The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-22
OUR. FRENCH LETTER.
lspeei.l eorlespondenoo5 Of the HEaAlD.l
PARIS, June 81, 1888.

PARIS, June 81, 1888.
Twenty-four hours are allowed
eyerv condemned to curse his judges.
The anarchists are largely availing
themselves of the privilege to an
athematize judge, jurors, witnesses,
officials and the government for
convicting Louise Michel and CEN
demnirg her to six years impriSon-
ment, to be followed by ten more of
police surveillance, which for lady
of her disposition is more Calling
than a residence in Jail.
Louise Michel has long ceased to
be a danger: as a political oddly
even she has been played out. 1t
was not for her wild talk, but her
wild acts, she was convicted. The
adde's ear was turned to her rant
ings, but the moment she headed a
mob and directed the pillage OF
shops, the jury on behalf Of society
said. halt there" The verdict is
the more significant, as the jury was
composed of small shopkeepers
whose politics may safely be as
sumed as republican. LOuiselS not
a dangerous criminal nor altogether
qualified lunatic. In any case Sc
cIusion and gratuitOus douches will
do the Old gal no BARN.
Her followers, about twenty-five
knaves and fools, have resolved to
individually look after the members
of the jury, the judge, etc. All that
is theatrica they will speak dag
gers, but will use none. They
denounce the radicals of every type
from Rochefort downwards. fhe
deputies of the extreme lett are also
tabooed, yet neither of the repudi-
ated win disOwn formally the an
aFchists, and the latter derive what
little Importance they possess by
tie inertia and cOWardice Of the
former. 1t is the situation of Sgane-
relle beating his wife. Instead OF
seeking a divorce she simply retorts
"And if it pleases me to be beaten?
The Tonkin question is in the
StGtu quo stage. Foreign minister
M. Challmel-la-Cour is viewed as
having bungled the whole business,
by his discourtesy and snubs
toward the Chinese ambassador, the
Marquis Using. People would not
be sorry if the state of the ministers
liver necessitated a continued resi-
dence at Vichy, til the Greek ka-
lends.
| Foreigners who are unanimously
of opinion France is On the wrong
tack in her spasmodic effort to
! become a colonial power of the frst
magnitude, also agree no good is t
be effected by warnings, however
sublime or from friends, however
candid. She will find out her mis-
take soon enough. Experience is
the best of schoolmasters though
the fees are sometimes very heavy
People here desire to know where
is the second Suez canal question
now. M. De Lesseps boasts thai
he and the English government
have arranged the whole matter
satisfactorily, long ago. Interest il
the Channel tunnel has dWindleC
down to zero; only the sea sick keeI
harping on my daughter.
The special correspondents WhC
have been at Moscow are now sum
ming up their letters, the NEST val
liable part of their task. They a..
admit, that the Gar is pledged tt
reaction, and that his last care
must be a war. AS there Is NJ
public opinion in Russia there are
no party divisions, no tangible pro
gramme to form a gauge. 1t is moi
the less agreed, that Alexander TIT
Thirds coronation was the first eveI
celebrated where the Gar was i:
ISOLATED from his living subjects.
The Russian empire consists o
thirty different races of people
Life there is not individual, but col
J lective. There are but two cities
Moscow and st. Petersburg, the re.
naming towns are viewed but a
accidents. In other countries tn
urban population constitutes one
third of the whole, in Russia but 0
the oneotenth. st. Petersburg an,
Moscow are the only cities perhap
in the world whose inhabitants ar
in part peasants. 1t is therefor
not astonishing to find the wor
people in the factories of thes
cities engaged on the condition
! that they will be allowed vocation
to SOW their fields and reap thei
E. harvests. There are no masses {
d pTOLetGjreS, consequently no work fc
demagogues.