Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-17
GORDON AND KHARTOUM.

| 10 the EDITOR OF the Eagle:
Your article in Fridays issue of the
EAGLE in answer 10 Subscriber"
whom you very properly said should
have signed himself british Sub
tject," was sweeping and entirely to
The point. That article has healthy
sound, an American ring, and a jingle
about il that smacks of Columbia her
self. Civilization forsooth. Many a
dark deed has that pirate of the ma
tious committed, in the most brutal.
savage and nncivilizcd fashion, under
that familiar and bypocritical cowl-
without mercy or compassion, but
with bitter and relentless dcspotism.
America herself did not escape
the monsters appetite, and the
desire to gorge his all-deyour-
ing nav with the best blood and
treasure of this favored land, in earlier
days and in later years. But America
successfully grappled with the lion
that represents the freebooters, and
sent him bowling 10 his lair. That, too,
was in the interest OF civil ization.
But another British subject comes
oat in Sundays issue, who signs him
self "Carabineer," to throw more light
on the matter, for the EAGLES and
the public's benefit. This correspon-
4 n f,,lI
second and third, and he (Gordon)
went all the way to Khartoum, in the
interests of civilization, and the peo-
lie of that benighted land gave him
"kind reception he says. The fall of
khartoum has told already how warm
the reception was. D, but these fol-
lowers of the Maadi weren't the peo-
pie, this admirer of Gordon no doubt
will tell us. For you cannot, nobody
can. He's like Oliver Goldsmith's
Schoolmaster,e even though vanquished
he will argue still. And he talks about
the Scpoy revolt, and the carnage that
followed il, that is recorded in every
nation on the planet, with sickening
remembrance. The man that would
try to defend the blood-curdliDg afro
cities of that clique of pirates, the
world over, must have gizzard of
gall and wormwoOl. and cheek that
no acid can test. If John Bull wants
TO DC charitable, and to amuse himself
in that direction, he can find plenty of
! ii TO do nj home among the rag-tag-
and bObtail, the scum of the streets.
and the cutters, and the purlieus,
lanes, and alleys of his own large
cities, not To talk of the country pie
bians, who are just as ignorant, but
perhaps not as wicked. This would
not pay John. What John wants at
home, and indeed abroad, is ignorance,
and the most debased. infatuated, su-
perstitious loyalty. The Englishman
is loyal TO the core and the core itself
not TO his country though, but to its
oppressors; for this aristocracy, this
intol Grant. plundering banditti, this
royal roost of robbers, who has rob-
berry reduced 10 a system of compli-
Gated refinement, and overawed the
people of their own land 10 such
degree that they imagine they are the
gods themselves, and worship them
even down 10 the profoundest depths
of adoration-a condition in the hu-
man soul that has never produced any
thing but the most abjcct, moral and
physical, slavery. The Englishmau
loves his master and not his country
the caparisoned rider in imposing
harness "belted knight"
the duke. the lord. and on down TO the
local squire in his gig, let him come TO
enjoy the blessings of "A free land. he
bears or suffers it, but is never happy
his heart isn't there. Liberty 10 him
is a prison. He misses the rider III
4" harness bedIght." and never can be
happy except in the service of his old
master, - British subject" just like
Jessie at the railroad bar, "she had
lovers half a score, always some on 10 |
adore, from the first train in the MORN |
ing Till the last one at night" "What |
is a country without hits h'arristocra-
cy! said an old English lady when
she witnessed the plainness and sim
plicity of the people on this side of the |
pond, compared with the hifiutin' gla- /
mour and pagentry of the fine-fingered |
demi-gods on her side of the water.
Why. this imposter banditti would |
dare TO invade heaven itself if it had /
the power. Think of it, carbon
sack of concupiscence having the au-
dacity To call down the Creator to
: anction his despotic atrocities: 1.-The
queen by the grace of God" and Of
course all The equity lords and dukes
by the same grace. Isn't this a. fsr
as they can go in The direction of IN
yading heaven? Such blasphemy i
horrid to contemplate, and that men
viii hear it withou; pang aosy back
in the end of the nineteenth century.
Rather Is il by the power of darkness
and by the aid of Belzebub, and his
cohorts that they hold their power.
and not of the supreme Ruler of the
universe. Another Auglophoiist will
come out soon 10 defend English
methods Of civilization, for even
though vanquished they will argue
,til.. DoNNEI. KENNY.
Junction City Union: Trouble
,eems to be brewing between the Uni ,
Iersity and the Normal school. The {
n ichita EAGLE SAYS there has been 8 :