The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-23
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERA1D.j
PARIS. March 20, 1852.

less duels. Comedy after tragedy
Though one of the meets had
selected pistols, the balls missed-as
they ever do, were as harmless as
sword thrusts. Perhaps the hair.
triggers are as lleadless as Tommy
Moore's famous pea shooter. M.
Gambetta's young lieutenant
Reinacb, sent a challenge to Roche
fort, but the latter declined, assert
ing it was he who had been insulted
by Gambetta publishing false pri-
vate papers, under cover of Reinach,
rejecting on Rochefort's devotion
to the commune; by asserting at a
psychologist moment, when the eX-
Lanternier was not onlylikely to be
convicted, but condemned to death,
he made his recantation. Tile affair
is screaming farce.
The presidency of the Budget
commission has been conferred on
M. Wilson, NJ. GTevy's son-in-law.
1t is the most important HONORARY
Office in the gift of the Chamber,
and hitherto has been filled by
Messrs. Gambetta and Brisson.
Some see in the nomination a check
again for Gambetta; others. a
naea11e7ltO mort to M. Say. The fact
is M. Wilson is a young financier of
promise, and although he ran
through his own private fortune in
his early salad days. he is not likely
to squander that of France, particu-
larly as ne has thirty-two colleagues
to keep him straight. Reformed
rakes are said to make excellent
husbands.
The battle between the protec-
zionist and free trade chambers of
commerce has recommended. If
England desires to throw her weight
into the debate, she has only to
undertake negotiations with Spain
ETC., for admitting wines, silks, and
fancy goods. The grand illusion the
French labor under is, that Eng
land being free trader to the marrow
of her bones, will never depart from
her principles. If the latter do not
turn with times, as tenets do with
books, their application can be
different. New Kings arise that do
not know Joseph, and new genera
tons that consider their grand
fathers Old-fashiOned. In 1860, no
one in France believed that the ex-
ports of the country would be struck
twenty years later by the United
States, with duties varying from
so to 20 per cent. Australia and
California are treading on the kibes
of France in the matter Of wines
in proportion as England and Ger
many advance in art education,
they will press France more in
conveniently in her other staple
wares articles of luxury and deni-
luxury; when France loses the re-
putation of being able to compete, her
commerce and industry will largely
resemble last years almanac. Thus
things that cannot be repaired
iii this world : time and reputation.
The class of imports that every ma
ton regards as a Turks head on
which to strike-fancy goods, is
that on which chancellOrs of eX-
chequeTs also keep an Argus eye.
French champagne manufacturers
bave just received a scare, by the
decision of Austria to handicap
their produce one franc bottle;
this ought not to make them in
different to treaties of commerce;
one good binding clause would be
worth more, in point of security,
than a confident faith, as robust
even as to remove mountains, in a
syllibus deviation of Englishmen
not to tax foreign luXuries, when
stormy winds commence to blow.
The CoEZectiUiSteS must not be lost
sight of. They constitute the wild
est type of wild politicians in
France. They consider Gambetta,
Rochefort and Clemenceau as six of
one and half dozen of another.
The latter two have ever upbraided
GaInbetta a8ddeFreycinct with pro-
Tossing sympathy for the prOtetGrieS,
but introducing no legislative meas
ureS for their amelioratiOn. Glenn
'enceau and company are now being
hoist with their own petard they
were invited a few evenings ago to
"a meeting of the socialists; they
were conspicuous by their absence;
the audience condemned that Shirk-
ing, and denounced Clemenceau for
not bringing in any bills-since the
tribune of the Chamber is
free to him for curing life's worst
ills. This is good warfare, and is
salutary evidence that populace
are, henceforth, not TO be caught by
chaff or windbagism. One Oratrice,
Cheyenne Rouzade, is ever an agree
able interlude. She is still pretty,
despite her uncertain age, dresses
with extreme neatness and taste.
Here ideas are, compulsory work,
like obligatory education, five per
cent. to capitalists, and ali the rest
to labor.
M. Gambetta has at last entered
the lists against the Cabinet. Both
have presented army reform bills.
The latter in common accept three
instead Of five years service; en-
gageme1t at seventeen years as vol
unteers But where the schemes
differ is, in excepting certain classes
of conlcriptS. Gambetta excerpts
none, rot even divinity students; ;.
the ministerial measure has columns
of exceptions, as long as Homer
list OF ships. 1t will be a fine Occa
sion for the ODpOSitioD TO step in