M. Clemenceau delivered an extremely strong speech against anti-militarism when
unveiling a statue of M. Rene Goblet at Amiens on Monday. In praising M. Goblet, who did so much both as Minister and journalist for the consolida- tion of the existing regime, M. Clemenceau said (we quote the Paris correspondent of the Times) that it was the misfortune of the present day that it was necessary for Frenchmen to speak up for France. They must, however, submit to that humiliation. The doctrine, if delirium could be called by such it name, that it would be right for Frenchmen to turn their arms against their fellow-citizens at the moment when the existence of the nation was at stake had only recently attained so repug- nant a precision. Who could have foreseen the time when Frenchmen themselves would surpass the fury of the foreigner against France ? As the Times correspondent remarks, M. Clemenceau has a great body of opinion behind him when be attacks the detestable teaching of MM. Herve and Jaures, and if lie carries the attack into the Chamber he may have the means of restoring some of the declining power of his Ministry.
