The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-17
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence Of the HERALD
PARIS. August %.

COCA NulcA - NA~hAAAAOuS1g dOulllLCA
to be a master stroke, and rejecting
the highest honor on Sir Garnet
WOlseley. But some Of the brawl-
ing journals here viii never forgive
the general for not consulting them
on his plan of campaign, or at least
letting them into the secrets of his
movements. The rapidity of Sir
Garnet's coup has evoked all the
dormant hatred against perfde Al
biOn. After sixty-seYen wears o.
peace, Golden treaties and Crimean
joint stock wars, the old Adam is as
virulent in Monsieur to-day as in
1915. 1t is a browning mercy that
England has not been fettered with
any French alliance, and it is fer
vently to be hoped that whenever
she has to look after the greatest
happiness of the greatest number,
the latter being, according to Bui-
wer Lytton, number one, she will
depend solely on her own right arm.
The honor and glory will thus all
belong to her.
Napoleon 1. landed-after bonn
harding Alexandria, July 1, 1898; on
the 23d following, after a battle and
march, he entered Cairo. General
WOlseley now surpasses Bonaparte
in his well known tactics of rapid
ity. Saint Louis, when he invaded
Egypt, landed at Damietta June
1850, but as he passed eight months
praying, instead of marching, the
Egyptians had time to grid up their
lOinS, defeated the French, and took
his majesty prisoner. The Tapidity
and the ability with which Sir
Garnet has opened the ball; the dire
pOsitio in which he places Arab
between three ccnVerging fires; the
making of the canal his base Of
operations, easy to defend and to
dispatch supplies and reinforce
ments to the front, have discounted
the victory. He has not only out
witted the astute Arab, but left
poor deLesseps nothing to do but to
suck his thumbs. and strike off pro
tests as valuable as 1892 aSsignats.
1t is extraordinary the resentment
the masses-the unthinking people,
display against England for Selling
the canal. No language is too
coarse-foul even, and M. de Lesseps
himself uRhappily leads the way, In
his family kilograms" The French
have got it into their heads, that the
canal belongs to them, is the ma
tons property, and to touch it with
out permission, was rank bias
phemy. The canal is simply private
property, on larger scale than
ordinary, constructed by French
engineer, who is apOtheOsiZed for
that werk every twenty-four hours,
just as the happers proclaim diurn-
ally the grandeur Of the Laputan
monarch when sitting down to
meals; executed by cosmopolitan
capital, but where a very large
portion is French, and the revenue,
to the extent of so per cent. is de-
rived from British shipping, next
following in importance Holland
and Spain, then France herself for
fractional part.
The French also have a logic of
their own; al nations, save Eng
land, signed what is called the
neutrality of the canal, namely that
belligerents were to give it wide
berth. This was the more easy for
them to do, as they had no Indian
empire or continental colonies, like
Australia. Bro lignag it seems
must knuckle 0gVn t. the LillipU-
tians. The French forget that ali
nations, save France, recognized the
Sultan's sovereignty over Tunisia.
In occupying temporarily the Suez
canal England has saved that in
valuable highway; and as she loves
peace and has no desire for con-
quests, the protectorate Of the canal
under her auspices can only be in
the interests of general good. 1t is
in the name Of Tewfik that England
acts. 1t is in the name of the BeT
that France keeps off Kroumirs.
France bOmbarded Spax to cut
short the national fire" in Tunisia.
and played Old Harry with private
prOperty-SueZ canals on an hum
bier scale, for which of course She
will settle-0n the back of the
TunisianS, as theEgyptians will nave
topay the piper. When war breaks
out, conventions are scattered to
the winds; philosophers and
diplomatistS are alike reduced to
silence in presence of cannon balls.
And the future Of Egypt, the qsIart
d'helETe de- RdbeIdiS! Deserted bv
the Sultan, the German power and
France, England alone has stood
faithfully by Tewik, has main
tanned his throne by her army and
her feet. The first place henceforth
IN Egypt must be for the English
the influence Of England will be
prepOnderant in the country. and
there is no necessity for reducing If
10 a British province. All the con-
lerenceS Europe may cCnvoke will
not change this inevitable. this ra-
tional end. Europe revised the
San-StefanO treaty, but did Russia
lose thereby all the fruits of her
campaign:
Rest the canal the conference can
here regulate nothing. To exclude
war ships passing through in time
OF peace, that occurs daily: and
which transit supplies half tbe
revenue OF the canal, is simplv
folly. To form collective guaran-
tee Is about the same. In 1854
France and Epolo,,c, - -