The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-29
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERALD j
PARIS, October ).

A very few journals, or rather
writers therein, continue to make a
speciality of reclaimipg for France
by right of treaty, the joint govern
ment of Egypt with England. But
public opinion does not follow these
easuists. l have conversed with very
many Frenchmen on the Egyptian
question, who have the Nile on the
brain, but [ could never get them to
distinctly formulate in what French
interests in the land of Pharaoh diff
fered from those of Italy, Greece,
etc. Frenchmen cannot see, they
being dazed at EngIand's dashing
success, that in declining to uphold
the authority of the Khedive, they
have forfeited their rights to any
special privileges he conferred on
them for the administration of his
kingdom, either jointly or singly.
There is not cool headed locker
on but unhesitatingly AYERS, that if
England consents to a re-patching
of the joint control with France, the
splendid innings Sir Garnet has
scored for her will be lost, and the
opportunity will never again pre-
sent itself for controlling her bouIe-
ward of India. 1t is only under
the tutelage of England that
Egypt can become an Egypt
for the Egyptians. Had England
hadl the calamity to have worked
India on the joint control principle
with France, where would have
been the splendid Empire of British
India now? The nation that has
redressed the native wrongs of
India, and made its crooked paths
straight, has still the ability to make
five millions of felldheen, great,
glorious and free. If France were
abb to point to any success on her
part in colonization, sh . might lay
claim to some COIN OF vantage, but
she has signally failed to develop
her own colonies, that which is. not
a certificate in her favor to handle
the destinies Of other people.
France is now in high fever to OBJ
tain colonial possessions, though she
has no emigrants to send to them;
but that is not exactly the thing as
them. She is going in for
the territory of the heather Chinese.
She wants Madagascar, she intends
the Congo with Belgium;
but progress in Algeria hangs fire,
and Tunisia is anything but
model Of organization.
10 control the Egyptian ex-
ehequer along withEngland,is not all
that is required in Egypt: there are
to be developed about
which France remains in the most
state of ignorance: her civil
liZing Mohamedans is hardly to be
named, when the work in this sense
achieved by England is placed
in the balances. a good native
army composed of Indian Mussul-
mans, and differed by Englishmen
civil service clerks to the manner
born, directed by English chiefs;
tribunals that will not know two
forms of justice; taxes levied with
unflinchingifairness; extirpation of
salvation armies while according
full religious liberty to all-such is
The kind of work cut out for Eng
and. and to accomplish which she
requires neither Turk nor Gaul to
help or to advise. If she adopt this
charter, she will compel the French
to be as mute as carps, or as NJ.
lie LeSSeps is now. In any case, no
nation will go to war to restore the
Joint control-the day dream of
France, and that she would give
her eyes to have abolished in Tu-
nisia-but where England holds her.
There is nothing to prevent France
going ahead in Syria, on the Congo,
at Timbuctoo in Nova Zembla or.
the Lord knows where.
Strenuous efforts are being made to
galYaniZe Gambettism; not much.
success has so far attended the aim
Gambetta intends taking an active
part in the coming parliamentary
session; if such implies the ousting
of the cabinet, that would be only
forcing an open door. So long as
the divisions reign in Metropolitan
ranks, republican ministries will
resemble but the duration of the
snowflake on the river. The politi-
cal education of the country is
backward: the blind lead the blind.
Men set themselves up as teachers
without having graduated as STU
dents. Jupite's head produced but
one Minerva.
Attention is being directed to
socialism, more however, from the
retrospective than from any imme-
date view. Indeed as THEIRS said.
socialism has emigrated from
France. Louis Blanc holds that all
poor ara socialists, but the spectacle
to be witnessed now is the separa
ton Of the artizans, or poorer
from a band of political
tramps, who are pure dema-
gogues, avoided by the true
working men, laughed at by the
audiences they collect, and too in
significant to be even watched bv
the police. The two congresses
which have just been held at st. |
Etienne and Roanne prove that the
age of rltopias and violence with the
working man is past.