The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-10
GORDON HIGHLANDERs DE
TO HELP DOM PAUL.
ABUSE OF ENGLAND.
AngIOphObia Epidemic at It's Height
in French Newspapers,

AngIOphObfa Epidemic at Its Height
in French Newspapers.
PARIS, Nov. 9.-The Anglophobia. epI-
demfc raging in the French press is daily
becoming more acute. The Nationalist.
Jew-ba1ting, 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 so to steer public opinion
as to arrive at war with England
In reading the Patrie and the Croix one
might suppose that France and England
were already at war. The editorial
language and epithets are now more vio-
lent than anything that appeared In either
the American or Spanish newspapers dur
ing the Spanish war, and probably excead
In malignancy and abuse anything that
ever appeared in the press concerning a
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 con-
sideration the stormy elements which are
constantly at work, and which, like the
Boulangfsm of the last decade will quick
~ collect and concentrate the floating e|e-
ments of discomfort One or two passa ges
taken at random from the Patrie may en-
able observing Americans to form an idea
of the foreign policy the nationalist are
urging upon the government.
Help the Beers and avenge Fashoda,"
is the advice given by NJ. M1llevoye, who
declares that "the British foreign office
has deliberately falsified all the dis
patches from the seat of war, where, in
spite OF all official accounts, matters are
going very badly for England Thousands
of F'renchmen are burning to ioin the
Beers and fight against England. We
don't care al present to furnish further
details, because We still have hopes that
we may be able to send 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 suffer and expiate. British hatred has
never yet missed an opportunity to strike
French breasts. Examples of such Brit
ish brutality abound everywhere The
hour of retaliation has arrived The shoot
ing season, when Frenchmen may kill
Englishmen, is now open. Notice is here
by given to amateurs. Is not this sport
a most tempting one?" +.
Charles Laurent in leading article in
the Matin. intimates that the battles of
Glencoe and Elandslaagte are in reality
victories for the Beers. M Laurent
writes:
''The present campaign marks the end
of greater England. British arms can
never SubJugate the TranSvaal. The Cour-
age of the Beers is contagious. 1t will
spread to Ireland, to India and TO Aus
tralia. Justice 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 news
papers, accompanied by Hbelous and in
decent legends. The Patrie publishes al
most every day extracts from alleged
conversations with Mr.. Chamberlain, who
is represented as declaring 1t is "the
policy of the British cabinet to suppress
the Dutch in South Africa, and after
wards the French in Canada and Mauri-
thus"
The violence of the irrepressible ma
tionalist press causes no little uneasiness
at the 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.
M. Yves Guyot has had the courage to
point out in the Steele that there are two
sides to the Transvaal question. and that
John Bull is, after all, Frances best Gus
toner. The Figaro is beginning to take
the same ground