The evening times., 1900-03-03
AWAITING AMERICAS ACTION.
The French People Have Faith In
the United states.

| she n1teu StaAtss
| PARIS, Feb. 16.-Frenchmen understand
| perfectly well the state OF mind that the
Transvaal war has resulted in creating In
| the United States, They appreciate how
strong and legitimate are racial bonds, and
realize the force of the Anglo-Saxon ele-
| ment in the great sister republic. They
| may be dreamers. sometimes, but they are
much less ignorant Of foreign matters than
is occasionally supposed, and have the
! characteristic of being more just to others
than to themselves. They are given to
criticise, and sometimes to condemn them
selves. with as much ardor as inspires 9TH
ers in hiding their faults and vaunting
their virtues.
1t is an absolute truth, and as such
should be known in the United States. that
public opinion in France has experienced
keen satisfaction at witnessing the precise
measurement taken by the American peo-
pie of the consequences of Mr.. Chamber
lain's Imperialism, and Of the Unsuitable
appetites of the cosmopolitan fnanciers
and stock exchange pirates of two worlds
consequences that affect the peace pros
races, or of weak ones striving to live their
own lives in independence.
Besides the Anglo-Saxon element in the
different States of the American Union,
there are Irish, Germans, Scandinayians.
Slavs. Latins. Spanish, Italians. and
French. all loyal always to the new and
great land OF their adoption. TO their new
country they brought inherent character
istics, persistent traditions original men,
tai predictions ineffaceabe memories OF
their old national griefs, and also. some
of them, hopes that are never obiiterated
in a really strong race. because such con-
stitute distinctive national marks.
How could il be possible that from such
a blending Of different elements, ground
together. as il were. in the mortar of the
Union any other residue could result than
a fusion OF force, justice, honesty, and
veritable grandeur? How could such con-
crete nation approve an lniquitous war,
undertaken for the sole purpose or pro-
tecting the stockholders of the Chartered
Companies, and turning over South Africa
to a band OF shameless meddlers?
Yet. the French Republic has faith in
the Republic OF the United States; and the
French people who, in the darkness of the
present hour seek always to illustrate
their way by the lights of history. rejoice
when they consider the various elements
composing the population of the Union,
for they recall the lesson taught by histo-
ry that those nations alone nave played
the greatest part which had for their peo-
pie an agglomerated human family, found
ing new race of the many branches root
ed in other soils.
Was it not this that produced the grand
eur of France in its fusion of the Celtic,
Greek. Roman. and Germanic peoples!
Was il not the Greeks of Phocia who car
ried to the Mediterranean literal of Gaul
their commercial activity and their spirit
for maritime adventures? Did not the
Romans leave on Celtic soil a deposit which
scarcely a century later gave it poets his
torians. and emperors? still later. was II
not the Franks of the Middle Ages who es-
tabiished amcng the Gauls that feudal or
ganization which for centuries infused or
der into the chaos OF the great invasions?
And later still when new nations were
forming and rising alive from fallen n
pires. like flowers sproutirg from ruins,
the France Of the sixteenth century trans
ported the Renaissance from Italy: cen-
tury later she went to seek among the 10
mances Of the Cid the first glorious man
Hesitation of her classic theatre; the
France of the eighteenth century bor-
rowed from England the doctrines CT self
government: and the France OF the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century from
Germany's Schiller and Goethe imbibed
the first action of the romantic move
ment
Unhappy the people OF single race,
Who possess only d single races de-
fects and qualities The future is for
those who. by happy combination of
various elements are created to win.
This is the case with the United States
of America soul is formed in that
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become far greater still if it knows how.
if il wishes and if il dares to put aside
all that which sterilzes noble and gener
oAC efforts