Show TUB THO ARMIES I 1 OF EUROPE 1 how they aro posed t different 1 nationalities in battle difo T afe for the of men Isaf ways tt a ceno lot I 1 of monotonous monotone endurance and tho while ho he obeys orders is probably not noi much inac h t 0 r 0 o 0 oil ft t than b a n t the ho young peasant or th tho a y young a u n g artisan a r i t il is be better ter cl clothed jtb od belter housed anil and 6 enjoys n jo 35 an exemption from caro care which has f for or tile majority 1 0 human bel beings figg something of tile tho nature datum of holiday ills his work Is 19 not performed in tho the company of a groat crowd which tor for tho the uneducated Is enlivening or they would not seek crowds so eagerly and it is abao sol regular and in intelligible tell there Is no rind strain placed upon tile tho mind and as for tile lie punishments they are except in rare cases of 0 personal spites ho be gwoon ahn sergeants and the men avoidable abl by tho the single and easily casily understood recipe of perfect tho the ma of the conscripted soldiers do not describe themselves in after life is as unhappy and though universal suffrage reigns allep if ke in germany and france and in alio llio latter country la 14 effectively sovereign no movement forthe abolition of 0 tie conscription ims has ever taken of et told even of tile the peasantry any more than it did lit in ancient rome where also tho the conscription rel reigned gried and a savage discipline and tho the soldier was hardly paid any regi regular flar wage thousands must most hito tile tho service for or ono one causo cause or another but they submit to it it as a necessity falling upon all men in all countries except indeed america and england which aro are outside the natural order of things opinions opinion hostilo hostile to regular armies are laid aside for the time and questions of creed or nationality in peacetime peace time tinie do not come to tho the surface wo we fancy that in wartime war time urn e nationality Is of importance at least tb tho 0 best explanation we ever read of jena Is that it at tha tha 1 time roles poles formed halt hal f tho the prussian q army anil and napoleon was tho polish idol from whom they hoped all things while it was said aid after that ahe austro italians were taken prisoners very easily caily but nationality does not lead to ordinary mutiny above all discipline and epo especially cAlly military disca plino has a constraining force ot of its own which seems hardly to to 0 o any oilier impulse that force is based no doubt in the last resort as all government c r nin cut Is on terror but it Is also based as nio most C government Is 13 on approval on the feeling in t tho ll 11 soldier that it Is this and nothing else which separates him from the civilian and makes him for cerl alit purposes definitely his superior we lye sw s w no reason why eliy this force which has ha s outlasted out lasted a hundred twill changes in civilization and which is equally tell felk by all a ranks of men should ever d dio lei away A desire for more personal corn comfort fort may aspre spread I 1 it in a modern army a it did in tile the roman lightening tile tho boad tile legionary had to carry arid and altering tho the quality of his food ao but tit we suspect that NN bile tho the conscription script lon falls on all it id u will ill be endured and will yield arla armies iet sufficiently obedi ent oven even after defeat which indeed dissolves discipline much less than one ona would expect prussian discipline revived after lona jena as austrian discipline survived while french discipline has rarely been so strict except under the first napolean Xa polean as it is now A spanish regiment lit in ro olt maintains its internal sternly and in tile tho only great english mutiny of roo modern defit times thries tho the companas Comp anys Europ cons though in open r revolt evolt doubled A all ordinary punishments on the thil common soldier anything may happen to confound calculation but wo see no r reason eason to believe that military mili lary ois conton twill will within any time worth speculating about bo be a trouble in european stiles T tho 0 prevalent english noiron no ifon that have bavo in modern times been bean frequently refractory rests upon very little evidence the there re have been and will bo be again instances of insubordination or oven even niu mutiny tiny just as there riots in civil life but outside spain during a particular period soldiers havo have almost always obeyed tho the constituted authority they did not tor for a moment during tho the french revolution when society itself it sc seemed mcd dissolved and the military chests were empty hut but napoleon con was never troubled by his wonderfully composite commy ar army my and since his time no french regiment has disobeyed tile tho authority ho he is s legally bound to obey which Is noe not avii we may remark demark tho the government ern orn ment but his own military superior men were strictly obeying orders when they followed him blia into tile tho wrong camp and louis napoleon was com mander ln in chlof when lie ho acted against tho the assembly tho the army is wo we suspect a force which will last in every state of europe eurom rendering insurrection almost impossible or it if it disappears it will bo be under laws emanating from tho the regular civil elvil power itis ills conceivable it if russia ever became a nonmilitary non don military state that tho the people everywhere might trans transmute muto tho the standing armies into armies on the swiss plan which Is that of training all youth but leaving them at home but movements to that thai end within tho armies themselves are exceedingly improbable they have always been easy for tho the soldiers am irresistible and havo have only to disperse to bring the system to an end but they have never done dona it and we can conceive ot no idea or sot set ot circumstances which would induce them to do it tho the professional fess ional soldier survived the diffusion of 0 christianity and may be found to survive tile tho diffusion of socialism rl it if that rope ilent faith is tobo tho the new creed ol of the world china alone has almost succeeded in doing without it hout him and there is about as much misery and as much wicked wickedness ness in chi china as anywhere 0 re iu ill tho the world london spectator |