The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
NZAS HnesE GzAeD~ Wz27N>aZS

the outbreak Of war. down even to thu
Crimean' campaign. England unfailingl,
| sent over for consignment Of German
soldiers. When the news Of Bunker Hill
| reached London, 5000 Germans were has.
tily ordered, t. o. b.. as they say in the
business world. In the course of the
American Revolution almost 5000 merce
naries were sent out to the revolted colo.
nies from the states of Hesse Cassel
Brunswick. Waldeck, Hanau. Anspaci
and Anhalt. -..
England fought Napoleon with gold
rather than lead. In the twenty crowded
years that stretched Between Toulon and
| Waterloo he himself saw never a rec
coat. But every sovereign and every
army that challenged him was on the
British payroll in a subsidized war.
Leave War to Others.
The English are as valiant a race as
stands in leather. but they have hus-
banded their valor and their energy for
the campaigns of peace. At all times
and everywhere they have been willing
to let others do the fighting for them.
They have reduced to a system this
economy of their military strength.
Witness how sparing they are of Eng
lish blood in India. There they contrive
with an army of only 5000 Britons to
hold in subsection 300. coo 900 persons For
the Indian army of the British is as small
oe he of tLa
How do they manage it? BY getting
the Indians themselves to do the work
of their conqueror. the princes of India
being induced to maintain force of
some 10000 natives under British OIL
GERS
In conquering the Beers. England had
full opportunity to learn what good SOL
diers they were. The conquest of that
little band Of Dutch farmers brought
upon her the greatest war in all her his
tory until now and obliged her to raise
the biggest army she ever had collected
She had to sent out nearly $4,000 men.
$4,000 of whom were Britons. the rest
being colonials and Indians. But she
quickly and wisely profited by the hard
lesson. For she straightway made terms
with her conquered foes. And now the
Beers are fighting the Germans for her
in South Africa
The Policy of Centuries Changed.
When England forsook her splendid
Isolation and. in preparation for this
tito mir eff cOla NIT
the entente with the military powers Of
the continent. she wholly reversed the
war policy which she had pursued for
centuries. In the Napoleonic wars, for
example. she gave her allies the benefit
Of her sea power. and opened to them
her capacious purse, but she contributed
only a few small contingents of soldiers
for special operations. That was all. In
the most desperate stage of the long and
doubtful struggle she did not offer to put
forth her military strength.
let it was a fair bargain. For Eng
land poured out more than $40oo,ooo, 900
of her wealth, swept the French from
the face of the waters and kept the seas
open to her partners in the contest.
But. as member Of the entente. she
does not limit herself to those highly
useful measures. She is not only OPEN
ing her strong box to her allies and
policing the seas for them. but she un-
dertook to raise an equip an army Of
100000 men. And that. it must be grant,
ed. is far more than her share.
When she changed her policy. how
ever. she did not change her methods.