Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-30
LETTER FROM PARIS.

LETTER FROM PARIS.
DIcTIoN-THR PEARL OF THE w9sr-wHo
PEOPLE ALGERIA-PALN SUNDAY IN PARIS
SPRING TIME-BoNAPART6'S DRATH-CRiME IN
PARIS, RTC.
Especial Correspondence OF TIE Evening Star.l
PARIS, April Is.
Since 1871, France has been practicing the
doctrine OF peace on earth and good Will
| toward men. But she never intended that on
| receiving blows she would abstain from giving
back Sigh for sigh. Indeed, she resembles
those wicked animals. which, when struck, de-
| fend themselves. In the three antagonistic
religions paid by the state, not one Of them
approves OF parishioner. II slapped on the
right cheek. turning round the left to receive
| similar attention. The French have q long
OIL lor compensation against the Bey of Tunis,
or rather against the ladies OF his Bardo. for
the looting excursions OF the Kroumirs-moun.
tanners on the northwestern frontier of
Algeria, whom he claims for subjects, as they
view him as their dependent. The Kroumirs
can muster 20 600 rifles; the standing army OF
ct9oeo. 90 not come up to half that NUMBER
on paper AS the fly finished at lass by
FF ranse wb 5ns hhS9 50 the patience OF
ior Tunislans, at last exhausted, resolved
10 redress her own wrongs and In her
oMn way. LUIS Is tne more necessary, not alone
LOT ner outraged territory and tnsulted honor
out TO maintain her prestige In all her African
| possessions. The MuSsulmans only recognize
force: they see, according TO their own proVerb.
paradise at the muzzle OF their musket; perhaps
at the muzzle of the enemy's would b5 nearer
exactitude. The massacre of the Flatters ex-
poring expedition; the unmistakable signs or
Arabian disanecti0n; the increasing boldness OF
the kroumirS, more than secretly encouraged
by the heir presumptive: the series of snubs
TO which French interests In TuniS had been
tod lavy hi,
inspiring all these proceedings through her
consul, left France only Hobsons choice. The
natlon Is with the government, and every lover
OF 1a1r play must be with the French. IL Is to be
devoutIy wished she will go rapidly to work,
and. while stOrmfng the kroumirs, pay q visit
to the worthless Regent, and since he cannot
the English and Austrian principle. Civiliza-
ton has only to gain by elbowlng Mahomedlsm
out OF the way.
WHAT A STATESMAN PREDICTED.
Provost Paradol (the French minister to
Washington who committed suicide some years
ago In your city observed that the future of
France lay in Africa; it seems to be her mani
fest destiny to absorb in time Tunis and Mo-
rocco-commencing by scientific frontiers and
resident political agents. and to unite AlgIers
to her Senegal possessions Then In about NO
centuries, England spreading from the south
can shake hands with her. No one seriously
believes either that Tunis is part of Turkey,
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reality. What remains integral is Mahom-
edan faith. 1t is as insolent to day as In the
time when crusades were rational Industries;
Its spirit L. Identical with the oath of BajaZet
that he would make his horse eat its oats on
the altar OF St Peters, at Rome. 1t was under
Charles VI that the flower OF French chlv-
a to ne 5 Sy the tine 9sS de sGa
vaded Carthage and Tunis. The "spe
cIal correspondent" on that occasion was
Froissart The expedition. If not brilliant, was
no
miles OF the invaders were heat, drought and
fever; these exist still; form elements In ma
tlonal defence, as snow does In Russia. The
bartties In their prisons; muilstIon, gouging
out eyes, Slicng on ears, nose and Hos aus
dTawing-not teeth, that having been an infdei
monopoly Is soornfully rejected-but nails.
the French could hear the agonizing cries OF
their comrades. Gen. Pellissier retaliated by
smoking or cooking natives In caverns In their
own juice. Le1 tdliOnts.
TUNIs Is THE PEARL
OF the west and signifies ''whiteness," accord
Ing to Oriental poets; the Arabs hence call it
the "ournduS OF the Prophet" Like Constan-
tinople. it is gilded sepulchre, for 1t has min
arets OF 200 nluezztn power, while Inside our
Algeria was an extension of the Regency. The
climate OF Algeria is not tropical, and hence the
source Of many colonizing errors; it is rather a
proiongation OF Provence and LauguedOc It
Woo iOimCIS luc uOuc LOT Sauce r0VolS. the
interior was swamp and dlscord reigned
among the natives as an Institution. Yet the
country was able from 1889 to export wheat
20 9f. provision the French republican army in
trade, but much fraud having been discovered
the accounts were held over for Examination,
The Dey had been mixed up with the thteV1ng
and bis successors pressed for settlement SO
mucn so that on one occasion the Day struck
the French consul with his fan and the claim
was definitely balanced by the French occupy
nnl cfo IL.
under the protection OF entrenched camps,
hence the slow progress OF the colony. Nearly
every INDUSTRY Is at present established In AL
geIla, aLd the imports and exports Which Ia
1881 were only eight millions, francs are to-day
1our hundred millions.
WHO PEOPLE ALGERIA.
Besides the Europeans aud the Israelites, the
three races OF Algeria are. tho Arabs, Kabyles
and Negroes. The Kabyles belong to the
Berbere, or most ancient race; the Arabs ar.
rived In Barbary during the ninth century; not
more than a quarter of a million, pure race,
now exists The Arab has receding forehead
and curbed nose; the Kabyle, square head,
prominent brow and straight nose. The Arab
ls true son OF the desert, and so nomad; the
Ka1yle is also nonadic, but can at the same
area OF France, and It's total population 90
millions. There are 269, 900 monogamists, and
l940s polygamists; there are 3.167 separated
ties In Algeria are: the French, Anglo Maltese,
Spaniards, Italians. Germans and Swiss. The
two latter do not seem to acclimattze, and
rarely marry; the Spanlards succeed best fn
point OF sex; the women adapt themselves
better to tho climate than men-their death
rate being less. Fever Is the most dreaded
than the military population; for in the army
few malad1eS exist and mental aliena-
ton Is unknown. The difficulties In
lands, either by purchase or concession;
the fear OF insurrecLion. thereby necessitating
the presence OF large army, which In the
event OF European war would have to be
recalled; the facilities for quitting the colony
In case of failure; climatrfc Influences 1t Is as
impossible to push the abOrIginals towards the
desert, or to induce them TO rally to the tri-
color. Islamism is the opposite OF republican
ism, and ends In absolutism; however the Ka.
byles, while followers Of the Koran, are essen.
TALLY democratic. Renan says the Kabyles
constitute the only society where police, al
minlstrat1on and government cost nothing, and
are made by the people themselves. The
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