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Millerand declared: Parliament will choose the most opportune moment for modification of the present constitutional law. Before starting these modifications, however, we must carry out . . . the total execution of the agreement entered into and signed by our adversary at Versailles. Alexandre Millerand should make a strong President. He will be in close touch with the people. Any French President should enjoy this contact, because his Cabinet, unlike ours, sits with and is responsible to the legislative branch. Thus no French President could disregard the popular will, as our President disregarded the adverse vote of 1918. But M. Millerand himself is a man of the people; it is suggested by his broad, muscular shoulders, his enormous capacity for work, his plain, blunt insistence on a simple, single course of action-everything about him from his early Socialist days to these latter days when he directs the occupation of Frankfort or the salvation of Poland. essays, and treatises and addresses on historical, social, economic, political, and particularly on educational subjects, his book "The School and Life" being well known. He has none the less been a prominent figure in French governmental affairs. He has been Minister of Instruction and Finance, Minister of the Interior, Minister of the Colonies, but most notably Minister of Marine in the Clemenceau Cabinet, where he displayed signal efficiency. It was at the request of M. Leygues that our Y. M. C. A. opened club-houses for (C) Keystone View Co. ALEXANDRE MILLERAND, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE state's armed forces, and negotiation and ratification of treaties. This, and his demand as to foreign policy, were summarized in the agreement between Parliament and himself as an inducement for him to take the Presidency: There shall be no marked changes in national policies; in especial, there shall be no compromise about the revision of the Treaty of Versailles and particularly about the decision of the Millerand Cabinet to insist upon the fixing of the amount and mode of payment of the German debt by the Allied Reparations Commission, rather than by conferences like the recent one at Spa. The President shall have a more important voice in Cabinet meetings than his predecessors have had, an arrangement to be maintained no matter what party in power shall form a Government. In reality and practice this PREMIER LEYGUES HE present is the first instance in French history when a Prime Minister has taken office with a readymade Cabinet. Hitherto the Presidents of France have permitted their Premiers to select their own Ministers. Now, however, the new President had exactly the men he wanted for Ministers. Had he not himself, as Premier, chosen them? All he had to do was to select a new Prime Minister. He named, not Aristide Briand, as was expected, but Georges Leygues. M. Briand has long aimed to be again Prime Minister, and his friends have made powerful efforts for him. It seemed as if the present juncture had brought the office again within his grasp. But M. Millerand, jealous for an exact continuation of the policies he had laid down as Premier, decided upon a man whose mind would doubtless "more willingly go along with " his own. M. Leygues, who himself had been a Presidential candidate, is a versatile author and publicist; he has written travel sketches, art criticisms, literary at the last minute to issue the fatal order when there was any chance whatever of an agreement. The dreadful results of the miners' strike of 1902, when hundreds of men not miners were thrown out of work and about $60,000,000 in wages was lost, have not been forgotten. Mr. Lloyd George's suggestion was novel and interesting. It was in essence that the miners should receive an advance in wages-their demand is for an increase of about fifty cents a day; but that the amount of the advance should be based on an increase in the output of coal. The Prime Minister points out that heretofore the output has fallen when wages have advanced. Fair play and the public interest makes it right to insist that more pay shall mean more and better work. A basic line below which the output must not fall would be fixed, but at low enough a figure to insure some advances in wages. What is peculiarly interesting about this proposal is the stress that is laid, not upon the high cost of living or the right of collective bargaining, but on the needs of industry and home comfort. Another indication of the new lines of thought in industrial disputes is that the miners themselves for a long time urged that no increase in price to consumers should follow an advance in wages; the demand was contrary to economic good sense, but it at least recognized the fact that the public was a party to the contest. Behind the miners' demand for an advance in wages has loomed the question of nationalization of industries. We are glad to note that when the miners' vote to authorize a strike was taken, all over the country there were strong indications that a large propor tion of British workers showed definite anti-Bolshevist views. Thus in York