The record-union., 1899-11-10
The Daily Press Of Paris stralning
Every Nerve
To 50 Steer Public Opinion as to Arrive
at War With England.
Editorial Language More Violent
Against Great Britain Than
Anything That Appeared In
Either the American or Spanish
Newspapers During Our Recent
War With Spain.

Newspapers During Our Recent
| War With Spain.
NEW YORK, Nov 9.-The 'Trib-
une's' Paris correspondent writes:
The Anglophobia epidemic raging in
the French press is daily becoming
more acute The nationalist, Jew-bait-
ing, praetorian and clerical press-the
same papers that constituted them
selves champions of the late general
staff during the Dreyfus affair-are
straining every nerve to SO steer pub
lie opinion as to arrive at war with En-
gland
| In reading the ''Patrie' and the
"Croix" one might suppose that France
and England We're already at war. The
editorial language and epithets are now
more violent than anything that APP
peared in either the American or Span
ish newspapers during the Spanish
war, and probably exceed in malignity
and abuse all past achievements of the
French press in criticising the conduct
of a nation with which France is at
peace. Too much weight should not be
attached to their frantic rawlings, but 1t
is impossible to gauge correctly the
trend of national feeling in France
without taking into consideration the
stormy elements which are constantly
at work and which like the Boulangism
of the last decade, adroitly enlist and
concentrate all the floating units of dis
content One or two passages taken at
random from the "Patrie'' may enable
observing Americans to form an idea
of the foreign policy the nationalists
are urging upon the Government.
Help the Beers and avenge Fashoda
is the advice given by M. Millevoye,
who declares that: 1.-The British For
eign Office has deliberately falsified all
the dispatches from the seat of war
where, in spite of all official accounts,
matters are going very badly for En-
| gland Thousands of Frenchmen are
burning to join the Beers and fight
against England. We don't care at
present to furnish further details. be-
cause we still have hopes that we may
/ be able to send to the South African
fBoers more substantial aid than mere
good wishes. All, brave Beers, don't
waste your cartridges. Aim carefully
anL hit tsts officers England should be
made to suffer and expiate.
British hatred has never yet missed
an opportunity to strike at French
breasts Examples of such British bru-
tally abound everywhere. An English
man dressed in suit of smart black
velvet and kickerbockers was taken ir
! 1870 near Bougeval, where he used to
amuse himself by killing our outposts
with shots from his Snyder carbine. In
Tunis and Madagascar hardy British
adventures and officers of Queen Vic
| CHI inc orfio c
pose to kill Frenchmen. The hour of
retaliation has arrived. The shooting
season when Frenchmen may kill En-
glishmen is now open. Notice is hereby
given to amateurs. Is not this sport a
most tempting One?'
Charles Laurent, in leading article
in the 'Matin,' intimates that the bat
| ties of Glencoe and Glands Laagte are
| in reality victories for the Beers NJ
Laurent writes:
I'm spite of illusions and notwith-
standing the mercenary enthusiasm of
the Stock Exchange and the Beurse, the
present campaign marks the end of En-
gland. BY that / do not mean there
will be war in the County of Kent, or
that an invading army will encamp in
| Hyde Park and levy taxes on the city
merchants. But it is the end of Greater
England. British arms can never SUBJ
jugate the Transvaal. The courage Of
the Beers is contagious. 1t will spread
to Ireland, to India, to Australia. JUS
tice will finally triumph on the other
| side of the equator and the reign Of
Queen Victoria will terminate in the
bleeding fog bank of defeat"
Insulting caricatures and cuts of
Queen Victoria appear in the Boulevard
newspapers accompanied by Hbelous
and indecent legends. The "Patrie' pub
fishes almost every day extracts from
! alleged conversations with Mr.. Cham
berlain. who is represented as declar-
! ing that 1T is the policy of the British
Cabinet to suppress the Dutch in South
Africa and afterward the French in
Canada and Mauritius."
| In the same issue the "Patrie" an
nounces the impending mobilization OF
the British fleet as a threat to France
and Russia. The "Patrie" also pub
fishes a series of articles on political
economy, with the object of showing
that British supremacy In South Africa
| will mean the ruin of all commerce
| and industry except that of the gold
mines, which will henceforth become a
British MONOPOLY
a.
with it's herd of subsidiary "Croix',
throughout the provinces, are also
preaching a crusade against England
and ignore facts with the same COM
placency that they did during the Drey-
fus campaign MN. Millevoye, Judet
and Durmount made up their minds
that the outbreak of hostilities would
be marked with victories of the Beers.
News of the battles of Glencoe and
Glands Laagte has not altered the pre-
conceived notions Of these stormy
petrels of France.
The violence of the irrepressible Ma
| tionalist press causes no little uneasi
ness at the Quail d'Orsay. and also
among Frenchmen of evenly balanced
minds who fear lest retribution NAV
come in a shape which may affect the
exhibition of 1900 and injure the pock-
cts of French tradesmen- M. Yves
Guyot has had the courage to point our
/ in the Steele" that there are two side.
to the Transvaal question and that -John
Bull, is, after all, Frances best cus-
toner. The Figaro Is beginninr s.
take the same grounds.