New-York tribune., 1918-03-16

Mr.. Minister: The unfortunate fate of the
fright of asylum" is but conspicuous
symptom Of materialstic and police rule that
is becoming more and more predominant
on both sides of the Channel. Lloyd George,
of Dublin fame, the imperalist incarnate,
with the manners of drunken clergyman,
and Mr.. Aristide BRAND, for whose charac-
terzation 1 beg to refer to you, Mr. Jules
Guesde, to your own article Of earlier days,
these two figures represent in the highest
degree the spirit of the present war, its
justification, its morality based upon the
appetites of classes and of individuals. Can
there be better and more deserving part
ner for Messrs. Lloyd George and BRAND
than this Mr.. Sturmer, the German, who,
like a real Russian, has made q career by
pinning himself to the Cossacks Of the Metro
politans and TO the petticoats of bigoted
court damsels? What a splendid, what an
Incompatible trio! Verify, history could
have selected no better colleagues and chief
tains for Guesde, the Minister
A Submissive Chorus
Is it possible for an honest Socialist not
to fight against them? You have trans
formed the Socialist party into submis-
sive chorus, that servilely initiates the lead
ers of capitalist highway robbery at
historical epoch when bourgeois society
whose deadly enemy you. Jules Guesde
have hitherto beel-has revealed and de-
monstrated its true nature to the core From
the events, prepared in a period Of world
wide depreciation and robbery, whose awful
consequences We have often predicted.
from the rivers of blood, from the awful
suffering and misfortune from the crimes,
from the bloodthirsty ferocity and Hypocrisy
of the governments you, Jules Guesde draw
but one lesson for the enlightenment Of the
French proletarat: that William II and
Francis Joseph are two criminals, who,
contrary to Nicholas II and Mr.. Poncare,
refused to respect he rules and regulations
of international Law.
The socialism Of Babeuf, Of Saint-Simon,
of Fourier, of Blanqui Of the Commune,
Of Jaures and Of Jules Guesdc-yc Of the
Jules Guesde of the days of yore - has
found its Albert Thomas, who consults with
the Russian tyrant concerning the surest
and safest method of capturing Constanti-
noplc; has found its Marcel Sembat, to
exercise and display dilettante nonchalance
the corpses and the ruins of French
civilization; has found it's Jules Guesde,
to follow the trImphal chariot of the
trumpeter BRAND And you believed and
you hoped that the French proletariat, that
has been bled to the point of exhaustion
/ in this endless war for the crime Of the
ruling classes, will continue to tolerate
quietly, to the end, this shameful union
between official socialism and the worst
enemies of the proetariat?
SlolUly, Surely
You are mistaken. The opposition is grow
ing. In spite Of martial law, in spite Of this
mania Of tionalsm-which, whatever it's
form, be it royalistc radical or socialistic,
always preserved its capitalistc quintessence
revolutionary opposition is marching for
word, slowly, but surely. Daily it is gaining
ground. "Nashe Slovo," the paper that YOU
have strangled. lived and breathed in the
atmosphere of awakening French inter
national socialism. The group of "Nashc
Slovo,' expelled from Russia by the counter
revolution that is gaining in power and
strength through the help and support of
the French Banking Exchange-the rroup
of the "Nashe Slovo" was privileged to
echo, even though it was hndercd and
hampered by your censor, the voice of the
French side Of the new International. that
raises its head in the midst of the tcrrors
of fratrcidal war. In our capacity as
undesirable foreigners" we have identi
fed our cause and our fate with that of
tho French opposition. We are proud to
have received the first blow from the French
government-from your government, Jules
Guesde!
We have the honor, together with Mo-
matte, Merrheim, Saumoneau, Rosmer. Bour
deron. Loriot, Guilbcaut and so many others.
to be accused. all of us, of being pro-
German. of friendincss toward Germany.
The weekly Paris organ of your friend
PlekchanoF. your partner in honor and
glory rs we'll in your nglorious fall
has denounced us week after weekA to the