The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-24
FROM FRANCE.
Our Usual Array efFacts and Figures
From Paris.
The Effert Of the GOyerBment In the
Cause Of Education.
Important Debates on Socialism in
the Chamber Of Deputies.
other Items or Interest.
s ecial Correspondence
PARIS. January 31st, 1884.

PARIS. January 31st, 1884.
The very important debates on 90
cIalism in the Chamber of Deputies
though they can bring no specifl,
remedy to the sufferings of the work
ing classes and the industrial crisis
must produce a salutary effect on the
relations between capital and labor
Eliminating the small side OF thu
serious subject. that OF the occasion
for attacking the ministry. it Wa;
clearly shown that all part e without
exception. sympathizsd with eqna
sincerity with the victims of The marc
Time, and that all were alike impo.
tent to prescribe perfect cure.
What may be called the psrliamen.
tary representatives OF the soc.sl:stit
journals that crack up the anarchiC
and the disaffected, were put on the
Guilty stove of repentance. Brialou, a
real working-man's deputy, 70,
Lyons, and 90 truly such, that one
blushed at his illiterate speeches in
the tribune; be the chef of the prole.
taires, of the equal division ofunequal
earnings school, humbly confessed
he had no psnsces. But he made an
important admission, that il was nee.
essary to recognise governing classes,
or in other words, superior capacity,
to guide and control inferior lnteli.
gences. The debates have thrown
the fierce light of truth" on the in-
anity of the systems, the utopias,
the chimeras dire. that are mouthed
a. the reunions in Paris, and trum-
peted by a giddy and irresponsible
press.
M. Jules Ferry in a sensible and
plucky speech, pierced all the wind
bagism; he invites the representatives
of socialism to eschew words and
with realities: to frame their
remedies in the form of q bill. so that
practical. serious, snd kindly disposed
legislators. could have before them
tangible and substantial.
He asserted toe industrial crisis was
Partisan, not national; the building
trade had over speoulated; the city
had streets Of unlet palaces. while the
artizans were in want of humble and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT homes. The Poors'
Relief Bureau indicated no important
of misery; the paun
Offices had no marked increase oil
business; treaties of commerce were
fixed for nine years still, land il France
was beaten in the foreign, as we'll as
in the home market, such was chiefly
due to the higher rate of wages ex-
acted by the French workmep, to the
more elevated profits demanded by
and to the neglect OF
lubricants keeping their plant and
their intelligence abreast with the
march OF inventions and the discover
les Of scientifc industry.
He reminded the chamber also,
that in many arts where France has
had d monopoly-artificial flowers for
exam pie -she has been out-rivalled
by competitors, whom by education
have been able to tread on her kibes
the exclusion of foreign products. the
expulsion OF foreign workmen, would
bring no remedy. as the nations
affected, had reprisals to fall back
upon.
The French do net see clear into
Chinese Gordon's mission; they begin
TO smell rat, that be purposes FORM
ing federation OF states in SoudaI.
under the protection OF England. and
10 enable her to tap the commerce OF
the upper Nile and control the trade
Of central Africa.
The government continues actively
it, exertions to spread education. 1t
now organizes DO oular conferences,
under the direction of inspectors. 1t
is about establishing in the local COL
leges and chief schools, art museums,
woere would be placed, copies OF
sculpture, OF celebrated paintings etc,
all to keepebeiore the minds eye OF
The pupils. the harmonious forms;
many OF the subjects. while illustrat.
ing the schools of the beautiful, will
recall at the same time the duties OF
The existence of tbs re-
pubic depends on universal suffrage,
and the latter.in France at all events,
8 8 two-edged sword. It was voted
n 184S when its advocates least ex-
oected it, or perh sps desired. for the
nation was unprepared for the exer-
Use of that weapon, which gave pie
'escites to Napoleon III. and malori>
les 10 the third republic.
Universal suffrage hes then to be
educated and trained; by the constitu-
ion as it at present stands, a major
ty of one has created it, Then the
existing regime is still largely worked
IN the old monsrchsl lines, the chief
being the intense system of centralI-
.ation, which places each of tbs
,ighty-siX departments unter a Pre-
ect, or Viceroy. responsible only to
he home minister at Paris, who makes
lis subalterns dance as he pulls the
trings. In the United States. that
Ere nee aims to initiate, This danger
Ices not exist, since each state has Its
autonomy. Were France similarly
tolerated, her homegeneity would be
Rut Eraaca has In the