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stable and secure one in force, who
rejoice in the glory and imperial
power of British rule, and who,
regardless of the fame of an illus
trioQs statesman, are very sensitive
about her Pugnacious reputation.
In what does her greatness and glory
consist? Is it in brute force and
merciless conquestS? Is it not rather
in her achievements in civilization
lit up by her grand old universities
prominent as Ossa and Pelion above
the common plain, and her laws, ex-
pounded by eminent scholars and
jurists from the prolific womb of
such institutions as Linc0ln'S Inn,
and all inspired by those grand mas
ters like Burke, Fox, Pitt, Palmers-
ton, Disraeli, and last, but not least,
Gladstone. Eight centuries have
passed away since young England
lay powerless at the feet of William
the Norman. She rose and played
her part under. him in the great his
toric drama of the memorable and
terrible march from the Tees to
York. She struggled for Herry's
great charter which, in a measure,
checked the despotism engendered
by the conquest and which culminat-
ed in the great charter wrested from
King John when her bold barons
made themselves immortal in history
by formulating those fundamental
principles of government which arc
the basis CT all forms especially this
OF ours. This accomplishment large
ly occupied two centuries Of English
history. Another was occupied in
the conquest of Scotland; another
in what is known as the hundred
years war. Then on went this mater
familias and of nations through the
war Of the roses and into the "New
Monarchy" Then through the Re
formation, -throug the rebellion,
the Commonwealth, the rise and
fall of houses and men, fighting
at times for conquest, and at other
times for the preservation Of those
principles on which her very nation
al life and unity depended. She
went on and on and her career be-
came more and more brilliant, until
she had set Scotland, Ireland, and
Wales as crown jewels. Here she
might we'll have stopped and turned
her attention to the cultivation of
the arts of peace. But on she went
again through the remaining cen
fury in an uninterrupted career filled
with conquests, She trayersed
every sea GnGluding Lake Champ
lain) meeting Commodore MacDon-
ough and General Jackson en- the
way, and going out at New Orleans
she still pursued her way and went
from conquering to conquer until
her military band encircled the
world, and the sun of heaven shone
increasingly through all the year on
her possessions. She has given to
history and the world a grand school
of modern statesmen almost peerless
in all lands. Now for what has this
mother of many nations been strug-
Cling to accomplish all this for?
Why one would think in order to
raise up a party to hoarsely shout at
the heels of one of her wisest, most
conservative Christian statesman and
prime minister, "Imbecile," Heart
less Intriguer," Coward" ETC.,
simply because he will not engage
in a wholesale butchery of human
beings land a waste of countless mil
lions perhaps of treasurcs) in brutal
war about a little line fence up in
that rocky Afghan back pasture.
Because he has inaugurated system
of national arbitrament which has
been the fond dream of men for ages.
Because he has said to England cit
is grand to have the strength Of a
giant, but it is villainous to use it
simply to demonstrate your brute
force" But he has done more say
his accusers. He has needle3sly
drenched the Soudan in human gore
and shed the precious blood of the
sacred Boer, and now refuses to
plunge the country into the most
horrible slaughter house ever known
refuses to involve the flower of
Britain in brutal fight with one of
the most powerful nations on earth,
and refuses to defend that old slash
fence on which the national honor
50 much depends, But he is charged
further, With what? He ought
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