New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-19
FRENCH TOPICS.
ru ruENCFAU-THE NEW MINISTRf-IHE
STATE PRINCESSROLAND BONAPARTE.


Tho noltical hero of the hour is NJ. Clemenceau
s,s last speeoh has found an echo in every village,
and extraordinary to relate, the Monarchists them
.elves accord TO it unqualified praise. To judge OF
she potency of the effect we should remember that
NE is the leader of a very small group only, ana Is
not in sympathy with any other section OF tno
chamber. Yet, without swerving hairs prea"'u
from any principle that he has ever asserted III vi
mt of Parliament he carried with him moro
than three-fourths of those wholn :"
addressed. Not to be classed with Tue '"",
uuished, all Gambetta's intimate fouo"'ne w.
with him. They had pledged themselves !" Wv
with the Government; but whon '"oy ' e.
Clemenceau was youting all those who went III ioi
;rtor,,ootion in Eovnt they applauded him and hung
on, if may be allowed 10 use in0'"P'
skirts of his coat. , ,
lie exnressed with nervous strength ciearness
md simplicity the universal feeling. wmch Is ioi
peace policy OF reserve, ana aealnS'
,Antary glory. The French like glory, but not that
won on the field of battle. They went into the wars
of the Republic at the end of the last century WIN
enthusiasm because they were determined 10 oc
liberated from feudal and monarchcsi servtuue. VIC
find in the Marsellaise the explanation oil tne"
martial prowess. Whom Bonaparte was on the steps
of a throne they were in fighting groove anu hc
took care to hold them in it, But the whole eoun-
srv loathed war long before the
hattie of w terloo, and it has never
been SINCE. when taken in the mass, oovetous Oh
1anrels won ON the field of battle The bourgeois
class. which was able to purchase exemption irom
military service, was Caauvnist or lingo from one
time of Louis Philippe's accession to the downiai
of Ions Napoleon. But since the Army has been
democratized they are in community OF leehue
with the plebs whose sons were taken Tor chd~ q
canon. or meat for the cannohS in""'
Gambetta's capital mistake and the source OF al
his late disappoin nents has been in assuming that
n lingo policy will meet with National approval
The Grafton made on the eve of his mothers death,
in which he spoke on this assumption has iound no
echo in the country 1t was listened TO with rapt
attention in the Chambers, but elsewhere only
served as a foil for NJ Clemenceau. The sentiment
,s fashioned 1t has no power To electriiy
III the country wer, palpaby IN danger
NJ Gambetta's eloquence would carry
all before it, But he cannot get the National steam
ND in behalf of capitalists who specialized or III
vested in no gambling spirit, III Egyptian Oohds,
,rbere IL also vague notion that French should
do with the Egyptian serls as they would tha' inc
Prussaus should Go unto Alsatlan ana Lorraine
peasants. sympathy on the whole is rather Win
the feIlabeen than with the bondhoders. In max
ing this assertion do not take into account the
Reds who find gospel truth in the Vaccinations OF
Iouse Michel. for they proclaim themselves the
brethren Of The down-trodden Egyptians. | only
speak of the rural agrcultursts. Ignorant as
they are they BEE in the fellahoen the image OF
the French peasantrv anterior TO the Revolution.
Clemenceau was potent because he gave distinct
form TO an almost universal sentiment UanDeita
had in sailors parance, no weigh upon the vessel.
Hence his failure TO seriously influence either the
Chamber or the country.
A very curious situation arose out OF the victory
of NJ. ClemenceAu. 1t was arranged by
a coalition made up of the Gambettiss
and fragments Of all the other sections except the
Radical Left and the Extreme Left that five members
of the Cabinet were to disappear along with NJ. de
Freycinet and turn up in the administration
formed by his successor They we're to take their
cue from Gambetta and we're committed to
pocy of intervention and a campaign against the
President of the Republic. He is now the Tote de
Dro OF target AT which the Opportunists
fling their best-winged and most poisoned arrows
II was not hard for them to draw MN. Leon Say
and Jules Ferry into campaign
against him. NJ. Wilson, the son-in-law Of NJ
Grevy is the severe critic of NJ. Leon Says budget
and dislikes it's author He has trusgled hard for
the sake of the President TO master his ugnance
for the ontgolng Finance Minister. but has not al
WAYS been successful. NJ. Jules Ferry has consid-
cradle interes; in the Egyptian Bank, OF which his
brother Emile is director, and in his hot advo-
cscv of Intervention in the MlnlSte-
rial Council drew upon himself rebuke
from the long-sufcrng. grave and reserved Pres'-
dent offence was taken. Wounded amour propre
has generated annosity. The breach was widened
by the reproach which NJ Grevy addressed 10 NJ
Ferry on his titude in the Chamber last SATURDAY
Instead of supporting NJ de Frcycinet. as he had
pledged himself to do he left him III the lulch Inc
outgoing Premier was against Intervention IN Egypt
and he and NJ. Goblet wanted to retract the demand
for the miserable credit, which III pursuance with
M. Ciemenceau's recommendation was not
accorded If he had made clean
breast. the Chamber would have enabled him
to reorganlze the Ministry on non-interventlon
basis But he was talked round by the representa-
tiyes IN the Cabinet of the bOndholdmg party VINO
had entered they SAID, into negotiations WIN the
Opportunlsts and received conditional promise OF
their support The condition that Nj. de Frey
einet should tell the Chamber that he would look
upon the refusal Of the credits implying wan' OF
confidence in his Government. NJ Gambetta Kept
ont of the way while the debate was ing on lie
WAS afraid of being forced into the tribune by VI.
Clemcnceau and being made more palpably than he
wished TO share in the defeat OF
the Government. NJ. de Freycinet, as have shown
fell because he entered into arrangement with
the Opportunsts, whose programme has been COM
pietely lepudiated by the Chamber. The Gam
bettisS endeayOTed 10 conceal their true position
by breaking through the pact they had made, and
voting against NJ. de Freycnet.
NJ Grevy has had no easy task in trying TO find a
political man sufficiently null to head bush
ness administration, ana yet respectable enough to
prevent the institution of parliamentary Govern
1nent from becoming object OF rid
icule. NM Gsmbetta, Ferry, Say and de freyciuet
were ont OF the question. NJ. Brisson. when con-
suited. told the President that if he must take
office it would be better not to do so on the eve OF
the recess. lie wanted holiday badly. Apart