Truth. CLEMENCEAU THE CRIMP.

NZ Truth, Issue 108, 13 July 1907, Page 4

Truth.

CLEMENCEAU THE CRIMP.

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SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1907

A COWARDLY CLIMB-DOWN.

i As was to have been expected, that crimp of corrupt capitalism, Clemenceau, the French Premier, has, after the manner of his kind, climbed down m the most cowardly fashion. This rigid, renegade maintainer of law and order, by bullet and bayonet, was, a week" ago,' grandiloquently gasconading about compelling the outraged peasantry of the South of France to cease agitating, and dramatically declaring that there could be neither truce nor trove 'between him and the people unless they ramped on their I belly before this capitalistic cur and his co-conspirators. Clemenceau and, Co have found out at last, what they ought, to have foreseen long ago —that the conscript soldier of France are no more prepared than' those of Russia to murder, m cold blood, their fellow citizens, simply because these dared to agitate against wrong, and demand redress of grievances. •■ • • I It is a long way to-day from the French Commune, when Clomenceau acted so cowardly a part m the role o f Mayor of Montmatre. In 'those days Thiers could rely upon Crallifet and Trochu tb fire low, and lay Democracy out. But things have changed with the times ; and now we find that, so far from being able to command the services of French soldiers as murderous myrmidons of mercenary monopolists, Clemenosau— as we have already said— has had to abjectly crawl down. He now holds private conferences m Paris wdth'M. Albert, the peasant leader' of the vignerons. He makes terms with this man of the people, and virtually pleads with him to return to the south of France to patch up some arrangement between Clemenceau 's capitalistic gang and the vignerons. # '•« a Never mind what version the cable-cram-ooncocters may send under the sea to these antipodes, the fact remains that Clernenoeau's murderous plot has miscarried- Besides compounding with his intended victims, he also throws up the legislative sponge by promising to radically modify his obnoxiously oppressive wine adulteration legislation. Then look at the narrow majority he succeeded m securing for the vote of confidence m the Chambro des Deputes ! Hence, the truth is-r-that not only has Clemenceau received a serious check, the result of which is that the sinister designs of his boodling bosses have been frustrated, but that capitalism, m the person of Clemenceau, has sustained a disastrous overthrow.) A very few weeks' I—probably1 — probably a few days —will suffice to see this man, who would, had" he dared, have massacred the people, hurled from power into that oblivion m which he had languishi&d -so long, and from which he was only drawn by the boodle bourgeoise of France, which bourgeoise is to France what the Nonconformist conscience is to England— a parvenu plutocracy .that would pursue its perverse and perfidious purposes against the pepple at any sacrifice to life or liberty. • • *. English plute prints are pretending to be mightily shocked over Russian massacres and French, insurrections.. But let Englishmen turn over the pages of their own history. Let them recall the bloody doings of Cromwell m Ireland, of the Puritans m England, and of James 11. in Scotland.. Let them recall. the massacre of G-lenr coe by William 111., the Gordon riots, and the Peterloo (Manchester.), massacre. Let them recall the Charr tist demonstrations,, when the Duke of Wellington was. ready. t»o sweep away with double-shotted guns British workmen like chaff before the wind, as Napoleon- did the Sections m Paris. And last, but not least', let them rememib'er the- Fcatherstonc/ massacre, Wrhercin miners were shot] down by the military with the apt cellor of the ExGhequec m the QwnyL proval of Asquith, bin; present Ohafibellxßanner'man administration. Wet this be dome-by Englishmen on- Mo ono si"de ; and Australasians on the jbther ; an d, perhaps, they will /then think that France and Russia aa c not the only places that have cvofr be-eu under the menace of-, or threatened ; by, am industrial and sociay revolution!. /