The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-22
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HEHA1D.)
PARIS, March 81, 1855.


vigor, and foresight of the cabinet
to crush the manifestations Of the
anarchists, merit the highest praise.
The determination TO employ the
preparations" if order had been
threatened, has had its due
effect. Not that tile anarch-
lists per Sc were feared, but
gathering in the street of the
idle and curious, might if tolerated.
have provoked a collision. Having
maintained order in the streets, the
mere difficult task remains that Of
securing order in ideas, and which
is not less essential. Confidence
has to be re established, and the
work of pacihcation taken in hand.
Sterile agitati0ns in parliament
must be diScountenanGed. The
country wants repOse, facilities for
work, laws to promote social we'll
being, and not revisiOns of cOnstitu-
tions.
The outrage at London certainly
fortified the government here to
deal with the anarchists. Opinion
is unanimous, that since all states
are prey to a common danger, they
ought to coalesce and form a moral
ZoIlverein to extirpate the'creatures
of destruction the moment they
proceed from Grating and writ
Ing, to acts. The eXpounding of
chiASras in the reunions only cover
their professors with ridicule and
have no effect on opinion. But
when the speakers of both sexes
proceed to march to gut bakers
shops and block the streets, their ar.
rest is necessary simply as nui-
sances. The police have secured
some of. the leading anticipates
who are more in need of keepers
than of gaOlcrs. Louise Michel who
daily boasted her READINGS to rush
in where angels would fear to tread
had to hide. The police can have
the old gal when they please, but
compelling her to absc0nd serves
their ends better, as covering hel
with ridicule. An eye is kept or
her for madness in greatness
should not unWatch'd CO."
There is more confusion, more Of
things being at skies and seyenS ii
France than of the situation beine
fundamentally out of joint. Spe
cial organs and compromised part
isans naturally see matters through
the glass darkly. But public opinion
| in all the legislative and local cleo
lions which continually take place
| reveals no abandonment Of thu
| existing regime, despite blunder
and intolerance committed by it
administrators. Tis Itrue there i
nothing that the naked eye can dis
Germ to replace the Republic say
words, words, words. And tn
majority rally to the present form
iof government not on account o
| its name, but from the experience,
conviction that each citizen witt
his bulletin of votes has weapon
more potent than a rife, and which
keeps sovereign power in tn,
peoples own hands, Thus there i
| a kind of mutual protection societ,
| against being dragged into foreigl
wars. This end achieved, HON
/ questions are viewed somewhat a
| leather and prunello.
Now it is just the coming to tn
front of these home questions tina
| disturbs the Paddy-go-easy million
in France. We have the question
of taxation, in a budget that ha
| drifted into disorganiZation, and 0
labor in the general sense Of pre-
duction, in the most unsettled @
conditions. The annual budgetar,
expenditure of France is doubl
that of England. Up to the presen
it has been balanced not by norma
receipts, but by expedients. TIL
nation has been living on borrowe
money. robbing Peter to pay Paul
Leon Say let the cat out of the bag
and his sublime warning happil
has told. The truth is France ha
been voting millions upon million
for schemes of public works c
mixed utility; for scholastic institU
lions whose want no one question!
| but whose immediate realiZatio,
commands prudence; for ne1
officials whose services few can dis
cover to be necessary, and tina
each fresh ministry, in orde
to provide for it's troop Of hanger;
on, has to pension off. the nom
nees of predecessors. To thes
categories must be added the ugl
rush Of deputies to obtain subsidie
| for local schemes in the interests O
| their reelection. 1t is no Wonde
then that France at last begins t
feel she is no longer rich enough
pay for her glories, and that the fri
gaIity and thrift Of her hard worl
ing, sober inhabitants has limi
One miIliard and a half Of franc
e6O,00O,0Oo sterling, must be adde
by loan to the national debt,
balance the budget. Since 1869 tt
annual expenditure Of France ht
increased so per cent-the war {
1870 cost twelve milliards; SIM
1876 the expenditure has increase
by half milliard. The future {
France depends on her trade. z
present a restriction rather than
stagnation of business exist
There is no actual commerce
crisis among the working classe
since deposits at the savings banl