Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-06-26
FRANCE LOSS BY SYMPATHY FOR
 SPHIN.
Millions of Our Ame ican Dollars Will Be Diverted.

The specific gravity cf blood has be- come an important international con- sideration Blood is thicker than Wa ter" says Mir. Chamberlain and Henri Roeheforts sentiment which is trans lated freely: .'The Latin races should hang together" seems to meet the ap- proval of the French people. Since the opening of the Spanish-American mill. our sister republic has shown ten dency to act as Spain's bottleholder. The attitude of the French press has been uniformly hostile to US. The bank of Paris loaned 100000 francs to the Spanish government. French naval of fcers sostentatiously walked arm-in-arm with Spanish officers at Gadiz, and the crew of the French warship tbat in the harbor of San Juan at the time e Sampson's bomBardment cheered the Spanish flag when our ships were out of gunshot A French steamer attempt ed to land supplies in Havana, and what is more serious than all, the Spanish feet was supplied with coal al the French island of Martinique. Pos sibly French hostility is confined to the venal Parisian newspapers which are said to have been subsidized by the bankers holding Spanish bonds. Al ready in America there is a strong feel ing of resentment at Frances appar- ently shabby treatment of us.
 American women have been first to resent the attitude of the French, and all over the country they are refusing to use any articles of French make. Ladies like Mrs. George NJ. Pullman, wife of the late millionaire car manu- facturer; Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs, Ham iiton Mccormick, whose husband is one of the wealthiest and most influential citizens of Chicago; Mrs. Philip D. Ar mour, and Mrs. William E. Chandler an nounced their intentions of resisting all temptations to purchase French ere ations in millinery and gowns. Mrs. Mary Ransom, the richest woman in Kentucky, started crusade against buying anything French, including pre- sumably French counts. Similar move ments are under way in most of the states. No one believes that this boy colt will go very far, or that patriotic American women will be called upon 10 endure great priration in going with out the beautiful fabrics that only the French know how to concoct, bat if the boycott becomes general France will be a large loser. American women use about $2, 2,250000 worth of French mil linery every year and spend a million and half for Paris gowns This is but a small part of the American money that goes to France every year to buy articles of womens wear. Ribbons, dress goods and faces are imported from France in large quantities for the adornment of the American maid and matron. During 1897 these articles cost us about $13,0o00o0 If there should be cause for us to boycott in earnest French products our men will doubtless not be outdone by our wom- en. In this case France will lose d rev enue of more than S4,000,000, which she receives annually for her wines alone. This makes a total of S20 100000 that would be kept out of French pockets by boycott of these goods which are sup piled to consumers direct, with French labels on. The amount, however. Is less than the interest on the immense sum that the French fnanciers have invested in Spanish bonds. These in yestments are said to be the largest factor in the pro-Spanish sentiment in the republic over the water. But our imports from France reach the figure of S70,000,OO0 a year.
 By far the greatest loss 10 France from a continued hostility to Us would be caused by Americans keeping out of the country. The American colony in Paris spends there at least S20, ,00O. 900 Q year. It is more difficult to estimate the results of the turning away from France of the stream of American tour ists that pours into Paris every summer and thence spreads over the continent. The steamship companies estimate that of the 60,000 cabin passengers that left the ports of North America for Europe during the past year about 40,0o0 were American tourists. The others were Canadians, Europeans returning home, Americans going to Europe on business and the round-the- world passengers who only touch at European cities. Forty thousand second cabin passen- gers is about the normal u.ageYttAlt, and of these perhaps t5,0o0 are tourists. Un- less by taking poll of the steamship passengers, no exact information is ob- tainable in regard to their destination, but it is likely that at least two-thirds of the tourists go to France and remain there greater or less time, so that the number of Americans that go to France in normal year is placed by those most competent to judge at about 25, ,00o. Some of these stop in France for few days only, others stay several months. Taking month as the length of the sojourn of the average tourist, and $6oo us about the ordinary expenditure, we can calculate the sum left by our tour ists in France every year as the tidy