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

1
J to be a master stroke, and rejecting
the highest honor ON Sir Garnet
WOlseley. But some Of the braWl-
ing journals here Will 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 comp has evoked all the
dormant hatred against per1fde Al
biOn. After sixty-seYen years o.
peace, Golden treaties and Crimean
joint stock wars, the old Adam is as
virulent in Monsieur to-day as in
1915. 1t is 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 I. landed-after bonn
harding Alexandria, July l, 1903: 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 Japidity
and the ability with which Sir
Garnet has opened the ball; the dire
pOsitiol in which he places Arab
between three conVerging 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 deLess9ps 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 NJ. 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 a larger scale than
ordinary, constructed by a 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
a fractional part.
The French also have a logic Of
their own; al nations, save Eng
land, signed what is called the
Of the canal, namely that
belligerents were to give it a wide
berth. This was the more easy for
them to do, as they had no Indian
or continental colonies, like
Australia. Br0bdignag it seems
must knuckle down to the Lillipu-
tians. The French forget that ali
save France, recognized the
Sultan's sovereignty over Tunisia.
In occupying temporarily the Suez
canal England has saved that in
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. It is
In the name Of Tewfik that England
acts. 1t is in the name Of the Be7 |
that France keeps off KroumirS.
France b0mbarded Spax to cut |
short the national fire" in Tunisia.
and played Old Harry with private
pr0perty-Suez canals on an hum
bier scale, for which of course she |
will settle-0n the back of the |
Tunisians, as theEgyptians will nave
to pay the piper. When war breaks
out, conventions are scattered to
the winds; philosophers and
are alike reduced to
silence in presence of cannon balls. !
And the future Of Egypt, the quart
G'heaEre de- RGbeZGS! Deserted bv
the Sultan, the German power and |
France, England alone has stood
faithfully by Tewfik, has main
tanned his throne by her army and
her feet. The first place henceforth !
n Egypt must be for the English: !
he influence Of England will be
in the country, and !
here IS no necessity for reducing it
% a British province. All the con
erences Europe may cCnvoke will
lot change this inevitable, this ra-
1onal end. Europe revised the
treaty, but did Russia I
ose thereby all the fruits of her l
ampaign: B
Rest the canal; the conference can :
Iere regulate nothing. To exclude +
var ships passing through in time
4 peace, that occurs daily: and !,
which transit supplies half the y
evenue of the canal, is simpIv +,
oily: To form collective guaran- q
&c Is about the same. In 1864 f
rance and England were called =