Yue letter which we publish in another column, signed "R. I.'P,," really opens up the wide question whether anything is worth going to war about. " War,"
our correspondent says truly enough, "would mean the sacrifice of thousands of lives and millions of money, the dislocation of our trade, and the weakening of our power by the destruction of part of our navy." Pat enough stress on this, and we shall never go to war, Gur correspondent would draw up a balance-sheet; the whole trade of China is worth say £5,000,000 a year to us; 3 war with Russia and France would dislocate that trade and others and cost, say £200,000,000. Obviously, we had better not go to war.
The foundation. of England's greatness are her ships commerce, and our statesmen last century know this, and they fought all comers to secure the colonies and the conitnerce. "It is almost entirely to war that we owe our wide empire: If the statesmen of the last century Lines to the Memory of the' Right Rov. Bishop Garnier g59 had looked.at the matter in the petty-commercial spirit that, inspires so many The Late Monseigneur Valentin writers to-day who call all who take Garnier, 8.3. 952 wider views jingoes, there would have Local Art 353 been.no. Greater Britain to-day. This Books, Bte,, Received 353 The Conditions in the Peace Pro 353 is not_.a world where you can get an Revised Inland Steam Navi imperial.position by asking for it, you The British Empi Regulation, 189% must fight, for it, and not count the immediate coat. We opened China to Cervera's Futile Flight 356
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