Jaures, the French Socialist, has wavered for some time in
accepting the advanced creed of the anti-militarists. His hesitation was to his credit, as M. Herve, the rival leader, was visibly attracting disciples to himself all the time at the expense of M. Jaures. We cannot go so far as' the Times correspondent and some French newspapers in saying that M. Jaures has now thrown off the mask and declared himself in favour of thoroughgoing anti-militarism, with all that it implies, because that is paying too great a compliment to the logic of a very random speech. Taken altogether, the speech which M. Jaures delivered last Saturday, and which is being much discussed in France, may mean little or nothing ; but it is none the less deplorable that a man of M. Jaures's abilities should lend bimSelf to such incitements as the following :—" When litigation arises, let your diplomatists come to terms. In case they fail, then -appeal to 'arbitration, and if you will not do so you are a Government of scoundrels, a Government of bandits, a Government of assassins, and it is the right and duty of the proletariat to rise against you and to keep and use against you the rifles which you place in their hands. (Cries of *Long live Herve.')" As the Times corre- spondent says, the " Bloc" is truly dead, for no Radical (mould co-operate with the holder of such anarchical sentiments.
