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for so many years on his own account,
but fOr higher ana more powerful per-
sous.
EX.AMBASSADOR tUSTIS.

Sinns OCihs French Republic aud PsOs
pie Arbitration TrSAty = Farcr,
PARIS. May a.--The retiring United
States ambassador Mr.. James b, Eus.lS,
drove to the Eiysse Palace to-day and
presented his letters uE recall to President
Faurt. After the ceremony Mr.. EustIs
granted an interview TO representative
ol The Associated Press and gave the lat-
ter his impressions Of France, expressed
his admiration OF the French people and
gave his opinion OF the rejected Anglo
American arbitration treaty. Mr.. Evstls
said:
MY four years residence In France has
afforded be u very favorable opportunity
Of studying French institutions and Il
has been a mort interesting study. and Il
has enabled me to contrast the working
OF a republican government In France and
constitutional government In the United
States There are some points ~ disslm-
Ilarity. They are called sister republics,
but us TO fundamental principles they
are NOT very closely related, In advO-
caey OF personal liberty, France has
never produced a single great man, the
fact being that no matter how ardent u
republican q Frenchmau may be. and
how great may have been his devotion TO
the p0lltlca! rights uf the people he does
nnt seem able TO form the slightest con-
ceptiOn Of what are known In England
and the United States as the fundamental
rights Of personal liberty
They made revolution 70 destruy one
bastile, but they have many to-d1y updti
the republican soil OF France, owing TO
their system OF arbitrary arrests, deten-
ton and peruulsitiOus which exist only
under the most nutOcratic form OF gov
ernmeni. To an American such sys-
tenn would render life intulerable. It
could be wiped out In one day, but no one
seems TO consider it sufficiently Import
ant TO protect ;he personal liberty OF the
citizens. The French certainly deserve a
great deal OF credit for having maintain
ed their republic In the face OF such ad-
verse circumstances, but they present the
strange anomaly OF a self governing peo-
pie being fond OF the constant and unre-
hitting Interference OF the government
in their personal affairs and their per-
sonal relations and being supremeiy In
different to the rights OF personal liberty,
An eminent Frenchman with whom l
was discussing this question. most truth
fully declared:
1.-THE Ignorance of public men In
France with regard TO the working Of our
constitutional government has often
amazed US.
"AS regards the French people my resi-
dence In Paris has increased ms admiral
ton for them. | consider them a most
marvellous people as regards their intel
liEence. their thrift. their habits OF sobrie-
~. their wonderful resources and their
devotion to political llbery and II, as We
do. they allowed their free Institutions
to develop Instead OF dwariing the inli-
yiduals. their national power would be
much greater than II is now"
''As you were for years member OF
the senate foreign relations committee.
what II your opinion OF the rejected
treaty OF arbitration between Great Bri-
tain and the United St1tes7"
.,E,have always eonsidered-it senti-
mental farce. II r. based upon a false
idea, in the first place. that the intelll
gent processes III diplomacy are made
quate to adjust differences between the
two governments. and, secondly. that the
amieable process Of special arbitration
will not be reSorted to when diplomacy
falls Both OF these assumptions are
falsihed, even by our very late expcrl-
ence; and Il Is humlllating confession
by both governments 20 admit that these
potent ihstrumentallties are not to be
within their reach in the future as they
have been in the past. II, on the other
hand. it means that the feeling OF hostill-
ty between the two countries Is so pro-
nounced that It IL necessary TO establish
a disciplinary tribunal t. keep them In
order and to prevent them from rushing
at each others throatS (Which 80 n pre-
poste.Ous suppOgition) any permanent
tribunal OF arbitration would be brushed
aside and utterly fail Of It's intended pnr-
pose"
what are your plans now"
81 have presented my letters W recall
end. therefore. am private citizen.
shall shortly leave Paris, settle In New
York and practice Jaw there"