| Show PARIS is mm The Great Demonstration of May 1 Causes Apprehension AMONG THE TIMID OF THE CITY The Number of Men the Socialists will Mass Various Opinions Concerning the Outcome of the Matter Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch PARIS April 12By cable to the New York Herald Tho Parisians are begin ins to look ahead to the first day of May with some apprehension On the one hand ire arrayed the forces of socialism men resolute to show by an imposing demonstration demonstra-tion that their demands are such as cannot bo lightly set aside and on the otljer there are centered in M Constans all the powers of law and order as represented by thousands thou-sands of police and soldiers The minister of the interior it will be remembered re-membered has declared his intention to prevent any demonstration of the kind predicted cost what it may In no wise staggered by this declaration of the government gov-ernment the Paris Socialists are working with a will to organize their demonstration Despite M Constans and all his police and soldiers they vow they will meet In such numbers that the powers vested in the government will pale into insignificance in comparison Thus it is that timid people are already heard asking if it will be safe to venture into the streets to breathe the balmy air of May and if it will not be probable or at least possible that those streets will run with gore For the last for might meetings have been held every third day in different parts of Paris and hand bills by hundreds and thousands have been distributed among the toilers The hand bills set forth the ob jects of the demonstration The document goes on to recount how the idea of holding this demonstration of the universe was hootedt at the International Socialist congress con-gress which was held in Paris in July ISbO May 1 was fixed as the date of a universal univer-sal demonstration of labor and the same was chosen as the grand annual fete of the laboring world It was unanimously decided de-cided that the toilers of all countries represented repre-sented at the congress shall demand the public powers to give satisfaction to their just claim and the following added that the demonstrations will be for the most wilfully wil-fully blind a revelation of the gigantic work which has been accomplished in masses of toilers since the commune was established and the necessary outcome of which will be the advent of the new social istic order of things Each country was left to determine what kind of a demonstration best suited its own purpose In France the idea was welcomed with enthusiasm among th Socialists and the municipal council even promised moral and pecuniary support In Germany where the authorities have decided de-cided to quash any attempt at demonstration demonstra-tion the latest news Is there is a split in the Socialist ranks Bevel and Beknechtba being opposed to the scheme In Austria the strikes now in progress are believed ts be an augury of what May 1 will bring forth In Belgium the demonstration it expected to bo notable and oven in Norway a demonstration is in progress With reference particularly to Park Jules Gueside soninlaw of Karl Marx whose mantle has descended upon his shoulders declared to the reporters that the demonstration would be grandiose We shall number 200000 toIlers Ho continued Two hundred thousand resolute men will crowd the streets of this capital The government has announced Its intention of dispersing us It is easy to disperse 500 not so 200000 However How-ever we desire that our demonstration be quite pacific but I am confident that the good sense of the Parisian workingman will obviate such an eventuality Other Socialistic deputies share the same confidence but M Joufrin labor candidate candi-date whom his political opponents still nickname nick-name the elect of the minority in cease quence of his sitting as deputy for Mon martre instead of Boulanger is inclined to be sceptical I am persuaded it will be a fiasco he said today Many of the leading lead-ing spirits of the demonstration are Bou langists and consequently have no influence influ-ence on the vast body of workingmen Wo shall see that the French workingman will not lay down his tools and quit his shop io the middle of the week |
