The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-13

Especial Correspondent P. c. ADvERTIsERl
PARIS, January 2Sth.
Perhaps France has no sounder
thinker and keener judge Of events
than NJ. de DIoliare. He takes a most
gloomy outlook of Europe in general,
and his own country in particular.
He sees colossal armies that ought to
protect public security only men
acing it; Governments trenching
upon the rights of private manufac-
turers and capitalists; a general mis-
trust likely to continue, coupled with
unusual uneasiness. Nature is slow
to repair the faults of men, above all
when the faults are persisted in.
There is no sign of amendment, o:
reaction against false systems of poll
tics and economy. He adds that
France is three centuries too late,
and Germany also, in her colonial
policy-a policy which has plunged
France into such costly adventures as
Madagascar and Tonquin, and drag
ging her at present into an "uniust
and perhaps a disastrous war with
China What will she gain from
this expenditure of blood and hun
dreds of millions? 1t will "make
France odious to the populations in
the far east, which will not be ad.
vantageous to her commerce"
The planters of flags, he continues,
take no account of the rights of the
natives. The world belongs to the
white race. They buy from some
negro chief, at the price of barrel OF
whisky, or some bundles of pocket
handkerchiefs, or pair of Generals
epaulettes, a territory as large as
France, and woe betide those who
dare call in question the validity Of
that contract. At the Congo Confer.
ence, the comedy is being acted o.
England compelling such protection
list States as Germany and France
to accept free trade policy, so thai
what is good for the blacks is bad foI
the whites. The colonies" pos
sessed by France at Pondichery anC
Chandernager are only as large a!
the department of the Seine; but she
has some more lilIiputian still. One
at Calicut is lodge, watched owe
by single guardian; the same a
Surate and elsewhere.
FRANCO CHINEsE AFFAIRS.
More anxiety than confidence now
reigns respecting the Chinese war
The recent check ut Khelung is attrib
uted to M. Ferry, who, as usual, haC
commanded victory, in order tina
it might favorably influence the sen
atorial elections. This time the re-
suit was a repulse. The masses o
Chinese troops pouring into Tonquir
cause uneasiness. Masses of an enemy
can break French, as well as British
squares. Another difficulty result
from Englands applying the neu
trality act. John Bull is not abso
IuteIy abused for this diplomat,
sting; nor for his resisting Bismarck
fantasy, the Congo Conference. I
was full time for the British lion t,
give few wags of the tail.
FRENCH COLONIZATION SCHEMES.
Anything that Yves Guyot write:
merits to be read. He is q man wht
has the courage of his opinions, anC
the independence to proclaim them
It is to be regretted France has no
more sons up to his standard of com
mon sense. He does not the les
hesitate to fill the role of voice cry
ing in the wilderness. He strongly
| protests against the colonial mani
which has seized his cOuntrymen
The cause he attributes to the great
ness of England. "That grandeu
humiliates us. We find ourselves
with regard to England, in the sit
uatiOn of a small to a large land
holder. We are jealous of that vas
domain, and we wish the same t.
match her at all price. We count N
more the cost, for we listen only t.
passion. We aspire to annexation
of which we examine only the eX
tent, without thinking of the quality
We judge English colonies after senti
ments, and not after reflective exam
nation
1t appears that France is entering
into possession of the New Hebride
gradually, by purchasing the vesteC
interests of the petty chiefs. A Mr.
Higginson, a naturalized Frenchman
and Director of the Company of New
Caledonia, is the organizer of thi:
scheme. New Zealanders had bette
look sharp. Soon Australians mus
go in for "Oceania for the Oceanians.'