The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1900-01-26

Prof. Jordan ON Rngland.


In Great BTitain'a present war Win
the rrapeyaal, President David Starr
Jordan, Of Stanford University, sees the
fires step Ia the downfall Of that nation. {.
Az the Unitarian church, Ia Oakland,
President Jordan spoke toa large audi
ence on .'Some Lessons Of the War In
the TransvaAl." In eubstantiation Di
hia belief, Dr.. Jordan cited the examples
Of Greece, Rome aud more recently oil
Spain. He said:
'The fall Of these great nations 10 due
to war. There is cynical line in enc of
KiplinR's poems that has great signi6-
cance. s'Send forth the best ye breed"
he says, and that is what England ia do
inn now. that 10 what Greece and Rome
did. The best and the strongest OF the
younn men; those without fault aud
blemish wsht forth to fight and die.
And II the best went forth, who were left
behind but the second best to breed the
next generation? That is why the Ital-
ian, French and spanish peAsantry at
the present day, such men as the Man
with the hoe,' are small and weak.
They are descendants Of the scullions
and the cooks and slaves. those mot good
enough to fight, OF the previous genera
tions. This has been true of oil nations
called decadent. France loet her beat
blood in the wars of Napoleon. The
plains Of Austerlitz and of Lodi and all
the great battle fields Of the Napoleonic
era are strewn with the skulls OF the
best that France bred. The peasantry oi
England has deteriorated sadly since
that natloa has become an empire. By
the same path as her predecessors she
must so to destruction"
DR.. Jordan said that his sympashies
in the present war were with the body OF
the British people, who were, in hi
opinion, ssthe victims Of . gigantic buns
ko game" and hao been led into the war
unawares by the politicians and dema.
Rogues Of Great Britain. The primal
sin, be said, of England had been the
desire to seize whatever of value there
was which belonged to some one else.
There are certain principles, he went
on, which were at the root of the present
difficulty, among them being the belief
that Chamberlain as.fostered that Brit.
ish influences should be everywhere par
amount, tendency to keep q "sore
pacen between all English colonies and
their nsiahbors, and TO overreach on
every frontier, just as she had done in
Venezuela and Alaska.
Following this line of thought, Presi.
dent Jordan hit the British hard. ''It
has seemed to be a rule In English war ,
fare, . he said, "never 10 attack anybody ,
with clothes on, never to strike nybody
unless he was down and never to hit
above the belt, save when that was the
only vulnerable.point. In dealing with
he Dutch Great Britain broke every
oledae made to them. The truth Of it is
hat the British want their land and must
have it to make possible the scheme of
Rhodes and Chamberlin for united !.
British Ennth Africa.
"Many reasons England has given for
he war, but they are all speeious. She
has tried to treat the two republics rs re-
Eolted colonies. She has complained
hat her sons there have been refused
To franchise; she has pointed to the
and tyranny in the Transvaal
Government. That the Beers Doasted
hat any onb Boer could whip Eve Eng
ish ranked; 90 did the memory Of Ma
uba hill.
"Not because of her military glory do
honor England, but because she has had ,
more than her share Of the wisest and
best men OF the world. And 90 the glory
of the Anglo-Saxon race is not ito domin-
ion; but. if it may be 30 expressed, in
the permeationor or spread Of its thoughts
and its jdess and it's influence. They
pirate of irresistible tendencies and mani
bet destiny and so on, but tay now, as
I said at the beginning of the war, if
Englis. soldiers cross the Rand and wipe
cut the BoeY nation, it will be the begin
ming Of the end of the British empire. Is
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