The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-13
Will the American Eagle Again
Tackle the British Lion?
THE BEHRIsG SEA CONTROVERSY
The Gouty Old Mistress Of the Seas Gnashing
Her Gums - What VIII the
Harvest Be?

peaceful horizon and to dispel it, it will
tal.e, perhaps, the flower of the American
army The Behring sea controversy is not
at an end, far from it, and should our little
revenue craft in Alaskan waters follow the
same mode of procedure as last season,
then we can rest assured we have twisted |
the British lions tail sufficiently to have
that worthy let growl of disapprobation |
sufficient to declare war. AS a keen, FAR
seeing statesman, Blaine has no doubt the |
best of the controversy, and to our mind it
is yet an open question whether our gov
eminent had a perfect right to declare Beh- |
ring sea a closed one and issue NANTES
toes to force it. We will not argue the
case-that is for statesmen, elected by the
people to serve our country best, TO do-not
TO plain, unassuming journalistic scrloDler
Why cannot the great nations quit their
sQuabbling and let each one elect as It's
representative one fitted by his knowledgs
of international law to be member of
what should be termed the International
Peace Bureaua Let this congress of all
nations meet at the different capitals OF the
great powers as they themselves may d.
rect. Invest in each member absolute
right to act for his country, and let their
decisions be final. Just now Europe wants
war. Germany's young monarch is HE
ing himself to the important capitals, and
from the cable we learn that his very bones
ache to display his genius as leader on
fields of battle. His youthful ambition
may lose for him what his grandfather
gained in the Franco Prussian war. The
Russian bear is quietly at WORK. The
Car is fearlessly fortifying and extending
his railway lines, whilst our petticoated
friend, whose anxiety is for Behring sea,
&c dfrrr how f1.on G
that she can have more loyal ones to assist
Salisbury in any of his wild schemes OF
conquest. War now would be CO short du-
ration. The improvements in fire arms
have been such that close quarter
fighting is a thing of the past.
We have now a dynamite cruiser,
queer little submarine craft, capable of
sinking the largest and best of Victoria's
men of-w9r Our white squadron has
just returned from long tour. Thepowers
have seen our machlnes-of-war as they pur
sued their long sea journey, and whilst
larger vessels, carrying more ponderous
guns, are counted by the dozen 'across the
pond" yet the fact still remains uppermost
in the foreigners mind, that behind the
white squadron" beats in unison, ready to
defend the honor and integrity of the United
States, the hearts of a cosmopolitan multi
tude numbering at least twenty million
souls. Think of that army. Is there
power on earth to crush it! Can combined
Europe crush it: But-whilst on land we
are able to cope with any power-how about
Z, our coast defencess Look at the entire Pa
citic coast-yes, gaze at our entire coast
line. All our heavy ordnance is old and
fitted for nothing but old iron. General
Miles repeatedly begged Congressional &C
ton, but "too much tariff was occupying
our lawmakers minds, and consequently
old cannon, dangerous to discharge (for
fear of explosion) ornament the fortress at
the entrance to the bay of San Francisco.
If war must come, and the handwriting on
the wall has tendency to such, no time
should be lost in properly equipping our
harbor defeDses.
Frank @. Carpenter, the correspondent,
quotes Colonel kellogg, noted staff
officer, both during the war and in perma-
nent establishment as saying; WAR is
the soldiers harvest. Our army had no
chance to distinguish itself since 1865 and
the officers of the regular army would wei
come war with England" OF the truth
of Colonel Kellogg's remarks, we have not
the slightest doubt, and we can supplement
them by saying that among those now
serving as enlisted men in the army are
many fitted by nature to command in an
emergency. Our little establishment only
numbers in the neighborhood of % 900 men
but they are well drilled and as whole
good tacticians. A war with foreign
power means actual fighting-not Skin
mishing on the plains or trailing Indians
1t means war OF determination. On'
must succumb to the other. None such
magnificent charges as Pickett's charge a.
Gettysburg will be seen, but by the ust
of the modern machines of war, the deadl.
missiles will fly with effect at long range
Our army today is practically one o
sharpshooters and many companies coun
over half their numbers as distinguish
marksmen.
Can England in reality entertain the ide
that she can conquer US! Does that oil
crumbling monarchy, with her hands flu
of disconnected subjects, imagine that sh
Can wage a successful war with the grea,
States is not like England sending out CHI
nese Gordon with a walking cane in OF
hand and Bible in the other, 30 CONVEX
the III Mahdi. Even ameng those savages
those followers of Mahomet, the BIRTHS
arms suffered dire disaster at El-Teb an
Tel-el-hebir and the rescue of khartouI
given up. A country noted for pickin
quarrels with small kingdoms or province,
twill be something verging on insanity fo
Salisbury TO permit his equity old mistres
to wage war to the detriment of her sui
jects. Our opinion Of the English premie
is such that his better judgment will rul
and the dark cloud will give way to peac
full sunshine. In war we have nothing |
lose and all to gain, for it's a matter of in
possibility to defeat u.s. England has foe
1T home. For four years we roamed owe
Europe, and at least half of that time foCn
US either in England or Ireland. The vi
lation of the treaty of 1851, made at Liner
lex. can never be forgotten h
true Irishmen. That little green isle woul
not lift hand against usher best frien
Many a time did we hear those fervent al
W INIT rnrlu NNl
visited the novels of Irelands poor, mat
80 by British oppression. AS our though
wander back to 1880 and we remember Sc
ing SO many old and helpless people throw
out of the miserable huts they called HON
evicted and left to die by the roadside-v
feel that d sound threshing administer,
by Uncle Sam would have most hapl
effect on Britain. Any reader of the Week
Freeman or United Ireland, both publish,
at Dublin. or Reynolds Newspaper of Lo
don, can see at a glance that England
poor are not loyal. They cannot be and L
main true to themselves Engiand's Ea
Indian supremacy is maintained by Iri
troops; whist an army of coo men are
the Cnrragh- kildare, Ireland, to keep
subsection that down trodden race who ca
not live with ease of mind for fear of b
ing transported. Britain's possessions
the Antipodes will no doubt soon decla
their ability to govern themselves: Will
the Canadian loyalists will continue
spout against US until the Americ:
eagle stretches cut and takes
British North America under his prote,
ing wing. If England fights, the penal
she will pay will be the loss of all her p.
sessions bordering on the United Stat,
Must history repeat itself? Does not {
mother country remember the disgrace
CORVALLIS aud Burgoyne in the days
the American revolution? Has she fl
gotten jackson, stern Old Hickory, VIII
he wound up the war of 1912 at New c
ieanss Has she overlooked the fact tt
our armies oyerran Mexico in 1915 and