The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-08-31
ENGLNND'S TERROR
OF FRANCE.

it is reported that the alarm is abroad
in En- gland of a French war. and that the
gathering of vast stores and other prepare
ton in the Channel ports of France have
at last taken such ii form that the hclli-
gerent hand of the republic will now
certainly be raised to strike an early blow
| at England.
1t seems to us we have heard some
| thing of this before, and in fact, the same
alarm has blossomed peronnia!ly for S3A
years, that is. since the Norman conquest.
to bear fruit in parliamentary war grants
for a defense the English have never been
called upon to make. AS matter of fact
there has never been a possibility of war
between France and England since the
first steamboat crossed from Dover to
Calais. and the continued cry of 1.-The
French they come. they come" should
by this time have lost something of its
efficacy in filling the British heart with
| fear. 1t seems, however, that it is not
so, and the alarmist retains his ridiculous
power to stir the nation into transports
of terror every time the French buy
new gun or order Il regiment out to
drill.
| Suppose France had Il spasm every
| time England strengthened the encamr-
ment at Adershot or laid the keel of a
new battlcship in Chatham Docks The
| tirst to dcride her would he the Enyli b
| themselves, and, i'll fact, the iiitous
would he the object of ridicuie if it were
not that their agonles for the same causes
had long since become subject for
scornful pity.
In the Crinca the French were Eng
lands allies. and showed them home when
Sebastopol was taken. Since then they
have mutually stood by each other in the
| East. where the French took lower China.
or Assam. while the British added Bur
ham to her Indian Empire. Similarly
they have tipped each other the encour-
aging wink as the English fastened their
grip uron Egypt aud the French extend
ell their domain in Algeria. Some add
vanturcrS had 4 C: s. over the. Fashoda
| incident but that was natura! with those
high spirits AMI the issue they raised in
the centre of Africa never was dignitied
by rising to international Importance.
last now they are allies in China, up to
the same mischief, but neither of them
sufficiently in possession of the plumber
to fl ght over its division.
What, then, would hey go to war for .
Over the criticisms on the DreyfuS case,
the famous cartoon in La Rire, the neglect
of the English to support the Exposition,
or because the cockney can't arrange a
grammatical peace with the French
irregular verb:
The very conditions of Europe tend to
draw them together. Germany. hated
and feared by England, is reported, with
wore or less accuracy, to have Joined
lads with Russia, whom England equal
Is fears and hates together with Japan,
in proclaiming formal war with China.
1t may not be true that the Kaiser and
| Car have linked inter ests, but even the
report of it yields the same reason for
more closely drawn relations between
France and England. But the English
aIarmists will get their grants, Mr. Cham
berlain, who Processes to give credit to
the imminence of hostilities, will divert
attention from his South African blunders
and the wrath of Napoleon standing on
the shores of Bouogne gazing with awful
menace at the white cliffs Of albion
| ncrfilp'' will haunt the troubled sleep of
the Englishman.-Fh aoieiphia Times.