Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-29
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appearance Of the average French pri-
vate soldier. ...-. ,r..~.s...
When you come to compare him
with some regiments have seen in
the English army, recruited in manu-.
featuring cities, you are ready to re-
verse the old English doctrine about
the three and the one.
fixed gauge of six feet at the
Care de FEST and watched French
soldiers passing by it, and I counted
seven in ten that made it or came
near
A century and half ago, the
French, starved and oppressed under
the old regime, we're small and thin;
the English, jewellers in an agricul.
tural country, were stalwart and rud
by.
Today it is the emancipated French
man, product of the farm, the sun,
the free air and sufficiency, that is
stalwart, and the English city man,
third generation of slum product, that
is slight, thin, feeble of body and in
ert of will.
So vanish our formulas. The old
idea that the French were mercurial,
emotional, and unstable, was annihi-
lated at the Marine and afterwards; 1t
will never be heard of again. We
used to say these things of the
French, and of the English say that
they were steady, cool, impressive and
undemonstrative. We have lived to
see all the qualities of reserve and
poise manifested by the French and
all the temperamental qualities that
we said were French now manifested
by the English.
When the wounded are brought in
at Charing Cross, London, 10000 PEG
pie jam the streets to make holiday,
to laugh and cheer and throw flowers
and dance. When the wounded come
in at the Care de rEst, Paris. the
people stand In silence with barred
heads and clenched jaws.
+ Tramp Of Fame. a..
Or see how wonderfully something
else like this has been upset. Ac-
cording to tradition and the trump
|of fame, if there was anything in this
world fixed and settled it was, first,
"a Briton's liberties, and, second, the
British constitution. It is something
to strike you breathless with amaze
ment, but the war has seen the Briton
lose most of his liberties, and as for
the constitution, that drifted out to
sea these many months, melancholy
wreck upon the face of the waters.
Nothing has been printed about
these Supplying changes, but they
have happened, nevertheless. The
Briton's birthright used to be freedom
Of speech, freedom of the press, free
dom of assembly, freedom of communi.
cation, and then, responsible govern
ment. The press is now absolutely
gagged, signs in railroad cars and
elsewhere warn you of what you must
not talk about, meetings the govern
ment doesn't fancy are prohibited or
broken up, men are fined and impris-
oned for circulating criticisms of the
governments policy, what answers to
the press gang of a century ago grabs
men for the army, the mails 90 are
watched and weeded Of unpleasant
letters, the cores pondence Of the ma
ton is furtively scrutinize, arbitrary
rules govern the citizens conduct in
ways that seem to an alien both puz-
cling and intolerable.
There is no responsible government.
The country is ruled by the cabinet,
which has frankly assumed self-per
petuating powers.
The house of commons, once ad
mired around the world as the model
of free legislature, has become lit