Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-06-29 | Page 4 | To Nationalize French Railroads

I I TO NATIONALIZE fRENCH RAILROADS Clemenceau's Victory Marks Mark s New Era EIa and Stamps Him as a Leader Republican Special Cable Paris Palls June 28 The The victory won on b by y Pr Premier Clemenceau in the senate o othe on n the tho question of the nationalization o othe of f the French railroads marks the tho beginnIng beginning beginning be be- ginning of a n now new w ei era ora III in France This radical measure of or the tIne purchase purchase pur pur- chase b by the tue state stale of or the thc railways adopted by the chamber and strongly y opposed in the senate aroused the bItter bitter bitter bit bIt- ter hostility of all the tho conservative 0 e forc forces s of oC France the moderate Republicans Re no- publicans such as Senators r and the financial industrial Industria rd rl l and banking communities the thc lan land landowners landowners d owners an and the capitalists It was firmly predicted that no not t only the railway purchase bill but th the e cabinet itself would be shipwrecked d dd It if the ministerial lal Issue was framed frame d on the question of If the senate I u J in lii II Sat Saddle Ie M. M Clemenceau acting against tu the e advice of many of at his firm supporters support support- ors ore boldly took the bull by the horns horn s and ond after one of ot tho the strongest speech speech- speeches es ho however hoever over ever made gained the adoption ado ado- toil tion of the tha measure In the tho senate a at t liszt fIrst by what a n. false count of votes vote s showed to bo a n. majority of ot three bu but t which on the principle that nothing g succeeds like success swelled Into a government majority of twenty an and d afterward of 37 Ii and antI the tho Clemenceau u cabinet having survived sur the thc crisis I Inow Is Isnow Isnow s now firmly in tn the saddle until parliament parlia parlin ment mont reassembles next October c It is predicted by leading leading- financiers finan ciers that after the tho Western railway y l is bought wo we shall shoJI see sec the purchase ye e of the Orleans lines the tho mines and an anthe d the Insurance companies an and tho the efficiency ef er- of the public service as Us th the e experience of the state monopolies In Indicates In- In Indicates will b become como slack and unsatisfactory unsatisfactory un un- satisfactory M. M Clemenceau upon th the theother theother e other hand maintains that the great grea ee et t corporations In France have become becom e too powerful and must be subjected d t to lo o I government control