The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-16
PARIS PICKINGS.
What Our Regular Correspondent
Finds to Write About.
France and Germauy-The Bona.
partists..French W0rkmen.-
Personal Paragraphs.
Especial Correspondence of the HERALD ]
PARIS, February Goth, 1884.

PARIS, February Goth. 1884.
Opinion here continues to be mark
eddy reserved on the present aspect OF
Egyptian affairs. In batting England
az it were to make az effort to restore
order in the Soudan, it Was never an
tioipated that such would necessitste
the permanent occupation Of Egypt
the issue now inevitable. Hit be
true, that Gordon Pashs sanctions
the slave trade as one OF his remedial
measures. an outory will be raised.
The French regard the abolition of
the custom of mercantile slavery az
only a secondary consideration; its
extinction ought to be gradual they
say; in word. a work OF time. 1t is
only by dividing the followers OF the
false prophets that the latter are ex-
tirpated.
There is rather an unpleasant
number of brochures now appearing
having for common text, the coming
war between France and Germany.
It is admitted on all hands, that the
Prussians would not in any future
campaign, have q walk over, and
that both nations are about er equo
on the chances of invasion. A Dutch
general and accepted as a good au.
thority, has just published q PAM
phlet on ''The French army of 1884
and General Galliffet." The writer
ranks Galliffet as the coming man;
he sees no general superior to him in
France. Now Galliffet is an excellent
cavalry tactioian, nearly ss brilliant
az Baker Pasha: he has q charmed
life, and is so hacked with wounds,
that legend affirms it is thanks to the
surgeons that the fragments OF his
body are kept to yether.
However, it is to General de Saus-
sier. a soldier of the st. Armand
school. that France in general turns
her eyes. He has just been nomi-
mated governor OF the army of Paris
The Dutch author pleads, that the
republic ought to be very cautious
how it deals with its generals, and
not make them the spot of politics.
Unfortunately Gslliffet is tor the
masses, political general, and there
de Saussier surpasses him. the latter
has also q higher reputation for abll.
ity in conducting armies, tina. which
is considered of greater importance
than directing a combat.
Baron Won de Goltz of the superior
staff of the German army, in his
brochure on EARNED nations" lays
down az the principle OF success in
future comba.s.t the efficient handling
morally and physically-of small
but well disciplined force. Masses OF
men if not trained. are simply bordes
q hindrsnce more than q help, and
that a new Alexander would drive
before him "iike flock of timid shop
keepers" The Baron thinks the mo-
ment has arrived for completing the
invasion of 1901; the French are
now we'll cooked. thanks to their po-
liticsl divisions, and require to be
taken of the spit and served up. II
obligatory military education, adds
the author, be good for nation it is
not for people like the French, who
have become enervated by the love OF
luxury that has blunted their sense of
patriotic duty and sacrifice. The
Baron is all wrong here; there is no
diminution In the hate for the German
in France; no disinclination to try
the quarrel bill. to hilt, when the
time and the man shall have come.
The longer that terrible issue is de-
layed, the more the odds will be in
favor of France. The Baron Won
Goltz 30 we'll knows this, that be
would like TO try the question at once.
He further deplores the progress of
peace>at-any-price doctrines.
Now that We are in wire communi-
cation with TOXIN, we have less
news than ever. It is considered
prudent to have more troops at Tom
kin before the attack on Bacninh be
commenccd-to be prepared for even.
Qualities. And the troops are being
shipped of as rapidly as transports
can be found. The French draw at
.ention to the enormous advantages
England commands by her military
possessions dotted over the whole
surface of the globe, by which she can
at once concentrate forces on any
distant point without having TO wait
for full supplies from toe mother
country. like France.
The Bonapartists have been capri
cling OF late, bat there is no evidence
of business ia all this display. The
country does not at all respond to the
piping. The Napoleonio legend is
simply played out; the Bonapartists
only attract, by the dissensions be-
tween Prince Napoleon and his son
Prince Victor, discussions that the
latter uEquest;oDably favors despite
all his protes!ations of homage and
respect for his parent. The party is
divided into royals. and radical
camps. B t that does not bring them
a whit nearer their solution for all
that is not as it should be, viz, a
Bonapartist for emperor. The moie.y
OF the party is for the election of q
constituent assembly to revise the
constitution in the sense of getting
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