Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — DANGER IN FRANCE. [ARTICLE]

DANGER IN FRANCE.

Jules Meline Utters Serious Warning Against Agitation and Unrest. Jules Meline. premier of the French ministry preceding the present Government of M. Brisson and who presided at a bouquet of the Association of Railway Employes at EpiuaL. France, uttered a serious warning against the agitation and unrest in France, class troubles and strikes. Referring to the “divided state •jf society, the violence of polemics and the sectarian spirit displayed in politics,” he said it mis impossible to see France thus torn by factions and devoured by political passions, while daily the principle of authority was undermined, the army was weakened, and the institutions upon which rested the security of the nation were shaken, without thinking of “that opening in the Vosges through which «s invading army could pass,” or without thinking of “some unforeseen temptation being offered to the foreigner.” The adversaries of France, however, had no need to dechire war, said M. Meline. They were content to wait the exhaustion of France.