The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-10
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HrnA1D)
PARIS, May II, 1883.

LIZ l. NS4ANAA NsAO SoAOHAhS3 Va AOO
over the Suez question. The fist
thing to do is to let them cool down.
The second, to eliminate all senti-
ment from the discussion. The
dominant feeling is to exclude now
and forever all English influence
and interest from the admiuistra-
ton of the present and the future
canals, Qui oiorG oerra. It would
also be we'll TO cease proclaiming
morning and evening like a meuz-
Yin from his turret. that the Eng
fish were wrong to oppose the con-
structiOn of the watery way, and
de Lesseps right. England has re-
peated her nleG clLIpG; she has made
atonement by sending fOur.ffth of
the total shipping through the
canal, and is about illustrating that
imitation is the best kind of fiattery,
by cutting a second route.
The English government, thanks
to the foresight of Lord Beaeons-
field, holds more than one-third of
the Suez shares; purchased at some
three millions sterling, they are now
value for ten. The French govern
ment holds no scrip. Eighty per
cent. of the tonnage passing through
the canal is British; yet on the
Council of Administration, where
M. de Lesseps is absolute monarch,
there are twenty-four or thirty
Frenchmen and but three English
men, th6 latter only admitted by
courTesy-On sufferance, as de Les
seps himself stated. There is not
pilot, not an official employed on the
canal English. A ukase from NJ.
de Lesseps can stop the whole ma
chinery, as Admiral Seymour's fleet
experienced last year. History &C.
casionally repeats itself.
If the canal is to be exclusively
French, there is no reason why an
other is not to be exclusively Eng
fish. But the boast of the French
is, that it is international. Now
that's the point where the solution
lies. Italy has taken charge Of the
canal regulations before the adj
journed conference. At the next
merry meeting of the conference let
England propose that all nations be
represented on the administration,
pro rata to the Importance of their
shipping. She would rank first,
Holland would be second, Spain
third, and France or Italy fourth.
No objection can be offered, since
the aim is not to destroy but to en-
nance the value of the canal, and to
place all nations with respect to
transit, on an e.C eqUG footing. In
war or peace, let friend and foe pass
through, settling their disputes at
the exit or entrance Of the canal.
Private concessions, but secured
from all material loss, have ever to
give way to public interests; bow
much more ought they to yield
before the wants of a world.
And the obstinancy and
| chGlG0t7liSm of M. de Lesseps,
cannot prevail against the shipping
interests of the universe. England
should resolutely form company
for cutting a second canal, propose
an amalgamation with the French
society, then if refused, proceed
independently, That threat will
cause such a fall in Suez scrip that
the new company could no4 do
better than buy it up, retain de
Lesseps as honorary president, but
infuse new blood into the council,
reduce the high transit tariff, and
construct the second or return
canal. Address the French not as
if they were spoilt children, but
men of plain, blunt sense. Above
all, no rubbing against or down the
grain in serious matters.
The conversion of the per cents.
has been eminently successful, and
the result has eased the financial
tightness. The adversaries of the
republic have lost their labor in
preaching that the holders of stock
would be ruined by the change. Not
a lunatic came forward to ask the
state to pay him 100 francs for
what the first stock broker at hand
would give him 100 francs. Hand
ing over the execution of the pro-
Jected public works to private
enterprise, and looping off budget
airy eXcressences without mercy,
Will bring the national finances all
right.
M. de Brazza is being'covered with
flowers because he kept the landing
place Of his expedition a profound
secret. Up TO the present the
world believed there was no Free
masonry required between de
Brazza and his majesty King
Makoko.
| NJ Lemay who negotiated the
return of 10000 Tunisians refuged
in Tripolitania to their homes and
affairs free, supplies some interest
ing facts about the state. Bomba
is the most beautiful harbor on the
whole coast of northern Africa.
which makes the mouths of Italians
water, despite its unpalatable name.
FOur-ifths of the trade Is in the
hands of the English, and Manches'
ter goods there rule the roost. 1t
takes two months to cross the desert
to reach the inland villages of Sou
dan, and two years is the average
time for the trip Of Arab bagmen.
If England makes a railway to
| Soudan, she will monopolize the
| whole trade of Tripoli, and the re-
suit thus will be felt on M.Riviere's
inland Algerian sea. Slave traffic