The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-01
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United States Il. In other words. the
| ratio is much more in Americas favor
than it was in 1872 England has nc
naval commander who has ever fought
| a ship against a white nations ships
| Neither has she a general who has ever
comma nded against white men, nor who
ever commanded over 5000 men in bat
| tie, and that was against Egyptians.
Lord Wolseley, the present chief of the
English army, had 1,500 men when he
fought Arab Bey, and he has often
been charged by other English generals
with bribing Arab Bey to admit a de
feat At any rate. Arab Bey now draws
from the English government as pen
sion more money each year than Lord
Wolseley himself, which gives color 10
the charge. 1t must be remembered
that the $500 English soldiers under
Sir Edward Packeham at New Orleans
defeated by eneral Jackson, were sol
dierS who had seven years experience
in Spain and Portugal under yelling
ton against Napolean's soldiers, while
Jackson's men were largely Tennessee
ans (mountaineers) who had had eigh-
teen months service only under jack
son.
From late account of Lord Wolseley
in Harper's is says He will not be
satisfied until there is an available
force Of at least 5000 regular troops,
with three times that number Of re-
serves, etc" in England for its pro-
lection against an invasion. As England
has not now "a, 900 troops with reserves
mentioned in England, where is she
to get them from to protect even Can
ada, let alone push Venezuela very
ar62 ESnacia lIu iS this Sippifioa nj
when General Miles says the United
States can have a million men under
arms in thirty days. England has less
than $4,000 white troops in India, with
5000 native troops, and 35, 600 regular
white troops in all her colonies, and
that she dare not take a soldier from
India goes without saying, and that the
natives of India would make poor ma
terial for soldiers is equally evident.
when it is remembered that India has
some 400,000,000 inhabitants, who are
held in subsection by less than $4,000
white troops and 5000 native troops
At the Globe shipbuilding concern of
your city, says the American, ship
building concerns on the lakes can
turn out in a year fifty-four war YES
sells, ready for the armor and guns,
each vessel 300 feet long by forty feet
beam, and twenty feet deep, which
vessels if buih in sections, could be
easily shipper by lake to Chicago, and
then by laying another track parallel
to and twenty feet from the present
Northwestern Railroad track, to the
Mississippi river, these sections could be
easily transported to that river, put
together there and if necessary "ligh.-
cred" down the Mississippi to the
(NryIf 4, e. !
is practical may be taken for granted.
as Captain EadS promised this plan for
ocean steamers across the
IsthmuS of Panama in lieu of canal.
Such vessels built as rams, and
fitted with the dynamite gun, once
on the gulf of Mexico, could
under protection of three such vessels
as the Indiana drive out the whole
available English navy from the gulf,
when 1t is understood that
the experiments of Sweden and Nor
way a few years since showed that
400 pounds of dynamite, exploded
twenty feet under water and within
so feet of a section of an ironclad built
TO represent a vessel larger than is
now in the English navy. completely
destroyed it. Suppose, then, ffty such
vessels as referred to by the Globe
works, each with three dynamite guns,
and a ram, to be conveyed at night
within a mile of twenty English men
of-war, The result could only be de-
struction of the English fleet, since
any one shot from any one of the $50
dynamite guns, landing within fifty
feet of a man-Of+war, would sink her,
TO say nothing of the second chance of
With England's wide possessions she
would do we'll if she could spare TWEEN
ty first class men-of-war for service in
the Gulf of Mexico, as practically all
her food for England would have to be
carried by vessel to that country.
which vessels would require the protec-
ton of men-of-war, and even then the
half of such vessels would fall prey to
the fast American privateers.
Russia would gobble up India, and
France take in Egypt, while Canada
would fall TO the United States. Any
man must see that England
could not be forced into a fight with
the United States under any circum-
stances. And let all Americans re-
that it twas England which
during the war of 1872, eighty years
ago, within the memory of living men,
Christian England sent a large supply
OF Scalping knives. made in England
by order of the English government,
to the Indian allies of its Canadian
troops to scalp Americans, and that
later still this same Christian country
tied prisoners 1t had taken to the
mouths of cannon and blew them to
atoms, because these same prisoners
resisted the English. who had stolen
their country, as she is now attempting
TO do with Venezuela. And let il be
also remem bered that the snob Lord
now chief of England's army,
who never commanded save against
naked savages, and then had but 15,-
boo men under him, in the excess of his
self-sufficiency and SnobbishneSS. ad-
dressed General Grant, who had COM
rnanded a million men in war against
white men, as Mr.. Grant, when Gener-
al Grant visited England. Let our
Canadian neighbors examine these
facts and disprove them if they can
and also that there were l,s77 American
soldiers killed in the whole course of the
war of 1872, while the English officers
$500 English killed in the bat
tie of New Orleans alone. The Amer
leans lost in killed in this battle but
seventeen men.
Published Jan 1 1896