The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-20
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 ments were slaughtered like sheep;
 the affairs of the Ingogo and Majuba
 With the Boers of the Transvaal, and the unsteadiness of more than one of
 the regiments in the Egyptian cam palgn in 1882, prove that the English army has seen it's best days The causes lie deep in the English social system and in the displacement of the population, the emptying of the country, and the filling of the cities and towns of England, the evictions in Ireland, and the clearanoes of the Highlands of Scotland.
 The undue exercise of the rights of the landlords, and the development of machinery in agriculture and manu- facturing, have contributed to the de- terioration of the material on which the wealthy classes of England have to depend for the protection of their wealth and the defense of the empire The slum- born and gutter-raised youths who now form the bulk of the recruits
 for the British army have neither the moral not the physical that go to make a hardy, patient and trustworthy sol dier. Newspaper writers of a certain type may extol the English army as they like but the men who have to lead the men in battle have not the con- tidence in the soldiers to-day that those who led at Albuera, Barrosa and other historic fields had in the rank and file of these days. The blame is not to be laid on the private soldier, for he can
 not be other than what he is It is on tha chpIIl1arc nf ha oIo occ+ 4 l,o% |, him what he is that the responsibility
 lies. In the vain confidence that mere wealth is strength, the aristocracy of England and the commercial bourg- eoisie have destroyed the fundamental
 basis of nations power prosperous, contented self-respecting and independ-
 ent landowning yeomanry.
 The English Parliament may vote
 money by the tens of millions, but the
 money cannot make men, while the amassed wealth centered in the square
 mile of England's soil on the banks of the Thames called the city of London
 is perpetual of danger in the temp tation 1t offers to attack by an indem- | nity-seeking enemy What is most mo-
 table is that the great bulk of the mon- l Sy Wedlt1 III f4nSidnO QOeS not belong to Englishmen, bu. is held by or for &C., count of aliens, aliens in race and in- | terest. It is this. added to her made | quate powers of offence, and doubt as to | her capacity for successful defence, that makes Englands s position at this moment one of peculiar difficulty and | danger. The intoxicating crowds may call for vengeance on the Turk but Lord Salisbury and Lord Wolseley are l in better position to judge how far England can go in that direction, which | is not at all. The old proverb curses, | like chickens come home to roost," is
 being we'll illustrated in the situation | of England at this moment. She dare not do what is right, even if she wished I to, which is doubtful, for it is to be re- marked that among all these bawling most loudly against the Turk, not one l has yet volunteered to shoulder a rifle
 and risk his own life in defence of the Armenians It is to be done vicariously. Not even Peter the Hermit could put an honest enthusiasm or a chivalrous | purpose into such people; even if they did start out, they probably would get further than the port of embarka- tion.--New York Sun.