The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-08
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERAID.)
PARIS. September ID.


Nothing pays SO well at present,
as abusing the English. The latter
do well to show themselves SUI
premely Indifferent at the outbreak
of womanly spite, and to laugh at
white heat chanvinism. But it is
to be hoped, the moral will not be
lost, and that theiFrench will hence
forward be allowed to count no
more on pertide Albion. No other
people butlthe English went out of
their way to humor the French,
gave too much attention to them,
and hence, the very natural reward.
Hitherto denouncinga Gambetta,
cursing Bonapartism, abusing the
church, while, extending the three,
operations to the Germans, sufficed
to keep the. vast majority of the
papers IL pabulum, but all are as
nothing compared with the abom-
nations of England, in daring to
back up her threats, when France
eat so much humble pie as to suffer
from indigestion--even still.
When such a travelled Thane as
de Lesseps, calls the English, not
only in his hasty but i'm his
cool moments, bandits and bar
barians, and deliberately colum-
mates the conduct of the troops,
while openly playing into the
hands of Arab, what can you
expect from the onaoattonS de Pan
Guge2 The Petit Journal. having
the largest circulation in the world,
and which lived for three months
on the Troppmann murder, alone,
promises to thrive equally as long,
by vituperating England. The one
OF two journals that had the cour-
age to remind the nation, they were
| laboring under a delusion and Illus
ions in their hate against England,
have given up the task as useless.
It would be quite foreign to French
character to hear the other side ;once
the vanity seethes, judgment is
swamped; hence why the simple,
official denials to de Lesseps'
imaginary creations, are not pub
Iished.
To have branded England as bar
barian and filibusterer, forgetting
the smoking of the cavern tactics to
suffocate women and children in Al
geria by General Pelissier, and the
Selling of Tunisia in place of Krou-
mirs-has done more to enhance the
popularity Of DeLeSseps in the eyes
of his countrymen than his having
made the Suez Canal, and prepared
an ocean highway for Panama
There is this curious solidarity to
remark: While the newspapers here
as by a mot d'or6IFe, maintain a
silent attitude towards the attacks
Of the Italians and the Spaniards
against France, they are as unani
nous as a pack in their howl
. ing and guashing against Eng
land, who only committed thu
blunder of being too con
descending for the souls II
scare the unity of the Latin race
to death, Punch or Puck has Onl,
to suggest the union of the Anglo
I Saxons and the Teutons. England
las now shaken off France, happily
let her remain, while rejoicing il
$ being free to settle her own affair
in her own way, ever ready t.
strengthen her arguments wit
Woolwich infants, Cuttings an,
Nordenfeldts. No more gush; n
more palaver; no more o71te71teS COZ
diazeS alliances; stroking down tn
grain, and similar misplaced pleas
.. antries, which the French swallow
with the facility Of g0gO. LIE
England rest true to herself, an
naught shall make her rue.
Mr. Leny-Beaulieu is perhaps tn
only Frenchman who sincerely be
lieYes that France, like the Chase
pots at Mantua, is capable of Worl
8 ing marvels in the way of colonies
ton. Prevost-Paradol labored III
!; der the mild delusion that, befo1
~ the millennium, northern Afric
would be peopled with 100000 {
8. Frenchmen. M. Beaulieu holds thu
= France, once in possession of Al
@ nam, could work her way owe
n southern China and Thibet. On
H day dream is as good as anothe
u The French have not so much th
genius as the ambition for colonie
but in the sense of conquest
their efforts at the slow, ploddin
work of colonization, have not bee
successful. In Algeria, every SUI
ceeding year, sees some ne
plan for the settlement of tn;
country employed, so that it ha
become byword to suggest that
@ France desires to cripple Germany
she ought to make Bismarck gi.
g of Algeria. And as if she had NJ
De enough Of Kroumirs TO deal with
Tunisia, she is on the run fl
Attiers, in Madagascar. No; EN-
= grafton is not popular in Franc
The young blood prefers the Boul
!" wards and short commons, to distar
lands and new homes made wealth
by hard work. She has no offieia
r capable of developing her coleni
possessions; such appointments Al
so many pigeon holes for played Of
politicians. To found colonies, boz
and sineW rather than money a
the essentials. Now France has l
population for hiring off. tt
French are not emiglants; on Il
Z other hand they are Immigrants {
an extensive scale-from the ecu
try to the chief cities. Foreigne
add to her souls.
The French association for ii
l. advancement of science does usef
work in itS wav Tho c,roo+ obio