The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-09
COMMENT CHANGED.
Press of France and Germany
Entirely Changes Its Attitude.
PARIS NEWSPAPERS ARE HEDGING
France 10 Disturbed to Sec the Anglo
saxon Race Becoming United for
Peace, and She Fears War.

Paris.-There is nothing more re-
markable in Paris-and one may say in
France-than the spirit of nervousness
existing with regard to what is Ameri-
cas- real sentiment toward France. 1t
is manifest that the press realizes that
il took false step at the outbreak of
hostilities between Spain and the
United States, and now the papers have
come to confused halt. There is a
noticeable change in the papers day
by lay. The Gualois is nervous. The
Figaro is hedging. The Temps is dig
nified and courteous. The Debats, evil
IDENTIFY looking into the future, fears
complications, and, in fact, sees dan
ger ahead.
The news that the Queens birthday
had been celebrated in America is
printed in all the papers without COM
ment, which is an ominous sign. II is
impossible to deny that reapproach-
ment between England and America is
viewed here as threatening indica-
ton OF the future. II brings no COM
fort to any one to realize that the posi-
tion of the press has been responsible
for this state of affairs. This stretch
ing out of England's hand toward
America, with responsive gesture on
the part of the American public, is felt
to be full OF menace for France. Not
only is loyal and profitable customer
lost, but at once ends the long-stand-
ing sympathy between France and the
United States. OF course there is abso-
lutely no truth in the rumor that
Americans are probably more coldly
looked upon here. On the contrary,
the people Individually are trying by
every means in their power to show
that they have been misrepresented by
their papers. Americans are receiving
all the courtesy to which they have
always been accustomed from the
French. AT the same time the situation
may be summed up in one phrase,
France is disturbed to see the Anglo
Saxon race becoming united for peace,
and she fears also for war. F"
Berlin. 1t has always been matter
OF Gale ulation what the majority of
German newspapers would do for
their foreign news without the Paris
edition of the Herald, but no one
would have prophesied that the Ger
man press would be brought back into |
the right path of foreign politics by it.
Yet this is what is being Indirectly
accomplished, rs any one who has
noticed the more temperate and just
tone of such important papers as the
Cologne Gazette, and noted the justice
in them to the Herald, may see for him
self that where the excellent and pro-
gressive Frankfurter Zeitung and
monarchial Deuschewort We're alone in
their championship of the American
cause two weeks ago, now even the
blindly prejudiced Berlin Tageblatt is
beginning to COO like dove, in COM
parison at least with its late outbursts.
1t is fortunate that most of the Ger
man newspapers are strongly influenced
in their opinions by such leading
organs as the Cologne Gazette and
Frankfurter Zeitrng as opposite as
these two are in party. The Cologne
Gazette receives straight tips" from
the Foreign Office, and is in way
semi-official, so that its columns must
be studied with care and respect. The
unjust Gazette hints that English
tourists in Berlin are responsible for
the alleged unjust German hostility
to America and that nothing can be
more incorrect. The principal point
is that the insistence of the Herald
that the German Emperor and his Gov
eminent are in no way hostile to Amer
leans finally persuaded the German
press that it is time to change its tone.