The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-05-08
THURSDAY, NAY s, 1873.
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rccupemtion and lis commerce,
and Notwithstanding her fifty years
of political trlbulations, sho is yet
Franco in her beauty, France in
her greatness and France in hor
immortality, The serdare Of her
fields is as green today, as though
the iron of tho cannon wheels had
mover passed over thom, and the
and tho garlands Of Auatcrllz and
of Lodi yet assure her right to
stand among tho proudost nations
of the world aINsr3 e4aG WI
We. nblshcdin our Fridays numbers
statemsnl Of mcreha disc impoI ed frsn
France TO the United States during the
years 1869, 10, II and ~. The ,otal Of
imports amounted last yoar TO $50 5GA, 1917,
Of which Paris alone comes In for $780,.
GS0,S77
Wc have, to day, table Of exports for
America from Germany duriag the SANE
year These exporta amount 10 $3Ll71.
049, that is TO say, $32 1887, 9iS loss than
those OF France, aud 81, 500, S2S less than
the city of Paris alone.
II 10 very truo that French exports have,
during the ht year, had . considerable
inoreass, and from this Il might BIO ar.
gnsd that the iuor.ass Of tho amount 70
which they have attained happens partly
from too great accumulation during The
war, partly frsin nm excess Of dom aud a.
awering to tae oxha,lsticn uf stock on hAsd
during the same parted. There Ia ncfhing
OF this, for, remarkable As iigis, lid a.
portat,un OF French preducts 10 The United
States during Tho period ofthe VOL. and Of
ihsrdoublc siege OF Paris net only did not
diminish but progressed constantly. In
1869, the last gear of he empasI and u yssr
of great industrial and cpmmsrcial. aotiv-
ity, II. amounted to So, 593, 500 il rose 10
S52O63,l7oin l87O, TIE yer ~ Sedan 10
S55, ,bs7 in 1871 efs@&r .efihc Coai.
muae; finally itaroaehsd S69, 1907 n
1872, ,thr year ~, esRtppbtic. 49,, E-AA
There arc In those facts many ten ohiags
pscnlin rly suited 10 persody, who ID spite
Of daily demos STATIONS, persist in pro-
claiming that Fraace is nation degsnsr-l
alto, eifemiDnte, soflenel by ths,euorystiagI
influence Of luxury and the sseking aftsr
lstsrial enjoyments .......srass.-s-a..s,s.,.
Those who hold this language have in.
deed been compelled ,o,adaitf,hSt 10 sci-
"nces, nfiss letters Fr,nce' isthe nation
tho mvsl fruitful the mos, rich, the mos,
dirfusive; and nothing indicates thst she
has lost or is about to lose in this matter
an atom Of her superiority, But, whilst
admitting this truth, they add that sr,s,
letters even, arc a lefnonsut pc culiai' TO
lations which, having rasclicd heir max
imum of development, have slrsady lost
part of their vrility, and verge on the de-
cline. This paradox fails inevitably ".
fore cemmercia statistics, especially II
We consider that those statistics are As-
p.icable, not only to products arising from
hecountry's nalural richness, that is to
say, from The fertility of,hs soil, but also,
and for the greater par, to induajrial pur.
SHIFTS; that IL to say, TO the, immediate
NUTS Of labcri OF activity Of mans vital
and intellectual vitality. 'fli
Thus It's clearly demonstrated to wis.
ever will open his eyes, that France, de-
spite hcr'weakness despite her errors and
despite her disasters, is still and more
than ever in possession Of all her faculties,
Of all her productive powor. The evils let
locss upon her, tho crushing burdens un.
deriwhich she bends, the wounds sls hes
to heal, have neither weakened her cour.
age nor dried np her'vitul power; in the
place efthe broken sword, she has grasped
again the workin$ tSol with a renewed
ardor and will and demands from a.sidu-