaiser in Military Affairs,
and Respond.
UNITY OF SENTIMENT
BY GEORGE DUFREsNE.

Special Cable to The Tribune
PARIS, April 19.-Nothine could be
more beneficial to France, which is
vacillating on the brink of uncertainty
and whose parliament is torn by party
politics, than the events which have
taken place in Germany.
The very recklessness with which the
German government is raining demands
for millions upon millions for mill
tary and naval expenses down over the
heads Of the German taxpayers and the
determination with which the kaiser is
sweeping all obstacles aside has acted
like powerful stimulant on the
French, Had there been the slightest
chance to believe in Germany's assur-
ance that she WIS only strengthening
her army and navy for moro defensive
purposes, the people Of France might
have hesitate1, but when, after the
koelnische Zeitung had let the cat
Prematurely out Of the bag, the kaiser
first asked for $12,5OO,O00 more for
general purposes and then for $85, ,0Oo,.
600 for the creation Of the strongest
aerial navy in the world, it became i'm
possible to believe that these were the
tactics Of country anxious to preserve
peace. And it is now clear to every
Frenchman that Germany is stalking
everything on one card; that her plan
is to become the facile princeps Of Er.
rope, whose dictum in the future will
be: HGive me what / ask for or I
shall come and take it myself
Daily Lines Forgotten.
This arrogance is more than France
can bear, and although the clever poll
tician Clemenceau succeeded in over
throwing the BRAND cabinet and got. it
replaced by the weak Barthon minis.
try, thus making the three years. mill
tary service a party question, condi-
tlons have changed now and party poll
tics will disappear because Of the
crisis.
Here is where NJ. Poincare's good
! luck has stood him in better stead than
his political sharpsightedness. There
was no one who doubted that it was
Clemenceau who defeated the BRAND
cabinet, nor did any one doubt that
his motive was his hatred of the new
president, who was becoming too pop
ular to suit him. But if NJ. Poincare
had been very smart, as smart as he
usually is, he would have asked his en-
emy, Clemenceau, to form a cabinet in.
stead of M. Barthou, and NJ. Clemen-
ceau would have found himself in the
unpleasant position Of having no choice
but to carry through the plans that
made his enemy the idol Of the nation,
and with Clemenceau at the head of the
government the military and naval
laws would have gone through praxi.
cally without opposition.
Lucky for Barthou.
With NJ. Barthou at the holm. thew
would have been tossed about in the
maelstrom of politics, manned and
stunted, but for what has happened in
| Germany.
When the kaiser began to play
trumps, political differences and party
grudges were forgotten in France, and
when In q short time the law fixing
three years military service comes up
at the resumption of the legislative ses.
sion, it will pass probably with all
votes except those Of the Socialists
The members Of the army COMMITTEES
accepted the principle weeks ago and
the class of 1910 recruits which in or
dinary course were to have been sent
home this year, will remain with the
colors another year.