Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1900 — PULSE OF THE PRESS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PULSE OF THE PRESS

British Prc.,« Comment. To nine ont of ten of the people of the United Kingdom the chatter of the House of Commons during the last few days is simply irritating and offensive.— London Times. The great meeting of Hindoos and Mohammedans, held in Calcutta, is another evidence of the solidarity of patriotic sentiment which prevails throughout the British empire.—London Chronicle. The spectacle of the prime minister of England, at a time when the country wants, not the evasions of party, but the evidence of the work of a strong man in organizing all our resources for the successful prosecution of the war. is not one of.which any of us are proud. —London Mail. “If ministers are to say that the war was inevitable, that the ignorance of the cabinet' was inevitable, that our unpreparedness was inevitable, and that our reverses were inevitable, we may go a little further and say that the indignation of the country and the immediate resignation of Mr. Chamberlain and Sir Alfred Milner are also inevitable.—London Leader. We cannot admit' that it is the natural order of things that this great empire should find itself so seriously embarrassed by a fight with two little republics, ■whose action in fighting us was put down by the whole civilized world as a futile piece of bravado. We are prepared to do a great deal for the sake of helping the Government out of their present difficulty, but we can hardly swallow that excuse. —London Herald.

Continental peoples have no adequate conception of the depth of the confidence of this country in its ability to do the work which Boer ambition has imposed upon it, and its firm determination not to desist until that work shall have been done. They are lost in astonishment at the fact that the Government is still in power, and likely to remain so, and that the foundations of the throne and the constitution have not been shaken.—London Graphic. The nation will never fight with all its force unless the great majority of the people are convinced of the justice of its cause. Believing, as we do, that the war was forced upon us by the necessities of the case, and that the principles for which we are contending are the principles of liberty and liberalism, we rejoice that the controversies which have raged for so many months in the press should now be repeated in the House of Commons.—London News. In this war Irish blood has been poured out freely. The history of the operations is largely a recital of the exploits of Irish regiments. Thus the nation is being hastened along the path of decay by two causes. Emigration has already bred a species of national anaemia-. The ravages of the disease are now being assisted by the splendid marksmanship of the Boers. Meanwhile the imperial parliament will recoup us for this expenditure of blood by imposing on us additional taxes. Hbwever this war results, Ireland must lose.—lrish Independent.