The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-03
OUR FRENCH LETTER
Special correspondence of the HnaALDl
PARIS, May o. 1888.

PARIS, May 9, 1888.
Since Gam betta's death his ide5
rule France; thus the goVernmeI
is occupied to carry out only thos
measures which are immediate an
practical, to proceed with modera
tlen, and to eschew rigorous logic a
the guide of political life. Publ
opinion approves Of these lines; it
weakness is to consider that al
countries which do not share tht
opinion of France respecting hel
foreign policy are actuated by envy
hatred, and all uncharisabieness. A
wider acq daintance with the outside
world will teach the French the ne.
cessity Of liberation and the posi-
bIlity of tangible and honest differ
ences.
The new budget commission of
thlrty-three have hard task before
them. Since Leon Say has exposed
the errors of the financial situation
the equilibrium of receipts and eX-
pendltureS cannot be shirked. There
is a concrete deficit Of 150.00O,OOO
francs, and that nothing, save the
sacrifice by officials Of their salaries
derived from useless posts and place
on the altar of their country, can
economic. AS France is not now
rich enough TO pay for her glory, a
lean of one milliard in the
autumn must be resorted
30. In the new commission,
only supporters of the government
have been named. This is a great
mistake, as even under former
regimes the minority had ever
mouthpieces on the budget COM
mittee.
1t was a blunder to eiimina5 e
Clemenceau, the leader Of the Radi-
Gals. He is the ablest member of
the Chamber of Deputies, and on
questions of foreign expeditions, he
will echo the feelings of the pea
santry. | do not think the gravity
of the Tunquin expedition is seized
by the French. A war with China
will not be supported by the conn-
try, nor will foreign nations pas
SiVely look on the blockade of the
open ports. English patience would
be sorely tried if the supply of
SCuchOng teas, or Young Hyson
with the Pekoe flavor. was cut short
or run up in price. The free break
fast table would utter dreadful
growls.
The idea OF England's shippers
and engineers making a second
canal between the Mediterranean
and Suez, is regarded something like
an act Of direct hostility towards
France. NJ. 2. L.. Beaulieu, the
leading economist Of the country.
warns q bion, that If she perpe.
trates that act of perfidy, she must
be prepared for an explosion of
feeling such as existed after
Waterloo. Threats are the worst
methods for convincing those
who can afford to disregard
them: England will never be for
given for her injustice in not shar.
ing the glory of the reorganization
of Egypt with France, when the
latter packed out of the responsible
/ ty OF the risk. The rumor that a
second canal was more than loom
ing in the future, caused a fall
in the Suez stock of 400 francs; at
that rate of depreciation the promo
tiers of the new scheme could soon
buy up all the scrip for a song. No
one intends to encroach on the rights
of NJ. de Lesseps to the Isthmus,
but these rights no not extend to
Alexandria and Cairo. IL English
men desire to have a canal of their
own, since that of M del Lesseps is
in point of administration, a close
borough for them, and if they Sc
cure the concession of the new route
and find the capital to construct it
M. Beaulieu as free trader, ought
to rejoice at the making of a second
international canal, which de Les
seps admits TO be necessary. Eng
lish shippers may be excused back
ing Up the required new highway !;
| it is their traffic, f0ur-f1fths of the
total, which feeds the Suez. M. de
Lesseps undertakes to eXcaYate a
second canal over his concession
| it is true, but he has never yet Of
fered to allow English shippers to
be represented on the council of his
administration pro rata to their in
terests. If there be traffic for two
canals, there is no necessity that
the second also should be French,
still less tocross the Isthmus.
The protest against the state dab
bling in socialism, by building cheap
houses exempt from certain taxes
for the poor, have borne fruit. The
government seems to be allowing
the subject to die q natural death,
The question, strange to say, has at
tracted attention to the "fatal inf1u-
ence" the preGOminance of Paris
exercises on France. The other
great cities are at her feet, but not
Gamaliel-like. Six per cent. of the
total population (S7,590,0OO), of the
country is concentrated in the CAPT
| tai. Now the inhabitants of Paris
marry least, die the quickest and
have the feWest children, as COM
pared with the country at large.
Did they prove only relatively fruit
F,,1 +hov Ouoht tO show an a1OTnant.