M. THIERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 531, 21 June 1872, Page 2

M. THIERS.

. From the Graphic. M. Thiers must be possessed with an extraordinary confidence in the good will of the English people, or it would be incredible that he should now have placed the manufacturing interests of France almost entirely at pur mercy.. The more aye examine the actual effects of that treaty of ’ .commerce which he has now “denounced” the more astonishing seems the infatuation which ..CQuldlead to .such “denunciation.” 'lf it were his deliberate . desire to make all all Frenchmen regret the fall of Napoleon HI. he could hardly accomplish his design more effectually than by thus placing in the hands of foreigners the means of striking Framjcatterriblo blow. Take first the general amount of’exports. In the year 1829 they reached in value .only about S0;00(l,000fr, In 1838, just before the treaty of commerce was made,, the value had not risen even by one more million. In 18G8 after the treaty had been in operation,about ten years the •value of exported produce rose to the enormous sum of eighteen hundred millions. At this moment we have it in our power to annihilate this won derfnl prosperity by imposing a heavy.dutvjupon all French produce and at the same time to add to the ■ prosperity of the very nations whom France most ditests—Germany and Italy'—by admitting their light wine duty'free competing in quality with the special wine products of France. In 1868 Franco exported just four times as much wine as she did in early years ’during the days of protection.- Then,there is that enormous trade in all skilled works of art and decoration in which the French workmen excels and which give employment to.those very multitudes in Paris and elsewhere, whom it is theffirst interest of M. Thiers to conciliate. Yet it is now incur power to drivffthis wholc’class frantic, and to intensify the illwill of’the great siffi manufacturing interest towards M. Thiers .and his.friends by putting-such prohibitory duties upon_their products as would practically ruin'their trades. In fact, the very hint of such ah intention on our part would raise a tempest in the whole of Franco that would sweep away M. Thiers and his party before a week,had passed by.