THE PRESIDENT BARON’S ACCUSATIONS

I reread the speech of Mr. Baron Millerand, President of the Republic of the brush, the saber and the safe of the Cosmopolitan Banks of heavy industry, large-scale commerce and wealthy agrarians.
The powers of money and reaction are served as desired. It cost them dearly, it's true, but the placement was solid.
Everything should be included in this message designed to lead the coalition forces of conservatism into combat. We will have the opportunity to come back to it.
Let us only note today a small passage addressed to the socialists, full of perfidy and canaillery.
Mr. Millerand reminds us that the war of 1914 broke out and that the German socialists allowed it to take place. He thinks we are cured of all illusion on this subject.
Don't you think it's really charming to ask the question like that? It seems that when we talk about war, what should immediately come to mind is that socialism did not prevent it.
So we are guilty?
Robbers come to blows, an honest man cannot separate them, shame and curse on him!
So that in the scale of responsibilities, international socialism would appear almost alone. We wouldn't talk about the others. The others, that is to say undoubtedly in the front line German militarism, but in a good place and in the foreground also European capitalism, without which no militarism, not even that of Berlin, could be explained; capitalism which, through its development, its diplomacy, its colonialism and its rivalries, had created in the world this warlike atmosphere where the slightest spark was bound to cause an explosion.
This capitalism, Mr. Baron-President, of which you are the agent at the Elysée, we accuse it for yesterday, for today and for tomorrow.
He is the enemy of the people, the adversary of peace, the architect of war. You know it well, Baron-President, you do not have the excuse of Poincaré who was always a bourgeois and can plead, if not sincerity, at least the logic of an attitude; you, before being the man of Ba-Ta-Clan, you were the man of Saint-Mandé. You have not yet exchanged the red flag of socialism, political honesty, labor rights and the peace of peoples, for the cockade of the National Bloc and the advertising banner of Economic Interests which you will have difficulty in to be taken for a national flag worthy of the name.
The affair may have been good, but you could keep quiet, Mr. Baron-President, liquidator of the Congregations before falling into the arms of the National Bloc, you could keep quiet and not talk about socialism which has remained clean and which continues its noble mission without you.

Paul FAURE.