The times., 1898-08-14
ALL AGAINST AMERICA
Foreign Sentiment as Found by
a New Englander.
A PREACHERS EXPERIENCE
The Rev. Mr.. Pattison, of Hartford,
Who Has just Returned From Eu-
rope, Tells What He Heard and
Saw-A General Anfi-American
Feeling-Ihe Future of Srafn.

The Rev. Harold Pattison, a Baptist
clergyman. of Hartford. Conn, has just
returned from a visit TO Europe Being
an observing man, the Courant of that
city obtained from him an account of
what he saw and heard while abroad.
He said:
IAN English physician who has been
in practice in Seville for twenty years
and thoroughly understands the Span
ish character, told me many queer
thing as to the Spanish point of view
A Spaniard had been telling him of his
contempt for everything American. An
American-what is hep said the Span
lard. Why, America is only where We
were in the twelfth century. There is
not man in America who has a grand
father The Spanish pride in ancestry
outlives even that of a New England de-
scendant of the Mayfiower, and his con-
tempt for everything that is not five hun
dred years old knows no bounds
THE feeling against England in Spain
was more intense than the feeling against
America. The Spanards at Gibraltar were
boasting that, when they had finished
with America, they would have a crack
at England, and I thought that the Brit
ish lion. which the Rock is said TO re-
semble, winked visibly as I looked at him.
Chamberlains speech in May reused the
Spaniards to fury. and an Englishman
who had recently travelled across Spain
told me that the journey was certainly
uncomfortable. To so high a pitch had
this feeling come that the English SOL
diers had been forbidden attending the
bull fight at Linea, just across the neu-
trail line. In May the S1aniards were
massing their troops at Linea and the
English were at a loss TO account for this
move. The hatred for England did not,
however. prevent the usual number of
workmen and shoppers crossing to Gil
braltar. and English bulwarks were being
built and English tradeSmen were being
prospered by the more than twenty thou
sand Spaniards that daily crossed the
neutral ground and returned before the
first evening gun fire.
Foreign newspapers and protestations
Notwithstanding, there can be no doubt
in the mind of anyone travelling this
Summer abroad, that European feeling is
decidedly against the United States.
A
do not yet feel quite certain. There was
a general feeling that America had vio-
lated diplomatic courtesy in the manner
in which she had rushed into the war
l found, too, among many Americans re-
siding abroad a decided opinion that the
war was unnecessary, and that as much
could have been gained from Spain with
out war as with it. Then, too, there was
that natural sympathy for the little dog
in the fight. Spain was so very little and
we were so very big. Frenchmen, Bel
gians. Italians, Swiss, Austrians, Greeks
and Russians all told me the same story.
A Russian gentleman who professed his
own belief in the right of America, still
told me when l asked what was the opin-
ion of the average Russian, altogether
against America. And as one sees the
Spanish soldier, good Americe~ though
one may be, one cannot h, laring
somewhat in this general sympathy for
Spain. The Spanish soldier is so young,
nothing but mere boys, many that saw,
he is wretchedly paid, only three cents a
day beyond his keeping. 1 was told, and
above all he knows he must be beaten.
It is this side that the average European
sees, and this, combined with the un-
popularity of the Americans, especially in
Germany, has given the point of view
from which the war has been judged
across the Atlantic. AS Swiss said to