The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-16
JAURES, GREAT FOE
 OF WAR, HONORED
 BY FRENCH NATION
Remains of Famous Socialist, Assass- mated by "Jingoes," Laid to
 Rest in Pantheon.

over the stricken states of Europe since the war than the decision of the French chamber of deputies, by 346 votes to no, to disinter the bones of Jean Jaures, most famous of French socialists, unyielding foe of militarisnn and eloquent advocate of peace, who was assisted on July 31, 1924, on the place them in the Pantheon, the last resting place of Frances illustrious dead
 This decision was made last Thurs day, July 31, the tenth anniversary, to the day, of his murder.
 It demonstrates to what an extent the reactionaries have lost their grip on the government of France and the extent to which labor and the advocacy of international peace have increased their political power and prestige.
 In that now far off and strange per iod, before the war, Jaures was a great figure among the radicals of the conti- nent and he succeeded in focusing upon himself the violent hatred of the French jingo press.
 He saw the world war coming and tried to stop 1t. He was familiar with all the schemes of the war-rnakers. He denounced the French alliance with the czar of Russia. He opposed the ex- tension of the period of compulsory +0 years, and, at the Socialist Internation- al in Brussels i'll 1914 he was the leader in the movement to bring about gen eral strike of the workers to prevent a European war.
 Jaures was denounced as a traitor and a scoundrel by the militarists, He was assassinated by Raoul William, a young man, said to have been employed by those who desired the war, and who feared the influence of Jaures. The assassin was turned loose after a short term and the conduct of his trial has been a standing indictment against the Poincare- Millerrand C1emenceau Vivi- ami faction.
 Jaures had just returned from Brus sels where he had been attending the International Socialist conference and was dining in one of those quaint cafes which face the Rue Montmartre. Chat ting with him at the small table were several deputies and editors of his per sonal organ, L'Humanite a great pro gressive newspaper.
 Suddenly the curtain covering the window was pushed aside, hand hold ing a revolver portruded round the cor ner, two shots were fired, and Jean Jaures collapsed face forward, with his head amongst the wine bottles and wine glasses.
 Jean Jahres was the son of an ad- miral in the French navy. Strictly speaking, he was not a labor leader. He was the magnificent intellectual among French radicals and was unsurpassed as an orator.
 r While cratic, he was essentially hon. est. For several years previous to the World War he had been inclined to be extremely conservative concerning economic action by the working man and had, to a degree, lost the confidence of the rank and file of the north and east of France.
 But when war was threatened he showed his devotion to principle. Of long list of French socialist he was the only prominent advocate of peace and social reform, with the exception of La Fargue, who openly and deliber- ately opposed the war. He is to be re- membered as one who would not be- tray his principles when the test came.
 He was indeed in those pre-War days in precisely the same school of thought as Ramsay Macdonald, now premier of England, but then considered danger ous pacifst and an agitator. They at tended the same International Con- gresses and knew each other we'll If Jaures had been alive today he would have been close on 65 years of age; and there is good reason for saying that he might have found himself premier of France, the position now occupied by HerriOt.
 Ramsay Macdonald, who was deeply moved by his death, wrote of him in August 1914 as follows:
 'Jaures was the embodient of the chivalrous and the romantic love of lib- erty of the south of France He never left an argument untouched by the inn agination; he never surveyed a field without taking glimpse of the land scape, gleaning the colors in his sur yey; he never spoke learnedly without tripping down from his austere and sol i'd pedestal, and with whimsical hu- nor and quaint imaginativeness pre-