, M. Jaures, who though a French Socialist leader is
a sane politician, disapproves of the projected demonstration against the Czar on his forthcoming visit to Romp. He says that, although the Czar may deserve such a display of Socialist hostility, it is not fair that he shoUld receive one while the visit of the German Emperor was passed over in silence. That potentate, says M. Jaures, had ordered his troops to shoot their own fathers if they received the word of command, and visited the Pope only to attract the votes of the Centre against the Socialists. As to Macedonia, M. James holds that the Kaiser, as "the official and public protector in Europe of the Sultan assassin," is more responsible for the crimes committed in the Balkans even than the Czar. M. Jaures, no doubt, is protecting " the Alliance," and spoils his own case by the violence of his language. But it is, we fear, true that hope of German protection has encouraged the Sultan to resist the over-moderate demands made by the Powers, and that fear of a German-Turkish alliance has deterred the Eastern Powers from taking the more decided steps advised by Great Britain and France.
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