The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-14
TWISTING THE TRUTH.

| If the tone of the English press is
anything it is contemplate. The lead
ing papers seem to have taken charge
of all official functions in shaping the
government policy of England in her
present dilemma. They would also
speak. eX cathedra, for the people, the
result of which has been TO intensity
the almost universal hatred of England
by other nations. The bluff at the
sultan of Turkey proved a dismal fail
ure Lord SaliSbury's ultimatum to
the United States, in the Venezuela af-
fair, was thrown back into their teeth.
The attempt to play their old game of
murder and conquest in the Transyaal
country was met with bullets, and Ger
many was prompt to second the pro-
ceeding. In each instance the press
has entered its windy, wordy protest,
accompanied by threats loud and deep.
Finding that their foes were not par
alyZed nor intimidated by their news
paper wads, they turn now to new in
corporations Of what has actually been
done and said. An instance of this is
in the late conclusion that the En-
peror William intended no insult TO
England by his dispatch to Kruger.
This seems most cowardly and ridicu-
lous so soon after their unbounded in
dignation over that event. One week
ago it was q direct insult which Eng
land could not afford to pass. Now it
is harmless congratulatory message,
inspired by the emperor's blood kin to
n few Holland Dutch in South Africa
Less than a fortnight ago London edi-
tors We're red in the face with indigna
ticn that the three other great nations
of Europe should dare to sympathize
with little Venezuela, or the quiet in
habitants of the Transvaal. Now
comes from the English press lot of
platitudinOuS stuff about a triple al
lance, into which England is about to
be admitted. with no accounting for
the fact that the only object of such an
alliance would be TO make common
cause against the British government
The purpose of all such inventions is
obvious. 1t is an attempt, by the most
prOhigate lying, to put new construc-
ton upon the insults they were so free
TO denounce a few days ago. II is
not only classifying facts apparent 20
all intelligent readers, but a most cow
ardly expedient under grave conditions. |
National party strife may lead TO ex-
cesses of language in the heat of cam |
paigns but no international question is I
so trivial that universal, international, /
digniied truth should be sacrificed.
The sum OF it all is that England is !
a coward. The bully is always a COW /
ard. and il is consistent with coward /
ice to lie, 10 garble reports, To falsely /
interpret the motives and deeds Of (
Others. These English writers may 4
think it a clever trick to dodge out or 4
creep out, or lie out Of their present /
complications, but sensible readers, /
who take the news from all sources viii I
not be deceived by their acrobaric edi-
turials. They have no bearing upon /
the facts that Uncle sam has called for 1
arbitration. and Germany has called a
halt on English aggreSSions in South |
Africa. VIII the newspapers lie out
OF this dilemma. will the government
back out. or viii England fight: There
is certainly nothing warlike in the
latest cable news as it appears in Eng
liSh newspapers.