New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-01
JAURES LAID LOW
BY PARIS ASSASSIN
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who presided, rebuked the authors Of
the disorder, saying:
81 leave to those guilty Of these in
famous words the responsibility Of
their acts. The country will pass judg-
ment."
It did. At the recent election the
victory of NJ. Jaures and his Unified
Socialists was decisive. They increased
their sixty-four seats TO no fewer than
lo2. There were more revolutionary
Socialists returned than to any Cham
Der during the Third Republic. The
honor almost entirely belonged to NJ.
Jaures. Throughout the campaign,
however. NJ. Jaures, who went so far
as to advocate sabotage of mobilization
material to prevent war, was hooted
and maltreated in the streets.
Sees No Possibility of War.
To-day it is almost pitiful to recall
that fourteen months ago, when the
French government was demanding
1927 100000 as its war budget, which
NJ. Jaures declared a "blood tax" the
highest military and political authori-
ties asserted that all serious danger Of
war between the great European ma
tons had been removed and there was
no possibility of peace being broken.
The only form of war NJ. Jaures be-
lieved in was that by workingmen 70
improve their conditions. He was the
practical founder of trade unionism IN
France and had been a tireless advo-
cate of international bonds among
workmen. 1t was his experiences with
the miners Of Carmaux in their strike
of 1892 which made him a Socialist.
and it was his energetic advocacy OF
their cause which first brought HIM
into world prominence.
When Premier BRAND defeated the
great railroad strike in 1910 by calling
the men TO the colors and then, when
they were under military discipline,
compelling them to work their own
trains, NJ. Jaures led scenes in the
Chamber which rivalled those OF the
National Convention in the days of the
revolution. BRAND saved the railroads
/ from the strike, but he lost his Pre-
miership in doing it.
+ Jaurcs was born at Castres. in the
Department of Tarn, in 1859, Of fam
1 lily distinguished for its great seamen,
/ among whom was Admiral Jaures. There
was nothing of the workman in the
appearance of the great workingmen's
advocate. He resembled what the Eng
/ lish Duke Of Norfolk might look liks
] , N
/ ner of wearing his full beard were re-
markedly similar to the dukes, but he
was taller, stOuter and handsomer.
Once Taught Philosophy.
After his course at the Lycee Louis
| le Grand and taking his degree in phi
/ iosophy at the Ecole Normale Supe-
rieure, NJ. Jsures taught philosophy at
the Lycce OF Abb in Tarn for two
years and lectured at the University Of
+ Toulouse. In 1885, when twenty-siX
years old, he was elected as Repub-
/ lican Deputy from Tarn.
In 1889 he was defeated by u. Alb
rial, n Monsrchist, and returned to the
university, where he helped to found
the medical faculty and took an active
part in municipal affairs. After his
work for the CsrmeuX miners he was
/ reelected at Abb, but as a Socialist.
/ -Four years later he temporarily lost
/ his seat, but his eloquent speeches
made him a force in French politics as
an intellectual champion OF an ideal
/ and Utopian socialism. He was an ex-
cellent speaker and had voice and
| chest that feared no strain. He was
40 less powerful a writer
! NJ. Jaures was editor Of ia Petite
/ Rcpubliuue" and also of "L'Humanite, ~
which he founded in 1904. His publica-
ton in "L'Humanite55 of the famous
secret protest of Pope Plus X to the
powers in touch with the Vatican
against the visit of President Loubet ia
the King of Italv. declaring it an insult
to the Church, made history in France
and Rome. II resulted in the rupture
of diplomatic relations between France
and the Vatican, and eventually in Tho
ending of the Concordat Of Napoleon !
which had governed the relations of the
Church and France for more than d
hundred years. and finally in the eXclu.
sion of the Church from any part in
the control of education in France.
Jaures Causes at Split.
The Deputy from Tarn first figured
as a leader to be reckoned with when
he approved the inclusion Of NJ. Mil
lerand, g Socialist, in the Waldeck-
I Rousseau ministry, though it led TO q
/ split with the more revolutionary So
/ cialists led by Guesde. In 1902 his con-
I troll was so great he gathered all the
/ Socialist Deputies into a coalition
| known as the "bloc."
II was after the Socialist congress al
/ Rouen in 1906 that he formed the new
party, headed by himself and Guesdc
/ and called the Unified Socialists, who
are pledged TO a straight collectiyist
programme. The following year his
/ ability and vigor as leader were fully
recognized. He forced NJ. Clemencear
/ TO appeal to the country on what was
! really Socialist programme, but with
out Utopia in view.
/ In his advocacy NJ. Jaures never
lacked courage. He was one of the
most energetic defenders of Captain
/ Dreyfus. When General Andre, Min
lister Of War, was accused in the army
Masonic delation scandal, VI. Jaures
withdrew his support from Premier
Combes, whom he had supported in
the anti-Clericsl campaign. When Gus
taye Hcrv6, the anti-war agitator. lsot
his professorship through his views.
NJ. Jaures put him on the committee
of the Unified Socialists.
When France and Germany came
near to war over Morocco il was Mr..
Jaur6s who forced NJ. Delcasse, the
anti-German Foreign Minister, out o.
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