The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-02
HAS UNCLE sam
A SWEL.LED HEAD?
Hot-Hcaded French Journalists
Say He Is So
Affected.
FEAR MONROE DOCTRINE
In Truth, France Doesn't Care
What Happens on This
Continent.
EAR MONROE DOCTRINE.
ny GEORGE DUFREsNE.

| lspcciai Gable 10 The Times D!spatch.]
| Paris, April 1.-The recent mobiliza-
/ ton Of the greater part OF the Ameri.
| can army along the Mexican border
has given new impulse and life to tho
| general idea here. that Uncle Sam is
suffering from y swcllcd head and
+ some OF our most hothcadcd Journal
/ ISIS have tried TO convince the pcopls
of France that the Monroe Dictrirc.
as now interpreted in America, Is q
/ danger to Europe, which the powers
ought to make a stroni, protest against.
The attempts have been anything but
successful. as France has really no
| interests in the Western Hemisphere
and ne people here have the strongest
admiration for Yankee pluck. and
! Should the United States some day de-
eide to bring the whole continent from
Alaska to Terra del Fucgo under the
Stars and Stripes. they will have the
French peoples best wishes of success
though our diplomats may take q diff
fercnt view.
There is one American peril the peo-
pie of France do believe in but that
is an economical rather than u politi-
cal one. American visitors. or course
spend an enormous amount of money
here and are large buyers also at
home of French industrial products.
but that does not prevent French
| Of American competition In certain de-
| partments, particularly In shoes and
, agricultural machinery. In the wheat
| plains Of Reauce YOU may sometimes
sec half n dozen American reaping
| machines at work in one OF the great
/ delds. American shoe stores are scat
! tered on tho boulcvards and appear 10
! do thriving business, despite the
| tariff. In life insurance the American
| companies have q great hold. 1t has
| often been proposed to form a union
! Of European States against the Union
i of American States, union which
/ would have an economic and Industrial
! meaning, as we'll as a political one.
It will be realized. no doubt. on the
day OF the anco-Gcrman reconcilia-
! ton so eloqucntly advocated in La
| Revue by the Baron d I.stournolles dc
| Constant. senator for the Sarthe, ana
i paciicist for all the world, but even
! should this happen the people OF France
! will always have u tender spot in their
| hearts for the people OF America.
! France has had the cleverness to get
! the dare-devils of the world TO fight
! her battles Whenever little war is
| on there the gentleman banker, broken
/ in fortune and often in reputation is
/ fighting for his new found country.
| The large proportion of this famous
! corps Is Alsatian. These inhabitants
F. OF the ancient province of France have
elected to serve on tho French side OF
i.thc NosCcs, rather than under the I'M
peral Eagles. They make the most
tractahlc material in the legion for
| the reason that they have Joined for
| patriotism and not for other motives.
! Generally speaking, the well-behaved
/ soldier. finds he Is exccllently treated
| by his officers: It is only the Wild. In
| subordinate fellow who gets himself
Into trouble and spreads unfavorable
/ reports abroad as TO the disciplinary
| terrors of the Devils Own Regiment"
! When one comes to think of It there
| Is something particularly intelligent
| In employing the 'Inauvais sujcts" Of
! a nation to fight It's battles. 1t is sure
liz more useful to give the Apache
| chance in the bat dc AZ than to
/, lock him up in penitcntiary: setting
| him o Impossible tasks and degrading
! his already degraded moral sense On
| tho face of 1t, the untamed creature
| finds difficulty In respecting all the
| conventions of civilization. He Is Just
! the man one needs in tho army: that
. Is to say. in the real lighting army.
! The seekers after a universal lam
| euagc have not yet given up the Idea
of discovering the linguistic Utopia.
The latest among them is NJ Joseph
Orsat, who proposes that each word
! should simply have a certain number
! Thus the word flattery would be mum
Der 1928 in all languages Ass,im
ling for the sake of argument that each
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