The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-15
ENGLAND is CRITICAL.
Butler, Melhuen, Roberts and All The Lead
erS Got Share.
SOME TAfFY FOR THE UNITED STATES
london Newspapers Discuss Amer
lean Politics with an Abandon
Hardly known in This Country.

(Copyright, 1900, the Associated Press)
London. April 1.-THE unsatisfactory
turn that has recently marked the cam
paign against the Beers Ia resulting In
astonishing and sweeping criticisms by the
English papers OF their own army meth
DDS. When Butler struck snags in Natal,
when General Methuen and General Gaia
GRE made terrible mistakes and before tho
British army had secured any progress. a
somewhat similar wave swept over tue
press, But then It was directed at indi-
viduals and chiefly consigned to papers
who were willing to condescend to slang
one or two generals, Now names are not
mentioned, but there Is widespread. deep
~ rooted conviction that the method oil
selection of British army officers is alto
gether wrong, About this conviction there
is not bitterness, nor Is 1t based upon
conclusions rapidly arrived at our OF
hcers." SAYS the conservative, common
sense Outlook. ARE as brave as lions. oui
as rule are stupid"
/ '1he warmest champions of our regl-
mental officers" says the Saturday he-
view, ARE beginning sorrowfully 10 adj
NIT that their courage makes them oiten
careless, and when not negligent they
sometimes show themselves Ignorant oil
thCsr business"
4 Vanity Fair. which formerly denounced
vigorously any such forms of criticism.
admits sorrowfully that "our officers seem
10 play at war rather than to carry on
war"
Referring TO the ELECTROMAGNETIC on
letter written by Colonel Lonsdale Hale 20
the Times on this subject, In which Col,
onel Hale declares that constant mental
strain and ineessant carefulness becomes
unbearahle, Vanity Fair says What Of
. the strain that naval officer has to bear
when he knows his ssip may be torpe'
doed at any moment7 American naval Of
ficers have borne that strain well. Car
not English soldiers bear lessf"
The paper concludes by advocating tina
army officers be treated with the SAME
; discipline and training as our naval ohi
! GERS.
The outlook urges that navy method
be applied to the army, which, II Is de
nlared, Is little better than social club
But beneath this cutlery against individual
: incon.petence and lack OF brains on tn
part OF the army officers. which, since TIL
: war began. has constantly caused the los
, OF attachments and positions. and espeei
ally during the last fortnight, there Is a.
underlying and sometimes expressed de
Y termination that England's army mus
no longer be Differed by men who's
( claims to commissions rest almost solel
+ on birth or money.
: In other words, the army must be $
| changed that an ofacer can live on b
pay and thus attract to Its rank tins
a hardest element OF the race, the your
/ man who relies on brains alone to max
4 his way in the world.
o This Is not the cause OF agitation by
3 demagogue press or the less inhuenti'
2 section OF the public, IT Is an almo'
/ unanimous deduction drawn from II
: lessons OF the present war by the person
IN control. In many cases by aristocrat
by organs that are VIGOROUSLY reluctaT
to lend their influence to popular NOV.
a ments and by the keenest and most ~
biased students OF National restitution
A including members Of the cabinet iisel
The untoward circumstances which ha'
= brought such radical defects In the 81
u tem into prominence are doubtless e.
Il aggerated IN English public oaiplo
II though this Righteousness will not less,
the good effects OF agitation referred ,
"A The premature self-congratulation oy
J. the occupation OF Bloemfontein has had
reaction somewhat similar to that WIKI
II followed the first victories Ia Natal.
> As the Saturday Review says: "Too so
aid we congratulate ourselves on the 20
+ session Of Bloemfontein and too little d
3 We realize that the possession OF su
:: capital does not imply much"
70 It then proceede to instance ths "a
lturs q PhiladsiphiA b. the BrittsA IN I