The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-20
FRANCE.
Politic In the Young Republic
Society Notes AMI News
Correspondence ofthe HBRALD.)
PARIS, October 26.


Correspondence ofthe HsRALD1 -
PARIS. October 90.
Opiniun commences to think that
Rocheicrt and his journsl are carry
ing practical joking too far. Were
Frence accustomed TO free writing
and free public meetings, the non.
sense would be simply nonsense, but
unfortunately. fair number OF fools
accept the clap-trap as gospel. When
the Jacobins commenced business
they were only 600 strong, bat in the
end they ruled and ruined. The
communists at frst counted but
l, 500, yet they we're thousands in
March 1881. A new political fashion
is springing up, shat OF the people
forming themselves into q tribunal,
TO accuse, testify against, and con-
denim, como individual more or less
eboxnious in their eyes. A ster
further, and they would be exc.
cutioners also. One of these gather.
ings has just taken place. ThaI
political virago, Louise Michel
recommends the cat-o-nine tails and
putting into irons, of all public op
pressors and scheming representa-.
tives. One orator indicated, that the
accused before the Areopagas j
found guilty. ought to be gotren ridof
he did not even indicate the means
When Felix Pyat spoke in that style
he always alluded to the invaluable
aid the smallest of pistol balls coulC
afford in disposing of Napoleon III
Respecting the meeting ia question
one Sullier was judged, and voted tC
the indignation of all honest men
those of posterity Included. Two OIL
the indictments were. that at the
breaking out of the commune. be
connived at the escape from Paris, o
M. Theirs and his colleagues; next
permitting a line regiment to follow
in their wake with all the honors o
war. and lastly. accepted money t
open the gates of Paris to the regular
army 10 May 1881. Ciambetts is tht
next to be put on the empty stool o
repentance. The'verdict in his case
may be anticipated. Happily he i;
presumed to be in Switzerland
Many persona attend these reunions
for funis sake, to applaud the tai
talk, and enjoy the emotions of hear
ing public persons being abused. The
price of admission is only five sous. 8;
farthe evil is net important, bat mis- b
become a serious danger, wher
stormy winds commenced to blow.
M. Faurelle in his pamphlet
France in Ruins" claims to have
discovered the cause of all her mis-
fortunes and decAdence. It is to be
found in the increasing poverty oil
the soil and the studied neglect O.
agriculture. The land being ex-
hausted, cannot afford the necessary
stamina to the plants it bears; hence
a population insuMciently fed: result
disease, dwarfshness in stature, and
elimination of inhabitants. Tht
same cause, the author alleges, hsl
necessitsted the lowering of the stan
dard height for conccripts. The lat
ter national misery is not exact; the
military surgeons feuno, that the
smaller men had just as good neck
and thorscic muscles for holding 6
musket straight as the taller braves.
No doubt the ups and downs of the
commercial treaty will in due time be
dram Atized or worked as feull Teton.
Thechief difficulty in the whole affair
lies, il the legislature having, under
the influences of protective interests,
and the incompetency of ministry,
placed the French negotistors in the
inpossibllity to negotiate. France
was quite free to- vote the specific
duties, but her hand forget its cum
ming, III concluding that the second
party e. the bargain, would accept
such on ''the swallow it dog" princl.
pie. II EDglord desires to renew the
treaty, even Ou the pseudo-libera
lines OF the Golden treaty; if abe
wishes well even TO France herself,
she cannot tell the latter too plainly,
that Der mind is made up to have nc
treaty, rather than \ one sided affair
and also that the existence O!
English trade neither depends upon
nor is 1t at the mercy of French Gus
TONERS. However, it would be q
mistake on the part of John Bull tt
nclude,the accession of a GamheIta
ministry Won d put an end to all TIE
tergiVssations on the part of France
M. Gambetta is presumed to be free.
trader, but the extreme caution which
he has sedulously observed. never, up
to the present, to proclaim himself
such, speaks volumes. Iudividu-
ally, he may be as commercially
liberal as Napoleon III. bat his cab.
met, like his party, would no: be all
OF his way of thinking. Out OF the
$50 deputies elected. only two alluded
to free trade in their electoral ad-
dresses. Farther, the political essi-
ton 0f N Gamhefta 10 nat 81 Ill