New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-27
fathers governed. DO you learn to obey as your

fathers governed. DO you learn to obey as your
forefathers obcyed.' -,
AS man, as husband, rs father, as Irlenu'
the Gar he thought was one OF the most cha AIN
ing personalities in the world AT the same time
he was full of distrust OF the Russians ana oomi-
mated by the idea that he may before long ha,e
to fight them by sea and land all afounu ''''
world. ,s
Oddly enough, found Lord Wolseley snareu
the views which General Gordon expressed 10 me
when met him at the iatefnl lnter'ie" az
ampton, which led to his dispatch 10 hiart9uh
as to the future of the Chinese. Generai uoruoh'
who always reinforced the results OF MS own op-
servations by curious Interpretation OF nps in
his opinion the people without falth aluaeu W
by one of the Hebrew prophets, would peIore i9ns
who. like De Gordon, has camPaigned in China, is
very much of his way OF thinking. Inc Oh,nes0
are, he says, beginning to move. Ihey are pnys s,
cally superb. Their numbers are as the sano upon
the seashore. Death for them has no terrors nor l
do they count of time The great East, which
has sent forth many human floods for the devasta.
ZION of the West Is once more t aoovv World ID The
Russians already uneasy at the rising ho9 S Va
yellow humanity on their Asiatic borders iiney
may stem it for time but the chlnese a oHsr.
whelm them, as their forefathers were overwheimeu
by the 1artars in the middle ages. Ii TINS a,a nay
nosis of the situation be correct 1t seems 10 I,e,
although it did not occur to Lord Wolscley' inaI
in the interest of Western civilization, our uu,Iy
is not to weaken Russia but to strengthen to the
uttermOSt the power winch IL 70 ''N
bulwark of Europe against the Asiatic horde.
Lord Wolseley's views as to the imminence OF
danger from France are said to be shared by Slr
Charles Dixie but they are not enteItaned Dy
the English people Lord Ripon and Mr. Bryce,
both of whom will be important members OF i ny,
next Liberal Cabinet, agree with Lord hanuolphi
Churchill as to the feasibility and deslaullty OF
arriving at modus vivendi with Russia, although
Mr. Bryce was less Indifferent to the future Oh
Bulgaria than the Conservative statesman Last
of an before leaving England had long con,
yersation with Cardinal Manning, who Is one Oh
the most ardent of patriots as well as Deing one
of the keenest philanthropists and most alstin-
ouisbed ecclesiastics Of our time lie was uneasy
and anxious about the condition OF our deIenJe oS
and more inclined to agree with LORD Wolseey
than most of the politicians With hlm arse, a -
With most religious men, whose sense OF lustlce Is
often outraged by the things that are done IN our
name a sense of our unprcparedness to resist az -
tack. Ouickened by deep CONVICTION tna ,.od
sncb an attack came it would not be undeser No.
England has sinned so much, who can say Sii" ~
the cup may not now be running over Vacations aaI
rebteons retrbution at hand. These renecof1 taT
are however, relieved by remembering tna@ oi No
ali Judging nations as nations Englanu -
@reatrr sinner than her neighbors, nor IS ~ ther
that the English would have been ralsea 10 The
nrnsent nroud position of prominence amoHs .b hat
nations only to be cast down suddenly err aI
| without remedy.