The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-18
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Special correspondence of the HERA1D)
PARIS, January "a, 1888.

Spy maIady. The Republic cannot |
support the descendants of once
reigning families, even when such
are ridiculous, as Prince Napoleon;
correct, like the Orleanists, or fos-
SLICED as the permanently absent,
but ever threatening Paul Pry visit
of the Comte de Chambord. Gam
BETA having disappeared, the ex-
IRENE republicans have no longer
Turks head on which to operate,
hence the craze to ostraciZe princes
for the present, and later their par
tisans.
Having, according to the opinion
of the best jurists, violated no ar
ticle of the Code, explains the mess
and middle in which ministers
find themselves, by arresting Prince
Napoleon. Neither the Senate nor
a court would convict him; to liber-
ate him, acquit him, or eXpel him,
will in any case be damaging for
the cabinet and in a lesser degree
for the republic. Since years Prince
Napoleon has been killed by ridi-
cule, he himself profusely affording
the pretexts, and the satirical jour
nails in furnishing up the old arms
to attack him, only slav the slain.
The gravamen of the Napoleon
incident consists i'll its sery-
ing as a pretext for
the expulsion of the OrIeanist
princes. They are viewed as pos
sible danger for the republic, and
such is the reason why Floquet de-
sires to prescribe all royal scions at
once, and Lockroy to expel them
from the army and navy. This
summary process would be more
Imerciful than the ministerial cure,
of holding the sword Of Damocles
over their heads, by investing M.
Grevy with the power to order any
one PLAYING at pretender, to quit
France. Belleyille would have
voted the application of the measure
with both hands to Gambetta.
Ministers propose to limit the
| liberty of the press as to the display
of seditioCs emblems and the point
ing and placarding of attacks
against the Constitution. Having
conceded the liberty to be attacked,
the Republic, hitherto view ed as
| invulnerable. must be allowed to
defend its heel. The white flag, the
red banner, the Phrygian cap, the
carmagnole and the Henri ~
| march, all these fetiches which
were believed to be reiegated to the
Cluny museum, will henceforth
become Star chamber matters.
Thus our boosted liberty, equality
and fraternity comes back to the ole
DEGREES of prescription and the law
of suspects, one a measure of SUI
preme injustice and the othel
a proposition of extreme i'm
prudence. So long as their partisanE
are free to indulge in propagandism
the Punishment of princes can only
serve their cause. At Chantilly anC
Eu, the Orleanists will be less dan
Qerous for France, than at Twicken
ham, or even at the fusion residence
of Frohsdorf. The republic is OF
the eve to quit the road of sagacit.
/ and liberalism, to practice intoler
ance, and snap the uniformity Of tn
law, by acknowledging categories o
citizens. The era of press prosecu
tions is to return with its agitation
and iniustices. ABd the countr
never was more tranquil. The cleo
tors plump still for the republic
they are not terrified By the anarcE
T lists and their prince, no more tina
by the mOnarchists and.their reYel
: sionary pretendeTs. By the eXpul
sion of princes, simply because the
are princes; by the Punishment c
& citizens, simply because they al
suspected, not only will the preStig
\ of the republic be diminished, but
3 blow will be struck at the honor an
81 probity of the nation.
, Gambetta would long ago hay
laid the scare by one of his proverl
ial outlaws; in the absence Of til
voice that is still, M. Floque
seeking Elijah's mantle, propose
the opening act of the reign {
terror. FlOquet is good third
late tribune, capable of rising t
3 honors. He is on the shady side {
so; somewhat of dandy. and liB
Robespierre, whom he is said to MOT
ell in foppishness and GOODNESS, an
may he rest at these traits, goes i
tremendously for snowy waistcoat
His wife is very pretty, and migl
if she pleased, supersede Mesdamt
Adam and Arnaud, in having Jh
representative republican salon; bJ
sheis only fashionable, pleasing an
unpolitical. Clemenceau's lady, a
American, is only politics, and p1a
tees in the shade, like Hgeri;
Having once cried, Vi0e la Polognt
under the nose of the late Empert
of Russia during his visit here-wE
Z retorted that in st. Petersburg, vi
e. itors were welcomed more politel
Floquet may be considered equal
an AbGSLeS pri1lceSi In politics, /
is more advanced than Gambett
for whom he was small edition {
Brutus. and Clemenceau is MOI
advanced than Floquet; for tt
moment then the fortune of the r
public is between the hands of the
two deputies.
In the imbroglio the Duclerc mi
istry has all the CHARGES to disaI
pear-a result that will neither su
prise them nor the public. I
\ GIevy, whom the anarchists asse
= to be the arch-conspirator and wor
than all the princes rolled into on
desires to have de Freycinet bac
e the man after his heart and who
not less mediocre than the other