The San Francisco call., 1898-05-19
That Open Sympathy for Spain Promises to Be
 Costly.
Public Expressions on the Speech of Chamberlain Ad= vOcatin9 An9lO-SaxOn
 Alliance.
Copyrighted. 1898, by James Gordon Bennett

Copyrighted. 1898, by James Gordon Bennett PARIS, May 1S-Mr. Chamberlain's
 sensational speech Is undeniably re- sponsible for the decided feeling of nervousness here. The French press
 begins to see it has adopted mistaken
 policy in declaring pronouncedly for
 Spain as opposed to the United States. The Debats, in leader published on Monday, tries to smooth away matters. It admits that the English have profit ed by Frances action in this matter, and it says: "The moment is passed to sit in judgment on the war. France has never been really hostile to Ameri- cans. This will be well understood across the Atlantic, where the present
 misunderstanding has been dissipated. Friends of Spain have something bet ter to do than to declaim against her
 utterances."
 The general tone of the article is one of fear that things have gone too far.
 Businesses which depend largely for their success upon the patronage of Americans have already felt the effects of the quasi campaign against the United States in favor of Spain. The proprietor of one of the principal ho- tels here inveighed bitterly against the
 attitude taken by the French press.
 The number of Americans staying in the hotel is sensibly less than at the
 same time last year.
 At Voisons, where at this season there were usually big crowds of Amer jeans and Spaniards, there were the other night only two diners in the rooms. Couturieres, jewellers, millin- CTS and other businesses are seeing their season virtually ruined by the
 diminished number of American clients.
 The Figaro yesterday morning tried to turn the affair off with a laugh in an article which says: Tt Is finished. France is -oing to be boycotted by American millionafres and by pretty Americans who will no longer get their dresses from Paris"
 Then in a bantering way. the writer asks where they will get them. Ger
 tainly not in London, where tailor
 made costumes and bicycle skirts can
 be made admirably. but full dress never. Certainly not in America, and certainly they will never consent to be
 badly dressed.
 "As to millionaires they will surely
 come to Paris,' continues the article, ''in search of more agreeable, more in tellectual and more artistic life than Is led in America"
 People are talking of a possible Franco English conflict. With this fear before them, and with the prac tical results of loss of American GUS tom staring them in the face, people here are very gloomy in their prognos- tications, in spite of their disclaimers. It is evident that the French look upon the reapproachment of the English and Americans with disquietude. It is such a natural alliance that they realize that it will some day be made, and they be- gin to fear they have hastened that day by their display of hostility to the United States over the war with Sapin.
 LONDON, May 1S.-Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, Conservative member of Parliament for the City of York, addressing the Junior Constitu- tional Club this evening, expressed his strong approval of the Birmingham speech of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. Sec retary of State for the Colonies. on the Anglo Saxon alliance, but described 1t as ''the right thing said in the wrong | way"
 Lord Beresford said, as he read it. | Mr. Chamberlain's speech asked for an alliance, and it would appear that the | alliance was one with Germany, but he | added: If people speak in enigmas and fail to bring a thing out straight. | they often defeat the object they have 1 in view
 Mir. Chamberlain meant to ask. Lord Reresford understood for an Anglo German alliance, Germany herself be- ing in danger of isolation owing to the | difficulties in Austria and Italy; the | German alliance, which would tend to | peace and to the advancement of trade"
 As for an Anglo-American alliance, | his Lordship continued T sympathize with that idea also, but 1t seems to me premature"
 The Americans, he declared, were shrewd. and it was not advisable that it should appear as if England were in a position of difficulty and was suggest ing an alliance for her own benefit. He hoped. however, that such an alliance would come.
 The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: The fiutter caused by | reports of French sympathy with Spain has led the ladies of the American col | ony to boycott the local shops.
 FRIEDRICHSRUHE May 1S.-The | cool and rainy weather has increased | Prince BiSmarck'S neuralgia and ag- gravated the swelling of his legs, and | he has been unable to leave his bed for | several days. Dr. Schweninger is again r here, and is disquieted about his pa- tient.
 The Prince, therefore, is unable to receive visitors, but a correspondent from members of the family has been able to obtain views of the former Chancellor on the war and suggested | Anglo-Saxon alliance, as expressed by the Prince during his most recent talk at the table. In substance they are as follows: Prince Bismarck condemns