The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-10-14
ENGLAND HOLDS 1as wHll
Will Hold ON TO Every Foot Of tho
Upper Nile and Not Lose
HI .hnan

London, Oct. l2.-Lord Salisbury
positively declines to consider Major
Marchand's occupation Of Fashoda as
. matter for negotiation. Dispatches
from Paris say n. Delcasse, the French.
foreign minister, ID prepared to APP
proach the subject in . conciliatory
spirit" but this sort OF talk 10 laughed
Mt here. John Bull knows he has the
whip-hand on the Upper Nile and
can to retain his advantage.
Kitcheeer's arrival at Cairo has
cleared up one or two points. He says
Marchand behaved with great moder-
alton and courtesy, and he denies the
story that the Senegalese troops at
Fashoda mistook the British for Der
wishes and fired on them.
hoes Not B.littlc France.
The London foreign Office, however,
is not deluded into taking the opinion
of those who, like the Cologne Gazette,
believe the energies of France are
paralyzed by the Dreyfus case and the
French mind too much engrossed to
give RAOROA 0leGAlA1Oh W u 1dSA0oa.
Lord Salisbury knows better. The
French can think of two things at a
time. The Deryfus affair has u tenn
porary lull. The Picquart affair is
not likely to proportions that
would dwarf the Fashodn incident,
and the latter is likely to be the theme
Of a good deal of sharp discussion be-
fore it is cleared up.
Nevertheless, it is plain that NJ.
Delcasse, though he wishes to avoid
anything that looks like cowardly sur-
render, is yielding step by step to the
British arguments. The contention of
such blind guides as Liberte, that the
question is one that can be settled
only by a European conference, is not
seriously put forward by responsible
French statesmen and is treated with
wild derision in Downing street. The
English are at Fashoda to stay, and
Cecil Rhodes and Major Mcdonald are
coming up"
Praise Brisson's Courage.
Already obvious is the excellent eff
feet, both in Paris and every other
European capital, of the courage of NJ.
Brisson, the French premier. in send
ing the Dreyfus case before the cour
de cessation. With the exception OF
the anti-Semite journals, the French
press is now unanimous in favor of re-
vision. The Temps says: Apart from
the Boulangist and anti-Semite jour
nails, revision is accepted with favor
by the whole press"
How significant this is ran be I'M
derstood when it is borne in mind that
q few months ago only a few French
newspapers had either the courage or
the sense to call for revision.
Such rabid anti-Semite organs as
the Petit journal, Libre Parole and
Intransigeant, are foaming at the
mouth in rage that their attempts to
prevent revision have failed. They
have large circnlations: their methods
are yituperatiye to the last degree,
and their influence will continue to be
pernicious to the end.
Likely to lie Restrained.
But such violence may overreach it.
self. Brisson is as courageous as he is
honest, and there are not waiting signs
of his inclination to put some re-
straints upon journals that are a con-
slant provocation to disorder. The
realism he presents stands for the
freedom of the press before all else:
but the unbridled excuses of some OF
the a~nti-revision journals may force
him to handle them without gloves.
Another striking feature of the stu
alton is the unanimity of c%ongratula-
lions upon the part Of the principal
European journals outside Of Paris.
Frenchmen are bound to be strongly
affected by the utteiances Of Russian
newspapers. notably by Novosti and
Novoe Vremye, Journals that carry
candor to its very limit, even when
dealing with Russian affairs. Both pa
pers congratulate Brisson upon his
honorable and prudent course. The
Novoe Vremye says that any other
would have been suicidal.
Except for the anti-Semite journals,
the Vienna press also regards the at
titude OF the premier with lively salts
faction, setting aside the anti-Semites
and their opponents-whose opinions
can have impartiality-the Austrian
press is fairly well represented by the
Fremdenblatt, the Re%ichsweir, the
military organ at Vienna, and the Va.
terland, which is under clerical influ-
ence.