The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-04
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
PARIS, February 3, 1888.

Especial correspondence of the HERALD
After an exhaustive and memoir
able debate, 373 republicans have
decided that the princes of the ex-
reigning houses of France are, fol
political reasons, ineligible to serve
in the army ETC., and that their liV-
ing in France is subject to their not
playing at pretendership; if so, a
policeman can at any moment ring
at the door bell and invite them in
the name of M. Grevy, 70 quit the
country, These precautionary meas
ures are the consequences of Prince
| Napoleon's tournament against the
windmill. The country has not
manifested disapprobatiOn nor APP
probation at the measure. AS
neither the BonapartistS nor the
legitimists were to be feared, atten-
tion naturally became concentrated
on the OrleaL ist princes, who GER
tainly have been Of late making up
lee way.
AS a rule, all political parties
Danish each other in this country
when they arrive at power; the re-
publicans do it to lesser degree,
that's all the difference, so the cry
of the Orleanists at being victims
must not be taken al tTGgiQaLe; they
made short work of the partisans
of Charles X. and the Comte de
Chambord in $780,. 1t is only a
truism to state, that there is no
kings son but regards as an inherit
age the kingdom where his papa
once reigned. The republicans ar
que; we have conceded more liberty
than any other form OF government
in France, but we cannot allow the
virtue, generosity, to drift into i'm
prudence; we cannot grant, how
ever, that excess of liberty, which
commences according to a political
law in anarchy and ends in Caesar.
ism. The Orleanist princes prom.
ised M. Theirs as a condition for
their re-entering France, to keep
aloof from political intrigues. A
few years later the Comte de Paris
gave strange Interpretation to the
compact, by making a pilgrimage to
Austria to fuse the family fortunes
with the Comte de Chambord.
Then, the followers of the princes
have never concealed their hostility
to the republic, and have been busy
preparing the way for the Due d
Aumaie to set up as Dauphin to M.
GreVy. In the upper ranks of the
army there has evidently been of
late a growing sympathy for the Or
leanist future. In 184S the law was
repealed allowing the Bonapartists
to return to France. For this boon
the republic was strangled by
Prince Louis Napoleon by his coup
d' etat. Ineligible henceforward to
exercise any public functions, and
residence in France being coDdi-
tiondl on political good behavior,
the chances of pretenders are mini
mixed. They must become as dy-
nastically extinct as the COmte d
AYila, uncle of the ex-king of
Naples.
The Senate will make a show of
resistance TO vote the law, but ultj-
mately will knuckl6 down rather
than euter into conflict with the
deputies and SO renew the agitation
for revision of the Constitution.
If any officers combine to protest
against pretenders not being viewed
as A. republicans or treated as
simple citizens, they will be sum-
marty cashiered. So the new fire
eating Minister of War, General
Thibaudin, affirmS heiwill do. The
PreSSe suggests such generals ought
to be shot, and communistjc jour
nal demands they be handed over
to its party as hostages" Before
May the present hurly-burly will be
forgotten. The Due d'AUmale, un-
less he commits self-expatriation,
can live as ever secure in the midst
of his books and his pictures, while
his nephews can hunt, write books,
and contribute to magazines. Only
if they hire bill stickers to post up
proclamation. off they go BY that
time Prince Napoleon will be a
wandering Jew; his Punishment
will point a moral and adorn a tale,
for no one in France will ever grow
pale at his name.
Fallen sickness of a new type at
tacks prime ministers. NJ. Duclerc
while down with the malady was
something like kicked out of Office
by the majority of his colleagues.
one of whom, NJ. FalIieres no sooner
took his place, than he caught the
malady. To prevent both invalids
from being worried by political
matters, the doctors have their pa
tientS positively under lock and
key. 1t is significant that some
doctors have been called in consul.
tatiou for M. Fallieres, as prescribed
for poor Gambetta. If he really
0beys the will of the 373 republicans
which is q division of a most i'm
pUrtant character in the point OF
view of the CHASING of pasties, there
is no reason whyFallIeres ought nol
to live longer than the lie of the
rose. His war minister, General
Thibaudin, made such a rafting re
publican speech, in the sense Of
undertaking to see the army execut
| ing the behestS of the legislature
that since Gambetta's OrationS nc
tribune has been so viciferously
cheered. Perhaps he may be the
strong hand so many desire-fron
different motives.
Respecting the Egyptian question
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