25th Nov, Mr. A. J, Wilson's leading article in last: month's issue of his Investors' Re-clew is headed " About Emperors and Things Eastern," and he begins it by saying: "In the opinion of the Dundee Advertiser, emperors are deficient as a class in the sense of humour. They have been toasting each other, and talking of 'a mission of peace' on the occasion of the Russian Caesar's progress across Europe, in apparent obliviousness of the fact that their only visible ocupa~ tion is to muster and review troops. 'Their delight is in engines of war, in the musterings of armed men trained to murder och other on scientific principles as opportunity offers, and yet they babble of ' peace." According' to their own version of the ' mission' they fulfil among men, they are the great pacific caters; without them nations would be perpetually cutting each other's throats, and their countless hordes of professional man-slayers ure divinely-ordained instruments for the prevention of bloodshed." Mr, Wilson goes on to show how impotent, notwithstanding their Apparent power, the Emperors really are, The Czar dares not attempt the cleansing and liberalising of his Orthodox -Church; the Emperor Prancis Joseph cannot bring German and Czech and Hun together as one family in his heterogeneous Empire: Kaiser Wilhelm cannot repress Yunkerism with its insolent pride of birth, or banish So-dalism from his dominions. The moment any one of these resplendent creatures attempts to make a move beyond the well-defined lines within which they are now permitted to disport themselves, and expend what strength they possess, they are pulled up sharply as by the hand of fat "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther."
The impunity with with which for some two years the Sultan of Turkey has been allowed to massacre tens of thousands of Armenians is a striking proof of the helplessness of the imp Powers, our awn included. It was known weeks beforehand that the Sultan was planning the recent massacre in Constantinople, The hellish purpose was as well known in the diplomatic world as the insolvency of Spain or Italy, and no one ordered up a gunboat, called long, we will of a surety find ourselves playing second fiddle to Germany. And not to Germany alone, but to the out a soldier, or uttered a word of remonstrance to the miserable wretch rs in the inmost recesses of other rivals whose interference' with out supremacy has become marked, The natural "development of manu-the Yildiz Kiosk, and schemes, maniac-like, the destruction of the best of his factures in the different parts of the earth is a sufficient menace to Brit-unhappy subjects, England alone made ish trade, without any negative aids a small and accidental effort to stem on the part of Great Britain her. the rush of the blood-lapping ghouls self." There is a host of advisers and and the ease with which our bluejackets drove them back and restored critics spending. themselves in. telling the British manufacturer and the Bri. order at one point proved how light a tish merchant all about his sins of task it would have been to have preomission and commission, but figures vented the massacres altogether. No when they are examined do not alto-one made the attempt, and 10,000 gether bear them out; and the British defenceless Inman beings were probably manufacturer and merchant are too slain or maimed for life in that week of busy to waste time in telling their side horrors, The death of 6,000 is admitted, of the story, and uncounted heaps were cast into Then comes a very technical, but the sea. Renter's agent wrote that 'a Russian steamer which arrived in port not unreadable, article headed "'Twwentyfive Years of the Income-tax," from on the second day of the massacre which we learn'that the total gross assess-(thursday) reported having seen ment of income for the United King-Marmora a tug towing out to see three ighters filled with dead bodies." And dom for 1894-95 was £650,078,155, The chapter headed "Economic and the emperors say it is pence, Miserable hypocrites that they are, they talk of Financial Notes and Correspondence begins with an account of the League peace only to hide their impotence and, that has been formed in India against perhaps, their cowardice as well. Slaves the P.and 0. Company, with "very to the inhuman policy inaugurated by amusing attack on the "high tea" that Bismarck of training whole races of men second class passengers have to accept to be murderers by profession, these in lien of dinner, "It is a deliberate imperial majesties have merely suc-insult to the common-sense of Angloceeded in creating engines of destruction Indians... to expect them to sit down so costly and unwieldy that they are at the close of the day, under the terrified to put them in motion for any inaction of board ship life, to slabs of purpose, lest their empires should crum-cold meat and greasy imitations of ble in pieces beneath the weight."
Melton Mowbray pies, with no con-On England, and especially on Lord dimeut but bread, directors' jam, and Salisbury lies, according to Mr. Wilson, dissolving butter, washed down by a a great part of the shame of this imdecoction of tan." lo judge by the punity, and if we were to tackle the Co's passenger lists, the League question in a perfectly unselfish spirit, does not seem to have done it much no Power would dare to interfere with harm.
It is our bounden duty to do it.
The note on Portuguese Finance is On us lies the heaviest responsibility not very hopeful; the note on US. of having kept the Sultan so long Government Finance goes to show the where he is; ours, therefore, is the duty mismanagement of the finances of the to effectually bid him begone, Federal Government, and the deliberate What hinders us from landing a few policy to spend so as to have ground troops, arresting him in his lair and for maintaining the excessive Customs deporting him to a comfortable prison tariff. The note on Italian is still less in Cyprus?" hopeful than that on Portuguese In the next article, headed "British Finance. There is a note on Li Hun Laziness and German Energy," Mr. M. chang which winds up with the sentence: Rees Davies discusses some aspects of "Is China prepared to surrender control the craze that the British manufacturer over her internal resources, as she has is being ousted from the markets of the surrendered her Foreign Customs, as world by his German rival. The British security for the assistance required by Consul at Zanzibar repeats the com-her? If not, Burope and America may plaint that the British manufacturer keep their bagman otherwise employed will not " come down from his pedestal, than in hunting up Chinese Govern-and produce, as his foreign competitors ment orders."—'I'here are several other do, an article that will meet the prac-interesting notes, which with the usual tical requirements of the buyers." The "Balance Sheet Facts and Inferences," same story comes from Central and ete, make up a very readable and South America, from the Far East, from valuable number.
Morocco, Portugal, the Balkans, Switzeriand, in fact, from many points all "For tHe Broop 1s ram Lrrs."—Clarke's over the world. We are too apathetic.
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