The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-03
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Correspondence ofthe HRRALD.)
PARIS, November 9, 1881

Correspondence ofthe HERALD.)
PARIS, November 9, 1881
Pending the arrival of Gambe!ts,
not to poWer-tor there he has ever
been installed, bat to the PRIMER
ship; or to the 4uillotiae, to which a
public m9eting of communist has
condemned him out OF gratitude for
obtaining their amnesty; or the
ACCOMPLISHMENT of Jesse Helfmspn; or
q veracious war dispatch from Tunis-
| ia; or the execution of commercial
treaty with any European power or
the king OF the Csnnibal islands,
the. French are turning their attention
to their surplus stock OF ticket-of.
leave men-a class sNarming in Paris,
| and who cause the police extra work
| without augmented pay. Of the
40, 900 arrests annually made in
Paris, one-third are goal-birds, and
the latter since two years, have in
creased by 2,400. N. Gambetta, at
his famous Caucus meeting at Bsller-
ville,, and where tae sovereign people
refused to hear him, threatened to
find the drunken slaves" before him
in their"dens." It is he who is activ
ely engaged either in insisting on the
existing laws being applied, or new
ones enacted: hance his opponents
charge him with practising revenge.
The truth is, having ouch an extensive
scum population In the capitol,
very dangerous element remains at
the beck of demagogue, the latter
also commencing to unpleasaDtly
swarm. The code confers important
powers on the Judge in his dealing
with the professional criminals: be
can even order them to be branded
not on the forehead, but on the right
shoulder. and if needs. condemn them
to death. The chances Of a rogue
unless he be fnancier, ever regain
ing a social position after q condemn
alton, are sgainst him. But if after
sWindling and purging his incarcer-
alton, he succeed to acquire wealth by
3 happy speculation, and practises
ostentatious piety, though his sins
were as scarlet, he will be made as
white as snow. Even virtuous
people will condecend to borrow
money frem him, and he will be
eligible to crown the village UO5iere.
On the contrary, if be be poor, though
sir cerely repenIant, be must bide bis
time, till be arrives in the other world,
to reap his reward. The reformatory
prisons of France-if some judges are
to be believed, are veritable nurseries
of crime. Then the prisons are full,
and France has no Crusoe isle where
she can loCalise her psriahs. At Cay
enne, the great difficulty is with the
reformed convicts, who have served
their time: they are not reshipped;
they will persist in not dying; they
can obtain no occasion to pursue their
lawful oalling-even en- week days.
for it il penal settlement. a watch
maker on beirg arrested there several
times for vsgabondage, declared be
would be only too happy to be en-
ployed, but like the frozen out garden.
ers, be could get no work to do; all
the watches we're owned by the
officials, who would never entrust
him even with look at one. Unable
to OBTAIN an occupation. Eshunned by
honesty, the ticket. of-leave man
drops into that most miserable of all
classes-those who have no hope.
He becomes the aide de-csmp of
prostitutes: he knows he cannot be
executed. that in Jail be must be
boarded and lodged, the state further
undertaking to pay his washer
woman's bill, and save him from the
snxieiies Of quarter day.
What to do with the habitual
criminals, is becoming a more par
amount question then even the re-
form Of the Senate, which is doome1
to death, bat ia.ed not to die. The
pstricisns still persist in having 9
will OF their own: but il ten righteous
Can be found among them, prepared
to register. as matter of course, all
measures sent up 10 them from the
Chamber, the institution will be
spared. For the moment the CUES
ton popped to the senators is, with
what sauce would you like to be
esten?"
The bedlssm political reunions
augment, as do slso their represent
stives journals. Timid souls are
frightened at these intellectual dis
orders. But these violences of the
press can only fortify liberty, and the
disoTdered discussions but consolid-
ate the Republic. There is 10 room
in any constitution for the holders
OF the savage doctrines proclaimed.
There can be no instruction against
the will OF the country. It is only to
be hoped, that if incorporate speech
es degenerate into unlawful acis, the
government will be equal to the
occasion. It was the republic that |
crushed out the Commune.
Reading NJ. Adolphe Julie'ns new |
volume "La Vile ct Ia Couir" during |
the eighteenth century, there is q |
capital description given about Marie |
Antoinette, who, deeply absorbed in
music,-snd plotting, represented |
the Court, while the philosophers, |
despising the harmony of sweet |