New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-09
CEREMONIAL UsAGEs RETAINED.

the dangers Of living
CEREMONIAL UsAGEs RETAINED.
"Oficial France retains the ceremonial usages and
pomp OF the Empire The people do not become
accustomed to republican simplicity. Deschaud.
the president OF the Chamber OF Deputies, or. as
we would call him the Speaker OF the House IS
one OF the most promising Of the younger states
men OF France. He did more than any one 10
save the Cabinet In the crisis OF its birth The
difference between French republican ideas ana
ours have this illustration. and IL is universal:
Speaker Reed had a salary Of 5000 year ana
we all remember his modest apartments at the
Shoreham Hotel in Washington. The Speaker OF
the French Assembly has 10000 francs year and
a palace This splendid structure is five times as
Big as the White House 1t is superbly furnished
and appointed Its banquet hall seats 300, and It's
reception rooms are larger 1t Is maintained TX
the State. and sentry boxes and sentineis are an
around At the Speakers reception, which at
tended regiment of soldiers was drawn up as
great gateway to the doors Of the palace.
ON account OF the sickness OF my boy had TO
ii hterestine Storm centre in Europe The French
9T 6s unrest rs 2e1 Of a he agd With
ornaments creating dangerous condltoil- ~
be the spark TO fire the magazine everywhere
talked with men OF all parties in Belgium ne
situation Is the most emphatic Endorsement OF the
wisdom OF our forefathers In eternally separating
Church and State and divertng religion from poll
ties There were TWO parties IN Belgium, the Con-
seTra'e r am nv s{rov FOR the active support
neural rSon par CoDservatiye secured H. and
the Liberal party was wiped out. Then the Con
servative was called the Clerical party. The So
SIsiists instantly came 10 the front as the oppo-
stlon, and the Liberals. having nowhere else 70 20
Joined them The suffrage is very restricted but
nofulthstanding that the Socialists have captured
the cities The country districts largely outnum-
per nGse q he e result IS that Clerical voters
have III representatives. and $4,000 Liberals and
Socialists have only 40. To these $4,000 must De
added as many more who not being property own
ers have no yotes oq d dney All s hes ros
have arisen, answers the demand for manhood SUI
frage BY FIRST denying u and then giving m hIIttg
representation only IN districts where the 20
and LIBERALS In the majority, by whlnh ths
minority will elect more representatyes Ihan s so
caiistic anarchy. Mobs were erecting barricedes.
attacking the sB0 9tG fdr tSe repu3bes
''The throne was rocking The religious aspect
nature The Socialists and Liberals. seeing the
clericas actively In politics and against the;, aq
the party in power accepting the term clerical
party put religion and conservative politics , 20.
gether class them as one and fight both. Ihey
tbe5r nnItcaI adyersaries They repuiiate spiritual
guidance not only in politics. but in everything ana
and most vital forces for good citizenship, for fam
and they because they have no share as
religious bodies in our government
FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.
Prom the turmoil # the Continent. England and
svervthIng in Great Britain seems founded on the
rock The contrast impressed never before
with the conservatism and solldty Of English
finances. society, Institutions politics and people
Nothing changes as one goes back year by year
You are received with the same cordial hospitality
You ind your friends just as you left them. Inc
landlord gives you the rooms in your hotel,
The waiter puts the table. II you arrive without
giving an order, the same things you had when ne
last served YOU and politicians are discussing with
unfagging zeal and Interest the same questions
The same two old sailors who held out their mats
10 YOU on the fOOtpath between the station ana the
field at Ascot twenty years ago sln2 the saiIe
songs and shout Good luck 10 you. gentlemen. IN
the same CHEEKY way. and except that the WooaeH9
leg gets sometimes the right instead OF
the left, they are the same old salts they
were when they came out Of the hospltal
after the victory Of Trafalgar. | do not mean
there Is progress. for there IS sleauS
development In every department OF human m
ideas crystalline n laws You see u II Ite - -
tension Of the suffrage. IN the enlarged powers %
local government IN measures for the WeIaIS, ~, ~
the working people and the old ana helpless. no
conservatives after four years Of power are sel-
ting careless and IN a little bill which NOBODY
seems 10 understand and which amounts 10 lttle
TO appeal to the religious prejudices OF the couh,
try against further powers TO the kst aps siSt
church The Liberals longing and hoping
for the hundred seats when WOuld give ne -.
AT the next election working majority OUTSIDE OF
the uncertainty Of n reliance on the lrlsh Ue'tI-
hers The friendship for the United stats ~
warmer more pronounced and more uhi'e'' "'
"Tbat Jolly tar and gallant sailor captain slr
Edward Chichester who stood 50 firmly by AuHi ~
Dewey at Manila. made capita spT te,- a. He
paid the highest compliments 10 the American olil .
GERS and men and told this story. Ills sh!P, ~
out Of fresh meat Dewey et nun hAy Xben his
ship came 20 Hong Kong. an English offcissl ,i sau
to one Of Chichesters petty ofhcers Ist l tJ'0
How did you get on at the phippih ,a have Jared
Veil enough anyhow" oh yes" said the fat sail
or siapping his stomach with great satisfaction