The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-06-24
AsrRIkING CONTRAST


The London Standard of a recent date
has an article on the contrasts between the
England of to-day and that of 1915, from
military standpoint, from which it is posi-
BILE to draw some useful lessons. The
Standard seems to admit that Great Brit
ain has fallen from the proud prominence
of sixty years ago, and intimates that she
has become rather secondary power. AT
ter NAPOLEON had been conquered by Eng
llsh craftsmanship and English arms, the
British nation was the most powerful and
dreaded upon the earth, and no people or
combination Of peoples dared in
suit its flag or maltreat one
of its humblest citizens. She
was in truth the mistress of the
world, and 1t looked from the manner in
which she had distributed her colonies and
soldiers over the world and monopolized the
worlds commerce. as il it would be I'M
possible for centuries to come to rob her Of
her glory or decrease her power and pres
tige. And yet not three-quarters of cen.
fury after, we see British subjects and sea-
men murdered under the eyes of a British
feet and their dead bodies spirited away
for burial for fear Of violence from an angry
and ragged mob Of people belonging TO a
pigmy power, and the great England of the
past not knowing what to do and calling
upon other nations for help. 1t is indeed a
striking contrast and subject for states
men and politicians to study deeply. 1t is,
in the first place, another chapter added 30
history illustrative of the fact that there
never has been, and probably never will be-,
any permanency to the predominance of
one nation over oil others. That which
made one nation great will, in time, be
learned by the others, and rivals will arise
that cannot be conquered. The world has
gone forward with such rapidity that Eng
land has been distanced. Thought has be-
come too liberal and advanced to permit
too great ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and power to be
reached by one nation, and the idea OF
liberty, both national and individual,
has robbed Great Britain of the dicta-
torship it once enjoyed. The same consid-
GRAFTON may be depended upon hereafter TO
prevent any other people from over obtain
ing controlling voice in human affairs. 1t
is from this fact principally, therefore, that
to-day, even in the face OF a national insult
and wholesale murder of her citizens,
England dare not act until she has con-
ferred with the powers. But another en-
couraging lesson may be drawn from the
tbs times is too far advanced to permit one
nation to pounce upon and destroy tho
sovereignty of another, whatever their rel
alive strength and standing may be. In
1915 the maxim of the middle ages that
might made right" was still tacitly adj
mtted, and the ilimsiest pre-
texts for conquest went unchal-
lcnged But broad humanity will no
longer permit this, and foreign intervention
by one nation with the internal affairs OF
another must arise from cause only uni.
yersally admitted to be Just. In word the
world has grown up to the idea of the pro.
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patent and most encouraging observation
from the facts now transporting in Europe
And yet, in view of such an outrage, still
unavenged by u nation always unusually
prompt and aggressive in resenting an in
suit, il cannot but be admitted that
the military proves of Great Britain with.
in the last five years, has faller
from great height, and the showing
is no better for France. While the rest o
the world has been gaining in prestige and
growing in power, these two governments
whose feet were for SO long period upor
the necks of all others, have been losinl
ground, Germany and the United State,
may for a season enjoy the positions of ar
bitter of the destinies of their respective hem
ispheres, but that no nation will ever again
become the political autocrat of the worlt
is proven by nothing more conciusively
than the contrasts presented between tn,
present and former history Of England