The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-06-21
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PARISLETTER
Party contests in France. Struggle be-
tween Capital and Lab0r-Free Trade
-TrOeaderO, The Diamond Saloon
Exhibits, Opening OF :he AgrieIl-
tural shOw-The Dutch.

tuTu SnON-kne Datcn.
From our Regular Correspondent.l
! HOTEL DU LOUVRE,
PARIS, May %, 1873. !
In my last letter I touched lightly
upon the subject Of the proposed Vel
taire Centennial and nov because the
government has refused to tolerate q
public manifestation in its favor, many
cities of the South and West of France
holding advanced republican ideas, have
taken a kind Of revenge by putting the
law in force against religious professions.
This is not only unwise like all such re
taliation. but contrary to the whole
teaching of their own apostle Voltaire,
who protested against fanaticism and in
tolerance. From the serious point of
view of local manners and customs, and
not logic, since the world is not nor
never can be governed by pure reason,
the republicans if they persist in their
blunder viii ALLEVIATE much sympathy
and support. Having witnessed many
of these religious professions, in cities
with mixed creeds-Wimes and Bor
deaux for example, protestants did not
feel offended; as men of the world and
polite, they saluted and bent the knee.
just as they would, had they been pres
ent at the celebration of mass, or re-
ceiving the papal benediction when ac-
corded an interview with the Pope. The
inhabitants regard these professions as
fetes, holidays, and shopkeepers count
upon them to turn an extra honest
penny. Centennials have not yet en-
tered into the manners of France, re
ligious professions in many towns have
and are dear to the rurals, so republic
ans display little worldly wisdom for
their ticket" in saying to the monarch
lists because you prevent our honoring
our Saints. we shall prohibit you cele-
brating yours" Republicans lie under
suspicion of being inclined to reprisals ;
it is the stigma they have inherited from
the First Revolution, when no men were
found capable of directing that move
ment, and 80 allowed civilized society to
relapse into savage state. In life it is
prudent to turn the blind eye to many
things. Then there is the principle of
fraternity" one of the three sacrament
al watchwords. When Danton on the
scaffold, was refused permission by the
executioner to embrace de Sechelles, the
great tribune replied, "Atleast you will
not prevent our heads, in a few minutes,
exchanging kiss in the basket"
The monarchal coalition would be
better employed i'll exercising their pent
up enthusiasm in little outward and
visible show for the exhibition. Though
they have stood aloof from the working
out of that idea, their country is quite
ready TO allow them to participate in the
success. And the Republicans have
quite enough to do in dealing with the
question of commercial treaties, or quail
flied free trade. They may be sound in
their matters, but they are certainly
neither courageous, nor politically prov
ident. The legislature is only dabbling
with the subject, and Italy has put the
screw on France to ratifywithout further
tergiversations, the international treaty
accepted in principle. The cotton man
ufactures and metallurgic interests-all
protectionists seem to have matters
pretty much their own way at present
though they represent not more than
one third of the fabricated products of
the country, and France exyc--s four
times more of raw and mants- -dred
goods, then she imports-hard nuts for
the great industries to crack. But
neither the consumers, nor the mass of
small manufactures take up position,
where the existence of the Republic is
involved The Second Empire, by seiz-
ing the material improvements of the
period, and occupying the ground pre-
pared by economists, lanched into free
trade of a mongrel type, and so scored
its only enduring success France be-
came amazingly rich by reciprocal com
mercial treaties, and if Republicans al.
low the dial of time to be put back, liber-
ais out of work and starving tradesmen.
will speedily demand the regime which
secures them bread and play.
The unfinished state ofthe Trocadero
building is now much felt. in conse-
quence of the continued rain, the sales
there would have drawn off some of the
crowd from the Champ de Mars. tthe
Trocadero as soon as the scaffolding is
taken down, it is run up again. The
coloring of the Concert Hall will be very
rich owing to the predominance ofgold,
and the inches are being filed with
statues of musical celebrities. The Or
iental pavilioDs in the vicinity are we'll
visited the Chinese state room has only
astonished admirers. The Persian pal
ace is in the point of being open it is a
small structure on entering, the visitor
first preceives kind of bath room, that
the Shah is to inaugurate the great at
traction however is the looking glass ST.
lon composed of morsels of mirrors, and
a work of great practice and ingenuity
executed by the two native artizans
They have carpeted the walls and cell
ing of the room with glass, and in addi
ton, there are pendants to resemble
statuettes- The play Of the light is as
tonishingly rich and harmonious, and
. never htigues the eye more than one
! million morsels of glass have been en-
ployed, $500 Of which are required &C
: frame an ordinary window. IF fly has
| ever been Gagged in diamond, as it ha:
, been in amber, it must experience lit
tie of your own sensations. The sale o
! Persian lollypops proving a success spate'
} of roses sirops Of tea and cherries, have
been added to stocks Japan has station
: ed kind OF man housemaid, France
! being the model country, to guard thu
! bamboo summer house, the native is IL
] home dress, which is new for Persian
a d materials seem to be in parchmen
: paper-the newest kind of @shoddy:" b,
: serves kind of golden tea, prepared b!
: wetting the leaf placed in your cup. Ja-
pan also, in her type garden, not onl!
raises her own barn door fowl and frui
f but is growing real tea-Young Hyson
and raising rice. -
On the Champ de Mars, the creuzo
s pavilion has crowds of admirers it i
: the chief iron foundry in France, man
f ufactures locomotives for all countries
England even included.:It exposes
: Nasmyth hammer of so tons, that woult
D crush battalion Of Prussians by blow