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Show LORD ROBERT8 AT 80. The editor of the Salt Lake Telegram Tel-egram is an admirer of Lord Rob -erts and pays him this tribute. I Lord Roberts U going through Fng- laud declaring to the people that they must submit tb a military education : i He Is derided by many people, but he makes converts wherever he' -peaks, and he is developing the fact : i in this, what they call his last eam-i ! paign. that outside of being a great; soldier and a natural born hero, he 1b a statesman, and that if his ca-1 ! reer had been one of peace instead of war, he might have been held as onei I of the ablest of British statesmen. A month ago he reached Wolverhampton. Wolver-hampton. He was Introduced to the audience by three bugle calls and he made them u speech that shook them ul immensely An extract from that' speech will show how capable and' shrewd the old man is He is past 80' and this is the way he talked: "It daunts the very heart or any j experienced soldier to contemplate the fate of such an army; courage would! i avail them nothing except to die; generalship would avail them nothing, except to make the leaders realize, with vain regret or Impotent despair, what things might have been dared or done with discipline recognizing with rage as the masses were mowed down that theirs, theirs once more, had been the 'valor of Ignorance ' the most fatal and tragic of all forms of valor, whether in peace or war" And there can be no doubt but what he Is right. The ( humps on the farms In England and In the cities of Eng-lund Eng-lund need to be taken and put under that discipline v.hic h will fit them to be what trained soldiers always have been ready to go "into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell.' But the day or the fighting man the soldier Is passing, and though we. must admire Lord Roberts, it is difficult for one who is not a worshiper wor-shiper of war heroes and a believer |