Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-12

terly unequal to the task of holding
them. They are doubly ranged on the
shelves, heaped up on the floor and have
overdowed into the music.room and
school-room. Simon has his grand.
children living with him and his books.
The correspondent was told they found
their way into almost every room in the
p irtments.
White haired, clean shaven, with a
scholarly stoop in his shoulders, Jules,
Simon is still hale and strong, and gives
one an idea OF man who has yet many
years of life's work before him. He is
easy and quiet in speech, his sole and
infrequent gesture being slight wave of
the right hand, while the forearm leans
upon his desk. OF late years he has be-
come rather deaf, though not inconveni-
emily 80.
He said: "I believe that France has
passed through her most trying period
with credit. The clouds have lifted and
the horizon is bright. The Chamber in
cludes large contingent of new men
who are not and cannot be Indifferent to
the wave of public opinion, on the crest
of which they were carried to the Palais
Bourbon. Nor can the old Deputies
| lightly cast aside the lesson of the cleo
tions, which was clear and emphatic.
TIE country has plainly showed that it
has had enough of theoretical politics
and is hungry for something practical
and businesslike.
"It may seem rather early to form
reliable judgment on the new Chamber,
but there are indications which point
Enthusiastically to the fact that it has we'll
at heart the sorrowful teaching of the
past. The political groups of the last
session have disappeared, and in their
stead have arisen industrial, agricultural
and commercial groups, which, as their
names indicate, have thrown over the
theoretical for the practical, and in which
the members of all parties stand side by
side.
"Then again, though certain portions
of the press may repeat Gd nGuse0n, that
there has been evidence of intolerance
and latent disintegration in the Republic
can majority, the fact is not 80. Contrast
the DEBATES of this session with those
which ushered in the session of 1885.
In Chamber in which the majority il
thoroughly at one with the people, it's
pulse throbbing with the pulse of the
people, it's brain working under the
fresh and immediate influence of public
opinion, only one result seems possible.
"You ask me if expect war in the
spring. l know nothing. Ask Crispi,
and he would, I am sure, tell you that
he knows nothing. Ask Prince Won
Bismarck and his reply would be
similar. Still it is certain that Germany
does not wish for it. 1t is not so certain
that the Italian Government is animated
by an equally pacific sentiment. Italy
has come to such pass as seems to
render violent solution probable. If
war does break out it will come from
the south.
son the other hand, however, Italian
politicians cannot fail to recognize the
potency of the reasons which weigh
against war, nor can they afford to for
get the lessons of history. Whatever
might be the result of the struggle,
Italy's back would be broken, even
though she were victorious. Even
, though she should escape at the hands of
her ally the fate of Bavaria after 1871,
she would infallibly sinx to the low level
of vassaldom to the German throne.
"With regard to Germany, there il
not the least doubt, as have said, but
that she is desirous of peace. War is q
hazardous game, and there is always q
chance of being beaten, in which event
Germany would lose all that she has
gained and the Empire would be dis
J ininfad., :, We're she to cnnqnar shs would
become the bane and sore place of Eu.
rope, the balance of power would be dis.
tributed and the hand of every nation in
Europe would be against her. 10 word,
Germany has nothing to gain by war,
and everything to lose.
"In France undoubtedly the opinion
is overwhelmingly for peace The ammo
terrible left the country in ruins, without
government, without an army and
without money. By efforts of heroism
without parallel in history she accom-
pilshed what seems an impossible task.
ioday she is new France, stronger,
richer and greater than before. Her
enemies, no less than her friends, recog-
nize this. Less than. twenty years Of
peace has done this for her. She wants
twenty years more.
| AS we'll, as if not better than any
other great power, France can stand the
strain OF the costly peace to which Eu-
rope ia subjected. People may rave
about being undermined by ultra. radical
ism, and of Paris being the hot. bed of
socialism; but no greater nonsense was
ever talked. Paris is freer from social.
ism than either England, Russia. Italy
or Germany. French socialism is merely
an excrescence, and has no roots, or if Il
has any, they do not reach down to the
core of the nation. Our socialists make
more noise than those of our neighbors
but they are neither 80 numerous nor ~
strong in their organization as those Of
our neighbors.
"That is hard to believe? Take tha
fearful days of the commune, when 40.
clallsm ran amuck here. You probably
fancy that the communists were French.
men: That error is general. But il ia
not the less historical fact, can assure
you, that the avowed leaders of the COM
mune found their strength not so much
In their own countrymen as in foreign
socialists who had gathered in Paris. at
tracted by the scent of carnage as the
vultures are by the scent of carrion. If
Tor no other reason than the one 1 have
ust stated, France wants peace. All the
probabilities, therefore, point to peace as
assured. .".[Paris letter to N. Y. Herald.