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Show TUB INTERNATIONALS. The Paris correspondent of the Missouri Mis-souri Republican digests the French law against the Internationals as follows fol-lows : Any international association, and especially that known as the International Interna-tional Association of WorkiDgmcn, whose ol'ject is to provoke etrikes, or the destruction ot the rights of property, or thoc of family, or of the State, or religion, or the free exercise of public worship, is declared to be, ipso fuctn, by its mere existence, a crime. iJrery t?'renchman being or remaining a member mem-ber of such, is made liable to an imprisonment im-prisonment of from three months to two years, and to a fine of from fifty to one hundred francs, besides priva-1 lion of civil rights of from five to ten years. A foreigner living in France is subject to the same penalties. These penalties are more than doubled in the case of thofe who hold office in sach i association, or receive or solicit subscriptions sub-scriptions propagate I heir doctrines. J To rent premises tor the meetings of : any section of the International is j made punishable by from ODe to six moDths impruonmcDt, and by from fifty to five hundred franca line. Such are lhe principal sections of this act; the first, I boiieve, nodcr which the International is made criminal by special spe-cial legislative enactment, and therefore there-fore to be regarded as an important legislative experiment. |