Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04

poor English pacifist, or Quaker. i'm
prudent foolish, but not belonging to
any organized conspiracy against the
realm, gets nabbed as easy as drunk
ard"
And Adolphe Smith now gave the ap-
plication to an American campaign.
IAN example from America he said,
lis how they got round Miss Jane Adj
dams. The knowledge of languages
among French socialists is very limited.
SO that Jean Longuet. the deputy for
Sceaux and grandson of Karl Marx,
easily makes himself link of commu-
nication with those who do not speak
French fluently. l am not sure that
Longuet was born in England. but he
spent much of his youth there, living
with the Marx family, surrounded by
any amount of Germans, and his mother
was German. Now he is leading fig
ure of the pacifists in France"
He claims that he is not with the
Kienthalians.' I said. The Kientha-
lians. otherwise called Zimmerwal-
dams. are the three French socialist
deputies who. in full war. conferred
with German socialist delegates at
kienthal. in Switzerland.
Yes. and he is a lawyer, and a mem
Der of the French parliament. and not
a fool. Longuet, l began by explain
ing, has been much in England, which
has given him beautiful knowledge
of the English language and much
German influence. In peace times it
did not matter, so that Longuet Went to
all the international congresses, where
he consequently acted as interpreter.
When important socialists came to
France he chaperoned them. So that
his is the best known French socialist
name in America and England. due en-
tirely to his linguistic capacities and
not TO his Importance in France. Now,
Miss Jane Adams went to The Hague
at the beginning of the war. and the
only French delegate she seems to have
met was Jean Longuet. Then she
writes numerous articles in America,
speaking of French socialists as if
they We're all Longuet giving his opin-
ions. Now, the thing is that early in
1915 Loguet was saying that the
French were exhausted and could not
hold out beyond the year and giving
Miss Jane Adams information that
was pro-German in its falsity. and she
reproduced 1t largely in the United
States and continues to do So"
'Verdun has refuted that. all through
1916" interrupted.
I asked him about certain American
women in Switzerland.
IT'S the same thing" he answered
'They are wealthy American women,
wanting to do good. wanting to be
busy, spending lot of money in Swift
Zerland and devoting themselves to
pacifist ideas. I'm told they result in
the German peace, always"
DO you know of any organized prop
uganda" 1 asked.
Yes. do" he answered. Papers are
published and circulated widely. and
the question is where the money comes
from. Take English papers, such as
the Labor Leader, patronized by paci-
fists, Quakers, etc. You can hold it in
your hand and see that it costs money
to produce it, yet it makes nothing. On
the other hand, the little socialist pa
pers, which are absolutely patriotic and
Independent, can only publish a miser-
able little sheet. and are always in
financial difficulties. I know an Italian
paper. published in the Swiss canton
of Ticino, which is VIGOROUSLY subsi-
died by the German embassy at Bern.
It never speaks in favor of Germany.
but saws the present war is capitalist
war. and that workingmen have moth
ing to do with it. That is the subven-
ttonal argument-it makes no differ
ence to workingmen which country
wins"
"Do French workingmen think it?"
mot much-ask them about AlSace-
Lorraine! And you could say some
thing here which might do a lot of
good because in America and other
places many people run away with an
idea which is perfectly right in theory
and perfectly false in practice-that
populations are to. decide their own
fate by some kind of vote. You have
only to remember Nice and Savoy be-
fore NAPOLEON III annexed them Ihe