The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-01-11

1886, he obtained his first Government
position as chief clerk Of the Ministry
of Agriculture, holding, that place UNI
til June, 1887. In that year he was
returned to the Chamber Of Deputies
at a by-election in the Department of
the Mouse. He was made reporter of
the Budget Committee in 1892, and
in April, 1898, declined the Ministry
of Finance offered to him by NJ Du-
puy, accepting, however, the position
of Minister of Public Instruction.
When the downfall came of the
first Dupuy cabinet, in December OF
that year, M. Poincare was again
made reporter of the Budget commit
tee, and had charge in the Chamber
of Deputies, in January, 1894, of the
bill reducing the rate of interest on
Rentes. When M Dupuy formed his
second cabinet at the close of May,
1894, M. Poincare was made Minister
of Finance. At that time he was
strenuously opposed to an income tax,
and declared that he would resign
rather than contemplate its imposi-
ton. Subsequently he consented to
daily with its extremist form, the
progressive income tax, but finally, on
the breakup of the second Dupuy cab
met, in January, 1885, he refused to
enter the new Ministry, if it should
contain both himself and M. Cavaig-
nae, the special champion of the in
come tax.
In 1906 NJ Poincare returned to the
cabinet under Clemenceau, serving as
minister of finance, and after his
chiefs fall in the senate as the repre-
sentative from the Department of the
Mouse. For a short time he was Min
7 lister of Public Works and after the
: fall of the Caillaux ministry President
= Failleres, in January, 1912, Offered
him the premiership. M. Poincar'
did not at once consent, but request
/ ed time for deliberation. Not unit
I after he had ascertained that h
would be able to form strong an
acceptable cabinet did he accept tn
premiership. 1t was critical me
ment in the history of the French RI
I public and the whole world realize
that it would require strong an
skillful hand at the rudder of the shi
of state to prevent the craft from b
coming hopelessly wrecked upon tt
dangerous rocks in it's path. M. Poi
care proved himself fully equal to Il
task and with infinite tact and SIX
/ guided the affairs of his country upC
safe ground.
M. Poincare is a man Of exception
- ability and brilliancy and an unli
. tied capacity for work. He did n
- at first, like politics, but embark
puon a public career when duty call
him. He is a man of strong char
ter, independent in his views and fl
from any suspicion of being IN a
way connected with political intrigl
or identified with any dishon
schemes. He is a man of undoubt
integrity and of high ideals, of Ike
perception, great analytical and
ministrative ability and one OF
best parliamentary and academic
tors of France, with a versatility
most encyclopaedia.
At one time in his life M. Poinc
was a journalist, on the staff of
Voltaire and in recognition Of his
erary and political achievements
was elected a member of the Ere
Academy in 1909, one year after
equally famous cousin, Jules He
Poincare the mathematician, had
come a member. The latter die
short time ago. M. Poincare /
: thorough man of the world He hi
fine house near the Bots de Boulo
where he entertains literally AM
fond of the theatre and of racing