The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-02
PARIS PICKINGS.
What Our Correspondent Finds to
Write About.
Something of the Late N. Rouher.
Special Correspondence
PARIS, February 9th, 1884.

PARIS. February 9th, 1884.
NJ. Clemenceau, leader of the radi-
Gals, has obtained his commission OF
forty-iour members. grand bran
new committee of the whole House.
to inquire into the condition OF the
| industr al crisis. The government
was defeated on the motion, and very
properly 80, for the commission by
calling for papers aud persons. could
collect q mass OF useful information,
and officially record the complaints
and the remedies OF the parties inter-
esled. However. it is a notorious
fact, that since 1848 all such COM
missions have ended in sterility, be-
cause the committees considered
themselves to be special parliaments,
a sort Of imperium IN tmperto, tor
discussing all atopias, all theories, and
all systems.
The commission just appointed
could render real services, not only TO
France, but to other nStions, If it
si IMPLY gathered, classed and central
ICED, all the information possible. on
Industry, capital. and labor, at pres.
ent 60 much out OF Joint; if it made
in q word the statistics of facts and
opinions. The economic problem is
redoubtable, owing to the radical
transformation effected in commerce
and industry, by contemporary sci-
ence. In France the industrial crisis
is localized to half dozen large cities,
because the industries are concen-
trated in these places. hence. the in.
tention to open factories in the prov
inces. All the wide awake INDUSTRIES
are doing 90. Il has been said.
How small of all that human hearts en-.
dure,
That part which laws or kings can cause
or cure.
The French legislature can do .
small p art, by voting laws regulating
plans of life assurances for workmen,
and annuities for their old age; acci-
dental ineurances; trade unions;
hours of work in mines, arbitration
courts to compromise disputes be-
tween masters and men: and a
thorough recasting OF the system OF
taxation. The state cannot general
ize into 8 law the innovation 30
highly approved OF by numerous en-
ployers. that of making the employed
participants liz their profits. But as
the state itself ia great contractor,
vast employee OF labor, directly or
indirectly, it could arrange to try the
experiment, and insist, that its cou-
tractors essay the plan. By this call
ing all hands to the work, the antsg-
onism between capital and labor
would be minimjzed.
Discussing international rates of
wages. 81 as to bring about a kind of
metric scale OF salaries, Is pure illus
sion. There are factors and elements
in the problem that cannot be seizsd.
The cheaper the labor the cheaper
an article can be produced; GEN.
tury before Adam Smith, Samuel
Butler laid down the principles of
political economy in the distich:-
For what is worth in anything
But 30 much money as twill bring?
The cost of necessaries OF life is not
the sole regulator o! the rate of wages.
In France, the average weekly earn
ings of q workman is 81 francs. and
J that of his food 10 francs; in England
the respective figures are, Al and Is
francs; in Germany % and II francs;
in the United States go and II francs;
and in Italy 16 and 10 francs.
Hademoiselle Auclars proposes
remedy; she appeals to the inhabi.
tants TO elect women to govern
France, since the male sex nave sig
nAlly failed to do 90. And Tote the
mean revenge taken upon her: the
government bsilif1. "he critssr,"
has again sold of her penatee. since
she declined to psy her taxes pend
ing the arrival of ladies to power.
As usual the women's rights club
bought in the penates.
Nothing from Tonkiu, save that
newspaper has been established at
Hue. and that the more the Anna
mites know OF the French. the more
they are charmed with them Orien-
tails have an acquired love for West
erns. Bacniph remains stiil the Ru-
bicon between France and China.
Many think thatA dmiral Courbet
ought ID have cracked tina! nut after
Sou-Tay. Note has been taken OF
the wisdom of the Marquis Teeng,
who svoWs. that there is time for
everything under the SUD; a time to
keep silence, and q time TO speak.
Eco;esiastes can thus teach him ga.
gacity as we'll as Confucius.
M, R1uher's sun set With The dis
appearance OF the Second Empire, in
1870; With the death OF toe Prince
Imperial, he withdrew from all
militant Bonspartism. Indeed it lie
no secret that lis health gave way
from the shock he experienced On
viewing the remains, as he bad to
certify formally as to their identity, of
the unfortunate prince on their re-.
turn from Zaluland. The Vics-Em
peror, the Richeheu of the Second