The following letter, or rather part of a letter, written by Rudyard Kipling toa Shanghai correspondent, is a reply to those American newspapers that were chuckling over what they were pleased to call the poet's chastisement of England. Ir shows that the poet has not yet thrown off the savage mood which prompted him to write about "flanneledfols at the loket,"' and that therefore his remarks on this question, as on the question of the Boer war, must not be taken with much seriousness, "All you say about the Philippines, the conflict "there between the Ameri: ans, military and civil, and the yig-headedness of the military and th-it habit of setting "bulldogs to ea ch rabbits' is imme-ely cheering tome, because 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 it way, if unusually enlightened, be: in to understand that it has taken he'd 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 "howing. that the American seems to be constitutionally incapable admiting himself wrong and frankly pu'- ting himself in the right,' because I did not like to think of the Americans as more logical than ourselves. Of course what a new country wants is a high-toned despot of unlimited powers and absolute integrity, hut as America and Englin, och fe people, we must muddle alonz in the expensive. wasteful, but cheery fashion that ttonds our metl.ods,""
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