Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-10
FRANCE.

rccupcrntion and its- commerce,
and Notwithstanding her fifty years
of political trlbulations, she Is yet
Franco in her beauty, France in
her greatness aud Franco in her
immortality. The vcrdure OF hcr
fields is as green to-day, as though
the iron Of tho cannon wheels had
never passed over them, and the
and the garlands Of Austcrlitz and
of Lodi yet assure her right to
stand among tho proudcst nations
of the wopld lo
We published in ourFriday's number
statement Of merthas dise imported FROM
France to the United States during tie
years 1869, 20, II and ~. The .olal of
imports amounted lastly year to $50, 5JA9 o7.
of which Paris alone remes in for $685.
680,S77. ~ H
10 Ne have, TO day, table Of exports for
America from Germany durisg the sane
year. These exports amount to S37, III
040, that is to say, So, 1857 ,94s less than
those Of France, aud 81 ,503,s2S less THAI
the city of Paris alone. ts
II 10 very true that French exports have,
during tho lat year, lad a considerable
increase, and from this il might be ar
gusd that the increase of the amount to
which they have attained happens partly
| from too great accumulation duriug the
war, partly from an excess OF demand an
swering TO the exhaustion of stock on hand
during the same period. There is nothing
OF this, for, remarkable as il IL, the ex-
pertrt on Of French products TO the United
States during the period Of the war End Of
the double siege of Paris not only did not
diminish but progressed constantly. In
1869, he last gear of the empire, and 3 year
Of great Industrial and commercial activ-
ity, il amounted. to S. 500, 800 1t rose to
S52, 052, 40 in 1870, the year Of Sedan to
500, 76l 1877 in 1871, Ike year Of The Com.
n,une; finally II reached $69,554s97 in
1872, the year Of the Republic.
There are In these facts many teachings
peculiarly suited. TO persons, who in spite
of daily demonstrations, persist in pro
| claiming that France il "a nation dcg.ner-
ATE, ciIsminate softencd by the encryating
Influence of luxury and the seeking after
material enjoymsnts.
| Those who hold this Language have in.
deed been compelled 10 admit that in SOL
ences, arts, letters, France is the nation
the most fruitful, the most rich, the most
difusive; and nothing indicates ,that ahe
has lost OF is about to lose in this matter
M atom of her superiority. But, whilst
admitting this truth, they add, that srts,
letters even, area refinement peculiar to
nstions which, having reached their max
imum Of development, have already lost
part Of their virilty, and verge on the de-
cline. This paradox fails inevitably be-
| fore csmmercial statistics, especially ii
we consider that those statistics are APP
plicable, net only 70 products arising from
| thu couutrys natural richness, that IL to
say, from the fertility of the soil, but also,
and for the srcater par, TO indusirialrur.
suita !; thatia to say, 10 the immediate
fruits Of lsber, Of activity Of mans vital
and intellectual vitality.
Thus il is clearly demonstrated 10 who
ever will open Ills eyes, that France, de-
1spite her weakness, despite hererrors and
des pito her disasters, is still and more
than ever iu possession Of ali her faculties,
Of all her productive power. The evils LOT
| ooss upon her the crushing burdens I'M
der which she bends, the wounds she has
to heal, have neither weakened her cour-
az. nor dried M her vital power; IN the
place eli th, broken sword, she has erasped
again the working tool with . renewed
| sldor and will, and demands from assidu-
ious labor the reparation of her ruins and
the redemption of her defeat.
In that is for us o great con ISOLATION and
. great honor, especially If We contrast
what is passing among US with what we
see among the people who have obtained
over us the superiority in arms. Whilst
France, Jet pantiag under the victor's foet,
gathers her strength and reno dels hsrself;
whilst every spring is bent, every arm ia
employed, every energy is atwork 10 mid
the mother-csuntry to rise again by multi.
plying products aud furnishing to the
State resources necessary to meet con-
tracted obligations. Germany seeking in
vain, by the concerted action of its writ
ers and OF ell 1aitcrers who arc never
venting to thosein power, TO convince the
werld OF her superiority in all branches Of
human activity; Germany, laden with
laureis and gorged with our billions /;
Germany, in word, which glows and
comm ands, sees her children day by day
fee before so many treasures and 50 much
glory, 10 60 and ask in strange land a
better fate and greater liberty. This is
what tie statistics Of emigration and Of
commerce prove; whilst Frenchmen gath
cred round the saddened meIher-land
farnish tho world with works that require
the most skillful hands and the most re-
fined taste, the youth Of Germany deserts
lis hearihe, its best work menscarry their
labsr elsewhere and its industry furnishes
to expectation only products held in slight
esteem.
Once more there facts should be for us
. cause Of consolation for the past and Of
hope for the future. But at the same time,
they leave us regret that We cannot re-
frsin from expressing, it is, that while
our manufactures have so great demand
on the American market, cur commerce
even here is represented but by small
number Of French intermediates, and that
consequently part Of the elegiiimatc
profits of our industry passes through the
hands Of foreign ones. This is an anomaly
which cannot fail to strike tbs mind, when
we consider Of once the resources offered
10 our French population IN this country.
and the small advantage II takes Of them.
We do not insist on this point, and limit
ourselves 10 this single remark, which in
no wise touches even on the hn rs Of tte
encouraging observations suggested by
The statistics we hava commented on.
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