Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-15
+ RENCH SOCIALISTS
FEAR PERIALISN
IN TREATys TERMS
Radicals Deputies in Paris Say
It Is Simply a Peace of
Violence" ---0ther French
men Should Be Annexed,
BY Lincoln Eyre.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
tThe New York World.D
Especial Cable Dispatch.l


| Paris, MAY 14.-EXcept among the
socialists. who characterize it as I'M
perialistic and capitalistic the peace
treaty, generally speaking. meets the
approval of the French deputies upon
whom devolves the duty of passing
| final judgment upon its provisions
Satisfaction with the document as a
whole, however, is mingled with in
diVidual objections TO certain of its
clauses.
Thus Henry Franklin Bouillon, pres
ident of the foreign affairs commits
sion, told me the system devised for
the administration of the Saar coal
region was, IN his view, inadequate to
the needs of the situation. He is also
dubious about the nature of the occu-
patton of the Rhine bridqeheads by
the allies, feeling it is unfair that
France should shoulder all of this
task. On the other hand, Raoul Peret.
president of the budget commission.
expresses serious doubts as to the fl
nancial terms of the treaty, saying:
Doubts Financial Terms.
After having it dinned into our
ears that Germany would pay, which
implied that she would repair all the
consequences of the war for which
she alone IS responsible we are faced
with the sorrowful discovery that we
shall have to support all our war ex-
nenses. This means perhaps two bill
lion dollars of taxes loaded on the
French taxpayers. How is It TO be
found >"
Through their official organ. L'Hu-
mantle, the socialists proclaimed their
conviction that the peace of Justice"
promised to humanity is "in reality
simple Il peace of violence, of vora-
cious imperialism and of inequity."
This peace" L'Humanites editorial
continues, lis a bourgeois and capital
istic peace which only the bourgeois
and capitalists ratify, The French
proletariat refuses It's signature from
this day. 1t will raise against the Bis
MARKHAM treaty. which outrages the
right of peoples, the necessary pro-
testation. Not one socialist deputy
can ratify, without resigning his seat,
diplomatic instrument which history
Will consider a criminal breach Of our
pledged word and an attack or moral
ity and right.
Wilson end Socialists Blamed.
without President Wilson and the
socialists there would have been out
right annexation Of the Saar basin,
but the present Arrangement is little
better for the enslaved working Pop
ulation of the Saar.
The newspaper inquiries with en-
phasis whether the coal mines are to
belong TO the French state or are "to
be cede to avadity of our national
capitalism"
The chamber of deputies has not
yet decided upon the method IT will
follow in examining the treaty. Two
plans have been proposed. One is that
a special committee be created for the
The other is that the task
be turned over to the foreign affairs
committee, augmented for the occa-
sion by all former premiers and for
eign ministers who are now members
of the chamber and by representa-
tives of each of the other important,
permanent, parliamentary commits
sions. The chamber of deputies must
consider the treaty as a whole, being
empowered by the constitution to rat
ify or reject it only in its entirety and
not being able TO consider any specific
part of it.