Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-10
RAvING FRENCH PRESS.
Violent Articles Seeking to Stir Up
an international War


an International War.
New York, Nov. 10.-The Tribune's
correspondent writes: The Anglopho-
bia epidemic raging in the French press
is daily becoming more acute. The
nationalist, Jewbaiting,. praetorian and
clerical press, the same papers that
constituted themselves the champions
OF the late general staff during the
Dreyfus affair, are straining every
nerve to steer public opinion so as to
arrive at war with England. In read
ing Patrie and Croix one might suppose
France and England We're already at
war. The editorial language and cpl
thets are now more violent than any
thing that appeared in either the Span
ish or American newspapers during the
Spanish war, and probably exceed in
malgnity and abuse all past achieve
inents of the French press in criticising
the conduct of nation with which
France is at peace. Too much weight
should not be attached to their frantic
rawlings, but it is impossible to gauge
correctly the trend of national feeling
in France without taking into consid-
Grafton the stormy elements, which are
constantly at work, and which, like the
Boulangism of the last decade, adroitly
lenlist and concentrate all the floating
units of discomfort. One or two pas
|sages taken at random from Patrie may
|enable observing Americans to form. an
idea of the foreign policy the national
lists are urging upon the government:
Help the Beers and avenge Fash
oda, is the advice given by Millevoye
who declares that the British foreign
office has deliberately falsified all the
dispatches from the seat of war, where,
lin spite of all official accounts, matters
are going very badly for England.
Thousands of Frenchmen are burning
to join the Beers and fight against
England. We don't care at present to
furnish further details, because We
still have hopes that we may be able to
Isend to the South African Beers more
substantial aid than mere good wishes
All. brave Beers. don't waste your
cartridges. Aim carefully and hit the
officers. England should be made TO
lsuffer, and expiate.
British hatred has never vet missed
an opportunity to strike at the French
breast. Examples of such British bru-
tally abound everywhere. The hour of
/
| season, when Frenchmen may kill Eng
| lishmen, is now open. Notice is here
by given to amateurs. Is not this sport
| most tempting"
Charles Laurent, in a leading article
in Matin, intimates that the battles of
Glencoe and Elandslaagte are In reality
victories for the Beers. Laurent writes.
The present campaign marks the
| te a
can never subjugate the Transvaal The
courage Of the Beers is contagious. 1t
/ viii 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 a bleeding fog bank of defeat"
| Insulting caricatures and cuts of
| Queen Victoria appear in the boulevard
| newspapers. accompanied by lbellous
and indecent legends. Patrie publishes
| almost eevry day extracts from alleged
conversations with Chamberlain. who is
represented as declaring that 1T is the
policy of the British cabinet to suppress
the Dutch in South Africa and after
ward the French in Canada and Maui
ritius.''
The violence of the irrepressible ma
| tionalist press causes no little uneasi-
ness at Quai D'Orsay and also among
Frenchmen of evenly balanced minds,
who fear lest retribution may come in
a shape which may affect the exhibition
of 1900 and injure the pockets of French
| tradesmen.
| NJ. Yves Gnyot has had the courage to
point out in Steele that there are two
sides to the Transvaal question. and
that John Bull is after all Frances best
customer. Figaro is beginning to take
the same ground.