The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-05
FRANCE AND CHINA.
And Other Current Topics
from Over the Ocean.
RTSHARCK, GAMBETTA, THEIRS.
r,e ronquin Business Absnrd-Eng-
land Franco and Germany
La Diva Patti and her
Divorce Troubles.
special Correspondence Of THE HsEALD.l
PAEIs, September 18th, 1884.

have laU z uEG-o-dC C@ASAS H-'A4 90
French friend, who thinks like an Anglo
Saxon, but who writes as his country
nen He does not like the outlook Of
sFairg here, and unless some break be
mt on. he considers q spill" and a
mash inevitable. He lamented the
people are SO
IaSoEAHT OF FoGEIGE AFFAIRS,
Nv which they could form independent
judgments, and that the journals do so
little TO develop 4 taste for that more
than ever essential knowledge. The
journals being in the hands of financieTs,
he majority Of whom are Jews, have
only the golden calf for ideal; for tn EN-,
leaders mean clients to be formed by
,eduCing them TO subscribe to loans and
bubbles, more or less shady; it is thus
their patriotism must be cOddled, and
their passions humOred, served with as
much jam as possible.
France has been out-witted by Cavour
Who brOughtabOuta united Italy, which
instead of being 3 resource for France,
Is q danger, for in any war she may
undertake italy will not fail to go In for
the expansion theory. Italy claims, too,
N have her Alsace and Lorraine, and IS
sDvi0us to coIonize and protect" ike
France and Germany at least; and her
naoDle possess the colonial aptitude
PesDecting Germany my friend deplOred
her circumference is due to the blunder
Napole5n III. committed by not join
jng England in 4 common stand against
the dismemberment of Denmark.
NsDoleOD vas daZed, fooled and ultim-
ateiy kidnapped By Bismarck holding
out the bait of the Rheini5h provinces,
and still later. Belgium-an hereditary
weakness with the French. Result
final. Sedan. the treaty of Frankfort.
and the military supremacy of Germany
in Europe. Now Bismarck, said my
friend, Is at Us again. He desires, after
conquering Us, 10 add to our humilia-
ton by assuming the role of our patron.
France is regarded by him as 4 protegce, /
till his ends be accomplished when, as
with all his allies, he win give the usual
kick with the spurred boot
BUT WHAT ABOUT CHINA?
demanded. That is the work of Bis |
m2rck, too; he there has formed our
weakness for territory, well-knowing the (
possession of which would open up ex-
celent markets for German gOods-and |
naturally for English and American |
products also, for Frenchmen are timid /
10 invest IN the colonial 'speculations. /
They viii put money into bubble banks, /
because nearer home, can be watched /
and the decOy-duckS are men Of mark |
Ike odyory, under secretary Of state for (
the ministry of justice and now an /
abSc0nder with a sentence of FIVE years !
imprisonment on his head. Having to |
defend colonies and repel local aggres-
son that would ever be drain on the |
home resources and so an advantage to
Germany, and the first serious contest
N winch France would be involved on
the continent, she would have to quit
her colonies, as she did Rome, q city
mat boUher said would never belong to
Italy.
Poor Theirs ought to feel uneasy in
his coffin. A private letter written hv
Gambetta has been published. where
Theirs laughed at the idea of AIsatianS
ana LorramS being French; thev were
German, and France had no reason to
But on sackclOth and ashes because the
~ .-I OF war restored these provinces
20 the IeutOn. Another private letter
mas been published. from General MIL
10 friend. ~ = '-1''i'
THE WHOLE ToNQUIS BUSINESS
was as absurd as it was useless " This
secured his recall, and at once led to his
malady, "sangasias troubles. " The Chinese
WIN not be slow tomake use of the warm
's1Ililaad administered by the minister
~ ~ y al, 70 Colonel Dugenne, for his rash S
-'t; 9efere proceedings at LangsOn, and
"n;ch has led to all the present compIi- $
iIa.lohS with China, and that Westerns I
az Ir 70 p9t up with it-for a time.
pof- ;.iess france sends an expedition to I
,r IL II Is the general opinion that she 5
~ not De able to bring the Chinese to |
~; NJ; knees. To authorize such. the f
SOL, '.IS-Who are all ENJOYING them '
liz II III the country, as if China was, S
,.l ii@T England OF late, a gunntite negiiC-
mo-. would have to convoke PaTIia- :
h,rr q. @ilu II Is not at all certain what ]
p..Li. lIle discussions might assume q
hail. opILllon does not know what to c
ljobt - Inc government throws no q
* ST.; G,l me situation because not clear {
nrass - Ia5 rs Us own way. The ministerial /
no infoslplieS. TO all criticism, by abuse i
tho -rlo,,iLtI!!ation, no explanation. Hence I
wboIpo ~9uc Is uneasy; it does not see i
~ SoJe Il Is being led to. nor how tbe q
mo ~ -. business viii terminate In oman q
ono, ~ road to Pekin, France moi, ba 9
ii5g ia another for Germany At RI =
at alliance between
GERMANY AND FRANCE f
''4' not out-liYed the big pooseborrr Y
p, -'On- The French will never beJieva e {:
th ,',.neTck to be their friend. still less 5
.'5H lover, The sole means that were
lS .a3949la'ed d to diminish the SHARPNESS Of
,ioos the cultivation of business rela- l
nerci.I mas been destroyed by the com
lori vi ciause Of the treaty of Frank
date FF.-'ereby Germany is able to INN
cOn IL rance with cheap goods. PeonIa $
o T;1si;lue rapidly comTpS round - oo Pc
Elssnd Ia -Blsmarck's aim in setting :
the b "iIu france to hate each other
@cfiyed Gu g1d relationship has not vet ,
Sa to s shaC {Ty at that stages TO enable
SOgh al f FSo holland; that effected. then :
tagland :; a@ilce' He is irritated against /
execTt ~ Is alleged, because in case :
1tainlv oo mat programme, she will >
81 70 tbo 'CGCupy Antwerp-have one :
'ele, AZ 10 ointment hanging from her :
a lbe We Dutch Indies --''' Siu " W I
ed With England goes quietly for
Us her Dc measures for Egypt and
NJ the NE termination now to sue
ny backs50 She French feel irritated. ]
Il 8 hrt - out OF the cOunfr1y fba,,,