| Show r i t KIPLING AS A mm STINGING IN CRITIC ji m 5 2 r With tho the Boor War aa as n Ho Soundly tilo tho I m I Entire t II Ie His Cry Bittor Ar ol of ilia tho Through tho I H 3 g Of 01 Satire 5 tn t t 1 3 n lit n 1 n n n n n 1 nn n n n n m Ff S London Jill Jan i Kipling t 1 has stirred 1 mho tho empire at as s It has hl never ne er been stirred by II n ti poet 1 O t except possibly by hy he himself with While Vans Mans Burden He lie appears appear today In lu tin tilt also of ot a n critic as a hitter ns as tin 1111 most mORl venomous continental one ene enemy my III with s Ith time the th weight of ot the h trait ht it of at his hie hI marvelous poetic eloquence The Time knife ID he l applied to 10 sorest florA l allot the Lila war Avar In hr South Africa which Is III used used us mid u u for tor the Ilia enumeration of merry of or thO nations alleged shot comings Dm 1 ANI FDa The must most luo t sensational utterance e III In Inthis thus this most sensational philippics Is ii a 1 de demand mand that time the th policy loUey of conscription be lie bent nt at once put Into Inlo force throughout tho the kingdom Welcome as liS this may be to the ot of time the war office who have seen JP n the time ranks steadily thinned and who have lately been compelled lIed more Inure und alai more to turn to the colonies tar for recruits It U Is a II which the government hill lI ne r tIit O uh gar the tho direst n of the certainty r Qt popular p revolt the ot Is Issued I 1 F chosen medium Is hI the Times rIm Ill and In ht recent years has boas h that veteran organ organ come cOln come nearer fo to proving Its right to Its 1111 one title of or The That such ouch an All ar arraignment Tai g of at the government g o and through It of the time nation at large III reI should appear In III this of at nil all papers Is almost as as tho the poem pawn Itself limit I It has hall become a u political as ns well as ate a n public sensation rind Its consequences may bo ho AImS ABUSE AND SATIRIC The rite poem runs time the entire gamut be between tween abuse satire Sport Britons who are well supplied with this worlds goods are especially held up to tD public scant and ond much of Britons re recent reo recent cent troubles In South Africa are traced directly to their door 1001 and to the Influence which they wield In govern government ment circles Treason to national duty Is boldly charged against n the latter and warning Is given that unless prompt re reform reform form torm measures are arc Initiated the na national awakening will cone come In appall appalling appalling ing IlIg manner l declaration for tor conscription begins with the time demand that each man non born In the Island Illand be bt broke to the mat ww I ter tr of at w war r Hush action lie he prophecies will noon produce Men lien not children or tempered t and taught to the sail end J Cleansed of ot servile senile Jle stow erow to dread or m OJ despise Humble because of ot knowledge mighty a aby by b sacrifice t p r I The Tho part of oC the tha poem which slings hi tho the upper the most and which m the i 1 middle and 1111 louver r classes havo 1110 wit read with the most moNt complacency reads thus tints i t tAnd And ye sent them comfits comfit and to tu help then them bang liany your foes Co r And Antl ye YI vaunted your our fathomless power and 1 ye flaunted your YOlI Iron pride r JOIe yv yN y fawned on un the younger nations for r f or the men Inell who wpm could shoot hoot and P Then Jh ye 11 returned to your trinkets then ye contented your soul With lIh the flu tools fools a at nt the wicket walet I or m the muddled ont omits at nt the Uio goals II Olven 01 to strong trong delusion wholly b belloy ov l t Ing tuE a Rile ll ii Yo Ye saw laW s w that the time land lay r rye I IiI rye ye iI let the lilt months h go 0 by b 1 Waiting sumo some i easy y wonder hoping a tome elfin l n Idle openly ot 01 ply 1 Idle In the hl Ico w i of t the th fore tOTe j l sInt line I Idle Title except for fur your boasting boa II II 1 and what r f fIs rit U it your v tl l a If tr ye 1 grudge tl mt Ml r Y U a O lordliest t line floe on earth rth f Ancient effortless oit rI cycle cell on n cycle set not a 1 aLife Life go so long berg lon untroubled and yo ye 0 who In t 1 tip ip forget It 11 Is la not made with the mountains It Is Iii f not lint one On with the time loop deep p I IMen aMan Men Man not gods devised It Men not gods roust must keep I N 1 i rime Tho poem 1 Is nowhere with greater greaten joy than It has been In clerical r circles droles It 11 hUll has Ishii ILI been foil felt that time the average Briton was In III need of n a prod and many ninny sermons written for tor delivery tomorrow have been temporarily t shelved because 1 Kipling has furnished ample texts text for tor upon a topic of nf peculiar funeral mind and present Interest 1 1 Next to the clergymen and social re re e formers or possibly before I fa Ill them tho poem Is especially well ell received among i the tho sympathizers with the tho goers Boers oera open or concealed That such sueh a lecture can cun bo to read lead because of ot tho the achievements of the tho they thoy regard as us a u trl I mule hute to tu their prowess prowls from which noth j c ing hog that lifts has happened or will whit happen cnn can detract Incidentally many compare the time vigor of ot lines with wheat what they call tho time milk and water rhyming on Anglo American unity by Alfred Austin re recently recently and again ngan significantly ask asic which Is la more moro worthy to bear hear time the title of at poet IO t laureate Special cable coble dispatch I to the time Chicago I I |
