The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-19

Two facts are now dawning on the
French mind-that they are in for a
tong and costly war with China. and
that no power displays any special
anxiety to help them out of their terri
bic mess. The Chinese indulge in
buster and bounce but not the less
block their rivers to prevent any more
friendly sailing up them. on the part of
the French.
ALL FOREIGN NATIONS,
save England, are reinforcing their
9ayies in the Chinese seas.
1t is felt that Admiral Courbet can
not indulge in any more "iudicious
distinctions" till he at least is supplied
With sufficient landing force. Dribblets
of reinfOrcements will be of no use. The
Chinese will in all probability adopt the
boiling tatics, and so live to keep the
French in hot water till the Millennium
when gros rifles and torpedoes will be
questionable. A well-informed mill
tary contributor states, the War Office
and navy are working overtime to pre-
pare the despatch of an expedlhonary
force, varying from 5000 to 10000 men,
by the 1st of October, when the Cham
hers shall have formally-will they p
declared war against China, and author
jzed the expedition. He adds, and
what smacks of the closing days of the
Empire, that there IS O multitude of
ieutenants and sub-dittO in the army,
suffering from the "canker of q calm
world and long peace" that, after the
latter, ian army only lives in the hope
of a war" The Republic, then, like the
second empire, is only peace in the Pick
wickian sense. This would seem to
Justify the accusation brought against
GamDetta, that his spirited colonial
policy had no higher aim than to keep
swords from rusting in their scabbards.
1t explains, also, the trap laid by Bis
marck and into which the French have
hOpelesSly fallen, to keep their army
pegging away in the East, or at Nova
Zembla, rather than near Metz. Rest
assured, the French would pay hand
sOmely any "hOnest broker" that would
pull them free of
THE CHINESE HORNETS NEST. n
The Palmerstonian policy that Lord
Northbrook has revived in Egypt is APP
proved of by all who desire to see the
shams and hypocrisies at last pricked.
Audacity, audacity, always audacity.
will gain the day. That one stroke of
business, that proof of intention is the
tcIinching reply to the months and miles
OF rant, Tibaldry, and indecency, to
which England has been the butt 1t
has acted like a refreshing douche on
the whole tribe of abuseFS, wholesale
and retail. a few writers still illustrate
that the dOg-dayS are not yet over. Now is
the day, and now is the hour for the
champions of the League for the dis
memberment of the British Empire, to
take up the glove thrown down, and
neither conceal themselves, nor put
their COlOTS IN their pockets. When |
England is held responsible for the cure /!
Of Egypt, sheis not to idiotic as not to |
resort to desperate remedies. The ring |
OF the fourteen states" contains too I
many jealous members, who would be !
lubllant, would execute q TIE DeaLn in |
fact, over her break down. The morrow, !
they would tread in her footsteps, plus /
to squeeze the piastres, as well as the I
residue Of life, out of the fellaheen with |
theCurbash, in order that French Israeli |
ties and Jewish newspaper proprietOrs |
could receive their pound Of flesh on |
either bonds.
The collapse of the Mahdiis a grevious
blow to the "down with England party. |
1t has not yet been stated how many |
sOVereigns were paid over to the false |
prophet TO allow himself to be whipped. |
Its difficult, however, to receive COM
municatiOnS from Khartoum; besides, |
the Mahdis "Field Post" may not be |
up to the spirit of the age. OF course,
England cannot even dream of relin-
gushing her hold on SOudan. she must |
keep a Bismarck grip of the region;
make the glorious Gordon who recon-
quered it despite the government that /
deserted him, its ruler, with mission |
TO open up the territories so as to con-
meet with Stanley'S free states on one
side, and the free Red Sea on the other. /
After all Bismarck's policy is the right |
one
BLOOD AND IRON NOT VOTES AND SPEECHES,
to solve liberalization difficulties of the
century.
Colonial prospects at Tonkin are very
bad; all business is in the hands of the
Chinese, and is destined to remain so.
Manchester goods rule the roost: then
German. Swiss, and American special
ties. OF French traders and merehan-
UtAe, tHeIe Is not even an outward or
visible sign. The only "bale" forward
ed, was one of the samples from Rouen,
ordered by General Millot; but no com
mand5 followed; it is presumed the
commlSsiariat distributed the samples,
as rags to clean gun locks. Some 1ead-
ing business men and lubricants of /
Rouen, wrote six months ago to the
under-Secretarv of state who looks after
colonial matters, asking information
about commercially ditching their tents
IN TOnkin, and what tariff would be
struck on foreign, so as to favor French
goods. They are still at the pausing for
reply stage.
A special correspondent of the Temps
who has more than globe-trotter' ex-
perlence of all colonies, writes: the I
french look upon an emigrant to China,
etc, as last man; fathers will never
give their daughters to such castaways; |
hence, the next to complete absence of |
66FenchWomen in the French colonies. |
Out ne viii endeaVor to obtain for him |
d government situation at home, at /
Iine-SeYenth the income the young fell |
LOW LOW may have in the colony, if he wi I
ouT resign sef-expatriation and become /
d benedict. There Is another point /
GGnIch initiates against French colonial /
avn the peculiar ideas Erpnchmpu /