The Irish standard., 1895-04-27
This Issthe Clanor OF the British
..Jingoes' ia, Time Z u '. ana Is ..sI
Out of Time. $2s ss5 B. NJ IL
An American Traveller Writes Il ii
EntertainingIy in Reference
to Foreign Affairs. 5
No British Government Will fcrsa
Moment Risk the EE,pire.by
Any Force Of Arms. Y. ..;,:; |
.An American Traveller writing from
Nice TO the New York Sun under date OF

| SA~S y q;
March 80, says: 4. & A5 a
The, London journals OF yesterday were
curiously unanimous in the CONNIE i1da-
tions which they bestow upon the hrlef
and unusually clear and emphatic irs-y
4 ply Of Sir Edward Grey, the parl n1en-s
tary under secretary Of state for foreign
affairs, to certain questions put to him
by Sir e. Ashmead Bartlett on Thursday
night In the house of commons touching
reported invasions by France mo the
| spheres" of British influence on the: Nile
and on the Niger IN Africa. Fog the
first time In now many months a aresp0n-
sible member Of the British executive gov-
ernment has used language In regard 10
| reported collision between the coloa1an
pretensions of Great Britain and those pfi
France in Africa which commands the
appreciation of that body Of Brftish
! opinion hibitual1y described BY British
Liberals as t'jingos.'' The memory ni$
! the world is very short in these days, aEd
perhaps your readers, or soma OF them. !.
may need to be reminded what s1Jingn-
| ISM really means. The word had itg
origin in the music halls Of Londpnsan
! the palmy days when Lord Beaconsheld
| for Al short time revived the defiant t1as
ditionse Of Lord Palmerston. and having
| bestowed upon the queen the glltteTsnE
but perilous title Of Empress Of India
| intiamed the general mind OF England
| with visions of a. worldwide domination,
such as the great Chatham had jlrsarned
of and so nearly brought TO pass tho 4
last century, when he ovefthreW L. the 4
power Of France in North Am erics nlst.
shook off the hold established byss lew
great French leaders Of whom TraHes
proved herself unworthy Upon the East
Indies. Z A popular vocalist embodied the
spirit aroused by Lord Beaconsfield iuSa
song the refrain Of which brought down
the house with what newspapers call
thunders of applause: ~ ss
We do not want to fight, hut, Dy lingo.
if we do, Il. III ii..5
We've got tho ships. we've got ths nl lan,
we've got tne money, too.
As matter Of fact when London rang 4
with this impassioned ditty England by
no means wanted to fight, and it Is very
much to be doubted whether she had tho
ships or the men or the money necessary
to the successful waging Of a wal. as must
then have been encountered mad the cznrs
of Russia, victorious over sais thu 4
Turks by land,. and siloldinss /.
Constantinople almost under the 4
guns OF his army, chosen to put Lord q
Beaconsfeld and his government and the
British fleet in Bosphorus to the; ;tAgt
~ 1icfcr nf prts n
not choose to do this is dae, as all. ,thb&s
world now. knows; not In the least tn .tMs
dread of the ships and the men and thS 4
money of John Bull, bur to the influence
over his mind Of the old; Emperor WI ~
fam I. and O? Prince Bismarck, who made
him clearly understand that a comp 4
prostration at that time of the Ottonuan d
empire and the f1nal expulsion Of the +
Turks from Europe would involve ssush%
a collapse Of the Austrian empfrs 30.
might fatally enbroil tie close i and
frieudly relations which then existed be-
tween Russia and Germany. q If I'd .5s
land, but In 1878, when London was rirag.S
ing with lingo songs everybody did not I
know this In England, and so when ttIl Il
that summer Lord Beacon sfieid D came
back from Berlin, with Lord Salisbury
under his arm, bringing peace Nth tOn7yys
Or" all England hailed the great JkYishX;
Statesman as the victorious neg0tiatct;i1N III
of treaty which would never have becxi
drawn lpy signed. or ratified had n0ksa
Prince Bismarck desired and prolilcthas
It. The victorious armies Of IA EpsstaSy
after q grand review almost within yightF@s]
Of the people Of Constantinopie, wersSs
withdraWn;a9a new lease Of life s;;yas
granted ySthe treaty Of BerIn to the. .Dt;ssl,Sss
foy