Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-10
DARK MEN AS FIGHTERS.
They Are Good Fighters when Prop
crIy Trimmed and Onicercd.


The plain truth is, according to the Lon
don Spectator, that the natural rightins
power of the Asiatics and Africans is very
nearly equal to that Of Europeans, so nearly
| equal that whenever the dark men are even
decently organized and armed. or led by a
man of capacity, the white mems advantage
disappears, and they have to fight with all
| the care and generalship, and even numbers.
| which they would require in Europe. 1t Is
! assumed that these things Will never occur,
but the assumption Is a very large one
We all know, and admit that the necessary
change has occurred in japan and no
European power would now invade that
country without taking all the precautions
it would take If it were invading a European
state. Indeed, Russia is actually aocumlat-
ing a great army in Eastern Siberia-90,C0o
men, it is said-in fear least the japanese,
# too much pressed, should invade her.
European weapons year by year: and Is
actually manufacturing them in such
quantities that, should We ever come into
c nfict with his successor, the general in
command will have TO be as careful as If
he were face to face with n tIuropean foe.
1t is not General Roberts, who will tell any
body that the conquest of Afghanistan, sup
posing that our democracy decided on that
foolish enterprise, would be an easy task or
military parade. And now In Abyssinia a
European army has been actually destroyed
by by an an, hfri of MP pog SeTt wh SIeo spiders ngG m tn9ps ~
them darker than any great tribe OF
Asiatics: The Italians We're Of the best
DltDi VI IJulbDt, llty DtlOnBtl u an II
trained for thirty years to meet European
opponents. they carried weapons of preci-
sion, and the they , died in a pr9p9ntion y to their heir
and had Mene'ek but pursued as a
European general would have done, would
have been swept out of Africa.
The white powers must in future organ
more carefully; must avail themselves OF
science to the utterm5st; must choose the
very ablest COMMANDERS; must, in fact:
r1OlEA NVnf with no ft11lpb. Irannttinn nc n
their enemies were Europeans. They will
not any more be able to conquer dark men
Surajah Dowlah by Give. And, secondly, IL
their huge enterprise Is to be carried out
#. that IS they intend to be predominant in
Asia and Africa-and 1t Is nothing less than
this that they are attemptlng-they must
agree within the range of that enterprise to
pull together. If they are going to vent
their spite5 on each other, or satisfy their
jealousles, or crafty their ambitions by Sc
!cret alliances with the dark power, by ind
ing them weapons or providing them with
military counse'ors, the great enterprise in
the end will fail, They win furnish the
to beat white men on the field of battle.
and as it IS by battle that conauests are
become Impossible suppose the Hovas had
fought on the slopes of their high plateau.
as the Shoans and AmhGraS fonght all tho
tananarlyo, And i Is more than probable
a nan like Menelek, and if they had been
confident in their weapons, as the Abyss
slnians We're, they would have anticipated
the horrible scene before Adowa, and
France, instead Of italy. would be weeping
over defeat by a brown power. The dark
are now slowly learning the conditions Of
huccess in battle, and, as they learn them,
European soldiers, Lord Wolse,ey included,
must get that fact fully into their minds
ana provide against 1t, or they viii be
acquired by General Baratieri may not DO