New-York tribune., 1900-04-29
PARIS AND THE FOREIGNERS.
LONG HEADED FRENCH PEASANT PROPRIETOR
ON THE POLICY OF INSULTING EVERYBODY.

ON THE POLICY OF INSULTING EVERYBODY.
Paris correspondence of The Pail Mall Gazette
What an average sensible Frenchman thinks
about the 0nsl99,ughts on England INDUCED in by
the following shrewd survey OF the situa tion made
Prefect Of enarn,ent 6a IA Inc Tt ,s
produce TO England in large quantities. The Pre-;
assured me that, in the main, it accurately repre-
speaker would be better acquainted than most of
his fellows with the diatribes Of the Chauvinist
he disposes of much Of his farm produce The
mans M ms Punt gteTances zee lose much Of their sayor
a IIo1 OF the local yernacular in which they were
they may still be considered interesting
The farmer had been reused to wrath by re;
and France was not unlikely eventuaiity After
would entail on persons Of his class he launched
out; The simple truth is he said, that the
be taken off into an asylum and clapped into
Fa f6P M at fhs o ny are Re
1t has any rhyme or reason at all II IS to be a
make money t must be vsi5ed BY % ali the foreign no
ian as ee csG pc ana G by as
trains. T Se Proyiniciais know what they have to
for them-take their money and make fun of
'As to the foreigners ever since the Exhibition
has been decided the Parsians have been busy
round began with the Italians, the boulevard
ehuckling CONNIE une petite folle over their de-
was anything disagreeable TO be said about the
the housetops. The Italians overburdened
with money. and could be twitted without much
compunction but the Americans have admitted
commercial value. They went to with the
Spaniards. very few of whom pay their fare
to Paris, and the press promptly fell upon the in
iquitous Yankee. and printed whatever II could de-
wise in the shape of disagreed bic remarks. In due
course the Germans had their turn. They were
told disdainfully that they might Paris if
show his face he would be received with catcas
and rotten eggs
Now the English coming in for the same
trea tment. Even the Russians have been en-
tirely spared. for they have been told that their
only reason-for making up to France the pros
pect Of the money they could get of the coun-
try In short every European nation has received
do is to come along and spend their cash among
their insulteU The probab bility is they will stay
at home and nothing will he left for the Parisians
but to whine their insanity"
These views are certainly those of an immense
number of rejecting Frenchmen In the letter to
the Figaro this morning cores spondent enlarges
on the angry feeling aroused in London by the in
suits heaped on the Queen by the French press
and strongly urges the necessity and propriety of
counteract the effect of this disgracefui campaign
Letters TO the paper not the institution in
France that they in England, or IL is certain
that scores of correspondents would write in the
same strain. | may add that the number Of the
.iraricature' TO which ] referred on Saturday has
disappeared from the kosks, the police ha wing in
tiInated to the vendors that its sale would not be
rections that the remonstrances of the English
newspapers have not been unavailng and that they
are understood and approved by the best section
of French opinion.