Show A LESSON SURE ENOUGH Some people say that Kiplings last poem is not a poem that he has lost the electric spark the true Promethean fire Maybe but no one can doubt the Damascus thrusts of the poem Listen to this Let us admit It fairly as a business people peo-ple should We huvo had no end of a lesson It will < Ui UM no und of good wi Not on a single Issue gool In one direction or twain dlrcplon But conclusively comprehensively and several limes and again AV ore all our moat holy Illusions knocked higher than Gl eros kiLl We have had a Jolly good lesson and it serves ua Jolly well right nnl Possibly we In America can appreciate appre-ciate that better than the average stayathome Englishman Our great Civil war was fought through and the verdict rendered by the commander of the British army was that It 1 was merely a local contest among frontiersmen that the men who deal with the science of war were supplied I sup-plied with no new lesions by it and refusing to study the killed and wound wounl l ed on those sanguinary fields it was clear that his conclusion was that a trained British division would have putt put-t any of those armies to night He thought as Gage did at Bunker HI11 I as Pakenham did at New Orleans as Braddock had before In the deep wilder ness with savages for foes he and the British Parliament and British military officers continued to nurse their old egotism even when guns were Invented Invent-ed that would carry and kill further i than the unaided eye can see and when l smokeless nowder came to conceal the I spot from which the weapons were I fired So they all resied upheld by I that ancient egotism and that oblivious J ness to the worlds advancement until I I suddenly a war was sprung against an unlettered enl uncouth and so far as I I numbers were concerned a most Inferior In-ferior foe I I Then as Kipling says they had to I learn a lesson then all their most holy illusions wqre dispelled and the II lesson had to be learned under condi j I lions most trying to British pride most renting to British affections most cx Initiative to tho British exchequer They 1 I know now what It is to fight frontiers I I menj they know the difference between fighters that think and fighters that move only by mechanical military I rules I has been a dear lesson sure I I enough I |