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Show KIPLING'S LATEST FLING. Writes a Letter Teeming With Uncomplimentary Un-complimentary References. London, March 8. An interesting letter let-ter from Rudyard Kipling has been published here. Dealing with the Philippines, Phil-ippines, he replied to a Shanghai correspondent, corre-spondent, who drew his attention to American methods in those islands, as follows: "All you say about the Philippines, the conflict there between the Americans, Ameri-cans, military and civil, and the pig-headedness pig-headedness of the military and their habit of setting 'bulldogs to catch rabbits,' rab-bits,' is immensely cheering to me, because be-cause it is precisely what we are doing in South Africa. You cannot persuade a big country full of prosperity that it does not know everything. When it has lost a few thousand millions sterling ster-ling it may, if unusually enlightened, begin to understand that it has taken hold of the wrong end of the stick. But that is a great deal to hope for and probably will not come in our time. I am very glad to learn, on your showing, that the American seems to be 'constitutionally incapable of admitting admit-ting himself wrong and frankly putting himself in the right,' because I did not like to think of the Americans as any more logical than ourselves. Of course, what a ney country wants is a high-toned high-toned despot of unlimited powers and absolute Integrity, but as America and England are both free peoples, we must just muddle along in the expensive wasteful, but cheer fashion that at- I tends our methods." |