The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-30
FACTS FROM FRANCE.
Land Of the Communist and the Agi.
tatOr.
A Republic without Republicans :
How Names We're Invented.
[Special Correspondence Of the HERALD.l
PARIS, March 5th, 1884.


There would appear to be some
truth in the remark, that to be a re-
public, France only needs republi.
cans. The municipal council of thi:
city sent over to the Boston Exhibit
ton select delegation of artisans to
inquire into, and report upon the
technica! sections Of the show Of
affecting their trades, and the csndi
ton in general OF the latter industries.
The delegates apparently placed the
aims OF their mission only in the Sec
ond rank of thsir thought. Socialistic
politics formed their objective.
Since their return the delegates
have given spasmodic accounts
of their stewardship. and
the meetings called, revealed only g
beggarly account OF empty boxes.
But little interest was felt in their
notes of travel. Republican. leaning
to communism, ss were the delegates,
they are not favorably impressed with
the Great Sister Republic. Gee
member was shocked, that the pc.
hcemen when spoken TO-, did lot
raise their hats and remove plug of
tobacco out of their mouthsbefore an
swering. Another found FAULT with
the equality reigning in the matter
of railway carriages; blames the
guard for not understanding French +.
and accuses passengers for stretching
their legs on the seats-a calamity
to be witnessed even ia La Belle
France.
The municipality of Bo.ton stood 8
lurch to the delegates, but instead
OF seating them in Louis Quartcze
tauteuils, before srmolu tables. the
meal, neither perpendicular nor
horizontal, was served, the guests sit.
ting on stools, With plate, knife and
fork in their laps. to tunnel at the
cheer passsd round. The American
factories are behind France in turn
ing out locomotives and marine en-
gines, but they are good at pumps.
Man being an expeotorsting animal,
explains why each workman has
spittoon at his eide. The schools at
Boston it seems are good, but the
delegates were Mortified to find God
was made known in them. Another
delegate observed. that instead OF the
municipality sending them "foreign
countries for to see," home trades
would reap more advantages by visit
ing the departments OF France.
The moral then 10 that French
workmen havs nothing to learn from
the United States, and are better of
in their native land. There capital
lists are a. bloated as here; no one
that possesses property, or earns su-
perior wages, feels disposed to hand
it over to those who have none, or to
share with comrades who gain lees
salary. The American workman is
behind the age in the matter of q
universal federation Of peoples and
of cosmopolitan brotherhood. The
tinsmith delegate spoke to fellow
craftsman on the doctrines of equal
isy and fraternity and collectivism.
who replied: 81 don't think We
make anything in that line OF goods,
but in any case inquire Vt the boss"
At the thorough breakdown oil
English administration in Egypt, isI
the contamination devoutly to be
wished by the French, and that they
follow more eagerly than their own.
Fabian movements in Conkin. the
brilliant victory at Teb, has not led
them either to light tar barrels or
venetian lanterns. They allude tol
the triumph in . gingerly way, and
fly oh to the terrible progress of Rus
sia at Merv, within knecking-at-ths.
door distance OF Calcutta. A statue
u ut last to bs raised to Duplex, who
from being monarch OF al he sur
Ysysd in India. died . heggar and |
forgotten in France. The only statue |
or bust erected to him Was BY the
English, and who placed that tssti-
monial to their valiant enemy In |
the government house ct Calcutta. Al
drama il being rehearssd in Eve acts, |
'The Officer OF Fortune" whore
Duplex il the hero. he WAS . man
that well experienced fortunes but.
fets and rewards.
The anarchists keep % lively as
ever; they shut of Steam every Sun
day ct public meetings. Recently q
well fed orator, Suggesting Falataf in
rotundity. suggested. that since gov
srnment would not provide them with
work and food, they ought to cast
lots to see Who ought TO die 6rst and
be eatsn 10 SUP port his comrades. A
spectator created . terrible scandal
by recommending that he, plump
Jack, ought to sacrifice himself, and
20 enable half Q dozen famifes to live
on him as their bguf gras 10, s::wsek.
He accused the interpreter Is being
. bourgeois, and warned hin to take
care, as the day for settling accounts
with the middle Glasses wss nigh. The II
reign Of terror would DO the anarch. Il
ists' millennium, |,
These amiable predictions ct an
,ther moment would have Produced
stampede, or IN Emigration" for
Iafsty's sake. In 1859, bsb,e the i,
'oign OF terror, there Was an uslvi {