These speeches, and others, show how serious are the class divisions existing in France. The proletarian accuses the bourgeoisie of selfishness and a pig-headed determination to give nothing away. The bourgeoisie is convinced that one concession will lead to another until everything has gone. When one side shows a desire for calm discussion, the other interprets it as a sign of weakness and comes all the harder in pursuit of its own aims. The workman who feels that he is being persistently kept under has no mind to increase production, and so the national revival ig hampered fo a degree that would have appeared incredible while the war went on and Frenchmen were united against the common. enol A writer in the "Temps? suggested yesterday that it would be a very good thing to send French materials to_ Germany to be worked up. Skilled Italian workmen are now being brought to France and paid 40 francs a day, and the writer remarked that ft would be far more practical to get the work done by Germans in Germany at a Wage of 40 marks a day, but he put the idea forward in a tentative sort of way, as if he had no faith in its ever being carried out, but rather with a feeling that Governments or politicians or masters or men would be sure to get into opposition over it.
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