Show I I I I CO m Tf OS San Ban Fr Chronicle ot h Y tactics ot of lint Ish bk and BUro nn In Ut th field will hl r If not entirely Ill al toned all as the JIt t f the South on All ot of which haw have be befallen fallen tallen the s h columns haw have jUdging tf skeleton reports lt through tM th I h 41 b by the news censors been due t clore nd to the lit In thC military schools for p In time ol open en cun coUn coUntry tr try where hera tho ot of the van ron tending ending nrc afo to 10 one another lii III every tery t C fO CO COfar far fought lii South Africa ll the British troops hB have U been thus Into no nolion C Clion lion agaInst hi arid and concealed toe foe with knowledge beforehand ot of the occupIed or ot of his n nc u until In the thick thiel or of the Iho light Search ch for tor the position ot of the tho enemy h i been made with artillery at lon long rang It has hall been blen only when the chose to 10 tt rt veal It b by When the la latter chose to client the British troops wore blindly and disaster ter followed Chicago News England and the United States lull had enjoyed a long lone interval ot of Peace Both Countries hall had adopted the habit of hook 1001 lag Ing to 10 the navy n as their bt best st reliance pertly because both wore were thinking ot of defensive warfare The nay navy was kept In constant practice while the arm army grew moribund The Hoers Boors an Inland looked tl to their arm army and their land force torce was Willi as weli prepared ns as the sea IL force torce ot of England or the The lesson leeson is III obvious A ler tam numb number r ot of men provided with rl ni fles fies and do not make mak un an army Above nil all a 11 certain number ot of fol mn officials with titles and antl much do not ne necessarily sar lIy ily make n a war var office The arm army should be kept In and preparation as aswell aswell well as the na navy Springfield Republican This ot of the British people now so 00 conspicuous In South Africa Is IsI growing stronger Il elsewhere and In it II one may discern a weakness that In tIme mn may ruin the empire and reo to duce Great Britain to second or third rank among the powers The British people are nrc steadily drawing away from the soil In the British Isles agriculture tu ture has been ruined and tine the rural pop population for tor years have pressed with force torce Into the towns and cities The British are aro no longer lonser a 11 agricultural people at home nU all their aspirations lend lead them to manufacturing trade and antl speculation And thoM thosa who leave Icae home for other parts ot of the world are less dl disposed poled than ever to take up upland upland land for tor cultivatIon Fanning Is too slow for tor the mo morn rn BrItish emigrant and he s seeks by quicker m mesA J whether In South Africa Canada Au Acs or the States In Inthe Inthe the tropics lie be the colt 1011 on ona a 11 large 11 hy polle labor It Is stated tha the Doers Boers are coin coinIng coining Ing n a weekly which should he be very handy for them as n t r to source In conducting their But Dut where d does J the tot for Ih these e dollars come from from the mines ot of their territory yet et It Is not tinder stood that the own the bulk ot of the property In thee thene That be 00 belongs longs mostly to Great Britain and It Is Isa n a hard tote fate Indeed for tor thIs latter coun country country try If until she can set get her troops Into the heart ot of the B r territory she should be levied upon to furnish the sinews ot of war to her enemies It looks as It If this were the case calW and IlS as such It Is n a unique feature In the con contest contest test that is III going on between a rIch country nn and a poor one Chicago It Is n a sIngular feature ot of time the war In South AttIca Africa that while the correspond onto have given us the tho details of oC British losses It is almost Impossible to 10 arrive nt at any idea Iden ot of those which the Doers Boors have sustained On this side or of the At we Q ha have heard lit little tie or nothing ot of the assault on November In which the Doers Boers lost over SOO killed and wounded When the Doer Boer losses nt at Dundee 1 Elands Orange Belmont Mod Modder od oder der er River niver alii and Colenso are aN ascertained It Is tar far from that In the matter or of killed and wounded they will exceed those ot of the British The Doers Beers conceal their losses almost ns as ns as they mask their 1 posItions Milwaukee Wisconsin The Tho floors Ira have demonstrated from the beginning ot of the conflict now In progress prore s that they were In a 11 state HIate ot of preparedness for or war while the Eng helm It Is apparent t were not In the liGht ot what Js Is noW known Brother Kruger looms UP nil as anything but the simple Bible that many people believed hIm to be nt at the outset of the campaign TItan Then the tho world supposed that J Joy y Chamberlain was th the fellow tellow who was eager for tor war var while Kruger was eager enger for tor pence peace The Doer Beer ultima ultimatUm turn tUm which brou brought ht on the war con construed construed the landing ot of English troops In InI I South Africa as n a preparation for tor hostilities Yet Yot It seems that not notwIthstanding wIthstanding the strong objection to 10 preparations for tor hostilities which the entertained they had when the they put forth nn an ultimatum overcome the prejudice so far ns as preparations on their own side ere concerned In tact fact the they must mut have bt n for tor many years for tor exactly what has taken place Washington Evening Star Suppose Dewey Instead ot of promptly sendIng the Spanish fleet to the tho bottom In Manila Da Bay only crippled It II and In doing III so 1111 bad 1 crippled himself Suppose instead or of the tho Inspiring ho sent ho be had called tor or reinforce monte anti announced that ho was WAR hold holding Ing on with great reat pending their arrival that had II with one or two of his hill best rota Crom Santiago Sampsons v ln the AmerIcans to gue guess a again s 8 to fO hIs destination and intentions Suppose that Spain hall had then hr her reserve fleet across s the Atlantic In inStead ot of for tor Manila through the thu u z Canal How would n a b beginning like that nt at us Wo Ve should have gone ono on ot of and tn In the end hMO have won but our superb rb and unbroken suc successes undoubted I saved us from much tur turmoil moll moil here nt at home |