INTELLECTUAL ARGENTINA.
HIGH-PRICED POLITICAL LEC- ' TUBES. (By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) Paris,. December 27.' M. Jaures, the well-known journalist and Socialist member of the Chamber of Deputies, has accepted an offer of ,£3200 for a course of twenty, lectures in Argentina during 1911. '
WINDFALLS. FOR POLITICIANS.
• At; the beginning of July JI. Clemenceau, ex-Prime Minister- of. France, sailed, for Buenos Ayres where he had . undertaken to deliver - a series .of lectures in the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, arid Brazil. The ex-Prime Minister informed a representative of the "Figaro" that he was about to devoto his leisure to writing a book on "Democracy" when he received an invitation from an impresario, to deliver the lectures in South America. Tho terms offered were ,£4OO for each lecture,, six . in' - Argentine! .and' Six in Brazil. "As you' are perhaps, aware," ,added JI. Clemenceait ...with ~,aj smile, "I did not-.make-ahy money,'whim; I was in power, and I .must work at'my trade in order to live., I therefore accepted the offer." 1 .; 11l Parliament and-out of it M. Jaures has preached Socialism, and his average contribution to . tho .same cause in his own newspaper has been two or threo columns. Journalism and politics claim his energy iri equal'portions, and politics, to his mind, is the "transformation of individual capital into social: capital, for the physical good of the community, and the highest possible development of., the moral-and intellectual capacities of every/member of it." In the Dreyfus campaign, M. Jaures gave voice and pen to tho cause of the persecuted captain of artillery.; during the Russo-Japanese War lie stood ,up courageously for the "little brown'men"— no small task in Russophile France; and in Franco-German affairs he strongly favours the ploughshare / rather than tho sword. He is 51 years of' age, arid be- i fore entering politics was Professor of ■Philosophy at the. Universities of Albi and Toulouse.- ■
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 5
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