Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-21
done. Everybody knows that. and no one bet
ter than the American.

ter IMAM the American.
NEW FORK crrYs PEIus.
Yet there are other powers who are not ''ohai
band" (of the brotherhood China, for in
stance. Try to believe an irresponsible writer
| when he assures you that China feet today, il
properly manned could watt the entire Ameri-
| can navy out of the water and into the blue.
The big, fat republic that is afraid of nothing
because nothing mp to the present date has
happened to make her afraid, il - unprotected
would be madness for any power to throw men
into America; they would debut - far a.
| regards coast defense.
From five miles out at sea q have seen test
of her fortified" ports) ship of the power Of
H.M.S. Collingwood (they haven't run her on
rock yet?) would wipe out any or every town
| from San Francisco to Long Branch; and three
| frst-class ironclsds would account for New
York, Bartholdi's statue and all
Reflect on this. 'Twould be PAY up or 20
| up round the entire coast of the United States.
To this furiously answers the patriotic Amsri-
| can:
I'VE should not pay. We should invent
columbiad in Pittsburg or-or anywhere else
and blow any outsider into HI" They
might invent. They might lay waste their
cities and retire inland for they can subsist en-
tirely on their own produce. Meantime, in
| war waged the only way it could be waged by
an interruptions power, their coast cities and
their dockyards would be ashes. They could
u
you could never bring ship down to the water
ways, as they stand now.
TROOPS PENNKp IN.
They could not, with an ordinary water
patrol, dispatch one regiment Of men six miles
across the seas. There would be about Ave
| million excessively angry, armed men, pent up
within American limits. These men would re-
| quIre ships to get themselves afoat. The coun-
try has no such ships and until the ships were
I Dnllt NaW York no allawo1 aip ui
wheeled carriage within her limits.
Behold now the glorious condition OF this
republic which has no fear. There is ransom
and loot past the counting Of man on her sea-
board alone-plunder that would enrich
nation-and she has neither navy nor half q
dozen frst-class ports to guard the whole. No
man catches a snake by the tail. because the
creature will sting; but you can build fire
| around q snake that will make it squirm.
| The country is supposed to be building
navy now. When the ships are completed her
| alliance will be worth having-if the alliance
| OF any republic can be relied upon For the
next three years she can be hurt and badly
hurt. Pity it is that she is Of our own blood,
view Dog cannot eat dog.
OUR LAKE PORTS DOOMED.
These sinful reflections we're prompted by
the sight of the beautifully unprotected con-
| dition of Buffalo, city that could be made to
pay up S5,0OO,O00 without feeling it, There
are her companies of infantry in a sort Of port
there. A gunboat brought over in pieces from
Niagara could get the money and get away be-
fore she could be caught, while an unarmored
gunboat guarding Toronto could rasage the
towns on the lakes. When one hears so much
OF the nation that can whip the earthtit is, to
say the least of it, surprising to find her 90
temptingly spankable.
The average American citizen seems to have
| notion that any power engaged in strife
with the Star Spangled Banner will disembark
men from fat-bottomed boats on q convenient
beach for the purpose Of being shot down by
local militia In his own simple phraseology:
Not by darned sight. No. SIR" Ransom
| or crash.
Let US revisit calmer scenes.
PROVINCIAL soCIETY's DIVERSIONS.
In the heart Of Buffalo there stands a mag
nificent building which the population do in
nocently style music hall Everybody comes
here of evenings to sit round littletalAeB and
listen to first-class orchestra. gIhepplseeJ 10
something like the Gaiety Thoater mt eSinsIa,
enlarged twenty times. The Light Brigade"
OF Buffalo occupy the boxes and the stage, las
it was at Simla in the days Of old" and the
others sit in the parquet. Here went with
friend-poor or boor is the man who cannot
pick up friend for season in America-aud
here was shown the really smart folk Of the
city. grieve to say l laughed because when
an American wishes to be correct he sets him
self to initiate the Englishman. This he docs
Wiley and earns not only the contempt of his
brethren but the amused scorn Of the Briton.
THE RIDICULOUS ANaLoMANIAc.
saw one man who was pointed out to me as
being the glass Of fashion hereabouts. He WAS
aggressively English in his get up. From eve
glass to trouser hem the illusion was perfect.
but-he wore with evening dress buttoned boots
with brown cloth tops Not till I wandered
abOut this land did undarsfo nd xxyby xlo oo,.,:.
papers belabor the Anglomaniac. Certain Young
men OF the more idiotic sort launch into dog
carts and raiment Of English cut, and here In
Buffalo they play polo at four in the afternoon
l saw three youths come down to the polo
ground faultlessly attired for the game and
mounted on their best ponies. Expecting
game fingered but 1 was mistaken. These
three shining ones with the very new yellow
hide boots and the red silk sashes had assembled
th 1mselves for the purpose Of knocking the ball
about. They smote with great solemnity ND
and down the grounds while theL little2iboys
looked on. When they trOtted, which hyaeadS
seldom, they rose and sank in thairatirrnps
with conscientionsness that cried out riding
school" from afar.
Other young men in the park were riding
after the English manner, in neatly cut riding
trousers and light saddles. Fate in derision
had made each youth bedizen his animal with
checkered enameled leather brow band visi-
BILE half a mile away. black and white check
cred brow band. They can't do it. any more
than an Englishmnn by taking cold can add
| that indescribabie nasal twang to his orchestra.
ARGUMENTS FOR PROHIBITION.
The other sight of the evening was horror.
The little tragedy played itself out at neigh
boring table where two very young men and
two very young women were sitting, = 1t did not
strike me till far into the evening that the
pimply young reprobates were making she
girls drunk. They gave them red wine and
then white, and the voices rose slightly with
the maiden cheeks Pushes. watched; wishing
to slay, and the youths drank till their speech
thickened and their eyeballs grew watery. 1t
was sickening to see, because l knew what was
going to happen. My friend eyed the group
and said:
MAYBE they're children Of respectable peo-
pie. l hardly think, though, they d be allowed
out without any better escort than these bows
And yet the place il place where every one
comes. as you see. They may be little i'm
moraities-in which they wouldn't be 30
hopelessly overcome with two glasses of wine.
They may be-
Whatever they were they got individually
drunk-there in that lovely hall, surrounded by
the best OF Buffalo society. One could do
nothing except invoke the judgment of heaven
on the two boys, themselves half sick with
liquor. At the close OF the performance the
quieter maiden laughed vacantly and protested
she couldn't keep her feet. The four linked
arms, and staggering, hickered out into the
street-drunk gentlemen and ladies, as DAVIS
swine. drunk as lords! They disappear down
a side avenue, but could hear their Laughter
long after they were out Of sight.
SAVE THE CHILDREN.