The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01
FRENCH PRESS
 AND THE WAR Beneath the Surface They Are Not Hostile to the
 United States. Journals That Justify the Inter vention to Save Cuba From Spain.
But the Monarchist soleil Says It Is a Struggle ofthe Latin Race Against
 Anglo-Saxons.
Copyrighted. 1898, by James Gordon Bennett.

Copyrighted. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.
 PARIS, April 30-It Is as we'll that Anfericans should have more accu- rate Knowledge of the feelings enter ta1ned among Latin nations, more es- peclally France, as to the war between the United States and Spain than can be gleaned from the few personal opin- ions published in the papers. These feelings l have endeavored to evolve by d1l1gent study of the most inf1u- ential organs .refiecting all shades of opinion in the great centers of France.
 One of the first distinctions neces- sary is entirely political in character.
 Advanced journals, radical and oth- erwise, including nearly all who sup ported Dreyfus and defended Zola in the recent great trial, like Clemen- ceau's organ, L'Auroee; Gobiet's rad ical socialist organ, La Petite Repub- Gque; the woman's rights journal, La Frende, in which Mme. Severine daily percrates-these, with all red Repub- Hcan organs, consider it due to their principles to protest against what they style Spanish tyranny in Cuba, and, without discussing the motives or con- sequences of American intervention, see in it only help given to the op- pressed against the oppressors.
 To this list should be added Roche forts journal, which, bv a strange contradiction on this occasion, joins in the chorus with those he most furious ly opposed during the Zola trial But it would be great mistake to regard as serious Rochefort's statement in the cablegram to Senator Morgan that all Republicans are one at heart with the Cubans and their liberators.
 The great conservative Republican organ, Debats, thus concludes long article on the attitude of the European powers: Tn the action of the United States there is no justification in pre- cedents of the rights of nations. It is. not even to be found in the famous Monroe doctrine, which, already con- testable, becomes with this fresh ex- tension direct menace to every power possessing a square inch of territory in the new world. The principle itself and it's brutal application cannot fail to arouse on this side of the ocean a strong protest from public opinion in the name alike of the international rights and manifest interest of the na- tions of Europe.
 M. Judet, in the Petit Journal, de- votes long article to the conditions of the conflict, and comments severely on the motives that provoked it. He says: ''Y Eat has happened eto0 Spain proves itXs best to have the right on ones side, but you must not count on the impartialityDor honesty of the other nations unless you mean to be. taken by surprise or by disloya1 aggression."
 The Petit PareSian, one of the widest circulated popular organs, takes a broader view of the question. It says: What constitutes a new and impor- tant fact is the intervention of the United States in the dispute between a colony and its mother country by vir- tue of right which is very hard to dis cover on this ground. the question widens far beyond the actual one of the war with Spain. It Is the right of Eu- rope to hold territory in America that is called in question"
 The nonarchist journal, the Soleil. develops an idea wider extending 1t to conflicts of race. It says the war now beginning is more than a violent con- f1ict between two nations; it is a struggle of the Latin race against An glo-Saxon invasion, Catholicism against Protestantism, monarchy against re- publican democracy.
 All other conservative organs sound the same note. The Gaulois has ap- piled to the syndicate of the French press to organize in some representa- tive form 8 demonstration of sympa- thy for Spain.