The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-15
FRANCES FEELINGS
We're Wounded by III. NJ. STAN
ley Three Years Ago.
THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER
VIII Receive no Recognition from the Ges-
graphical Society of Paris if He vista
the French CapitaI-Emins Doings.

Especial to THE HERAI1D-Examiner Dispatch.1
NEW YORK, April IA Herald cable from
Paris says Stanley was once unlucxy enough
to wound Gallo susceptibilities by a speech he
delivered in the French capital Three years
have passed since then but his onense has
not been forgotten. Ask any ordinary French
man what sort of reception would be accorded
to the African explorer should he abridge his
stay in Cannes so as to spend day or two here
before proceeding to Brussels and the answer
would probably be Simultaneous uplifting Of
eyebrows and shoulders. In Paris circles out
side of the Anglo-American colony, where the
arrival of Stanley might be thought matter Of
some moment, great and anxious has been the
discussion regarding the attitude it would be-
proper to assume toward Emin Pasha' S rescuer.
The permanent committee OF the geographical
society ayows that it is in dilemma On the
one hand there are Stanley's Acknowledged
merits and on the other that unfortunate speech
of his.
"Upto the present." said Comte de Bizemont,
president of the committee of the society," I'VE
have not been notified regarding Stanleys fu-
ture movements, consequently We have not had
to deliberate officially upon how we shall re-
ceive him. We have each of u.s. however
formed personal opinions and have no objec-
ton to giving you mine. do not think it nee
eSSary or OppOrtune.n continued de BizemOnt
ITO make too much of Stanley in case OF his
coming here. This explorer has positively no
claim upon our SympathieS. In interviews
printed in the Herald and other papers he
showed his whole concern was the benefit that
might accrue to England from his travels
While of France he said not one single word.
Moreover, without wishing to detract any way
from the merit OF his travels, must say STAN
ley has always kept an eye on number one He
is not adverse to the large pecuniary profits
which his business. capacity enables him to
draw from his journeys in the Dark
Continent, Undoubtedly he is bold,
intelligent explorer, but at the same
time they to him SpecuiatiOns
Now we OF the Geographical society make no
account of personal interests. Our dominating
pre-occupatiOn is the interests of science Thus
it was we gave no fete in honor of Captain
Trievier, for after mlnutely examining the story
of his travels, we became of the opinion that
the French explorer though giving evidence OF
most alone, had unfortunately followed in the
footsteps OF previous explorers. His notes
did not contain any fact not hitherto known to
geographical science.
"To return to Stanley. I will give you
another reason for my lack OF enthusiasm
When, after his first journey, the explorer came
to Paris, he considered 1t good taste to effect o
certain diSdain TO- De BraZZa. This American
friend of Tippoo lib got from his French rival
as good as he gave. Stanley has always
protted pecuniarly from his travels while De
Brazza, it must be said in his praise has spent
more than his private fortune on be-
half of science and his adopted country
Some people may think" continued De Bize-
mont, that because Stanley holds one of the
five gold medals awarded by our society, we are
bound to do something in his honor. Nothing
could be further from the truth. / can say only
this much more, were the American colony to
get up banquet in Stanley's honor. should
absent myself from Paris so aS not To- be able 10
accept ANY invitation that might be sent me-
COHte de BiZemOnt will have no need to quit
the capital Stanley had the means of getting
the Geographical society out of its d1lema and
he has done SO. When the Herald stated yester-
day that the explorer had decided not TO pay a
visit to Paris the members of the society com
menced to berate him.