SOCIALIST CONGRESS.
M. JAURES CENSURED. AMSTERDAM, August 20. A Socialise Congress, now sitting here, carried a resolution by 25 votes to 5, endorsing a resolution passed by the Dresden Socialists, which censured the opportunism of M. Jaures, the leader of the Socialist party in the French Chamber of Deputies. M. Jaures replied that the Germans bad derived their electoral rights from their sovereign, adding: “We won ours at the barricades.” Herr Bebel, leader of the German Socialists, retorted: “It is Napoleon you owe your suffrage to! It is Bismarck, who captured your Emperor, that you owe your Republic to !” N Louis Napoleon was a prisoner of war in the bands of the Germans during the war of 1870, having surrendered at Sedan with the whole army which he personally conducted.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 22
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