New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-25
A NEW POWER IN FRANCE.
SPREAD OF THE BOULANGER MOVEMENT
FRANCE AND ITALY.
IrRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oF THE TRIBUNE
- NJ.

daughter I remarked that the Bonapar-
tists ard the Orleanists-and not the mere
party pawns, but the great party pieces-were
forward TO com pliment the bride and bridegroom,
and in particular the brides father. They and
the disconnected Republicans were on the same
line This was, l learned yesterday. because
the Comte de Paris and Prince Victor. fearing
their followers would go over to the General
whether they liked it or not, authorized them to
be present at the nuptials In short they made
a virtue OF necessity, and hid defeat under
a polite initiative. But what is most astounding
! in the many surprising things that Boulangism
| has brought forth is the invitation the Deputy
| elect of three Departments has received from
! the Radicals OF La NeIvre TO take the chair
on the I'd of December at Nevers The pro-
moter of the dinner is NJ. Laporte, the Deputy
who was sent up as Radical Socialist to the
| Chamber in 1881 and reelected in 1885.
lie has opened subscription in his journal TO
pay for the Gosh Of the banquet. Inc
total OF the money subscribed with the
| list of the subscribers, has not yet been pup
lished But it appears that it is far greater
than could be expected, ard that the dinner
| will be monster one.
The mot d. ordre' Of the organizers is Bye
cones are bycgoncs. Do you forget and for
give the 4th of September, and we shall pass
the sponge over the I'd of December" La Nevre,
| it must be remembered, is the Department in
| which the greatest number of Socialists
against the Coup d. Fiat in 1s52, and NJ. Laporte
| is the Paris staff editor of the Patriotic de
! Nevers,' a journal founded by DR.. Turgny, an
! old proscrlpt of 1852, and still owned by him.
| This is what Laporte writes: We become
the allies of the Right! Nothing of the sort
Their disbanded and dispersed troops, on the con-
| trary, come to us from all sides, and ask to join
the National army. AS to the former chiefs,
| they come to us quite ready to accept the Repub-
lie The truth is the spectacle presented by the
| Rouvers, the Raynals, the Ferrys and Others in
! their coquetries with the Rights has made a
generation which does not remember the Coup
d. Etat ready to adopt the Forgive and Forget
motto.'
| In the Chamber of Deputies this motto has
been used for the furtherance of party intrigues
and financial jobs. Boulanger now says: Let
us act on it to form great National party and
! get rid of constitution which is dry rot
and the most ardent Radicals flock to him. The
Paris Radicals seem TO stand aloof. But there
is such deep discomfort with the present state
of things that there Is no knowing how they
may be brought around to the state of feeling
in which they at the last 14th Of July
review at Longchamps. which President Grevy
attended-an occasion on which the people of
Paris sullenly kept aloof from all festivity
until the review was over, when they turned
out to hiss Grevy, cry Vive Boulanger" and
amuse themselves as best they could.
The Floquet Cabinet has not been successful
in assuagng discomfort 1t had to forget the
country in thinking about the Chamber, and both
Cabinet and Chamber are being left high and
dry. The income tax bill is very unpopular,
and with reason. 1t re-cstabishes the inquis!-
toria side of the isc, which the Revolution
knocked over The fsc WILL should the law pass,
be able to poke its nose into the concerns of
every private household to overhaul ones cooks
accounts, ascertain what rent pays what the
yearly bills for the childrens education and
the wfe's wardrobe come to, ETC. 1t will
bring the informer into every village, and each
one feels that it is only the thin edge of the
wedge When the incomes ascertained the
screw will be frightened.
1t is also felt that this expedent need not
have been rescrted to and that it is now being
imposed TO pay the interest guaranteed in the
Railway Conventions law passed in 1885 to the
shareholders OF the railway companies. This in
terest ought never to have been guaranteed and |
the railway monopoly leases ought never have |
been renewed The beauty Of the arrangement |
tina. inst I'd of the companies paying the |
State for -.lewal the State paid the companies, |
under the pretext that they to finish the |
lines begun by the Ministry of Public Works
when NJ. dc Freycnet was at the head of that
department. This year the railways have so
managed that dividends have fallen and the |
State is the debtor for 100000. Then There
are the vast military estimates OF NJ. de Freycinet
which run up to nearly a third Of the war in
demnity paid to Germany in 1871.
upfc ha1 pOth "a iYan nv md a
gang Of Bourse spectators there would be no
enemy on the Italian side of the Alps. Con-
sequenty, many army corps, or forts, or stra-
tegcal lines of railway would not be needed.
Given the present relations Of France and Italy, |
the whole Of the southeastern frontier must be
put in O strongly defensive state from the
neighborhood of Geneva to Nice, as well as the
whole of the eastern and northeastern frontier
from Belfort to the Ardennes An ex-Italian
Foreign Minister is now in Paris, and l have
had good deal of quiet conversation with him
about the foreign relations of Italy. He is
here on his way from London, whittier he went
TO attend the funeral of Count Robeant, the
Italian Ambassador 10 the Court Of ST. James.
What is more, he is one of the three persons who
drafted the secret clauses of the treaty with
Austria and Germany What these clauses
he did not tell me, and did not ask. But
think can guess what they are. My feeling
is that Germany subsidies Italy TO enable her
to create a strong army against the coming tug
of-war, and has guaranteed her, in the plumber to
which the contracting parties look forward, the
west slopes of the Alps, Nice, Corsica, Tunis
and Trpoh.
asked this Italian statesman why Italy signed
this treaty. He said: Entirely on account OF
Tunis Tunis is the apple of ones eye Look
at the map, how it is situated Toulon. Biserta
and Corsica dominate every Mediterranean port
we have and all our southeastern railways, which
are main coast line, with short branch lines
running into the Apennines. We have still the
Papal question and the French are so mobile that
at any moment they might turn round and invade
no IN restore the Pope and break up our unity.