The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-29
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HERA1D.)
PARIS, March 2a 1888.

France has now commercial
gloire on the brain, and may the
malady be chronic. 1t is that
which impels her to seek fresh
woods and pastures new at Madagas-
car and on the Congo, etc. The
same commendable motive is urg-
ing her to undertake another firta-
ton with her Old love-the treaty
of commerce with England. But
what she has set her heart upon is
a commercial treaty with the Uni
ted States, where her commerce
is virtually excluded. Since ten
years the exports Of the United
States have increased 50 per cent,
while those of France during the
sameSperiodT have been stationary.
Switzerland with a population Of
100000, takes annually 220,000,000
of francs of goods from France,
while the United States with fifteen
times the population only imports
to the extent Of 332, 100000. A Swiss
takes so per cent, while an Ameri-
can takes only 615 per cent. of
French manufactures, or less than
one farthing per head per day. In
the order of imports, the United
States ranks first in this respect
with France. America is destined
to play an important Iole in the
trade of the world in the future. 1t
is towards her that all eyes are at
present turned to give the signal
for new spring in affairs. France
desires to take time by the fOrelock,
by opening up commercial relations
with a realm, that has received in
three years 100000 of sturdy i'm
migrants, and that has surface of
arabic soil to reclaim eight times
greater than the entire area OF
France. The latter since 1901
has been adding about one milliard
a year to her national debt, to make
herself invasion proof, re-cast her
institutions and re-fit her admins
trations.
Politics not the less are but an in
Vestment for toe many in France
agitations have become a career.
Just now there is turn in the tide,
The fashion is setting in from polit-
ical syndicates. The Gambettists
under the plea of forming commit
| tees to collect funds for a national
statue to the deceased patriot, are
| simply organizing themselves fol
the next general elections. Oddly
enough, they are Gambetta's ideas
that now sway the cabinet; he wa
himself overthEown for practicin.
them because he was suspected o
being an sutocFat, what cannot b.
laid to the charge of Jules Ferry
The radicals, whose progress has dis
turbed the axes OF republication
have their syndicate in q league 70
the revision of the consultation, Will
the nonsrohists of oil shades aug
rnented by ratters from the republic
from theEncomprehensibie conserva
tive association, union cemente
by the common and chimeFieal AIM
! the destruction of the existing cor
stitutio0.
Gambetta's vacancy at Bellevill
, has been filled up by a M. Lacroiz
> an advanced radical, but not q
anarchist. He is of Polish extraction
able, cool and tenacious. He
destined to run Olemeucesu close fC
honors, aud is msn of the future
The superior council of educstio
decides what books shall be used i
the national schools. 1t is thus thG
a manual by Paul Bert, the nc
torious atheist, has been adoI
ted. Now the Vatican has pit
this and q few other manuals in tn
Index. The French bishops orde
their clergy aot to countenance th
condemned works: the clergy fror
the pulpit announce they will confirI
no child who uses the prescribe
manuals, and Catholic parents urg
their children to hear the chprct
The government ratorts by stoppin
the stipends of the Teoeleisrsnt elergy
This is a pretty quarrel as it stand
the radicals are delighted, 6
I it may precipitate the separs
ton Of church from state, Will
the ultramontanes are in big
spirits at the government being in
fix. One thing ia evident, the repul
Lie cannot break, at present at less
With the church.
The municipal council! aims also
be a chambre de deputies; it is eve
Idabbling ia politics. Thus a sal
: committee has voted the re-estal
lishment of the national guard, who's
: muskats more frequently combatte
than protected the law. They al
the most potent snziliaries OF all rev
olutions. Jules Fsvre demande
pardon OF God and man for havin
left the national guard its rifles ats
the German invasion. Result-th
Commune. History would certainl
repeat itself.
IL Business is not in state of cris
so much as of actual suffering. W
have parted company with the fat
and are now associated with the lea
kline. Prices are low, save when 20
want to buy. Profits are small, an
not OF that sudden character whic
develops the speculative spirit; henc
Uhv an many SIGH fnr tha s0oialiaY