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Show "THE RIGHTS OF MAN.'.' It is amazing what conquest and plunder can be hidden under the specious spec-ious plea of the "rights of man." The Baltimore Sun prints a whole sermon in the following succinct paragraph: para-graph: Mr. Balfour, ir his speech on the Transvaal war, is quoted as declaring that Great Britain is fighting for "the rights of man." Possibly he meant for the rights of the English man. It will unqeftionably be difficult to persuade Oom Paul that she is figMing- for the rights of the Dutch man. "Man," while in the abstract a term including the whole human race, is strictly limited limit-ed in the concrete work of benevolent national assimilation to the nation ! which is doing the assimilating. Mr. Balfour's declaration is true enough, if its meaning is properly restricted and applied, accoreling to the canons of civilization and religion ..established by philanthropic as'similatore of other people's property. , - |