The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-08-12
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
PARIS, July Is, 1888.

side. firm the English government,
the French lave suddenly ceased to
accuse England OF importing the
cholera into Europe. Relations there
with foreign powers have become
amicab.e. Howe yer, the doctors AMI
the authorities publish precautions
again cholera morbus, which 10 on
the road. In rummaging recently
through cholera literature | hnd on
the vexed question of quarantine,
that M. de Lesseps counts among
those who view quarantine reguia
tions as useless, and meriting to be-
sent to keep company with old ALMA
macs.
In 1854. Or. Pezzoni. in a power
ful pamphlet, adduced strong srgu
mepts against the practice OF quaran-
tine; in 1868 DR.. de Wonves in his
WORE. laid down that CHOLERA was
net contagious: DR.. Dauet in the
same year appears to have anti ipst9d
Pasteur, in the vote OF the ietiain1sHt
petits, or animsloGles, baptized
microbes to day, in cholera. DR..
! Holesbeck notices, that after every
cholera epidemic there is a notable
augmentation in mental diseases.
The Abbie Xavier Deidier, quotes
scripture to prove, that the Cnolera
like the poor will be always with US.
As for cures, they are as countless as
the stare. One leeoh recommends
something like inundatiug the stom-
ach with twenty quarts of water at
time. Such ought to necessitste the
employment OF the stomach pump
the Figaro displays in its sanotum,
employed to draw of the water used
to rinse the Count be Chambord's
stomach, and by extipguishing the
terrible heat in the organ, has pre-
served the life OF Henry Y for few
years more. Every patient can thus
become his oRn fireman. A new
journal has appeared called Cholera.
lis time to announce the Nadagas-
car.
1t is not fair to be down on Ds
Lesseps like hundred OF bricks, be-
cause be has outwitted the English
cabinet. Nor is be to be blamed for
insisting on his pound OF flesh, il that
be in his bond with Antonio. Such
serious negotiations ought to have
been carried on, as we're those OF the
renewal of the treaty of commerce,
namely by leaving the conditions to
be arranged in the hands OF speciAl-
lists, Of practical men, and not TO
government employees, however ex-
allied in rank. The English ministry
was too eager to conciliate, to soothe
the French. And thstlollypop policy,
that petting OF the child. ia the most
dangerous and the most unpro-
ductive, in dealing with the
French. 1t impresses them
with conviction, that if you are
not afraid of them, at least they are
indispensable to you, and hence. like
Oliver, or the grave, they will ever
demand "more."
The grand point in the imbrOglio
is that NJ. de Lesseps,
despite all his professions OF
love and kindness, etc., for England,
will not concede to her any influence,
any fair representation of her import
ant intereets, on the council of ad-
ministration. SubordiL ate conees-
sions will be granted, but these like
princes and peers. also may flourish
or may fade. The breath that made
them can unmake them. The ques-
ton Of tariff is but detail. The
battle between England and france
tor the possession of Egypt will be
fought on the first representation Of
England at the canal council board.
John Bull must be very firm and
have his mind made up. Better
solve the point now than later. We're
old Pam. alive, the question would
ere DOW be disposed OF. "0hi for one
hour of Dundee"
The French before forming an
opinion on the Madagascar misun-
Outstanding, await details. The odds
are in favor OF the French admiral 40
far. 4 relative OF his assures rae,
that be Is the most prudent OF old
salts, in following Instructions and
observing regulations, and further,
that he is personally warm admirer
OF England. To gratuitously Insult
the English flag meant, be knowswell,
being Immediately recalled aud
placed on the reserved list, as there lie
no lingo party in France to which he
might be tempted to court. The
French denounce the English mis-
sionaries in general and their goines
or in Madagascar in particular. But
France forgets that once che had two
bishops OF Madagascar, whose lives
and work Monseigneur Manpoint has
described; and that in the Levaot,
her political influence is chiefly up
hsld and propagated by French re
ligious orders. subsidized 700 by the
government. And when the radicals
proposed to withdraw the grants to
the Levantine missions, they became
as mute as mice when informed tina,
the orders were invaluable, POLITICAL,
patriotic agents. However, the re-
public prefers instead of missionaries
"a matter OF taste, to found Comp
f0ir or trading station in a new re-
gicn; then annex the country directly
or ipdirectlv bv the screeminp tO,ce