Earl Roberts plunges at once into his subject: There is but one duty for the British citizen at the present time—men and women, young and old, rich and poor, all alike must place everything at the service of the State. Nothing must be kept back—time, energy, money, talent, even life itself, must be freely offered in this supreme crisis." He closes with the words "Two years ago, at a crowded meeting in Manchester, I said to my fellow-countrymen 'Arm and prepare to quit yourselves like men, for the time of your ordeal is at hand' I claim a hearing, therefore, when I say to-advisers of the German Emperor." The conclusion is "No nation which has been constrained to draw the sword could wish for a better cause than is here set down" (i.e., than the two reasons given by Mr. Asquith in a speech on August 6: "If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fut an honourable obligato Becondly, we are fighting vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.'')
The British Army's Pride, No one had more right than Lord Roberts to make the following claim, a claim which might easily be smiled at as utterly bombastical, but before any non-British reader dismisses the claim let him remember the part that Lord Roberts himeelf played in the three striking instances he cites in proof:
We may claim on behalf of the British by Army, that it has the wonderful faculty of fighting antagonists without enemies. "It may, indeed, be maintige that British soldiers fete is in auch a noble whom they van-ye examples to illustrate my meaning. against the Sikhs; when the meise Loet talieae is three years only elapsed since our
broke out only fi wears later, the Sikhs fought on our side against the mutineers. Tu 1885, the Afghans, against whom we had fought were read; against the The Dutch in South Africa, headed by generals who fought against us quite recently, are now fighting on our ai One further word from our veteran rose brought against our own" brave soldiers fighting in South Africa. But whether the charges true or not, let us keep our own hai Jet against the Germans in such a way as to corn their liking as well as their respect."
Britain's Emerging.
Sir Henry Jones admits that the past history of England is far from spotless: "It was not by converting the heathen that we acquired their lands" (the writer might added for their acquisition was not merely
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