m France seems to be in a bad way, f hakey m politics, her population . stationary, frightfully disturbed by violent natural prejudices, and with a vendetta on her hands, she seems drifting into the position of the Ishmelite of Europe— her hand against every man. A contemporary thug discourses on one phase of the agitation there .-—"Throughout France there is a determined opposition to the employment of foreign laborers. The city authorities at Paris have actually forbidden the contractors for public works to Eire any foreigners. Elsewhere workmen have taken the matter into their own hands, and endeavored to influence employers by threats. These practical expressions of. protection idea Beems to be formulated with a purposed disregard of the fact that in nearly every, large city of Italy, in Vienna, and m Moscow and St Petersburg there are thouiandu et French mechanic*"
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5796, 18 January 1887, Page 2
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