The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22

the most pleasing CRY which has come
scross the Atlantic in many year. That
she who has been the modern Rome, the
tyrant Of the nations, the oppressor OF the
weak, the mistress of unjust conquests,
the promoter of international crimes, the
butcher of barbarians and the robber in
chief among the nations of the world
should be brought at last face 10 face with
Nemesis and be obliged TO ask for quarter,
under the specious plea that she has no
friends, is a thing TO commend itself 10
patriotic hope. IL justifies the optimistic
view of the future OF mankind.
England asking for a friendi When
was she ever the friend of anybody or any
cause save her own? Show Us but one in
stance in all history in which she has
stretched out her hand TO succor the weak,
ereept under the motive of devouring
those whom she succors. OF course Great
Britain comes to the rescue OF the weak.
1t has long been her favorite method. She
rescues the South Africans-and takes
their mines and forests and ivory. She
rescues India-and takes its trades, its in
dustries, its institutions, its 400, 900, 600 OF
people. She rescues the fellahs-in order
that the khedive may get their crusts and
onions TO pay the interest on his bonds.
She rescues the free Greeks-in order to
give them a king. She rescues the Irish
peasants-in order TO gid the dome of st.
Paurs with 1.-THE of their potatoes.
And yet she has no friendi
Britain's Hypocritical Role.
The lion that drives the wolf out of the
sheepfold in order that he may have them
for himself may be admired for his success,
but he ought not to pretend TO be friend
of the sheep. The highwayman who scares
burglar out of hamlet in order that he
may take whatever the hamlet possesses
may be a hero, but he is hardly benefac-
tor. The general who inyades a country
under the pretense of driving out band
of brigands and then appropriates the
country and subjects its population to tyr
amy and cruel exactiOns may be a con-
Queror, but he is not Christian. The
king who makes slaves of an unoffending
people and destroys the residue with the
sword may be great, but he is not phi
lanthropist.
This is the precise role which Great Brit
ain has played among the nations. She
was created aforetime out of race well
fitted for such destiny. One has only to
remember the audacious pirates and free
booters who came to the English shores
how they destroyed the native Britons,
tock their country with indescribable IA
pine and butchery and built on the ruins
petty kingdoms; how they isolated them
selves in keeps and castles, where they
might fill their maws with meat and
cheese; how they heated themselves with
strong drinks, and, amid the clang OF
shields, the uproar of savage oaths and
the reek of the ale that was spilled, plan
ned new ravages and sailed forth in utter
lawlessness to carnage, slaughter and rob-
berry. And these are the very virtues
which the philosophic Taine declares have
been preserved in the race TO the present
day. Out of such materials has been con-
structed the huge pile of British national
ity, and now great statesman, speaking
for himself and for his nation, wonders
why Great Britain has no friends!
In the affairs of this world justice goes
for something, and injustice leaves a sting.
When was ever Great Britain justy Only
when she has been driven to justice by the
combination of the nations against her
What has been her historical course toward
these her colonies in American Who can
read without burning Indignation the
story of the endless wrongs and crimes
which she committed against us in the day
of our weakness? She regarded these staSes
as an appanage and our fathers as her
alien serfs, whom she might plumber at
her will and despoil of their humble and
free Inheritance in the wilderness. Con-
slider her eight years of war with our pa
triot sires. We're they not her offspringP
Had they not honored her in the little re-