shire, where the strike vote was by a narrow margin, the leader denounced Mr. Smillie's plans for "nationalization." "I am as much in favor of nationalization as anybody," he said, "but it must come through the ballot-box, that's all." We doubt if it will come at all, but most certainly it is a matter for political discussion, not for the "direct action " which means force and starvation. cases the burning of buildings and indiscriminate shooting in quarters where policemen have been shot down. Really these acts are a sort of lynch law, caused by the frequency of assassinations so carried out that the perpetrators escape legal punishment. The most serious cases have been in the towns of Balbriggan and Trim, where there were concerted attacks by groups of enraged men. Just as the Sinn Fein leaders deny complicity or approval of the shooting of policemen, so the Government officials deny any leaning toward reprisals, and the English press almost unanimously denounces them. General Macready, the commander of military forces in Ireland, has been severely crit icised for saying that if the guerrilla warfare of the Irish republican army continued the situation might become such that reprisals would be necessary. It has been truly said that the pres ent state of this guerrilla warfare, marked by assassination on the one side and lawless reprisals on the other, must, if continued, lead to the negation of all government. But it is easier to point out the evil than to suggest a remedy. To the non-partisan American the line of effort would seem to lie in agreement by statesmen and party leaders on such a measure as would recognize the impossibility of Irish secession from the Empire, grant the fullest possible degree of Home Rule, and protect minorities from oppression by majorities. No such measure would satisfy all factions and divisions of Ireland. But the present situation is so desperate that it seems that any public leader in Ireland would prefer compromise to anarchy. PROGRESS AT RIGA Riga between Russian and Polish delegates seem as we write (September 29) to indicate the probability of agreement for an armistice. The Bolsheviki have materially modified their original outrageous demands at Minsk, especially those which looked toward the sovietizing of Poland. Their so-called ultimatum at Riga still contains a good deal of loose generalization about self-determination and local independence, but it may at least furnish a basis for reasonable argument. Poland has sensibly deprecated academic discussions of idealistic theories, and has consented to have separate commissions take up territorial, economic, and financial questions with a view to the framing of tentative terms of armistice. HE reports from the negotiations at One would feel more confident of a satisfactory outcome at Riga if it were not for the established reputation of the Bolshevist leaders as to bad faith and trickery. Their recent leaning toward moderation is beyond doubt the result of notable Polish successes in the field, such as the capture of the stronghold of Grodno, of the failure of the Reds to advance their lines in other quarters, and of General Wrangel's recent victories in the Crimean region. THE GERMANS USE W HILE we are still at war, our enemy seems, on the economic side at least, to be gaining the victories. Little by little, under enemy pressure, the Treaty of Versailles is being shorn of its more drastic features. As to America, the latest German triumph means the return to active business of the Hamburg-American Line. With the conviction that the pre-war facilities of that line could be utilized to the advantage of our merchant marine, the United States Shipping Board, as represented by the American Ship and Commerce Corporation, and the Hamburg-American Line recently entered into an agreement by which the line becomes the American Corporation's agent in Germany, and the Corporation acts in the same capacity for the German line here. Transatlantic passenger and freight services will be operated between American and German ports, and other services also will be established by our ships between Germany and ports other than ours. The agreement permits each side to operate fifty per cent of the vessels. The Germans have not now a sufficient number of ships to meet this limit. Therefore for the first few years of the twenty-year contract most of the work will be done by American ships and capital. Thus, while the provisions of the agreement seem reciprocal, they really mean that our Government has pledged itself to assist Germany to regain her old footing in the North American, South American, and other trades. The American flag is to cover a German advance. The Germans evidently want to use our ships as a crutch with which to support themselves until they are ready to put their expected tonnage into commission. We are not surprised, therefore, that this announcement has called forth a protest from the American Steamship Owners' Association. It asserts: Even though our Government-owned ships were operated under the American flag, their transfer from our ports to Hamburg by the direction of the Shipping Board, to be handled by the |