Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-19

member that state of war actually
exists and does not depend on the mode
in which the conflict is carried on. The
design of war is to kill. destroy and
cause to perish and public war always
means private suffering. Measured by
the law of violence inseparable from a
state of war it will be hard to distin-
guish between the right of an enemy
outside to throw into a city II shell
loaded with Greek fire and the right of
an e.1emy inside to use dynamite.
People fail to see that state of war
exists because the Fenians do not have
regular armies in the field, and they
forget that every beiligerent has a
right to war in his own way in what
ever way with the least risk to him
self he can do the most harm to his
enemy. And moreover the case would
be different if innocent Irish women
and children had never suffered from
Englisl wrong doing.
But England's worst difficulty is
| with the Mahdi. She has caught a
Tartar. The Arab in his desert has
| always proved himself match for the
| rest of the world. Forty centuries ago
God said of him, He will be wild man;
his hand will be against every man
| and every mans hand against him
| his brethren. That promise has never
failed in four thousand years.
A great deal of noise is made in re-
| gard to British pluck and skill in light
ing and they certainly are brave ma
ton, but within the memory of men
yet living they have abandoned AT
ghanistan, leaving Major Cavagnari
and his men to be butchered. Backed
by Russia We compelled England,
Fra nee and Spain to leave Mexico, and
| now when in furtherance of her grasp
ing policy she has assaulted the Soudan
she has made bad failure. Whilst
we remember that we have not heard
from the Arabs except through Eng
lish channels, yet the show is bad
enough for the English even at that.
Khartoum has been taken and the
force sent to relieve it driven back
closely pursued by an overwhelming
force of the enemy, who is evidently
well drilled.
| The English NO doubt resisted brave
ly and skillfully, but, cut off from their
base, they have no, prospect ahead OF
them but to be ultimately corraled and
butchered or captured.
| There is large talk of avenging the
fall of Khartoum, but the question OF
ways and means is encountered with
difficulties.
England's fleet is powerless. 1t can.
not go within five hundred miles of the
seat of war. and all her army is needed
elsewhere.
And even if she had the men to send
the late expedition up the Nile has
demonstrated that she can only senc
men fast enough for the Arabs Il
butcher them in a leisurely way. Eng
land has met her match. The Mahd
will dispose of her in good time to look
after the other European nations tina
are squabbling with each other in re
gard to route across Africa south OF
the Soudan.
The Mohammedans have gathered
the spells of the Old World twice and
they are hungry for them again. LORD
Dufferin, the Viceroy of India, has been
shot, whether by Fenian or No.
hammedan, had not TRANSFERRED at last
advices. It matters little which did
the work. They are acting jointly
But the last mentioned act shows how
widespread the trouble is. But the
real question IS, how shall England get
out of her difficulties? OF course she
must fight her way out. England has
a great army or paper, but her organ
ization Is the laughing stock of Mill.
tary men.
One great difficulty i'm the British
army is that the ranks are filled with
men who either have no direct inter
est in the success of the Government,
or having no hope exceptin revolution
are directly hostile to it. This last
class will include all Fenians and Mo-
hammedans. The Sepoy rebellion in
1857 failed for the want of leader
which want does not exist now. The
British Cabinet proposes to make Gen
eral Wolseley practically Dictator,
which is a neat method of getting rid
of him by saddling on him all the re-
| sponsibiiity for the failure of the un-
dertaking, for fail it Will unless God
Almighty fails to keep his word in re-
gard to the Arabs. He has kept it
forty centuries and is little likely to
fail now.
| In the meanwhile England connives
at the raid of France on China, hoping
in that way to make France sound in
| China for what England hopes to get
from her in Egypt.
Russia travelling on a golden road is
quietly working into Afghanistan, out
of which England has been driven.
Russia is working her way to the con-
troll of the outlet of the Persian Gulf,
which is the key to the valley Of the
Euphrates, which TANKS all move
ments between the Mediterranean and
| Red Seas.
Germany and some other continental
nations propose to establish line OF