The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-26

Copyright. 1899, by the Associated Press)
London, March ga red letter page
in the history Of Africa was turned this
week when Great Britain and France
came to an agreement in parcel1ing out
the last portion of Africa still open to
'grabbers. The agreement reached
disposes of hundreds of thousands of
! square miles, leaving only four recog-
nized Independent states throughout
the continent Morocco, Abyssinia, Lii
! IBERIA and the Orange Free State. The
! settlement has given satisfaction in
| Great Britain, where it is generally
! considered fair for both parties and as
having especial value in finally avert
| ing, as far as diplomatic documents
| can, future disputes. Moreover, an i'm
portant feature Of the agreement, pro-
| Vidlng equality in the commercial treat
ment OF the territory between Lake
! Chad and the Nile is that it does not
hamper Great Britain in the least, as
her free trade system would have Sc
cured the commercial rights of France
while the French concession of equal
rights improves the English position.
In the face of French colonial protec
ton, this is a most valuable advantage
for Great Britain, which is fully appre-
ciated here.
The reception of the agreement by
Europe is decidedly favorable. The Rus
slams do not seem to care, the Germans
apparently hope for compensation else
where and are not sorry to see Frances,
hands full of colonial embarrassments,
while in France, except for colonial
faddists and inveterate anglophobes,
the majority are dazzled by the empire
secured to them, which they picture to
themselves as a second India, and they
also heave a sign of relief at the fact
that the matter has finally been ad-
justed.
As the Spectator remarks, s'onIy
French angIophobeS are discontented.
and they can only complain that the
English have given away what they do
not possess. This criticism is quite true,
but Europe has been doing that in Af-
rica for twenty years and is going to
do the same in China If Europe and
America have not a gradual suzerainty
over the world, all their proceedings are
huge dacOitry; but then they affirm
and when necessary, enforce, that very
Suzerainty."
The French government is hurrying.
the bill to a ratification and it is ex-
pected that it will be voted by the
chamber of deputies on Monday. NJ.
Del Casse the French minister of for
eign affairs, counts on a good ma
jority.
One good result of the agreement is
seen in the announcement published in.
the Echo de Paris today of the suspen-
sion of a. military defense for the de-
fense of Corsica, Algeria and Tunis and9
the return of the troops recently sent,
to Algeria and TuniS and the coast
towns of France, owing to the tensions
of the AnglO-French relations.
AN AFRICAN NAPOLEON.
Soudanese exports predict that the
French will finally have a. hornets nest
around Lake Chad, where several DO
tentates hold sway. The leading ruler
is Raheh. formerly slave in upper
Egypt, who went westward and carved
an empire for himself with his sword
He is now styled the African Napo-
leon," has an army Of 10000 men and
rules the territory southwest of Lake
Chad. He is at loggerheads with the
neighboring sultan of Wadai, whose
country is also included in the French
sphere and who has nearly 5000 600 fol-
lowers among the Senoussi, and whose
troops are said to be led by Europeans.
Frances policy is to foster the mutual
hatreds between Raheh and Wadai: but
if this leads to an attempt to subdue
either of them, she will have a tremen-
dous struggle before her. and especially
in the case of Wadai, as thousands Of
SenouSsi live in TuniS and Algeria and
would probably make common cause
with their cO-religionists in Wadaf, in
Volving a conflaSraticn in Frances
North African possessions.
Slatin Pasha, in an interview, is
quoted as saying Frances conquest of
her new protectorate will be verM diff
fcult and will entail many sacrifices
AMERICAN OFFENDERS.
The Windsor hotel fire and the exc
cution Of Mrs. Place furnish the
Speaker with material for a disserta-
ton on American temperament. in
which the paper warmly defends Gov
ernor Roosevelt. 1t says:
''The execution excited an indignant
clamor, but why anybody should SYM
pathize with the woman, it is difficult
to imagine. We do not hear any clam
or against the keepers of death traps,
and the victims of the Windsor hotel
do not arouse that passion of pity
which was bestowed upon the wild hu-
man beast justly punished for her
crime Men and women who rave be-
cause murdereSS has an electric wire
attached to her bare leg, cannot see
that, it is criminal to build a hotel
which, when curtain ignites. burns
like tissue paper. We should be glad
if Governor Roosevelt and a few reso-
lutte. hard-headed men of the same
type. force the municipal administra-
tion of New York to close hotels which
cannot stand a reasonable test of Sc
curity. Then the reformers might
await the ruin of their political careers
with equanimity."
The French deputies are now agitated
over the question Of raising their sal-
aries. A proposal was introduced in
the chamber yesterday to increase the
and deputies from 5000 to 15.-
600 francs. The Socialists, who ars
poor. warmly supported the measure
One deputy. NJ. Aristide Boyer frankly
the proposal on the ground
that it would place the deputies out
of the reach of corruption, which
brought a severe rebuke upon his head
from the president of the chamber. The
motion was overwhelmingly rejected
HEALTH OF THE POPE
The representative of the Associated