Show Gen O O Howard compares the niONcmenls of the British In the South I African war with those of the Union I army In the War of the Rebellion He I says Wo tried to keep nanny armies goIng till nt the same unIt from 1111 < mter to tho Inner I Cr li of vhlrli Kl < tunnix was iho t enler but ultimate nu o ennie to the Union forces by ji i mmblnlDK iirniks as to greatly oulniimbfr till enemy on some Important line nnd Mnn t ilileiii him In battle all along lhit Hue KlinlKrley I should bo the Nashville Kronstnd l t ims AlUuilu and Johnniusburg the Appomal tox of the South African war That Is partly true but there are somo Important facts whlrh Gen Howard How-ard omits Armies had to be organized out of untrained volunteers Generals had to be tried t until the tone were developed one famous old General Gen-eral had to be superseded before any progress could be made and all this took a long time But then an Irresistible I Irresisti-ble march began down the Mississippi vale and L cordon began to draw around the grand army In I Virginia and then the end came quickly Maybe Johannesburg will bo the South African Afri-can Appomatlox though we think Gen Howard meant Pretoria but the Boer it Is arc n resourceful people and much too soon to begin to fix the dale or place for the end of thc war I |