OUR PARIS LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2793, 7 June 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

OUR PARIS LETTER.

* (WIOJI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Parts, March 6. Tμ k resignation of Haul-Minister Constant, fho backbone of, if not the Cabinet itself, gives a shake to the internal situation. He has tho credit of slaying Boulangism and carrying the last October elections with such triumphant results for theJßepublieuus. Even his adversaries respected his capacity, and admired his cool and stern energy. France has not many public men of his stamp, bnt aadly needs them. His decession from the

Tirard Ministry must bo the latter's deatl shake, and so ono home complication more plus another splitting up of republicans into dissolving groups, M. Constant is too important a man to be left out ia the cold for any length of time. In making up her mind to go to the Berlin Labour Conference, France has decided unwisely. Opinion has made up its mind, too, that the proceedings of the conference cannot be other than Academic, and so long as the Cnllectirist is not likely to replace the individualist basis of social organisation, property has no reason to become alarmed. In labour legislation Germany is far behind England, and not a little behind France. Now, thesetwo Powers may bo able to inoculate the idea minds of Germany with the labour reforms they have since years effected. To givo a needful help to Emperor William in this respect, and to encourage hia desire for the betterment of the wnqe-earning classes in Fatherland, are ends worthy of England anr ] France. M. Edouard Drumont has brought out his third and concluding volume, Lα I'lvnee Jitire. No trumpets will be bhwn in Ziou in its honour. It is a cry of war to the knife against the Israelites—not the Old do' Brigade, but against the sections that posess millions, the " Rothschild clique." Nothing is denounced concerning gentile money bags, though it in difficult to see the like wealth an abomination in the case of Jew and n natural circnmntance in the case of Christian. Neither one nor the other eives the example of throwing their cash* boxes to the dogs. Those only who are not millionaires condemn those who are. M. Drumont is about 46 years of age, and the most perfect type of pure S«miticism. Many who occupy the highest seats in the synagogues hare a lass 'Ebrew look. Apart from his mania against only the wealthy Israelites, ho is a very powerful pamphleteer. But after all, he proposes no plan to prevent the Jews from making more money than the Christians ; nor does he show that the latter are debarred from moneymaking by any privileges accorded to the seed of Abraham. M. Drumont is sincere in his Feter the Hermitism ; he has had to defend his accusations at the sword's point, and has been nearly killed in a duel. He sees the Jew exujubere, as others profess to see the Jesuit, th-3 Prussian spy, or the red spectre of Anarchison. For M. Drumont, the Exhibition of 1889 was not the Centennial of 1"89, but the j apotheosis of Semitieism. He attacks ! General Boulanger's father as beiug a life-long swindler, and which explains that characteristic being the appavage of his son. So long as it was understood that Boulangcr would, if made Dictator, order the massacre of the Jews, and the seizure of fiheir savings for the ''havenots." M'w Drurnont patronized the "bravegeneral," but the latter had to disavow any contemplated rupture of the decalogue, for the benefit of the Gentiles, hence the ex-communication the major pronounced against his "awfuldad." M. Jules Sinnon has adopted au idea, which is likely to be imitated by other public men. Instead of founding a newspaper for himself, he has arranged with the Temps' Journal to afford him half a column, in which he will daily ventilate his experienced opinions on passing events, totally independentof the Journal. Hitherto lie was a colloborator of a journal, which had a leading article once a week, from a representative of the seven political parties in the country. Communists included. To have the seven opinions daily, must be the ideal of the French newspaper of the future.

Aix-les-Bains, where Queen Victoria is erecting a spring palace, is a thermal station farmed by the State. The annual expenses of the establishment—doctor's salaries included—amount to IOo.OOOfr. The patients' fees are 228,571fr., and the total profit to the State is thus 1'20,57Hr.

Dr. Olaride, of Madrid, in his brochure on leprosy, states that there are from six to ei<rht cases of leprosy permanently in the Sau Juan de Dios Hospital of that capital, and that never has the disease been communicated to any patients in the vicinity of the afflicted. He has treated 500 cases of leprosy, and often a husband or a wife only were the sufferers, and never did they catch the malady from one another. He traced the contagion invariably to persons who had resided in Cuba, the Philippine, or the Canary Islands. Hence the bnceilus or germ of leprosy must have been contracted either in the food or the soil of these countries. Sarah Bernhardt is sedulously attending all the Lenten devotions, to prepare her rule—the Virgin Mary—in the newlywritten Passian play to be brought out expressly for her. The intense and sudden cold has struck many persons suddenly down dead.