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

Copyright, 1895.
The recent lugubrious plant OF Great
Britain that nobody loves her is amusing.
History, not given to smiling, laughs at 1t
as thing most rare and humorous. A
leading British statesman rises in his
place and declares, with what feelings we
know not, that England has not one friend
among the nations. What he says is very
true. but the strange thing is that he
should have just now discovered it. His
remark is like the morbid and grewsome
utterance of an unwholesome spinster who
never had lover in her life, and who,
with infinite but unconscious humor, re-
fers to the fact after she is 45 years old
1t had been better to be silent. 1t had
been wiser that the plaintiff should long
ago have found out at least little OF what
the rest of the world thinks Of her.
Great Britain whining is indeed an OBJ
ject of interest We do her the credit 10
say that she has not been much given to
this mood 1t is the mood of rheumatic
tigress, querulous with the aches and glut-
tony of her thirty-sixth year, and no
longer able, from stiff jaws and a equity
imagination, TO enjoy even bit Of pre-
cious lamb or choicest morsel of wild
game. Lying upon her launches and re-
membering what she was in her heyday,
she utters pessimistic umlation to the
effect that nobody loves her. We repeat
that it is the most amusing thing that has
happened since the American Revolution.
The London Spectator takes up the
theme and admits that it is true that
Great Britain has no friend. The disin-
terested organ then proceeds to explain the
reason of it. There is no humility, no
modest admission of fallibility in the ex-
PLANTATION. Great Britain, according to
this oracle, is not loved because she is so
great and good. She is disliked and hated
because she is wiser and better than the
other nations. Great Britain is strong:
the other nations are weak. She is rich
they are poor. She is progressive and at
the same time conservative; they are nom
progressive and at the same time radical
She controls commerce; they have none.
She dominates the sea; they stop with the
shore She is able to colonize; they can
not plant colonies, not knowing how. She
civilizes the world; they are unable to civ
ilize any part of the world. Great Britain
is stable; they are unstable as water. The
knowledge of this difference excites other
peoples TO envy and Jealousy.
why Great Britain Is Not Humble.
The Spectator goes on to admit that
Great Britain is not humble, but why
should she be humble? There is no occa-
sion that she should humble herself. She
is superior and must vindicate her superb
GRITTY, even if she have not friend in the
world. For what reason should the great,
the wise, the rich, the good England per-
form the act of humiliation? She will ad-
NIT that she is sorry she has no friends,
but she cannot help it. 1t is her destiny.
She will have to accept her destiny and
follow it and bear the animosity of the
world Destiny has made her better and
greater than the other nations, and for
that reason they foolishly dislike her and
meanly refuse her the friendly hand and
cheering voice.
This is precisely the explanation that
we might expect from an organ of British