The labor world., 1899-11-04

government, with all it's consequences
of the English people, in manner that
may be interesting to the advocates o.
the expansion idea in the United Sta te:
He says that 'it will readily be grant
ed that England holds a foremost place
amongst the nations of the earth fol
learning, sacred and profaDe. All
sources of knowledge have been eX-
hausted to bring her instruction and
enlightenment. The literature of an
cient Greece, Rome, and of still more
remote antiquities has been unrolled
before her She has made her own O.
the knowledge Of the many, the concre-
ton of which is called Science, and
has drunk so deeply Of the intoxlcat-
ing cup that she has become inebriated
and incapable of distinguishing be
tween right and Wrong.'
1T would be out Of place, and is not
necessary to attempt here an exDosl-
ton of England's vast educational re-
sources; or to estimate the millions
expended annually (perhaps it is bet
ter to say squandered) upon her
schools, public and private, and upon
her colleges and universities-ec ecclesl-
astical, lay, military, naval, engineer
ing, legal, medical, etc. The land IS
studded in every direction with schools
high and low, for the intellectual and
moral training of all ranks and condl'
tinns, from the panper to the peer
What visions of s.l that can be
taught and learned are conjured up by
merely naming Cambridge and Oxford,
60 0f ~
ing in Great Britain! Thousands of men
of the highest order of intellect, whose
influence in after life extended to the
uttermost ends of the earth, studied
within their halls. What has that IN
fluence been? Has it been for good or
for evil? For the benefit and elevation
of mankind or only for the betterment
Of limited number of ambitious ad-
venturers? The question shall be an
swered as we proceed
tUnder Britain's empress queen
''Man'inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn
lust as it did under the Rome Of the
Caesars.
"England is, compare lively, small
island-somewhere about the size of
that distressful country Cuba; yet she
boasts that the sun never sets upon her
flag. How does this happen? It hap
pens because the imperial instinct, the
lust of conquest, and the spirit OF ra-
pine are hereditary and concupiscent
in her. The smell of carnage is as
Il sweet odor in her nostrils; the stencil
that arises from the decayinG bodies
of the victims of her Maxim, guns and
repeating rifles as they lie unbuTied on
the battlefield, is most precious in
cense to her It is useless to deny the
impeachment; for is it not the fact
that after every massacre, from the
khyber Pass to Khartoum, are flashed
instantaneously, from the highest per
sonage in Great Britain. congratula
tory messages to the men who have
done the butchering? Wherever the
Union Jack floats, from Southern to
Northern India, from the Cape to Cm-
durman, there the message of peace
and good will to men, is reversed; the
destroying angel spreads his unholy
wings and there is weeping and wall
ing and gnashing of teeth among the
hapless millions of Gods creatures, the
victims of aggression, cupidity, lust,
rutIhlessness and crime; and this in
spite of England's pretensons as a
Christianizing nation
"a brief digrese is here called for
to give an instance of British breach
of faith, such as Prof. SidgWick al
ludes to. II occurred during the Af-
CHAN war of 1914 and rela tes to the So
called murder of Sir William Nc
Naughton British commissioner. Sir
William formed the design Of captur-
ing Akbar Khan. the Afghan chief, and
with this intention invited him to a
conference to be held in the open. and
ito which both parties to the parley
were to come with a limited number Of
attendants. Akbar accepted the invi-
taton and very early fell a victim to
his trust in British honor. During the
course of the conference his quick eye
detected the movement of the retl:oats
in the not-distant woods. He saw he
was being surrounded. With quiet
dignity he brought the conference 20
an end and rose to his feet. AS he did
so Sir William McNnuyhton rushed at
and seized him. The noble Afghan
looked into the traitors eyes for an in
slant. as if doubtful whether such q
breach of faith We're possible: then,
quickly drawing pistol from his belt,
he shot him through the head. and,
lcapinG on to his horse. he and his cs-
cort disappeared unhurt, amid a hail Of
bullets.'
Contrast the following instance of
;hH chivalrous generosity of :hr noble
Afghan with treachery and nranneSS
of MrNaughton. During lhc course ol
the W&r the wife Of Sir Robert Salt
fell into Akhar'S power. Knowing how
greatly the English general would b;
distressed by tho untoWard occurrence
he at once sent an envoy 10 the British
camp to say he did not make war or
women. assuring Sir Robert Of LadA
Sales safety. and that she and hel
courtesy, @d1in" that he would scnt
her laNyShin in;n the British lines ul
the first possible nnportun!ty Withou
rnnsnm, which he diN.'
''rhc rrt".nl punitive. m 'u!;,ir,.,s' tnllul
against The brave .AfriIiS is u fresh in
-t:,.?c. of how l,ncli>hmvn in'>,'.,.r"t In,
,nuni,ini:s Of the word ,thn.& In on,
day sixty villages, as rtn,rtrl Ivy tn,
military authorities, were burned t,
IN" ground. Sixteen mills we've laiC
in ruins, and. to complete the iniuuity
th, Ii, list ones Wf,rC, brOkcn-iD M, X,