The Red Cloud chief., 1897-05-28
MR.. EUSTIS' IMPRESSIONS.

french Institutions.

Tho Ex-A AMBASSADOR to France Criticises
french Institutions.
PARIS, May 26-The retiring United
States Ambassador, Mr.. James B. Eus-
day and presented his letters of recall
to President Faure.
After the ceremony Mr.. Eustis
granted an interview to n representa-.
tive OF the press, and gave the latter
his impressions of France, expressing
his admiration Of the French people
and his opinion Of the rejected Anglo.
American arbitration treaty. Mr..
Eustis said.
my four years residence in France
has afforded me q very favorable op-
portunity CT studying French institu-
tions and 1t has been q most interest
ing study, rs 1t has enabled me to con.
trast the working Of q republican
government In France and constitu.
tional government in the United
States. There are some points Of dis
similarity. They are called sister re-
publics, but as to fundamental
principles they are not very closely
related. In advocacy Of personal
liberty, France has never produced o
single great man. the fact being that
no matter how ardent q Republican Q
Frenchman may be, and how great
may have been his devotion 70 the 20.
litical rights Of the people, he does not
seem able to form the slightest con-
ception of what are known in England
and the United States ms the funda.
mental rights Of personal liberty.
"They made a revolution to destroy
one bastile, but they have many to-
day upon the republican soil Of France,
owing to their system of arbitrary ar
rests. detentions and perquisitions,
which exist only under the most auto
cratic form of government. To an
American such q system would render
life intolerable. 1t could be wiped out
in one day, but no n seems to con
slider it sufficiently important to pro.
tect the personal liberty Of the citi.
zens. The French certainly de-
serve a great deal of credit for
having maintained their republic IN
the face of such adverse circumstances
but they present the strange anomaly
VI q = koNCi III PcoBhC tCihk iobu
o n constant and unremitting inter.
ference of the government in their
personal affairs and their personal re-
l~ations. and being supremacy indiffer-
ent to the rights Of personal liberty.
An eminent Frenchman. with whom l
vas discussing this question, most
truthfully declared: The ignorance
Of public men In france with regard
to the working Of our constitutional
government has even amazed u.s.
'As you were for years a member OF
the Senate foreign relations commit
tee, what is your opinion OF the re-
jectcd treaty Of arbitration between
Great Britain and the United States?"
81 have always considered it n senti-
mental farce. 1t is based upon a false
idea, in the FIRST place, that the inte'li.
gent processes of diplomacy are made
quate to adjust differences between
that the amicable process Of special
arbitration will not be resorted to
when diplomacy fails. Both OF
these assumptions T. falsifed.
even by our very late expert
ences, and IL Is a humiliating
confession by both governments to ad-
init that these potent instrumental
ties are not to DO within their reach in
the future. as they have been in the
past. II, on the other hand, IL means
that the feeling of hostility between
the two countries is SO pronounced that
it is necessary to establish a disciplin-
AIRY tribunal to keep them in order
and to prevent them from rushing at
each others thioats (which is q pre-.
posterous supposition) any permanent
tribunal of arbitration would be
brushed aside and utterly fail of its in.
tended purposes"