Washington sentinel., 1900-11-10

paris Gtssip. tension and the
intensity OF pop
ular sympathy with the Beers is curiously
illustrated, these closing days Of the
Exposition, at the Transvaal pavilion.
For SIX months the world has been
passing through the pace, and it has
felt obliged to leave a card, so to speak,
upon Kruger and his little people. All
day long a stream OF visitors de6le
through the pavilion to sign their names
in the great books kept for that purpose:
they make polyglot library now, those
heavy tones ireighted with the sympathy
OF every nation and with extremely
energetic inscriptions directed against
the English. Many wreaths are deposited
by the bust OF Dom Paul; among them,
not infrequently, several with ribbons,
in the American colors, and the sigma.
lures of club secretaries and private
individuals in the United States. But
1t is not only in these conve ntionaI ways
that is expressed the popular sympathy
with the Beers. All over the white walls
Of the main hall, on the pillars, even on
the ceiling, are scrawled aud drawn all
sorts Of tokens Of the popular feeling.
Here are few of the least offensive
phrases culled at hazard from the
bescribbled walls: 1.-The British Empire,
and the English, revivers OF White
Slavery" ITO the English: Hungry for
gold, thirsty for blood" Some historian
has dug up a cry OF Napoleon from his
prison at st. Helena: AFTER conquering
all the nations, have become the
prisoner Of the most cowardly." A
political philosopher insinuates a moral:
Honor to the Beers who give to France
and Europe the example Of standing up
against Albion" An Englishman,
greatly daring, has written, "Vivent Les
Anglais;" and Gavroche, or another,
has sretorted: "Tu en- as, du toupet toip
which, being translated, is: "Gahnl
you've got cheek, you have"
Numerous Americans, in common
with recent visitors to Paris from all
over the world, will utter a hearty
"more power" to the firm OF "Loubet,
WaldSck Rousseau & Co" in the trial
with which it IS menaced by the Asso-
ciated Hotelkeepers Of the city. You
cannot indlct a nation. as was said on
famous occasion. But mine hosts Of
Paris are at the present moment doing
a sturdy best to indict the French Gov
eminent en- Bloc on the curious charge OF
having carried on the hotel business
during the Exposition without license.
T he PLAIN facts are that the respectable
brigaDds who run the big hotels Of Paris
made such dead set on the pockets OF
visitors that unless a man owned a gold
mine or was trustee of widows and
orphans fund it was almost impossible
for him to get decent opmodation in
the Exposition CITY. Hundreds Of Off.
clal vistors-local authorities and
delegates to congresses, scientific and
humanitarian, for example-would
never have been able to come to Paris
if they had been left to the tender
mercies ofthe Bonifaces. Their presence
vas absolutely necessary to the complete
success OF the Exposition, and the State
heroically broke the law in order to
secure them. They were installed in
vacant LYcees, public schools and other
official premises. NO charge was made
for dormitory accommodations, but the
guests paid for their cafe au lait ia the
morning, ard, amusing detail, had to
tip thu Janitor with ten cents whenever
they came home after midnight. BY the
fact that this money passed to the State,
the Government became technically
guilty Of running unlicensed hotels.
Some one has said that France is the
country, par excellence, OF grand.
motherly legislation. And II is true that
here the State and the municipality 20
TO extraordinary lengths TO save the
citizen from the trouble OF looking after
his own interests aud affairs. The other
day, for example, the Paris municipality
ordained that at every Marie there
should be posted a list Of vacant
apartments Of an annual rent OF under
eighty dollars, so that the poorer
brethren might no longer have to hun
up their rooms bl the painful process o
footing it through the streets tail tn
notice "logemenl a louer" should NEE
their eye, Every arrondissement ha
Long had a free employment agenc