The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-12-31
OUR FRENCH LETTER,
Especial correspondence of the HERAID)
PARIS, December 6.

After fifty years of colonization of
Algeria, the French at the present
moment number only 10000. Al
this rate OF progress, few centuries
must eIspse before the Congo, Ton
kin. to say nothing OF Madagascar OF
Tuni is, can possess emigrants from
France, to graft upon the natives all
the bless ngs so highly proclaimed Of
Western civilization. Fra ce cannot
colonize, because she wants the main
spring OF that enterprise, the emf
grants, the thrown of part of re.
dundant population. Every body in
the mother country is more or less
we'll Of, has something; every career
is open to them; why then, they say {,
ought we to create certain hsrdships
and fY to llls we know rot OF
France can occupy distant territory
az 80 many military out posts, ports
Of call Tor merchantmen and the
navy, but Rs regions to be 2olon!Zed.
never. Another drawback to colonial
development is the absence OF all in
teres! displayed in her existing colo
MES; the officials sent there are not
supported by the home government
as repres entatives; they are merely
first class clerks, depending on the
Admiralty for isvora. Now the real
governors OF the colonies are the
local deputies returned to the cham
Der; they make the rain and the sun.
shine. However, the same observa-
ton applies to home officials ; there
ia not q minister bat who will avoW
that the most hartassing portion Of
his duties consists in Wrangling with
deputies soliciting patronage for con
stituents. And the deputies do not
confne their intercession to the min
istsr directly; they besiege the heads
OF the departments, perhaps on the
ground that these fuuctionaries do
not change with the cabinet. and so
are the real masters.
A new feature spriDging up 10
French society consists in the probes.
sion of female politicians; good deal
OF the sentimental and emotional
productions on the questions OF the
day a.e by women. Much OF the
lamentable divisions among the re
p1blioans, aud which. if persisted Ia,
will invo We the ruin OF the republic.
are due to the influence Of coteries
led by women. Schools OF scandal
can never become schools for polLi
cians. 1t is the tear Of this evil ex
tending, that prejudioss so many ex-
cellent persons agsiD-t tie Dew
ladies' colleges. Il Is ever pity,
when lovely woman stoops to things
she don't understand. The story Is
going the rounds, tat public man
had recently a quarrel with HE wife,
when the l-tter closed tie discussion
with the remark: "What have you
to complain OF ? thank heaven you
have not a wife addicted to politics,
or who writes for the ne8spapert?"
The Madagascar question will hot
be advanced a stage I'LL the French
have bombsrded Tamatare, and 80
astonished the natives That ex
pected event, united TO wba, was &C
complisbed at Sfsx, ought to be-
equivalent to a COMMANDMENT OF
Alexandria. England ought to seizs
the occasion to make a splepdid
"dual control" arrangement, not
With the French, bit with her ebony
Majesty. The island, French navy
captain has informed me, and who
commanded in that region for sew
eral years, and in addition has writ
ten book about the country, is nat
ural!y extremely rich, and if opened
up, has splendid future. Two cen,
turtles ago he observed, France was
the first European country to plant a
flag 1.-The island, and 60 it is virtually
q possession Of ours."
As to Egypt, ali is darkness and
intrigue. England, it is remarked,
seems mere employed settling down
rather than preparing to pack up.
So much the better Tor the Egyptians
and all concerned. The Arab solu.
ton, though sneered at, is felt not
the less to be the ablest untyine of
the knot for English interests.
Arab, il is admitted on all sides. was
but the puppet of Constantinople and
he has kind OF all-round sympathy
with the inhabitants of Egypt; but il
is to the very un.sublime Porte that
all eyes are directed; the operative
system of government there EN-.
ployed, may likely end in tragedy.
II Bismatk would only settle the
eternal Eastern question for us be-
fore he joins the chsrubim and sesa.
phim even the French might honor
his memory by an annual in memo
RAM mass. Il
The .oaths bill will likely bs sen,
back by the Senate to Chamber Of
Deputies. The main objec! of the
oath is, TO diss jciste it from religion
10 seenlarize it in a word, ip which il
called. harmony with the French
revolution. Materislists repudiate
as personal afiront, being COM
PEELED to take God for witness in anv.
thing; there are the vulgar aud the
ambitious who decline the religions
form Of oaths in order to nose. To
make capital out OF their attitude
and when threatened to be fined for
refusing, they consent to take anv
form CT oath, and to hold two hands
up, instead OF one as required by Law.