The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-02-10
MILITARY DISAFFECTlON.
Recent Outbreaks Among the Dissstisnes
English Soldiery.

English Soldiery.
The Punishment of an entire English
regiment to hard duty in Canada as q
punishment for INSTRUMENTATION Is still
fresh in the public mind, followed as 1t
was by another mutiny much more Sc
rious, the mutineers being sent upon
that occasion to Indian service. The
latest report from Aldershot has cre-
ated sensation in England and pro-
found sympathy for the soldiers
throughout the kingdom. The report
duplicates a number OF the soldiers OF
the crack regiments of that place in an
attempt upon the life of corporal
whose inhaman severity to the men in
his command could no longer be borne.
In the last five years from every
branch of the English army, both in
England and in the foreign service, =
dangerous discomfort, suppressed only
by the most severe measures, has beer
apparent and the strongest feeling
against entering the service is every
where manifested.
There was a time when the English
army was the finest in the world, when
the morale and discipline were perfect,
and the soldier himself was proud OF
the service. The decline in the popu-
larity of the army has been going Cd
for long time. Commissions in the
army are bought for scapegraces OF all
kinds, but scapegraces, as rule, do
not take kindly to discipline, although
they are invariably the severest marti-
nets The monotonous life Of the bar
racks, the ne-er-ending laborious drills,
the lack of actual employment beft
ting soldier, wear upon the rank and
f1le and the regulations and conditions
of the service make many abuses possi
BILE
The disa Affection of the English sol.
diery is marked when compared to the
enthusiasm exhibited for the army in
France whore the army is mainly of re-
serve men. drawn from civil life, per.
fectly trained volunteer force, and tho
discipline OF the German army, the reg
iments Of which bear the most protract-
ed drills without murmur.
Politicians and statesmen are begin
Ming to regard the situation in the army
of England as serious but are at a loss
to know how exactly to proceed in its
reorganization. In many years there
has been no period when the anxiety
, that the army should regain its prestige
was so great as it is now. England's
I foreign relations are beset with dan
, gers, and at any time diplomacy may
fail and force be the means of main
tanning her position.
That spirit of patriotism which ami
' mates the armies Of France, Russia and
, Germany, is not so intense in the Eng
g lish army. The soldiers have known
g the hardships of campaigns under the
n burning suns and amid the drifting
a sands of Egypt, and in the malarious
. low-lands of India The statesmen
0 would sacrifice every soldier in the
q army to retain India, and many brave
s men have already laia down their lives,
o a useless sacrifice in Egypt, but the
f masses Of the English people are bound
| by ties of blood and interest to only
. two of the foreign possessions: to Can
{ ada, because it has before it q prospec
n of political liberty; to Australia, whose
manifest destiny is independence, anc
they care no more for India and Egypt
where, nevertheless, they must supper
S armies who loathe the duties they mus
t there perform than, they do China apC
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