Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-05
PARIS LETTER.

Career of a Duchesse-He Was a Prus-
sian-Generai Gossip.
Correspondence St. Paul Globe
PARIS, Feb. 1.-THE present very IN
satisfactory condition of the republic is
due, not to the hostility of its foes, but to
the errors of its friends. The country is
commencing to lose confidence in the ex-
listing form of government. Every person
is dissatisfied. Business has come to some
thing Ike stand still, and Legislators in
stead Of providing remedy only aggra-
yate the disorder or make confusion more
COMPOUNDED. Indeed there exists not
little resemblance between the situation
now and that which induced Prince Louis
Napoleon in 1851 to quit regaIite pour
reHtrei dd7ts Ie dyoit.
The affair of the princes is not so
much difficulty as symptom. They are
a danger for the republic the republicans
avow This admission is the more serious
as hitherto the republic claimed to be in
different to attacks. Now it has to defend
itself as if a royal or imperial regime.
The Odyssey of the princes exclusion bill
between the chamber and the senate-the
term upper house, has been voted to be a
reflection on the representatives partakes
of the comical and the pitiabIe. The SEN
ators, under the menace of being abol-
ished, will likely swallow the leek and
vote the amendments of the cham
Der, SO that the new law Will invest the
president with the right to expel any mem
Der of the once-reigning families who may
dabble IN politics, and such can easily be
construed into playing as pretender. Trial
becomes thus suspersed by ukase-the
old game in this land.
But how meet the difficulty of expelling
the princes now in active service from
the army, and of disqualifying others on
the balf-pay list? Simply by the govern
ment executing the law of 1881 authorizing
it to remove any officer from command as
may be deemed necessary. The present
war minister, Gen. Thebaudin, states he is
ready to execute this law, and the Jacobin
influences which weigh on the situation
will Immediately call. on him to SO do his
duty.
Another hard nut the same influences
insist on having cracked consists in the
| demand to set at liberty Prince krapotkine
and his fellow prisoners, condemned for
their socialistic opinions. These latter
are viewed as innocence itself, IN reference
TO q disturbing influence on the public
peace, when compared with the placard
extra parliamentary utterances of Prince
| Napoleon, acquitted with all honors.
One is inclined to laugh when deal
/ ing with the question of the
ministry. The executive only re-
presents the provisional or an interregnum
the latter promising to be as permanent
as the former. Having resigned ministers
resemble the speaking ''decapitated head,
they express just the same a collective
opinion on questions under discussion
And when deputy calls them a pack Of
towards they draw lots to select one OF
their own to demand satisfaction from tht
insulter, who at once avows he only en-
ployed the word in Pickwickian sense.
Whether DeFreycinet or Ferry constitute
the new cabinet Its duration will only bC
ephemeral. France is not ripe for parlia
mentary government. Her legislators arr
unframed in parliamentary manners. Eacl
member has programme of his own cal
culated to make France great, glorious anC
free in twenty -four hours; others of more
enlarged views seek to obtain in addition
the millennium; but all want to be min
inter as the stepping stone to becoming
president. There is no discipline, no sin
cere and continued obedience to a leader
There are sects and cotsries but no defined
parties. When Gambetta failed to create
form out of the chaos what can pigmie
effect?
There can be no ministry then of an,
duration, for cabinet is based not on
programme but on names. Hence, tn
slightest unexpected incident scatters tn
Mosaic ministry. NJ. Grevy commences to b.
more closely looked after. He is suspected
not only of reigning but of governing, ant
the occult influence" which was placed t.
the account of Gambetta, has now beer
transferred to N. Wilson, the president
son-in-law. By the pitchforklng of d.
Freycinet once more into Office, who is
capital engineer but ninny of a states
man, brings Leon Say well to the front a
the Tuture president of the republic.
The leading merchants OF the capitol
all Republicans-haV waited on NJ. Grevy
and pointed out to him the lamentabl
condition of the commercial and tradin
worlds. The other cities will follow suit
The event speaks volumes, and dispense
with the crocodile tears of the merchant
over the ruin of the country and its los
prestige. Other medicine men attribut
the deplorable state of affairs, not to til
decomposition of politicians, but TO the dc
cadence of France, whose motto has be
come Icbobod.
The anarchists are in their glory and ar
making hay while the sun shines. Thu
Felix Pyat in his VeBgeuT urges III. Grev
z to install the commune IN order to save Sc
q ciety and protect France, while the dand
workman, Guesde, who is Can
didate for the legislative vacanc
caused By Gambetta's death, &C
vocates among other small reforms III
; spouging out of the national debt. the abs
1 Iition of railways and banks, the suppre:
, sion Of employers, aud the arming of tn
Z nation. That's what powerfully helps
make pretenders.
: Richard Wagner, like several othe
| caIebrities came TO France when a wont