New-York tribune., 1901-10-07
THE DUAL ALLIANCE.
POPULAR FEELING IN FRANCE ON THE
SCBJECT-REGRET THAT THE CZAR
DID NOT VISIT PARIS.

DID NOT VISIT PARIS.
Paris September o.
Inc Gar has come and gone. He has been
saluted by the Northern Squadron Of the French
navy at Dunkirk has inspected officers and il.
men at the grand military manruvres under
General Brugere and has reviewed the flower of
the french army near Reims. The imperial
WISH slVes another sanction to the Franco-R
san alliance. demonstrates it's Continuity" and
ieaVes matters very much they We're before
The popular enthusiasm for the Dual Alliance
is as keen as five years ago. when the Car and
Czarlna came to Paris, but there is grave heart
DufHIhs because this time the imperial couple
le1t France without visiting the capital The
samin' Of Paris ascribes this not to the Gar
nor 10 President Loubet, but solely to the Prime
Minister, NJ. Wadeck- Rousseau There are also
some notable exceptions to the national en-
theslasm for the Czar. but these exceptions
nave so far had the effect Of melting the rest of
the people to still greater enthusiasm.
Inc first prominent man in France to express
olsapproval of the Russian alliance was NJ. Paul
de Cassagnac, the guardian of the "Napoeonic
idea" and proprietor and Editor of the Bona
partist organ "LAutorite." NJ. de Cassagnac
comes out fiat footed against the Russian
alliance He says that the cringing attitude of
the republican functionaries toward the EN-
peror and Empress of Russia is absolutely hu-
initiating. He declares that Frenchmen and
russians really have no one idea feeling in
common In a flaming editorial, published on
the very day that the Car reviewed the French
army at Betheny, NJ. de Cassagnac stated that
when the Car first came to France, five years
ago, he was welcomed as a sort of national lib
orator or savior. Nevertheless. he never saved
France from anything whatever but on the
contrary, that very visit rendered obligatory
the subsequent visit of the French fleet to Kie
which was nothing less than an official re-
nunciation of "revanche" and Of Alsace-Lor-
raine. The great masses of the French people
sun imagine in some vague way that the al
lance with Russia opens the road to a return
10 France of Metz and Strasburg NJ. de Cassa-
gnac says that the love for Russia can never be
anything more than a mere counterpoise of the
hatred toward Germany. This supplies the key
note of the acclamations with which Nicholas
II is greeted. Suppress this hope of revenge
upon Germany and the alliance with Russia
would be regarded as coldly as an alliance with
Belgium or with Spain. Then the Cars "acco-
lade' with Emperor William al Dantzic counts
for something, and seems as If done with the
idea Of obtaining pardon dispensation from
the Kaiser for the Cars ''msalliance" with
France The Car was much better advised in
1896, when, instead of coming here with the
glow OF the Kaser's kiss on his cheeks he con-
visiting France. The Russian alliance is useless
and costly. AS soon as the French people find
out that, instead of helping them to get back
some day the lost provinces" it effectuauy
estops them from doing so. the Dual Alliance
will fall to pieces of it's own accord. Such Is
the reasoning of men Of the old Napoleonic
school. like Paul de Cassagnac
The Nationalists who are continually harping
on Alsace- Lorraine also take the same view
But to moderate Frenchnen, who have the moral
courage and common sense TO have made up
their minds that the idea Of "revanche" is
utterly impracticable. this stability given to the
foreign policy of France by the alliance with
Russia is one Of its chief merits. Although the
statue OF Stresburg, in the Place de la Con-
corde, is still covered with mourning wreaths
and any ministry that would order the removal
of these wreaths would not be able to stand for
twenty-four hours. the "revanche' idea, never
theless, seems to be gradually fading away.
The French Socialists have also come out
strongly against the Russian alliance not be-
cause they entertain any aggressive plans IN re-
gard to Germany, but because they sympathize
with the "moujks" and working classes Of Rus
sia. The graceful. but rather fippant, ode writ
ten by NJ. Edmond Rostand. In the light rhythm
of the bergerades of the eighteenth century to
celebrate the stay Of the Empress of Russia at
Compiegne, and which was recited by Nine
Bartet, Of the Theatre Francais at the dramatic
entertainment before the imperial visitors is
bitterly denounced by the Socialists as undigni-
fed. and "as unworthy of the reed pipes of a
country fair" The Petite Republique" the
organ Of the Socialist party declares that il Vic
tor Hugo had been called on under similar
circumstances to write ode to Russia, he
would have taken the occasion to immortalze
Tostoy, and not the wife of the oppressor of all
free thought in the land.
The dissatisfaction in Paris caused by the i'm
perial visitors leaving France without coming
to the capital has been appeased by the cordial
manner in which Nicholas II received NJ. Daus-
set, president of the Municipal Council of Paris,
at Betheny after the review. The Czar gave
$4,000 a present to the poor of the munich
pality, and said that at some later day he in
tended to come TO Paris but that this time the
object of his journey to see much
possible of the French army. People al
ready beginning realize that the essential
condition of the anco-Russian alliance is a
remuneration OF the reckless, aggressive and dis
astrous foreign policy implied by "revanche,"
and the great masses of the French people
sensible and patriotic enough to accept this
view. c. /. B.
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