The record-union., 1898-08-01
HE MUST COME TO THE SHOW.

nothing.
HE MUST COME TO THE SHOW.
We can understand the man who is
for the under dog. He is sympathetic
fellow, and his heart prompts him
rather than his head. But the French
Of to-day, while to be pardoned for a
natural feeling of pity for the distress
of their next door neighbor, are enti-
tied to no credit or pardon whatever
when, with the United States victor,
they come, in long and labored articles,
such as that which appeared in yester-
days dispatches, to show that France
has been our friend through all the
trouble with Spain. That the nation,
official and social, has been grossly
misrepresented to Americans; that at
no time have intelligent Frenchmen
failed in their friendship for the United
States and her people; that the com
mereial men of France have done moral
battle for US; that the official French
man has viewed our course with ad-
miration, and that such of the French
press as has been quoted against US
is of mo account anyhow
That the real exponents of public
opinion, like the Figaro and
Temps" have all along spoken of the
American cause as just and our prose
cution Of the war as commendable, etc,
through a. long and humiliatingIy apollo
getic chapter to which the Record
Union" in the interests, Of fair play
gave prominence yesterday.
Let US see about all that. We have
the testimony of innumerable reputa BILE
Americans abroad that the attitude of
the Pardsians and French in. other
cities was so hostile to America that
the life Of an American in any large
French town was made miserable, and
in scores of cases the American left
France on that account alone In Paris
the American colony was in large part
ostracised from society and cold cut in
public functions. Even school girls of
American families, pursuing musical
and art courses in France found them
selves so insulted and Inundated that
very many of them left the country
and went to Italy or England to COM
plete their studies. OF some of these
cases we have personal knowledge
Such was the feeling that the usual
transit of the Atlantic by French liners
fell off heavily and some Of the steam
ers sailed during May. June and July
without an American in the cabins. The
Paris correspondents OF such journals
as the New York Post" Tribune" I"
Times and Herald" were agreed
that French feeling was so anti-Amer-
lean that it was exceedingly unpleasant.
If not downright humiliating, for an
American to remain in France or travel
through it.
Bazars, fairs and social functions
were numerous among the aristocracy
in aid Of the Spanish cause; most of
them, it is true, were to raise funds to
relieve the wounded and the sick in
the Spanish armies. but in these affairs
expressions spoken and printed were
numerous which were abusive and con-
temptuous of the United States and
the vulgar Yankees
Figaro" one of the very papers
quoted in the dispatch referred to as
truly representative Of French senti-
ment, was the first paper to hint to
Spain that she could protract the war
by granting letters of marque. Leroy
Beaulieu, one OF the best friends we
have in France, was even induced by
the pressure of the atmosphere in which
he moves to say in the "Economiste
Francois" that IF the Americans were
honest they would have given auton-
omy in Cuba a chance" that the un-
lucky war would strengthen Spain and
that the struggle must do the United
States incalculable harm, while Spain
would come out of it with head erect
and her prestige much increased"
BY the middle of June feeling so ran
against the United States in France
that the Journal des Debats" felt
called upon to call a halt, saying that
the English were working on French
animosity for all it was worth to divert
custom from Paris to London. It added
that Parisians could endure with good
heart the indignation of Americans
over the hostile attitude of the French
press and the nl-treatment to which
they We're subjected in Paris, but when
1t came to the English making capital
out of it all the Frenchmen must look
to it and count. the cost.
The Paris Temps another paper
quoted in the dispatches We yesterday
published. became alarmed and recently