The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-02
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Society and Sins in the
ms French Capital. -,
Correspondence of the HnRA1D.j
PARIS, March 1, 1882.

lions has taken place Throughout
the country to fill up vacancies il
the Chamber Of Deputies. The re
suits are what were to be ant1ci
pated-in favor of the Republic
| there being no other Richmond il
the field. The new representative
recognize neither the Gambetta no
| de Freycinct flags; they embod1
more advanced republicanism with
| out implying red raw radicalism
| There IS another important lessor
in the Yerdict-the complete disap-
pointment Of the old governing
classes by hereditary claims. from
| the scene. 1t is the triumph of thai
new couche, pure and simple-the
bo1ETgeoiSje.
So far, all that England has gained
by the breakdown of the negOtia-
tons for the commercial treaty, is
an extension of time, till the 18th
of May, the most favored nation de-
lay, to pack up her bed and walk.
Placing her on a footing with Bel
gium, is a very weak reed on which
English traders ought to lean !; to de-
! velOp their transactions in
other lands should be their objec-
tive. There is nothing at all certain
that the treaties with Belgium,
Switzerland and Holland, will be
defnitively ratified. Nor does Bel
gium reflect the export wants of
England in the matter of cheap cot
tons and woolens. The Belgian sop
at best means very little. If Bng-
land desires to put the screw
on the French prOtectiOnists,
she has no need to resort to retalia-
ton in French imports, that is to
say, luXuries. By simply covering
the duties on Iberian wines and
Continental silks, she will wound
the the export trade Of France in
vulnerable part CT the heel, and Ill
timately force the legislature to re-
peal the principle OF specific duties,
and return to the dd UGIorem plan,
the abandonment OF which has been
the spoke thrown in the wheels by
the prOtectionists, and the cause of
the consequent failure of the nego-
tiations.
There is rather an ugly strike ex-
isting and extending in the coal and
iron districts Of southern France.
The men, 5000, having struck, are
led by extreme socialists, who de-
mand, in word, the possession of
the properties, promising to pay the
owners fair annuities. The 'strik-
lists" parade with red and black
flags, emblematical, perhaps, of
smelling furnaces and collieries,
rather than blood and death. One
Fourniere, young man with the
gift of CAB, assures the work
men that the eyes Of Europe are
upon them, and that now's the day
and now's the hour to free them
selves from chains and slavery.
Clemenceau and two other intranSi-
geant deputies left for the scene to
advise the disaffected, but Four
riere begged them to return to the
peace from whence they came, as
they were simply humbugs. Glenn
eneeau, the rival of ex-Gam-
beta, is very clever man,
because he keeps his hOld-sO far, on
the Jereboam masses, not a single
member Of whom could distinctly
indicate what are the points in
Clemenceau's charter, what his pre-
scriptions are, medical doctor that
he is, for the body polite that he
asserts to be so sick. The strike is
likely to continue, as the bakers,
wine shops and butchers agree 10
accept tickets in payment for sup
plies.
That amusing old girl, whose pet
ticOats and stockings are as red as
her gown-Louise Michel, has sent
her benediction to the socialist
phalanx. She hopes they will soon
be able to march on Paris to set
right the propertied classes, as did
the MarseillaireS formerly. Pend
ing that good time coming, she de-
livered a grave address over the re-
mains of Mile. Ferie, killed in 1870
by the tyrants who stamped out the
commune, though. she only shuffied
off the mortal coil few days ago.
The deceased was brother to the
communist Ferie, shot at Sartory,
and the only member of the band
that died game. I see him now as
if it were but yesterday, against the
stake, smoking his cigar, and cynic-
ally grinning at the twelve soldiers
told off to plant seven bullets in his
body. He fell dead, the cigar still
alight being held only more firmly,
between his teeth. If the shade of
Nine. Tussaud so desires, or J. p.
Barnum would like to have it as
a small parcel in JumbO's
private travelling carriage, [ know
where that remarkable cigar box
can be obtained. 1t might be as
interesting a relic as the slab6ering
bib Of Charlemagne and the first
rattle of Napoleon 1. which figured
in the SOvereigns' Museum here in
the good old days when George the
Third was king.
The Thracians, who went to the
Irish, had the reputation of weak
ness for merry funerals, have been
put into the shade of an old bachelor
of Epernay buried a few days ago,
He was disciple of DemocTitus.
He regulated his funeral i'll adj
vance: the invited were to be
chosen for the joYiallty of their
character: a chorus was engaged to
execute the most cheerful songs be-
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