The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-07
H|PL|NG. R()JSES LION
English Writer Calls His
Country to Arms
IN SINGING POEM
John Bulls New Year Not
Very Happy One.

London, Jan. s-The most significant
thing which commands the attention Of
the world in the first days of the new
year is a poem ard that poem is = PAS
sionate call to arms directed 20 the
supine heart Of the greatest and freest
modern empire.
KIpling's plea for conscription in Great
Britain must be regarded as the climax
Of militaTism and the most omlnous sign
OF the times.
1t is too early to describe the effects OF
his soathing rebuke of his countrymen
and his wrathful warning Of peril His
verses may not arouse England, bu. they
viii surely DO more toward overcoming
official ineptitude than any turtle. les
sons the Beers could teach.
Extracts From the Poem.
The poem, which is long, is being spread
throughout the nation. The following are
extracts:
And We sent them confts and pictures to
help them harry your foesl
And re Wanted your fathcmless power
and We Wanted your iron pride.
Ere We fawned on the younger nations
for the men who could shoot and ride.
Then We returned TO your trinl1ets; then
ye contented your souls
With the hanneled fools at the wicket
or the :nuddied CATS at the goals.
Given to strong delusion, wholly believing
lie,
Ye saw that the land lay fenceIess and
yet let the months go by.
Waiting some easy wonder. hoping some
savi1s sign,
Idle, openly IDLE. in the lee OF the fore
spent line;
Idle except for your boasting and what
is Your Boosting worth,
If We gruige Of a year OF service to the
lordiest line on earth.
Ancient. effortless, cycle on cycle set,
Lite so long untroubled that ye who in
herit, forget.
1t is not made with the mountains; 1t
is not one with the deep;
Men, Not Gods. devised it, men. not Gods,
must keep.
Men, not children or servants. tempered
and taught TO the end.
Cleansed OF scrvile panic, slow to dread
or deSpiSe,
Humble because Of knowledge, mighty by
sacrifice.
Fenced by your careful fathers, ringed
By your laden seas,
Long did We wake in quiet and long lie
down at ease;
Till We said of strife. what is it OF the
sword it is far from our ken.
Till ye made a sport OF your shrunken
hosts and toy Of your armed men.
He warns that a continuance OF induI-
gence in the present insolent case VIII re-
suit in the nations remnant lying down
under the yoke. He then proceeds TO de-
mand:
Each man born in the island broke to
the matter of war" which he promises
viii result for the salvation Of the ccun-
try in producing.
Resent Slap at Sports.
The first impression Of the public mind
was undoubtedly one of amazement that
the national quality of which English
are proudest. the love OF sport. should be
attacked in the singing line: The IAN
nelled fools at the wicket and the mud
died OATS at the goals"
This has been IKE a slap in the face
to the whole nation. whose chief concern
at the present moment is in the cricket
matches in Australia. The country is
already resenting this insult against its
most peculiar fad but Kiplings stroke
has assuredly gone deep enough to cause
the most serious self-examiuation which
the season makes appropriate.
Still say mo" to CONSUMPTION.
England still cr1es no" 70 coascrip-
ton. and yet the word has come into the
OF Of practical politics.
whereas two short years ago II was in
about the Same category as slavery.
Great Britain's most serious Journal
the Times. indorses Kipling's rsbuke. and
while il argues that consumption Is stiii
II purposes compulsory mil
itary training in all schools and suggests
subsequent compulsory trimming IN camps.
'The idea is endorsed by one or two com
in tie evening papers. but the
others rise in angry protest against con
the PaH Nall Gazette saving;
This cry for universal service IS a
mere nanIc and a dangerous panic IS we'll
we regret thar 3Ir. Kinpllng should have
lent himself to tie views O. narrow ex-
nerts with no comprehension OF our mil-
itary needs.
II IS toe early set 70 estir ate the con-
sequences Of killings great Indictment
d VIII ecao and reecho il the press and
from The platform for many days. ard Il
vii have an important eject not only iH
shapirv public orinion bnt IN drafting
more than one drastic measure 81 res5rm
ID Westminster.
Attack in Another Quarter.
Eiplmg 81 nat tre Qni} nan wno has
nr.- IN tic teeth ~ TIE British oeople /
sitter. aoorufal rerroschss - the birth Of
me new year. u was difersnt inaict-
rent which was framed 6y Freddie liar
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