The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-10
hNGlOPHOb|A IN France.
NEWSPAPERS LOUDLY REyILE
ENGLAND AND UPHOLD BoERs.
section OF Press That Championed
Army In Dreyfus Affair Seeks New
Outlet for Its spleen-urxes War
and Predicts British Defeat.

NEW YORK. Nov. s-The Trisunes
Paris correspondent writes:
The anglophoaia epidemic raging in
the French press is daily becoming more
acute. The Nationalist Jew-haitinS and
clerical press-ihe same papers ;ha, con-
sfituted themselves champions Of The gem
eral stan during the preysus afalr-are
strAning every nerve 70 steer public opin-
ion toward a war with England
In reading the Pasrie and The Croix,
one might suppose that France and En-
gland were already a, war The editorial
language and ep!laets are now more vio-
lent than anything that appeared in either
the American or Spanish newspapers dur
ing the Spanish war. and probably exceed
in malisn.ty and abuse all pas; achieve
.Hents of the French press in critlclslng
the conduct OF a nation with which France
is a. peace.
''Too much weight should not be- attached
10 their rawlings, but il IS impossible TO
gauge correctly the trend OF national feel
ing In France without taking into con-
siderauon the stormy elements which are
constantly at work and which. like the
Boulangism Of the las, decade, adroitly
enlist and concentrate all the floating
units OF discomfort. One CT .wo passag rs
taken Al random from the Patria may
enable observing Americans TO form an
idea OF the foreign policy the Na;ionaiisis
are urging upon the government:
Help the Beers and avenge Fashooa,
Is the advice given by NJ. M.ilevoye, who
declares that the British foreign office has
deliberately falsihei all the dispatches
from the seat Of war. where, in spite OK
all official accounts matters are going
very badly for England Thousands OF
Frenchmen are burning TO Join the Beers
and night against England.
We dont care at present TO furnish
further details ne says because we Still
have hopes that we may be able 20 send
10 the South African Beers more subsian-
tial aid than mere good wishes. All, Brave
Beers don't waste your cartridges. Aim
carefully and hit the officers England
should be made 70 suffer and expiate
British hatred has never We, missed an
opportunity to strike a French breasts
Examples OF such British brutality abound
everywhere An Engiishrnan dressed in a
ruit of smart black velvet and knfcker-
bockers was taken in 1870 near Bouseval.
where he used TO amuse himself by killing
our outposts with shots from his Snider
carb!ne. In Tunis AMI Madagascar hardy
British adventures and officers OF Queen
Victoria maize up shooting parties on
purpose TO XIII Frenchmen. The hour OF
retaliation has arrived. The shooting sea-
son when Frenchmen may kill Englishmen
Is now open. Notice Is hereby given 10
amateurs. Is not this sport most tempt
"Charles Laurent. In leading article in
the Matin. intimates that the battles or
Glencoe and Glands laagte are in reality
victories for the Beers NJ. Laurent
writes:
In spite OF Illusions ana UctWitH-
standing the mercenary enthusiasm Of the
stock exchange and the hourse, the pres
ent campaign marks the end OF England
BY this do not mean that there will be
war in the county OF Kent, or that an In
vading army viii eneamp In Hdye park
and levy taxes on the city merchants. Bur
II is the end OF greater England. British
arms can never suotugate the Transyaal
The courage of the Roers ~ contagious.
II will spread to Ireland, TO India, to Aus
tralia. Justice will finally triumph on the
other side Of the equator. and the reign
Of Queen Victoria will terminate In the
fog bank OF defeat
Insulting caricatures and cuts of Queen
Victoria appear In the boulevard news
papers. accompanied by hbelous and indie
cent legends. The Patrie publishes almost
every day extracts from alleged converse
lions with Mr.. Chamberlain. who is rep
resented S declaring that 1t is the policy
OF the British cabinet TO suppress the
Dutch in South Africa and afterward the
French in Canada and Mauri;ius.'
In the same issue the patrte announces
the impending mobilization Of the British
feet as threat 10 France and Russia, The
Patrie also publishes a series OF articles on
political economy. with the object Of show
ing that British supremacy in South Afri-
ca Will mean the ruin of all commerce and
industry except that of the gold mines.
which will henceforth Re British nonop-
oily
The Petit Journal and the croir. with
It's herd Of subsidiaries throughout the
provinces. are also preaching crusade
against England and ignore the facts with
the same complacency that they did dur
ing the Dreyfus trial. NM. Miliesoye, Jul
Diet and Drummont maize UP their minds
that the outbreak OF hostiities would he
marked with victories for the Beers, News
Of the battles OF Glencoe and Glands iaagta
has not altered the preconccived notions
of these stormy petrels Of France
The violence of the irTepreSSible Nation
aist press causes no little uneaSiness at
the Quail d Orsay. and also among French
tf hsfa rai vpf rA no
lest re,-ihuttou may come Ia "A shape
which may affect the exhibition OF 1870 and
snture the profits Of French tradesrnen- NJ.
Guyot has had tho courage TO point out
that there are two sides TO the TransvaaI
question ard that John Bull is after all,
Frances best customer
The Figaro Is beginning 10 take the
same grounds"