The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-28
THE FRENCH.
Politics and Points,
Correspondence of the HERALD.)
PARIS, Dec IL, 1881.

PARIS, DaC IL, 1881.
The Gambe:ta ministry will be
''grand" by Is programme, its
thorough unity of views, the COM
parative youthtulness, real talent OF it's
members, and personal admiration
for their chief, who will communicate
to them III return, his energy and
tact, to execut,. methodized reforms,
not all at once, but in rotation, COM
| mencing at first with the most press
ing. And note well, the reforms on
the roster are those imperatively de-
manded by the nation, as we'll as by
the democratic spirit of the age. TIC
carry these cut requires not so much
a long pull, as a strong pull and a
pull altogether. The homogeneity oil
the cabinet--the first of its kind since
1870. snI its young blood, may be
safely assumed as equal TO the task,
paul | know, blu! who are ye ?''
might be applied 10 the new min
| listers.
Ot VI Gambetta, time has strongly
placed its mask Oh him: his forehead
| ~ we'll urr0WtO; the corners Of bis
| eyes ar Getply crow footed; be Is
Arcled: his hair. once 80 thick aDd
that he hau the habit of shaking like
| ii llCu's name when ia an OratOrlcal
passlOn, Is now nearly white and get
ing lniB: soon ne will 6e bald-a
stage Faid to be essential for ministers
and cashiers. Experience has pruned
the political excuses OF youth,
and he has mellowed down to be. not
a theorellcsl and physiological re-
publican, but pratlcsi and concrete
statesman. One part Of his char
acter has never changed-fidelity to
faithful friends and thorough jnven-
lie love for intimate private life
His under secretary for foreign affairs
is M.Spuller, a very able man. little
grave, in the prime Of life; infexlble
IN all that is right. and Gsmbetta's
fdus a chGteS, be will die where he
clings. Being now minister, Gam
BETA possesses the right to speak in
the Senate, where he will re-meet de
Broglie, Buffet, Chesnelong and eli
the grdtiR OF the republic enemies.
But the foeman that be will deem
most worthy of his steel, will be Jules
Simon, who has never forgiven Gam
BETA for superseding him in the chief
iainshlp OF the republicans. Count
upon Pitt and Eek oratorical war.
There is only one senator in the
CABINET, Cszot, who retains his post
of Minister OF Justice. He is fam
linrly called "Danton, "not from his
audacity, butfrom his laundering bass
voice. He wears speCtacles, not to
perceive objects better, but to prevent
people looking into his eyes. He is
a silent, solitary man, would pass an
noticed in any throng; the Empire
exiled him, yet he Is upbraided-
since imitation is the best Of fl ettery,
with NhpoleoHism, because he has
adapted the First EmperoT's habit OF
walking and talking with hands be-
bind his back. HIS work is to reca.t
the judicial bench. to weed out the
monarchical Judges, abolish a most of
useless tribunals, pay judges better,
and crush the system of promotion
where thrift follows taWning.
NJ. Gongeard, the First Lord OF the
Admiralty, is simple navy captain:
during the invasion Gsmbetta made
him a general, as he found the land
Iuobers unequal to such posts: the
lmprovised general was taught to
ride in twenty Tour hours, apd then
sat in the saddle as if at home on the
quarter deck similar to those duel
lists who take their frat lessons 10
fencing and become cunning, the
night proceeding the meet-like M
de MortebellO last week, vino kept
the renowned swordsman Paul de
Cassagnac Of sixteen duel-fame, at
bay for fifty minutes. M. Gougesrd
is the smallest man in France,
smaller even than Louis Blanc. On
board chip when he could not be
found, the wags searched for him frat
inside the pinnacle. II he be hence
lort1 lost 10 sight, be will certainly
be discovered inside his ministerial
portfolio He swept away twenty
abuses-nearly one per hour during
the first day be was in office.
General Campenon. the War min
lister, is the most smIabls of men in
private life, but once on duty, com
bination OF the Spartan and the hedge
hog. He, when captain in Decen Der
1851, returned his sword to his col.
onel, rather than take part in the
Coup d. E;at; for this honorable step
he was exlled, while others who aided
the crime, like Canrobert rose to be q
marshal. Campenon emigrated to
Tunisia; during the invasion he dis
tinguished himself at the head o..
cavalry charges at st. Privat. Paul
Bert is q distinguished SarrQnt, the
pitiless vivisecter of crocodiles, dogs,
rabbits guinea .pigs-and the religious
orders. As minister OF instruction.
he will il he can, laicise every mon.
astio and convent school in the
country; he is also minister Tor toe
religions endowed by the State: yet
he does not believe 10 the Apostles.
or any other creed, nor even Ill un-
iversal light like Louis Blanc, or the
grand immensely, as Victor Hugo,
still less in a God in process CT Gre
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