Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-27
Comparison Of American Army
Achievements With English
Army Very Gratifying.
Peculiarities Of English Housekeep.
ing-T.-R,s Nottingham Core
spondent Writes.

people who read the T-R know that in
England today an American takes al
great deal of solid comfort out of the
situation in general? He does-at least
one does. He looks at France, and her
newspapers with their unmentiona BILE
and suppressed cartoons, their editorials
breathing of nothing 50 much as hatred
of England; at Austria, where when a
certain grand monarch. statuesque in.
his lonesorneness dies. a cataclysm will
come, for the simple reason that no one
follows who can claim the substantial.
gifts of heart and mind of the present
emperor; at Germany, governed today
despite all the flippancies of the 4Anleri-
can and English press, by the greatest
monarch of all Europe who has con-
quered not only his own disabilities
which We're many, not only the legacy
left him by an English mother, but the
love and veneration of his own people,
and that. too, without suppressing fer a
moment his own strong individuality;
at the Russian bear, with the greatest
standing army of trained men in the
world. and whose purposes no European
statesman can fathom; at Italy and
Spain-ands at other small things on this
side--and then he looks at the United
States of America. Those of you only
who read the British press will under
stand the place you hold in the worlds
affairs a new power has risen. Like
fhesC Cromwell Lord Lytton puts into the
mouth of Ric1ielieti. 1t holds the atten-
1 ton today of The old continent. If. in the
\ general nliX-up which seems likely. if
| mot Imminent. England should be I'M
supported her fleets would vanish from
the seas like the ships that pass in the
/ night and her ld-power would fade,
| for every envious continental arm
/ would be raised against her. What
would necessarily follow would fill all
! Christendom With grief and regret. In
| the prospect of this calamity-as mat
ter of good British foresight the queen
Hooks to her sons and daughters across
| the Atlantic, forgetting all about that
interesting tea episode in Boston harbor
Therefore. as l started out to say, II
/ does an American good to read flel
news papers-to read the coddling twad-
4 die that only a few of them know how
4 to express diplomaticaliy, and to stud,
j the why and wherefore of present CON
Editions.
1T Is Impossible not to remember thu
i English criticism of our conduct of thu
4 Spanish war--tfle raw condition Of ou
i troops. the tangle in our War aud ray,
i departments: the mistakes of the gen
4 erals and adrnirals: the inefficiencE o.
our navy, or, TO box 1t UP inone word
4 the kindergarten phase of our whole es
4 Enlistment Don't you all remembe
4 the anna BILE remarks of the acute critic
Z whom the English sent over to see tina
6 our opera tons in Cuba We're conducte'
) accordng to Hoyleg Or of that scion Q
q nobility who went out TO the Philippine
with suit of khaki1and a monocle 7
tell Dewey how to run gunboat Wei
we have our revenge. We have seel
y more English captured in one rattle
small engagement than we lost in tn
entire Cuban campaign; and more 9
J, the Killed and turbaned select Of Brit
q ish-S Scotch Infantry, bagpipes and al
CAPTURED at Putter's kraal than hay
succunbed to the nialaria and IN
d Mausel bullets of Aguinaido's forces |
! the Philippines And what IS to be sal
7lof Modaer River where lie the selee
and scientific soldiers of whom Eng.an
, hoasts-the first born. the darling!
Backed by unlimited means and fortitle
with superior war wisdom eNttaete
from all the centuries, and where
great generals report says that he los
his road and his men because the sack
Of straw left TO mark the route had bee
{ removed and that he became confuse
: lin that pleasant and open country
S Shades of Geronimo and Sitting Bill
suppose the transaction should hay
occurred in the Apache wilds of Arizon
e or the lava beds, Nothing but the o.
seventh Cavalry. u s A. could HAY
taken him out of such a Jackpot wit
! an orderly left TO carry home the new
. 1t was Scot who. once upon a tim
made remark to the effect that r.
venge is sweet, and that his should
complete. Ours is complete. The COY
8 eminent is criticised from top 10 botto
+ from Salisbury to 3uller--from Jt
:. Chamberlain to Cecil Rhodes; the tram
: mort service is characterized as barba1
\ Gus, the food furnished the troops {
i seandalous; the conduct of the comm
$ cary and adjutant-general's depar
!, ,nerts would disgrace Boer; the hee
!. of tho war department is an imbeci
q and the party In power IS running Il
!. campaign for Its own advancement
How sweet and familiar it all sound
These little Englanders would all
democrats by force of instinct If the
lived in America. Like the Irlshms
when he landed at Castle Garden, a fe
DAYS before he was put on the i3roa'
!. way squad, they are all feminist Y
government whatever the governlne
may be. But behind all this criticism
behind even our satisfaction over u
fact that England sees a great. VIII
light upon the wall, and is not in
condition to throw stones at g!a
~ houses-lies the truth, and the truth
" hat the whole English nation. broad
10 peaking. is behind this Boer warn
~ or power rot for empire. as the Ne
lin York World, the Dies Moines Leader. t
.r Stats Anzeiger. and other 'fernins
M journals might put 1t, but TO secure
nd British citizens their social. busine
... and political rights. That's all there
!. to it and that is the text of the serm
N. which the Union Jack breaches
no round the world. A natural sympat
" for the Misguided and uncivilized Boo
~ is swallowed up in the inevitable phi
y osophy of Christian civilization
= you wonder. now, that an Americ
abroad always likes to see the Uni
Jack and Old Glory fly together? I
gether they can whip the world II
civilization. England sees It. Do Yo
But wars and runors OF wars is !
what was going to write about VIII
started this letter. There are things