The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-05
rury WILL NEVER EMBROIb IhI
TWO COUNTRIES.

70 sensible man II is very strange IL
should be so, but 1t Is nevertheless y ~
mai there is a considerable party III t"eSS
,-,,,aa states who think there Is some
Natural sntagonism between THIS country
"a Great Britain. and that our dcsu''S
In r.ver he entirely fulfilled unth we
hav. a gigantic war with England Whlch
..,au resnlt I'm finally deciding wllch II
..,ha halter man of the two These peo-
Il ara nerfectly indifferent to the iac'
H., such a war would cost ourselves, as
all M Great Britain. the lives OF tens OF
,bousands of the best and bravest III 'he
land and on the sea, and that IL "ouiu
nr.ak mn ALI of our commercial relations
a,d ,a,in millions upon each side OF the
water The great thing. in their OPINION
q. 20 have il settled that We can lick
1.,gIand'' and ii is not important tha'
,bs country NAV suffer incalculable losses
o. CLICKING England" The important
,hing to civilization is that We shoulu
..uclx England" and after that mas been
.1icked'' IL is of no consequence whether
We die or whether we I'VE. i"a' - '"e
way these people think.
,rhe Washington Post is one OF the
extr.mest advocates of war between TINS
country and Great Britain. just to snow
that we can lick England 1t Is at the
coat of Government, IL is true. Dut II
docs not GET mitch correct Information
about what is going on there in spite OF
that fact. Nevertheless, II buzzes ATOMS
,,,,h ,ts fairy tales about the way TINS
Government is going to blow English IRON
clads out of the water Just as 'no"s" ".
b.a a hydraulic arrangement fashioned
expressly for that purpose that inc Eng
lish iron-clads were waiting io' a." W
rortunity to expose themselves w. -
heelns. however. to moderate us Oie0'
and TO consent that the balance oi '"e
world should do to England what IL '@'u
prettv well determined II woulu no ~
her itself. and on last Friday IL iel Ems
land alone" after the following iashloh'
The outlook for England at TINS mSnen,
a. distinctly gloomy. foi noic Vna'
c.nturv 1.-The tight little island mas ny
one means or another dominated huioio
nv bluster or cajolcry, 10y menace q! Pei
scIasiOn she has managed not oHiS ~ az
cnnnlish her ends, hut to do IL chlcnH az
the cost OF other nations. sne dllleu t t,
sia Prussia Austria, ana Spain .t .s,.,s,,
Naroleon She allied France ana iuihcS
as-a,ns, Rsissia i'm the Crlmcdn war ana
All Europe against Russia al the closc Oh
the Turco- Russian war twenty years ld'ci {,
She has moved the powers IKE pieces OF
The ,.hess-board r,lsing, dcludlng, AND
overreaching them all in turn and keeping
faith with none she cheated SPAIN Out
OF Gibraltar. She holds Egypt IN contempt
OF her agreement with France. she mas
be.n the universal traitor ana spoiiator OF
the nineteenth century. And now, all IN
dications yoint 10 q turn III tne uhc-to
,hs iawninc OF a day IN which England
can no longer play Germany against Rus
sia and the Triple Alliance against France
and half Europe against the .othcr nan
for Englands profit.
What perfectly preporterous stuff this
f. How can any man OF common sense.
who has even learned 10 read at the pub
lie schools. speak Of England's part in
the wars of Europe against Bonaparte
rs one that she should now be der.ded
for by a friend Of civil liberty? The
most ignorant clown that travels with
q circus. who has ever read that clowns
story-book called "Abbott's Life OF Ma
poleon" knows that civilization owes
England n debt that il can never ade-
auatciy repay for her part In overthrow
Ing the autocrdt and tyrant Bonaparte.
lie knows that II Napoleon had been
left that master OF the world which he
would have been h"' for England. c.vll
liberty would have been cxtinguished. and
the world would have rclapsed 10 bar
barism. excep; as he. and those that he
provided for following him. might have
allowed glimmers OF light to appear. SO
far as the Crimean war is concerned, If
the new light upon that thrown by Mr..
yandam I'm hts story I'm the North Ameri-
can Review Is 10 be trusted, Frances
part In II was a freak OF that contempti-
bic French ruler. Napoleon the Third.
AZ for the Turco-Russian war; all that
can be said Is that DIsraeli threatened
Russia with Englands colossal power
unless she left the Dardaneles alone, and
whether he was morally right or whether
ne was not. he was simply enforcing
with the strong arm what had for CEN
turtles been his country's settled policy.
Talk OF this sors IS only too wearying
10 men who know anything OF history.
and who know tho great and the glorious
part that England has had In bringing
eur u,orsls ana our civilization to their