The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-13
PARTISAN PARAGRAPHS.
Some Ideas In Regard IN she
War.
And . General Resume ef
DOinzs In France.
PARIS. December 10.


| The uneasiness is spreading in ref
erence to the Tonkin adventure. Th
French commence to have hazy pre
ception that the Chinese are ala
cunning at fence, and that the pscif
cation of AMMAN will require q corp
d'armee, What value will Franz
have for her men and money! Eacl
soldier sen! represents in hard casI
1. 500 francs. 1t becomes q seriou
question. If the home organization o
the army has to meet the want,
in the extreme east. France and
Germany are On equal footing in
point of fighting men and material,
They have each eighteen corps
d'armee excluding Algeria. Now il
case Of a war, and the French believe
that will be as certain in spring as the
retarn of the swallows and green
peas. France would have to send two
corps d'armeelito keep Algeria and
Tunisia safe; two more. must be told
off to watch Italy; one, to keep an
eye on Spain. and one, already in
China. Thus the defensive power in
France IS compared with Germany
would be reduced py one-third. The
deputies vote all the credits for Ton
kin. but leave the responsibility with
ministers. This, as Clemenceau re-
minded the Solons, is the washing
the-hsnds. the Pontius-P Plate policy.
Il arrives in time too, ss the duty has
just been reduced on soap.
The charm that existed few years
ago in the material prosperity, riches
and progress OF France has been
broken. The government to square
up all accounts, intends negotiating
another loan next month. This fresh
addition to the national debt, means
an increase in taxation, ard the latter
ia 80 per cent higher than in other
countries. Thst is smart handicap
for French products already turned
out at too costly figure, competing
with other nations, and which will
throw the commercial ball into the
hands OF Germany. whose cheap
goods commence to inunda.e France
herself. Thus there are other ways
to cripple France Independent OF Sc .
dams.
The Paris Exchange or Bourse, is
now but the shade of its former self;
negotiations are stagnsnt. or trans
acted in other monetary centres.
Paris is gradually ceasirg to be q
"head centre" for stocks and shares;
business dwindles week by week. Yet
the Bourse two years ago gave the
tone to the money market of the
world; sales and purchases were enor-
NOUS. easily effected, and loans
readily negotiated. It VS. by this
vitality of the Bourse. that France was
able to pay the war indemnity of Eve
milliardr.
The nations fsrthings," as Lully
90 called the revenue. have been voted
excessively, prodigally. and unpro-
ductively. The mich COW evidently
is becoming dry. And to bring back
the supply OF milk. the Debats and
the Economists which represent the
political economy OF France, recon-
mend the spirited colonial policy that
has landed the country where i! ia.
Colonies, that Frenchmen avoid;
French emigrants that prefer Amer.
lea: population, stationary; and
veritable corps d'armees OF used up
politicians sent to administer colonies.
they themselves representing the col.
onists.
It is not astonishing the unfortu-
nate situation that has arrived. NJ.
Beaulieu, a high economical author
ty, recommends manufacturers,
now that they have got no work to
do, to improve the unshining hour,
to study the causes by which they
have been eclipsed, and adopt the
ways and means OF their well-to do
competitors. The retail trade il bad,
and the present has ever been ts'best
season. People who were in the
habit of expanding 100 francs at this
epoch of the year, have reduced their
figure to so francs stratum, expend
nothing at all.
The press commences to speak, at
last, on the Suez convention. They all
run in the same groove as usual, i'm
plying thus unique impulsion. III.
de Lesseps is reprosched with having
virtually handed over the admins.
tration of the canal to perfde Albion.
The Figaro, never more amusing
than when it attempts to be- serious
describes the convention as a
"Britapnic felony" Words, words |
words, as Hamlet says.
Rochefort suggests that since the |
commence to give "bad
coffee" to their emperors, France
had better erect a factory, to have
ready stock OF kings. She has
already museum of sovereigns."
Madagascar might one day become
client, and the Congo is in the
market, since king Makoko has had
to take himself of. "a if he were a
Charles X, or a Leuis- philippe. In
the sixteenth century. that noble era
for sovereigns, the Congo, like Eu-
rono had its brilliant ruler. in |