| Show OPINION rudyard Hi kipling pling who makes the gray wolves talk and gives the debates of bears and foxes hits has his own talk about ft a possible war half the blood in his hie veins Is in east indian blood and he h lets the indian pan pait oc at hla his imagination run wild in this style in the washington capital try to bellove believe we ho he pays pay on nn irre pon w riter when I 1 ho a you ita llma I 1 ft Clil naH ft fleet today it prop properly orly manned e could 0 uld ma waft ft I 1 the he entire american navy out of III the buur r into tile idle blue T the he bli big fat republic no publio that la IS afraid of noth DWI talc liis because nothing up to into ito tins liaa happened to make her afraid la Is 0 na 04 4 undre its aa a L jul lynah not internally ot ai course it would bo be madness for any power to throw men into america they would dle debut but ns regards coast defenses from arom five vo milb out at sea noa 1 I ba hae bae e neon been a tent of her fortified ports a ship of thew lh power of JI it at y S coll inq wood would wipe out any or avei town from yan san FrancI to long by li ratio ranch h and first class ironclad iron cladi woo would id a account tor for new york bartholde Barthol dl status tuo find and oil all intellect itel luct on this ahta atwould Two tild bo be tny up or KO go up round the entire cobat boist ot of the united states stales to tills this furiously andern tho the patriotic patr loilo america n wo we about not pay wo we should invent a co lumblad in or r else imd and blow any outs outsider d or into lidl fit they might invent they might la iny y waste their otiose rod and retire inland for t they ey can cam subsist entirely on their ro t duco a meantime in ili fl war waged ili tile tho only way it could bo be lunged by an un be rup ulous power poor their coast cities find their jhc thc lr dock dockyards yards would mould bo be in ashes they could construct thelt navy inland it 1 they but they could never bring a ship into tho the waterways ways as 0 they now they 17 I 1 ley could not with nith nn ail ordinary witter water t or patrol dispatch one or of men six rix antles across the sera bean thero there bould be about five millions of excessively an g kry mon men pont p nt up tip within limits cheso ese men would require ships to got them themselves solves afloat tho the country ham haa no such nuch ships and until tile ships built now york coed not bo be allowed a single wheeled carriage carri igo within her limits behold now the glorious glor loua condition of tills this republic which has no tear fear thorn them la Is ransom and loot past pant the countin tr of man on her seaboard alore alone plunder that would enrich a nation and she ho has neither a navy nor half a dozen first art chilas ports to guard euard the whole pity it 11 in that she ito la Is of our own blood looking at the matter from fl a a point of view 10 jjoe cannot eat cat dog doff unfortunately fortunately li vio me tho the english Knell sTi will nover never bo be a L people to leach her that she cannot whip all tile earth because she eho la IS A L chartered libertine libertine allowed to say aay and do anything site cho I 1 ken front from de demanding mandin the head of tho the empress in an ed editorial tEoria i baet to canadian schooners who onera ners up and down the A alaska 1 ask sea am it Is perfectly impossible to go to war bilth w ath these people whatever they do thoy they pro ore too nice in tho the first place and in the second it would chiow out all the passenger traffic of tho the atlantic and upset tho the financial arrangements of till the syndicates who have invested their money morey rey in breweries rull ways and tile tho liko like RT and id in tho the 00 third it Is no not t to bo be done everybody knows that and no one better than tho the americans americana when tile tho nez perces forces came down the lit in the neighborhood of 0 lemlie leahi idl ida old man stevenson gathered the th families nearby anil and took them to the old lecht fort which was simply an set around with upright poles the nez perces went through the houses took some borne shoots and other things that they needed tor for bandages and other comforts for their wounded and then camped in sight eight on a hillside to the west ot of the valley A leahl indian went up to see them 11 and return returning ins just before night advised stevenson to take the people with him and retreat toward salmon city explaining that achen the night came on if they remained where they were the nez berces would swoop do down wl upon them that a few of tile the braves brave s on their ponies would ride in throw their ropes over some of the poles then ride aldo away breaking the poles and making an entry into the enclosure and would then massacre the whole hand band whereupon old man stevenson said what would wo bo be doing in th the e meantime you tou have a good pony and I 1 a rope you ride out there a little way and try tho the experiment of pulling up one of 0 the poles so we might say to kipling what would we be doing in the meantime did mr kipling ever read macaulay on the relative strength ot at the british and united states no navies in 1812 lie ile makes it out that at that time england had INS 1018 ships chips of 0 tons burden with and men at tho the same time the united states hid had seventeen ships of 0 tons guns and roen men and on oil march 19 after the war had been running only seven months the london times had the following extract tho public will learn with sentiments which wo we shall not attempt to 10 anticipate that 9 third british frigate tins haa struck e k to an american tills this with the fact bated B in our paper of yesterday ay that lloy d I 1 list fat contains notices of upward of MO 50 vessels capture in seven months by tho the americans americana five hundred mer iner chantlen chant men find three frigates anyone antono who held predicted such guch fl a result till this ft almo me I 1 last ast year would have beon treated as a madman or a traitor yet down to the present I 1 moment not s single american has truck struck lier her flag at that time too the english navy was in acthen practice looking out tor for french cruisers and merchantmen merchantman merchant men there are some soma other considerations what would become of the british merchant ships which ar are a the life of great britain it if that sort of a gamo game were to be tried there Is a still to more ore serious matter to think of what would the people left in great britain have to cat what would become of the artisans who now work the factories what would become of canada canad a I 1 in n the foregoing mr kipling maintains its ills reputation lie ile Is a darst als storyteller and writer and his stories generally increase in interest when lie he more mora and more ignores the truth the final clause in tho the extract from him however was probably put lit in in ili tile the interest of peace in his ovi own n family for ho he has an american tle nife she Is of tho the granite state stock and possibly tho the knowledge of that fact Is what caused kipling in his story to include tile the sentence that it would be madness for any power to throw men into america they would die |
