New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-08
AMERICAS CRITICS ABROAD.
approaches ABUNDANT FROM SOURCES
EXPECTED TO BE FRIENDLY.
,pusEwOR?IIY DIGNITY AND INDIFFERENCE OF
THE UNITED STATES TOWARD THESE OUT
ruRsTs- FRAME GERMANY AND
RUSSIA HOSTILE.

RUSSIA HOSTILE.
yeenly sensitive as ar, Americans to foreign
.dticism. the patience and dignifed indifference
vhich they have manifested Of late in the face
A. almost universal abuse on the part Of Europe
arc well calculated to excite admiration. 1t is
doubtful whether there has ever been country
that in times of national crisis has been assaled
with such torrent Of reproach pouring in from
every side especially from sources that Amert-
cans had every right and reason 20 regard as
particularly friendly to Uncle Sam. With every
thing that has been done here during the last
sY months fault has been found. and nothing
has received grace in the sight of the old World.
although in the majority of Instances the critics
dlspaying he most bitterness have been guilty
A. the same offences as those which they con-
denim in he United States.
Thus France has always been considered by
Americans a. bound to their country by old as
sociations and ties ~ alliance. especially since
cpublican form Of government has superseded
monarchy on the banks of the Seine. French
mobiles and soldiers. with Lafayette at their
head fought side by side with Washington IN
the War f Independence. and ii VAS benjamin
Franklin and III other emissari"s OF the new
eedged American commonwealth who hrst
taught the French the principles that now con-
sti,ute the basis u the French Republic.
France moreover has always been regarded by
Spain as her hereditary foe and especially since
The Napoleonic wars in the early part II the cen
tury there have been no foreigners whose names
were more widely execra,ed throughout the
length and breadth Of the Ib"rian peninsula
than those IF the French There was every rea-
son therefore. to suppose that IN IN" present
crisis Frances sympathies would have been
-. Frn.4rl-
can Republic. rather than with monarchical
Spain Yet just the contrary has been the case
II is France that has headed the hue and cry
In Europe against the United States. ana II Is
only because she VAS unable to find any other
poyers willing to go 70 the length # joining her
that she absta!ned from intervention by force In
behalf IF Spain.
Meanwhile her press has been overwhelming
this coun.rv with every conccivabl" kind Of Of-
fensive epithct. deploring the national disgrace
Of France in leaving 50 chivalrous people As
the Standards to succumb 10 IN" coars" ana
brutal Yankees who have no soul for anything
save for the almighty dollar" Public suhscrip-
tons have been started in Paris ana elsewhere
In France for the purpose Of FURNISHING 'h'
necessary funds 90 buy Warships Tor SPAN 10
use against America and the large amounts az
ready collected bear eloquent tribute 10 the tx
tent Of the animosiiy which prevails against ihe
United states.
Germany. too might well have been expected
20 sympathize with America rather than with
Spain in this war. Spain has always shown her
self unfriendly toward Germany and 1t - not
90 long ago that the windows ~ the kais"rs
embassy at Madrid were smashed With stones
By an angry mob America, on the other hand
has offered not only home but forum" 10 many
millions Of Germans who have always found a
welcome On these shores. while the trade rcla-
ions between the two countries are not ohly
extensive but intimate. Thanks, perhaps. 10
the large German element IN TINS country h''
good wishes and good will have always been
extended to the Fatherland whenever the latter
has been in need Of sympathy. and there was
every reason. therefore. TO imagine mat this
would he reciprocated when occasion arose. Yet
these antcipatiOns have been woiuHy diSap-
pointed and although the Berlin Government
has from motives If policy. intmated TO the
press that it would do well to tone down the
snimosity displayed in it's columns against the
United States. there is no doubt that the feeling
Of the bulk II the population in this war Is IN
favor Of Spain and against the United States
Even Prince Bismarck. who for more than IA
quarter Of a century has been regarded IN the
United States in the light Of popular hero and
who has probably received from Americans more
enthusiastic praise and laudation than from all
the remainder IF the world put together IL iOud
and vehement in his denunciations OF what ne
styles Yankee arrogance" and particularly OF
American brutal disregard for the forms or
diplomacy He likewise condemns in unrneas-
ured terms the dishonest and hypocritical ways
In which the United States has practically
forced war upon Spain" Yet he entirely loses