Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-02
Hon. &. sPuLLER.
The French Depusy,s Patriotic
ADDRESS 10 His Coumtrymen.


The French Depusy,s Patriotic
Address 10 Hts Coumtrymcn.
A number Of French citizens met last
night at the Cercle Franaais, MERGED
Hall, to welcome the Hon. E. Spuller.
member of the Chambre des Deputies. Of
France. who arrived in Los Angeles yes
terday. The honorable gentleman has
been visiting throughout the United
States and is now on his way back to
his native country. Mr.. Leon Loeb. the
French Consular agent in this city, in.
troducei Mr.. Spuller at 1880 P. NJ. The
honorable Deputy of the Department OF
Cote-d'Or is apparently 65 years of age,
tall and corpulent and of very distiu-
guished and gentlemanly appearance.
Immediately after having been intro
duced to his compatriots MIR. Spuller
told them that he was disappointed in
not seeing more of his countrymen pres.
ept. He had not only hoped to see
many of these. but also his countrywo-
men and their children. The speaker
disclaimed any intention to make set
speech. He felt pleased to have met
his compatriots and knew that they
would be glad to hear him talk of
France. He would ask the permission
of his audience to sit down. The
speaker then launched into kind and
fatherly allocutiou, carried on in a
colloquial tone of voice, but through
which at times his patriotic feeling tor
France would burst forth and carry
away his hearers. He said that France
had changed her former ideas regarding
the usefulness OF her sons residing in
other countries; and that the speaker
and the party to which he belonged
believed that they were as useful to the
mother country as those who remain at
home, because travel is needed for the
told Of Los Angeles when he first set
foot upon Americ An soil. He had been
assured that he would be well received
wherever France was honored. but that
in Los Angeles especially warm hearts
would be anxious to welcome him.
That had caused him to make up his
mind to come here. He compared
France, so small on the map and yet so
great in the universe, with this immense
country, of which he admired the en-
ergy, activity and enterprise, the art of
winning and that of spending money,
but his heart was still with his own dear
France and so he would remain French
man.
The speaker cautioned his hearers
against allowing petty hates and strifes
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He advocated union, which is so much
needed in the mother country and so
much more required amongst the French
in foreign lands. He wanted his friends
to understar that the question Of Mon.
archy in France was definitively settled
aud that Republicanism was the future
of humanity. The France of the pres
ent tune is not the France of 1870. She
has gone through great many reverses,
and has been humbled to the dust, but
she is now recoving from the blow and
will yet be worthy of the world.
In the future she will have citizens
and not subjects. Those very masses.
those very men who on the End OF
December had delivered France into the
hands of one man are now the support.
ers of the Republic, and the most i'm.
portant part of the uation daily becomes
more attached to that form of govern.
ment. The speaker assured his hearers
that the affairs of the Republic were in
fourishipg condition, and that recur-
renee of monarchy was impossible. He
said that the Republic would never
founder owing to exaggeration in
thought, but he strongly advocated
moderation in conduct In conclusion
he said that for the third time the form
Of government in France wasIa Republic
aud that the French meant to keep it..
Then followed few more sentences in
which the speakers sentiments OF love
and honor for his country were all.
pervading.
Mr.. G. LeMesnsger thanked the
speaker in few chosen sentences and
MIR. Spuiler tnen went into the audience
and shook hands with all those present.
Afterwards banquet was rendered
him by the members of the Cerole
Franeais at the st. Elmo Hotel.
In another column will be found an
interesting interview had with Mr..
Spuller, in which he states his views on
the French Republic and other matters
regarding the politics of Europe.