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Show PECK5N1FFIAN ENGLAND. ftter Army and Navy In, the Interests of Peace, While Others Mean War. A delightful illustration of that insurable in-surable hypocrisy which is one of England's Eng-land's national characteristics and which is most exasperating to foreigners foreign-ers is given in The Daily News. As a government organ The News had to say pleasant things about the prime minister's minis-ter's speech at the Guildhall banquet, and it certainly laid on praise with a very large brush, the predominant sentiment sen-timent of its chief editorial being that Lord Rosebery is a great, self sacrificing sacrific-ing statesman, and that England is the greatest and most unselfish nation in the world. "The premier did not say one word too much about the danger of those vast European armaments which seem to increase rather than diminish with years. He might perhaps have added a word in favor of international disarmament, which was once the dream of romantis missionaries and is now the hope of practical statesmen. It is true that the British navy has lately been strengthened and enlarged, but the purely defensive nature of that celebrated cele-brated force is not doubted by the most captious of critics. " Thus spoke the great international Pecksniff in all his noble singleness of heart and purpose. Other wicked, nations na-tions raise' vast armies each with bad ulterior designs against his neighbors, but England, although she sedulously increases her fleet, does so solely for the glory of peace and good will among men. The British navy, in fact, is a great engine of peace, guaranteed not to hurt a fly. It may be urged by cynical foreigners that the great English newspaper, news-paper, amid the general approval of the country, has been insisting that the British fleet was not strong enough to fight France and Russia combined and should be made fit to do so with the least possible delay, and that a proposal propos-al is afoot to create a new political party par-ty pledged, before everything else, to make the army and navy alike more effective ef-fective for offense as well as def ense. . But Tho Daily News or any other English Eng-lish paper will experience no difficulty in proving that this movement is emi-aentlr.unselfish emi-aentlr.unselfish and peaceful.---7 "r |