The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-08

Eoif or football as the German does
drinking beer. he is ridicuied. Is the
Englishman silly because he is anxious
that his county should be victor In
the cricket match Does not his
play, which steels the body, serve HE
fatherland?
did you never so into Hyde Park
and there see the hundreds Of sturdy
white-haired old men riding briskly
on horseback? And the young girls,
the ladies In the West End. the work.
men with their probes on the play.
grounds? Look at them and compare
them with uae thin biooded, prema-
tureiy wilted. overwhelmed and wab-
bling hgures you meet at every step
In the continental cities.
The Briton, cheerful. healthy and
brave. was quick to realize that only
the strong can conquer the world, and
he procured for himself the hygiene
which Is necessary TO q nation CON
fined most Of the time 10 factories
and Offices. lest 1t die away.
The Briton's mode or living and
his actions are sensible; he can obey
without humiliation and force obedi.
ence without arbitrary tyranny.
All Work Together.
In India a commissioners with only
handful Of whites at his disposal
commands millions of brown humans
who do not dare to wrinkle their
brows before his glance. In London,
IL putch 10 feared, dukes join hands
with cellar tenants to do constable's
duty. Everybody. whether he pos
seses fortune or has only q few
pounds to lose, takes the oath. joins
the ranks and marches against the
foes of society.
And It liz because this realization OF
ever-ready defensive strength governs
all minds that full freedom 10 given
TO speech. to criticism. to satire. that
the most brazen things may be said
about the King and his ministers.
about the institutions, officials. and
about the national character, without
interference. Not before the highest
officer OF the empire would the Briton
bend his knees.
Young men and women associate
In the fullest intimacy. spend whole
days together on the river. without
their aunts as chaperones. and not
one rough or nasty word disturbs the
harmless snilarity. Anyone who would
dare offend the ears of decent women
by indecent remarks would Herewith
become impossible In that company.
I'VE are only praising what de.
serves praise. Are the Britons peddler
souls? They did not think Of their
wares, but exposed them to the gravest
possible danger and sacrificed billions
in order to destroy Bonaparte, to
whose hypnotic will and power they
QtnnRA-in ALI ell a
not succumb!
Germans Are Respected.
Long ago the German was not
gladly seen in England, but ne be-
came to be respected. And no Eng
lishman thinks of Understanding or
even looking down upon Germany.
Our industriais and merchants have
become dangerous 10 the British cap
tains OF industry. England sometimes
had the stronger personalities: Ger
many always had the stronger organi-
zation.
ITO the desire of the statesmen to
keep this young continental power Ia
check. came the fury OF the CONNER
cialiy menacsd. The some of friction
had become greater, the political in
tercourse more difflcuit
Yet the possibility of serious con-
met seemed TAR distant. bismarck, with
his dead-sure calculation and his ma
jestic common sense, always knew just
what he had to hope and what he had
to fear from England. IL he had his
way. England and Germany would have
long continued to courteously tolerate
one another.
The situation was tolerabie because
the eyesight OF Bismarck, who knew
the traditions of English policy, was
not blinded by ilIuEons. and because
across the channel the wings and the
Tories knew that this minister would
never serve British desires, would
never become their pawn.
Britannia quickly learned to hope
again when Bismarck had been sent
away. Victoria's son, the grandson of
the Coburger Albert. when young
prince. had scolded his sister who
called herself half En- glish." and when
he had cut his Anger In a garrison yard.
had loudly declared that he hoped upon
that occasion to get rid Of his last
drop of English blood.
But young gentleman changes his
mind sometimes. Also. one can hum
bug him. After the uncomfortable days
OF Earw8. the emperor went to Lon
don. and the result of this trip was the
Sansibar treaty. which procured US
Helgoland, but threw the main key
to East Africa into EnElapd's lap.
Blaad Thicker Than water
Blood 10 thicker than water. Much
was talked OF the German British