The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-21
THE OTHER SIDE.
News Nuggets From Across
"The Pond"
THE FRANC0-CHINa TROUBLES.
France Must March on Pekln-"The
ThUnderer'' France in a Blaze
The French Love OF Fight
fng-Parisian Points.
Special Correspondence of THE HERALD
Paris, AUGUST 30th, 1884

PARIS, AUGUST JutDt 1851
Marshal MacMahon avowed that ut |
Sedan he had no plan of battle; he |
merely decided to fight bit and see
what would turn up. The policy of
France in China seems to have an
uncommon family likeness to MacMa- |
hons strategy. The position OF N. |
Ferry is delicate and painful. The
spirited colonial policy" that he is now
pursuing is the legacy of Gambetta and
de Freycinet. He runs all the chances
of being submerged by it, and with it
his reputation as statesman and his
favorable prospects of succeeding NJ.
Grevy. The silence of peoples has been
said to be lesson for kings: and it
might be added, for Republics also, as
the nation shows not particle of enthu-
siasm Tor the war; mean. the belli-
gerent peace
BtsEp az ABUSES,
raging between France and China.
Naturally. the French are glad that
Admiral Courbet has so. well knocked
about those cages of peace" = the
arsenal and junks at Foo Chow, and
silenced the forts, which returned the
admiral+s proofs of peace and amity.
But the nation INDUCES in no reioicines.
1t instinctiVely feels there is danger in
the whole business Even the lyricisms
OF the officers press provoke no hosanas
from the people
NJ. Ferry cannot direct events as he
pleases; perhaps he is not quite right in
treating China as barbarian and out
side the pale of civilization. All desire
earnestly that the war be finished up
rapidly; therein alone is safety. But if
China by her very passive resistance
keeps France in hot water, the conse-
quences cannot be predicted. The
European powers will be dragged into
the Iec8ee aud despite themselves.
The radical and mOnarchial journals
are in a state OF evaporation at the
government, for not c0nvoking Parlia-
ment to examine the situation They
demand NJ. Ferry'S head. As he has not
transferred his property, as did the Due
Tie Broglie for his political autocracv
under the 18th of May regime. he is not
terrified ut hemenace of impeachment
NJ. Ferry maintains, and perhaps he is
the only man in the world who does SO.
that
FRANCE Is NOT AT WAR WITH CHINA.
The chambers voted him s!iding-scale
OF confidence, to caastise the celestials,
but not to make war. Further, it is out
OF sheer pity for the radicals, who he
maintains would certainly make fools of
themselves, that he does not convoke
the Chambers. Heand group-but the
majority rule France. But how carry
on government in any other manner?
1t as now the settled conviction, that
for France TO succeed, she must march
on Pekin. Parliament must be con-
vOked to vote the millions, out of bud
get in deficit, for that enterprise. About
1908 men at least, would be required
for the expedition. That draft on the
continental army, with Algeria and
Tunisia to guard, would
CREATE TERRIBLE CONFUSION
in the corps d aimee. In French regi.
ments, a company in time of peace con
sists of IS men; in time of war, it is
augmented to 90, by the reserves falling
in. To take 5000 men out of these
skeleton companies of the active army
would make de Moltke laugh, though
the count is said to have no more smile!
on his countenance than StFrancois
ASSise. Tie call out the reserves, as vel
as to demand credit of millions, nigh
produce crisis, which the enemi. S o
the Republic would not be slow to form
Buckle observes, that the French hav
hon always froofa1 o- nhiIIyar,
in political matters, children still. If t.
smash up the system of official auto
cracy which from the days of Louis XIV
swathes the principles of individual
initiation and sef-governmentin France
he the platform of NJ. Clemenceau, ever,
one must wish God speed. Frenchmel
Innst be aided to be deprived of thei
winkers, which like mali coach horses
only allows them to look in one diret
ton They have no liberation @fo
opposite opinion among themselves
they abuse adYersaries, indulge in lane
uage rs coarse as it is reprehensible. N
Ferry really able man, doing honestl
his best for the interests, as he believe.
of his country, knows a little of thi
political ohivalry and populace graf
tude
The Times by an article on the batter
ings Mt Foo Chow has
FRANCE IL BLAZE
What homage to printers ink aa
printers house square French editor
have thrown their i1lk-stands at til
Thunderer, as Luther did his at til
devil. Ii these missiles be not followe
by abuses, the Billingsgste will not
much harm. And when the Times pull
lished NJ. Ferry's interFiew-rejoinde
the journals here stood astounded {
such generosity-the everyday practiC
of common English fair play.
The Yours, very Sincerely, " Your
very faithfully" love OF Bisnarc
addressed to the French, has captvate
a few gudgeons. But the mass OF Il
nation, smelling q rat, did not even Nil
bic at the bait. The hatred for the TIE,
ton IS nursed to be kept warm. Tt
treaty of 1871, is still regarded only as
truce. Now why this luminosity kel
alive ike a vestal ire, while that
waterloo was forgotten Waterloo n
ne world as well as France herself of
tIisturber of peace, and an obstacle
progress while the battle itself IS q
honorable duel. Germany, by her inv
sion, which swept like whirlwind oy'
the country, sought to annihilate IL
French nation, by so Gripping the bIl
that it could never again crow, nor cls
its wings. That's the difference chief
-TTl,on RIS,narcE Strrra0ders Alsat