The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-26
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
PARIS, November 2.
Special correspondence of the HERALD.

In the crisis through which the
Republic is passing, and when med
icine men and saviours of society
ought to prove equal at least to the
demand, not a soul pronounces the
name of Gambetta. Yet two years
ago he was all powerful, and to-day,
none so poor as to do him reverence.
| But Gambetta has this consolation !;
no person has succeeded him. Gle
menceau had the air to have inher-
tied Elijah's mantle, but that gen
tleman's experience on Sunday last.
when he met his constituents to
give an account Of his stewardship.
must have shown him, that conf
dence in the populace, is about on a
par with putting faith in prices.
The idols appear to be nearly all
smashed; the Anarchists, who now
rule the roost, decline TO recognize
any authority, save their noble
selves. Their country is--the
universe; their ceuntrymen, hui
maniUy-save those who differ from
their chaotic ends and nihilistic
means.
Dynamite and its admirers, con-
tinue to absorb all attention. The
situation may be exaggerated; still,
it is not healthy. There may be
balm in Gilead, but there is no ply
slcian there. The men Of govern
ment inspire no respect;
however, it is only justice to
add, they display no capacity.
While anarchists and monarchists
are besieging the republic, the re-
publicans are fddling. Their per-
Sonal quarrels usurp the real inter-
estS of the state. They set up
ministers and under-secretdries, to
trundle them over like house of
cards. Since the present Chamber
was elected, it has on an average
devoured one high functionary
every three days. Bu5 the republic,
like Saturnus, has ever been &C
cused of eating its own offspring.
At the present moment it is a
Casimir- Perier that is required at
the helm, a statesman who will
have the courage to profess and
execute a programme; to concede
the exercise of every freeman's
liberty, but the iron resolution to
repress everything approaching to
license. The republic has yet to
win its spurs under the head Of
craftsmanship.
The lowest stratum of the work
ing class, it is now clear, have an
J organization. Their aim is to abol-
, ISL the bourgeojSe, and as they wish
to abolish everything, the easier
since they have nothing to lose,
save life, to which they hold but
little, that end can be attempted as
well as the others. A party that
processes violence and license,
that accepts dynamite as the only
perfect cure for alleged social ills,
with threatening letters and mortu-
ary DEGREES as rates in aid, cannot
be influenced by reason or kindness.
The Bey is dead. Long live the
Bey! The republic has clutched up
the UoiteLet of FrOnisia, and Turkey
has been as completely ignored, as
she will be in Egypt. So much the
better for the natives. I cannot
perceive any marked enthusiasm on
the part of the French to open up
their "neW take" On the contrary,
they display more zeal for the Congo
and deBrazza, and Madagascar, with
or withoutthe queen with seventeen
consonants in her name. AS for
Egypt, the French might well be
excused asking: Where are we
now?" Two things England does
not do-explain her plan of organiza-
ton nor retire her troops. In both
she is about right. The departure
of the troops is considered fixed for
/ the Greek Kalends; there is false
prophet who threatens to be as ugly
as a Kroumir, with this difference,
that the first really exists. When
England has permanently reorgan-
the army and administration all in
her own interest, or dependent on
her will, then the troops may be car
ried back to Old Virginy.
The furniture manufacturers Of
Paris, numbering about 500, have
resolved to replyto the threatened
strike of their men, by lock out
and very determined one it will
be. This decision would deprive
10000 artisans, the kindred branches
of the trades included, of work, of
the means to live, and representing
100000 individuals when the
families are included. The prospect
of starving population numbering
100000 at the present moment when
dynamite is so fashionable, and
communism in the air, would be of
marked gravity. This may ex-
plain why regiments of cavalry are
pouring into the capital. The men
and the masters are not divided, it
may be said, on any question Of
higher pay and shorter hours; but
on the principle of self-defense.
When the trades executive COM
mittee decides to put such an en-
ployer, or such a shop in the Inde0
expurgatoTies, that is equivalent
virtually to the destruction of the
prescribed. Impossible to find
Workmen; consequently inability to
execute iorders; so certain ruin,
that is to say, bankruptcy, which is
according to law, synonymous with
dishoaor. If the discharged or self
retired men are refused work else
WHARF thn committee SuDncrtS