New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-25

uneouaed opportunity. II was appreciated BY her
Governor at the Island of La Reunion. who had
succeeded in gaining considerable Influence over
the still pagan rulers or the island. England
was not vet firmly settled in her Indian posse.
sions nor had France lost all her oriental power
II was then that ire shrewd English agent who
administered the affairs Of the onetime French
colony in the neighbOring Island OF Maufltius was
attempting to make Madagascar another Of the
links I'm the commercial cndln WIN "ncn Eng
land long since girdled tine world In vain the
Lrencb Governor protested, and invoked prior
rights The administration OF Louis XVIII and
his successors looked on his patr 9tc proies, as
Of considerably less importance IMAM the story
Of Paul and Virginia. conceived under the same
skies
With the advent Of the Protestant missionaries
(of various societies and ndtiondlties, but all Of
what is called the Evangelical stamp, there BE-
gan long contest between British trade and
religion on III, one hand. and native paganism
and shrewdness on the other. The shrewiness
after much resistance, led the toVas 10 CON-
promise the difficulty by accepting the religion
and not openly rejecting the trade while jeal-
ouslv guarding their own independence. Al times
rho influence Of England promised o. become pre-
nonderant But what is bred In the bone Of
Uoya will appear in his blood for geneTatOns
no matter how long Christianity has been the
religion. -
when Madagascar was still in the o.fih throes Of
Furopean civiliz alton. Thirty years ags ne sue
ceeded his brother as Prime Minister at the
Cnurt f. which ne has added in the last few
wears a marital relation which Is perhaps rgnuy
expressed by the title Il Prince ConsoIl Al any
rate ha and no other represents ana rules me
Iovas while the Queen. a young Woo" Wheh ne
married her sits aloof in her palace. only now
and then II Is said. rpusing herself - JON me
marty Of opposition. Now from me "esnihng II
has been the Prime Minister policy o. eliminate
the ''vaZa' foreigners ~ every Nni-irgm an
sh,r in tho government ~ Madagascar He be-
gan with the English. having first concuated me
missionaries who may Low n- '.,.-t 're' as an
naturaliZed or native Liitl" oy Itt'' X bI.'isa
interests became more ana NOR" centred III
Egvnt no plaved off the French against tnelr
rivals They were already troubling nm win
fostering war ohe only on" Whcn Eu'opea n
mower can waga in this islanli. WAen ne sponn'
,anaouslv came forward. In l>N5. VITA an olief 70
i,. E,ranc. the ..naute garante'-the upper
hand in treating all the exterior relations VI
Madagascar. ,i , NV
The Frevcinet governm' M was slai ~ my
hing that might seem L. he PUBIC u eve
france some compensation fof th~ empire NANa
England has built up In the East hnsldhu way
too much alive just then 10 sr'uns m 80
shar. in Egypt not 10 rejoice Al hd'I"N ~, ,,.4
~ Franc taken up ELSEWHERE. In point 81 iac-
the veteran Prime Minister was aDie ~ e''' WA
nations a lesson in diplomacy -. vu
Je obtained a treaty II peace sign-l oy NM.
Freycinet Mot and Patrimonlo' Ana ~ ,,''
,reatv there f. not one word about cline. po,,
,ec,orate or "haute garantie. The ll-aenn,.t
mowers OF the French Resident General a. NV
capital were no equivalent Inc EhEIsm :, "a a,
,be situation. perhaps willing T. profit ny II iHs,
seeing the inevitable trouble II "oui' nr'.n N
French politics. recognized IN lN'' tAe, sx,s.
ratio" Of France over MAZDA Ar I'D an W. ~
.irr rsIations If the island. How any Nah' p'o-
nctorate can be exercised without some mana I'm n
rho interior administration of the country nts zen
ever since the puzzle ~ the fren.n 20.
sent out 70 profit by the Prime 'i-'''''
SaSs