The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-12-10
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
PARIS. November Is.


The abominable and continued
wet weather ought to be very fav-
orable to the French revenue; the
Minister of Finance, Tirard, who
commenced life as a working Jewell
Ter. has been the victim of a sell"
to the tune of 100,000,000 francs
in the estimates. He depended on
that excess to work wonders, but
when looked into, IL was found TO
be only one of those heeLing shows
for mans illusion given. The joke
is, that he attributed the success to
the bad weather; then people keep
within dOols and so must consume,
that is TO say, eat, drink, and smoke
more, as antidote, possibly against
the blue devils. The ministry is
still in Office, and thai is ia itself not
a small matter. The deputies are
evidently in a brown study; they
are willing to wound, but afraid to
strike. They commence to feel the
republic cannot sustain indefinitely,
the game Of ms and outs, it has
come home to not few, that the
present form of government has
lost sway, in the sense that public
opinion commences to remain coy.
M. AndrieuX, the late ambassador
to Madrid, has not so much
discovered, as announced this truth,
and his declaration has created
something like sensation. 1t was
that gentleman, who as project of
police, executed the DEGREES for the
expulsion of the Jews, and he has
now made his nleG cltlpG for that
act. No matter whom the truth
may displease, the truth is, the re-
public has not had luck since it COM
menced dabbling in religious affairs.
The ministry deserves credit for
its pluck in declining to accept any
reduction of the estimate under the
head of religious endowments.
Nothing is to be gained by docking
| Of few thousand francs here and
there on the incomes of parish cur
ates or bishops, priests and deacons,
That is only back-handed way for
DISTINGUISHING the church. Pro
pose the disestablishment formally,
demanded the cabinet, challenge
very correct, only the minister de-
clined to state what his opinion was.
Gambetta is quite right; to decree
the separation Of church and state
would, he maintains, be at the same
time to decree the death of the re-
public. Notwithstanding, the cham
Der disallowed in one OF its Sittings,
over one million of francs for episco-
pal services, but the next moment
it voted the curtailment. One re-
turns ever to this first love.
/ The radicals and anarchists keep
the town amused politically, though
lookers-on cannot help wishing a
plague on both the houses, Clemen-
ceau is making terrible efforts to
regain his lost affection with the
populace-but that love, like life,
| once lost, is lost forever. Not a
i meeting he organizes, but the
anarchists manage to gain admit
lance, and as their motto is,let moth
ing exist, they quickly clear the
places of re-2G7aion. Then the Red
i Virgin, Louise Michel arise. She
| is got rid of by turning off the gas
q plan much superior to shying legs
of tables and arm-chairs at her
head. as at Brussels. There is very
little dynamite now employed, and
even the dispatch of threatening
letters has fallen to zero.
Politics SO much devour attention,
that the literary and scientific re-
unions that were once SO fashiona-
BILE and instructive, are becoming
things of the past. Many deputies.
! conspicuous by their impracticable
politics, make excellent lecturers:
Louis Blanc, Paul Bert, sc. Now,
such feasts of reason are put aside
only politics pays. 1t is very ques'
tionable if literature be as highly
priced or patronized as for
merly; certainly there is
less enthusiasm for even
the drama. Good music at
tracts; and the diminished receipts
at the theatres where buffoonery is
the piece de resistance do not un
happily imply progress in serenity
: of manners, but rather an indisposi.
: ton to patronize nonsense at a high
price, because the cafes concerts alb
: sorb the audiences, which formed
: the habitues Of establishments de-
voted to operette and vaudeville.
III The French display another
change of character deserving TO be
: noticed. Till lately, any specula
ton, whether home or foreign, il
we'll pulled and holding out extra
:; ordinary high dividends, was certain
to find gogoS; now nothing of the
kind can even obtain a nibble. Tht
: resolution appears to be, to invest
t in no scrip or stock, but to depend
: on the old stocking or a hole in thu
\ wall, as the surest of bankers
I | People appear to believe there i.
, something in the air; a financial o.
political cataclysm, that will SWEEP
: away banks and projects. Thi
want of confidence is telling Oh
industry, in the sense, that capita
n cannot be obtained either to extenC
r sound old, or install new industries
9 In Paris the dangerous classe
never were so rampant. Tn
y habitual criminal is at hom
= in the capital. There is mucl
3 decentralization abroad caused b.
the ceaseless passion to become rio
7 without labor; to put money in tn
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