The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-18
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HERALD,
PARIS, February IA, 1888.

AS was TO De expected the senate
has voted all the harm out of the
princes exile bill, and so displeased
not the ministry, but its relics, and
the fee, faw, fun republicans of the
Floquet type. There. will be moth
ing arbitrary in the new law, no
deviation from common rights. Any
member Of an ex-reigning family, as
well as Roger Bontemps himself,
will if culpable of setting up as a
pretender, be tried, and if guilty, be
banished. So long then as prince
keeps the even tenor of bis way,
he can live in France under his own
vine and fig tree, can hold a com
mission in the army and navy, be
eligible for parliamentary honors
and even to become candidate fOI
the presidentship of the republic
What other equality or fraternity
does he want?
Benceforth whoever cOnspires
against the present constitution OF
the safety of the state, be they
prince or anarchist, will be tried
and can be sentenced to expulsion
There is no reason why the repub-
lie should remain dlsarmed against
the attacks of parties, royalists,
Bonapartists and anarchists, who dc
not disguise their aim-its over
throw. This will save the trial OF
Felix Pyats' solution, viz, to
restore the commune as the
best of provisional governments. II
is worthy of being recorded, that
during the discussion of the pro-
scription bill, the senators, venerable
though the patricians be, proved
as turbulent as the deputies, and
that Tolain, the father chosen by
the work men-he is a stone mason
by trade when not legislator
advocated for the first time the
rights of the employed to the pro
perty Of the capitalists.
France has had in her time sew
erel kinds of ministries of the pro
vlsional type, that which is settling
down to a permanent institution
Wehave had the cabinet provisional
all head next, all tail; DUNG thu
last few weeks the odd spectacl,
exists of a cabinet neither head no
tail. 1t is a situation that is telling
more on the fortune of the republi
and the interests of France, thai
the dinner and hunting parties @
the Due dAumale, the magazin
articles of the Comte de Paris, o
the red, white and blue posters c
Prince Napoleon. The return c
de Freycinet or Ferry to the prem
iership will not lead to the lightin
Of tar barrels. 1t is the old bill {
fare of the country inn; hare an
bacon one day, bacon and hare ii
next.
Now that prince pretenders hay
come up smiling from their tn
with the republic, it may be cOnsit
cred as certain. that for the futul
. political partisanship Will be
come more intense and more auda
ious. The republic has blundere
against its rivals who are only tC
happy to benefit by the advantage
it can still take a revenge by 81
downing the country with a few {
4 the proposed ameliorating Law
down for hearing, and not frittC
I away precious time over the banisl
/ ment of individuals who have con
mitted no crime, and ther dismiss
y from posts without being guilty
any misconduct.
Occupied and torn by intestir
questions the French deplore the
are isolated in Europe, and if col
suited atall, it is solely for a matt,
of form. France occupies Tunisi
but organizes nothing. Englan
occupies Egyptbut organizes ever
thing. Then it is asked. what
the use of squatting at Madagascar
the Congo, or Tonkin, unless sue
occupation prove more proftab
than Tunisia and Algeria to tt
mother country? Writers, even {
the sensible type, pop the question
"The English alliance, whether h;
it been more baneful or benefci
to France?" The old Adam Greer
out in illustration of England
abandoning France in 1S7O-7I. b
she never undertook to suppo
France in that criminal attacI
, on a neighbours landmark. 4
Dulcigno as at IAlexandria, Franc
helped her ally in a very odd styl
and so demonstrated the futllity {
alliances.
1t is pointed out that few Englis
tourists have done the Nile tn
winter. The explanation offered
that the English wish to play I'M
the hands of their government
by keeping up the impre
sion that the country is I'll
safe, and so necessitates tt
} retention of the troops. 1t
guessed and not unshreWdly, thu
there will be ever Krounirs to fel
ret out in Egypt. One lachfymos
"our own" informs leading Par
journal, that owing to the jolr
control a marked increase had take
place IN the planting of palm tree
and the tax collecting had beeom
as amiable an Institution 6
in Europe. But it does NJ
follow all this will
improved away because single COZ
troll Dufferin is at the helm. Friend