The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-30
A RED HOT JOHNNY BULLS PAW
INGS.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

TO the Editor OF the Eagle
A week or two since you had an arti-
Gle in your paper containing rather more
than the usual amount of YapOring char
acteristic of the western editor You
asserted that america" had whipped
| Great Britain twice. Now this is that
particular form of half truth, (for practi-
cal purposes a lie), so dear to the Gamer
lean" mind. The facts are, the thirteen
colonies assisted by France principally
and also by Spain and Holland, beat off
Great Britain fighting at a distance of
five months in time, from her base. that
is to say an exclusive population neigh
boring to Great Britain of about fifty
millions managed to prevent a popula-
ton of twelve millions from coercing
rebeliiOus colonists of some three mil
lions on their own ground fight
ing a defensive conflict. The
meanneSs of the modern Ameri-
can in attempting to conceal
the fact that but for Frances help in
men and material General Washington
would have failed is only equalIed by
his attempted Justification of history.
The assertion of having won in 1912 is
simply ludicrous. The capital city.
Washington, having been captured By
the British and trophies carried off. etc.
The gallant repulse of the British at New
Orleans, "a small affair as to the numbers
engaged, was balanced by reverses SUI
fered by the United States on the Cana
dian frontier.
No well informed man of the world is
deceived by this childish brag, only the
lower and more ignorant classes of this
country. But the tenor of British PROV
ess IS amusingly evident by their fire.
quent talk of impossible and absurd
schemes about to be launched bv the
british government (sicJ. Much the
same class of tales needing the same
faith as those the old time nurses told to
scare naughty children.
Your truculent attack on one Cen
eral Brackenbush tsicj Is in exceedingly
bad taste-but then-by the way the old
army lists give no such name. Maybe
you mean ''Brackenbury' a distinguished
man and a calm reasOner. / have lust
come across a report of what Bracken-
bury did say and 1t IS possibly correct
that large portion of Canada could be
held with comparative ease against the
attacks of the United States. for the
chances are that professor of modern
tactics NAV know what he is talking
about in such case, better than a man
hourishing around military title and Of
whom 1t might be said that 1t Is doubt
full if he knows even the battalion drill
on the ancient mode of handling infantry
current before the Franco-German war.
In conclusion / will add. that the
man who advocates or eggs on a war
between the two great branches Of
the Anglo-Saxon race. IA war which
must result disastrously to both and even
10 the interests Of the world at iargel l..
if ignorant of the possible effects Of his
advice, pet subject for a lunatic asy-
lum-if, au contraire, merely an inciter
TO blOodshed from a beEtial love Of blood
shed-he deserves that lingering form Of
punishment described as being kicked
10 death by crippleS."
7. S.-One fact with regard 70
1912 should be noted. At that time
Great Britain was fighting single-handed
the European confederation led BY Napo-
leon !. This was thought 10 h a good
time TO attack Great Britain. Has not
the state of Massachusetts, placed on
record protest against that eowar1ly
attack: The haste with which the
United States government wished 10
make peace after the news arrived about
Waterloo Is also noteworthy.
our respectfully.
l. Browse OLDKENE-
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