The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-13
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
toOrrespondence of the HERA1Dl

PARIS, July &c.
Not only in her own interests, bu'
in those of civilization, it is to b.
hoped that England will no longel
hesitate to finish with Arab, ant
occupy Cairo. The conference il
but a fasco, and to depend upoI
France striking in is the weakes
of reeds on which to lean. French
opinion has again swung round Il
aDstention. The popular feeling
undoubtedly is that France ought
this time, not to save England, a.
she did at the Crimea, and so I'D
minister her the lesson she deserves
for betraying France at Mexico
backing Que of the Danish question
and deserving her pending the Prus
sian invasion. One might be ex
cused laughing at all this, only
events allow Of no time for one
splitting his sides at the stuff and
nonsense a certain press reIterates,
but over which the educated classes
grieve. 1t only merits the honor OF
being alluded to, in order to urge
England 10 lose no precious mo-
ments in ally-hunting and building
campaigns on the baseless fabric OF
visions. She has the p0wer-l3t
her use it. and win her respect and
fear. She defends the cause of hui
manity against Egyptian rCwdies,
and of Christianity against the re-
vival of Islam saYagery. III 81
France is also paralyzed by the
fear that her terrible foe, Bismarck
has man-traps and spring-guns set
for her in the background. She hugs
the illusion that a time, viii come
the millennium perhaps-wheh all
other nations will be flying at, each
others throats, and she, as happy as
a mouse in a Dutch cheese, looking
into the cockpit, ready to step in
and seize what she pleaSes, when
the lions and the bears shall be
PROSTATE from mutual struggle this
is the day dream of. France, Sending
few. Thousand men t. guard the
canal, really 10 cans establishing q
right TO contIof it with England, for
in addition to possessing the glory
of. having made the canal, with cos
mopolitan shareholders, France has
got it into her head this ought to
somewhat out weigh the predomin-
ant material interests and claims of
others. .g.... ....-.
Bismarck, who puts Mother Ship
ton and Nost~ad mus in the shade,
predicted a dozen years ago that
England would be compelled tC
take possession of Egypt, and that
she would succeed, after severe
fighting. By Difference for Euro
pean cOncert-that only exists on
paper, and for French cooperation
that only a diplomatist could be
induced to expect, England lost a
good deal in the tide by not taking
it at the flood. Arab, from a rebel,
has become a dictator. 1t took
$4,000 English troops TO crush the
ADyssinianS, yet the latter annlhl-
lated the Egyptian army at single
blow. Arab had $4,000 picked
soldiers at Alexandra. yet they
bOlted under the treacherous
display OF nag OF truce,
and feared to oppose 1,20O blue
Jackets. Proclaimed, abandoned,
and deprived of his best war mate
rial. Arabi still holds out, because
the slowness of European prepare
tions impartS 10 him the appearance
of strength. For few thousands Of
troops, Arab for some days
more, represents no resistance; but
the Nile is in his favor; it mounts,
and by the middle of August, he can
cut the dykes and flood the Delta, d
calamity that will destroy tive
harvests, and create more ruin than
the sack and massacre OF AleXan-
dria. England must not now allow
herself to be Outstripped by the
Turks: still less commit the fault of
the French in Tunisia avoiding the
centre of resistance. Go at the knot,
cut it, occupy Alexandria, a fine
commercial post, and that can be
made something between a Malta
and a Gibraltar, secure Cairo for
health's sake; make friends with
the Abyssinians, and play off the
dissenting against the orthodox
Mohomedans; promise TO quit
Egypt when all is serene, but take
out leases for property, while grass
grows and water runs. Let Eng
land have none than a political res
ident near the Khedive, and having
put the house in apple pie order, re-
mind the European sons of har.
mGny: Gen lemen. since you TOOK
no part in the difficulties, do not
count upon any share in the sue
cess.
We are still in the statue mania
there is no good reason why the re
publrcans ought not 10 immortal.zt
| tier worthless in bronze and marble
as did Napoleon Ill. his pedigree al
u cles and aunts. R3belais is a.
least as deserving of the state,
contributing few old bronze caa
mons 10 cast his effigy, as was Car
| dinal FeSch, anu certainly Roget d.
iFIsle, has greater claims to nationa
gratitpde-though republicans le
him die pauper, than the Que Ell
| Hortense or the Empress j Josephine
The statue in question has beer
erected at ChOisy -le-ROi, the suburb
where he died, but another is il
preparation for mis- birth place in I'll,
| JuIa. Roget Was one of a family O
seven children, and became a soldi
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