The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-14

try. the flower OF French manhood would
be, as We have said, exposed to destruction,
while In the case OF a conflict With England,
only few thousand sailors recruited from
the coastwlse fishermen would be sacrl.
feed, and their lives have no great value In
the estimation OF tho bouOeoisie. In fine,
by challenging England, Frenchmen would
be able to masquerade ns warriors without
fighting.
NJ GoH1ER goes on to tell us that the
chief agents in diverting the hatred Of
Frenchmen to their old enemies across the
channel are the Peta journal and the va
rious issues OF La Croir, which have an
aggregate circulation OF several millions
| daily among readers who are so ignorant
as to believe everything they see in
print and who never see anything except
| these papers. La Croir Is religious
sheet, the property Of the Fathers Of tho
Assumption. The Petit Journal belongs
to naturaized Italian, one ENRIco MA
RINoNI, and Is edited by ERNEST JUDET,
who was expelled from his university
professionally during the Ministry OF NJ.
BARBOUR, and who recently perpetrated
the monstrous attack upon ZoLAs father.
In order to inflame the passions Of the
French people, this man ransacks the
pages Of history and reproduces all the
dsagreeable episodes In the relations Of
France and England; when these fail he
draws on his invention. 1t was he who.
with the assistance Of a negro forger
named NORTON accused in 1893 the Eng
lish OF having bought ". CLEMENoEAU and
NJ. RoCHEFoRT. He imputes to the Eng
llsh every evil which befalls the French,
and there is no doubt that, by his unre-
hitting agitation, he has produced a con-
siderable effect on naive and narrow
minds. The so-called patriotic press.
which la endeavoring to bury the recol-
lection OF Alsaco and Lorraine, daily tells
its readers that the English are high
waymen and pirates who neither keep
faith nor recognize law, and who are the
scandal OF mankind. The hatred vented by
some OF these sheets reaches, at times I'M
imaginable pitches Of fury and imbecility.
In the columns OF the Mdtin, some two
months ago, NJ. CHARLES LAURENT was
permitted to declare that Queen VICTORIA
should be hanged like MARY ANsELL, and
an influential member Of the Chamber Of
Deputies lately demanded that quals sent
mltted to traverse French territory He |
insisted that "the complaisance OF the Min
lister OF Agriculture toward the English in
permitting the transit to them over French
railways OF birds forbidden to Frenchmen
surpassed all the bounds OF humiliation"
Comic also ia the conflict between Anglo
phobia and pecunlary interest exhibited in
La Pdtrie, the editor OF which, MILLEvoYE,
was an accomplish Of JUDET and NORTON,
the negro, in the forgeres Of 1913. Every
day the Pdtrie announces the imminent
downfall Of Albion. and her epitaph is
seasoned with outrageous insults. At the
same time, the paper gloats in anticipation
upon the profits to French trade to be de-
rived from the presence Of Englishmen at
The coming Exposition. 1t estimates their
probable number and probable expendi
ture, and has decided on the whole to post
pone the determination Of the British
people until they have paid the expected
toll to Paris hotels and shops. This post
OF England's doom is explained
by the fact that the director Of the Puts.ie.
one JALUzoT is also director Of the famous
shop, "Prntemps.'
We are cautioned, finally by M. GoH1ER
against imagining that the military
llarums and demonstrations Of insubor-
iination witnessed during the last few
months are designed to inflame chauuintsm,
,r, in other words. French jingoism. for a
war OF LA Reranohe." The members OF
he military party he says. we'll know
ng the situation, knowing their chiefs
md knowing themselves are among the
1rst to repudiate all idea OF rupture
With Germany. 1T is therefore certain.
md it Is even admitted by the leaders
themselves that they aim only at a civil
war, in which they would be able to
wipe out the courageous but scanty de-
lenders Of liberty, while upon the ruins
If the republic would arise military
A sea war with England,
The shock OF which would be sustained
BY the sister service. would give the gal
ant Generals who bullied the second court
martial at Rennes just the pretext they
seek for abolishing the existing govern
ment
The Silver Dollar Problem.