The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-03

tion for generations. 1t is genera tions since the armies of Great Britain were defeated, but in all that time they. have made war upon none but savages, save when fighting the Boers, and the latter were finally oVerborne through sheer force of superior num- bers and almost infinitely greater re- sources. It Is possible that Reresford might match Togo on an equal foot ing, and that Kitchener might hold his own against an equal force of Jap anese, commanded by one of the Japa nese generals of today, hut the world would have to see them do 1t before 1t would be satisfied that they could.
 It is hard to name more than two or three living American fighting men who have proved the right to be considered alongside the Japanese generals and admirals, much as the patriotically inclined may regret the fact. Our army and our navy have never been defeated; our ships are the
 only ones afloat at this time. except those of the Japanese (the Russian ships being mostly at the bottom of the sea). that have eyer seen fighting service, but defeating the Spaniards was a different thing from what de- featng the Japanese would be.
 Dewey, the hero of Manila is still at the head of the navy. His daring in entering the harbor of Manila, de
 spite the presence of hidden mines and the batteries of the forts, has been
 surpassed by no naval hero, living or dead. But brilliant though the Reinforcement was, it hardly placed him on the level since reached by the Jap anese admirals.
 Bob" Evans Is alive. and undoubt- edly an able fighter; Clark, who brought the Oregon around the Horn from hn p1pffC in limo AO t1k C part in the Santiago fight. has just been retired; a few naval heroes of the Spanish war are still In active ser vice, but they are not so young as they once were, and the hrunt of the fighting would hardly fall upon them were we to have a long sea war now SampsoR of Santiago is dead, and SohIcy is retired. Chaftee. among our active generals. has never failed, but he has never commanded q big army fighting another one, Miles in on the retired list
 Nearly all the worlds men of known power as fighters today. then, are Orientals, and Japanese at that. Yet how long is it since the Western world reTa rdod the Mikado's military forces las toy soldiers" and his entire peo- pie as too much devoted to beauty, too polite and too trivial. both mentally and bodily. to bp really worth consid- .ering among the nations Of the earth!
 Worlds Most Powerful RuIers.
 The President of the United States is not ruler" at all in the sense the German Emperor Is, vet his name is included in every printed list of rulers. and. in these days, the world accords the American Chief Executive a higher degree of power than ever before. This is partly due to the in- creasing power of the nation he rep resents. whether he rules" or not. In the case of Theodore Roosevelt the un- doubted power of the man has much to do with it and this the world at large has generously recognized.
 The self-assumption that he was man of great native force by William, Emperor of Germany, in the early days of his reign. caused all the world to laugh consumedly But the man has been justifying the assumption, and today, despite some caviling. there are few among those who keep close