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The Commoner;
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NIntcca Decisive Battles
Creasy in his "Fifteen Decisive Bat
tles of the World" gives the following
and tells whythey were decisive:
Marathon, B C. 490, when Greek civ
ilization was preserved from an Asiatic
inundation; the defeat of the Athen
ians at Syracuse, B. G. 413, by which
Rome instead of. Greece became the
schoolmaster of Europe; the battle of
Arbela, B. C. 331f which extended
Greek Influence from the Nile to the.
Caspian; the battle of the Metaurus,
B. C. 207, which decided between Car
thage and Rome; the victory of Ar-
memnius over the Roman legions un
der Varus, A. D. 9, which saved our
Germanil ancestors from enslavement
or extermination,, and drew the line be
tween the Lalin and Teutonic races;
the battle of Chalons, A. D. 451, when
"the -Scourge of God." Attila, and the
Huns ceased their affliction of Chris
tendom; the battle of Tours, A. D. 732,
when, but for Charles the Hammed, the
Koran would have been taught at Ox
ford instead of the Bible; the battle of
Hastings, 100C, which "high-mettled
the blood in our veins;" Joan of Arc's
victory over the English at Orleans,
1429, by which she "rescued her coun
try from becoming a second IielaLd;"
the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588,
which checked the sea, power of Spain
and saved England" from the Inquisi
tion; the battle of BJenheln, 1704,
when Germany was deiiveied from
Louis XIV; the battle of Pultowa,
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Well, well! I didn't know that!"
1709, when Peter the Great brought
Russia into Europe; the victory o' the
Americans, over Burgoyne at Sara
toga, 1777, by which the New World
was enabled to work out its own des
tinies; the battle of Valmy, 1792,
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Republic; the battle of Waterloo, 1815,
which checked the attempt to found
an empire for the aggrandizement of
one man.
In the fifty years since Creasy,"
says an editorial in the New York In
dependent, "three more must be added
to the list. The battle of Gettysburg,
18G3, which decided the destiny of an
enslaved race and secured for u? all
liberty and union, now and, as we hope,
forever; the battle of Sedan, 1870,
which marked the rise of the German
empire; the destruction of the Spanish
fleet in. Manila bay, 1898, which made
the United States the dominant power
of the Pacific ocean and marked its
entran.ee into world politics. And now
to these must be added the battle of
Llao Yang, the first time in the his
tory of the world the yellow race has
driven back the white; the first se
rious check In the conquest of Asia,
Africa and America by Eurooe; the
first time an Asiatic race has demon
strated its ability to use the appli
ances of modern civilization; the first
Important battle for 1,200 years not
fought on both sides by members of
the Aryan race and professedly Chris
tian nations; the first decisive engage
ment In a war for existence by a
nation which is already exertir.g an
influence on all others In commerce
and Industry, in art and science. If
Japan finally wins she becomes the
Great Britain of the east, and the nat
ural Ififtdar of the Chinese and Ko
reans." -Denver Times..
Mors or Less Excusable
The 25.000, textile workers of Fall
River who are to be shut out of the
mills until they consent to a reduction
of a flat eighth of their former low
wages have voted unanimously to stay
shut out rather than accept a decrease
of earnings the average of which would
be less than six dollars a week. One
high protection organ in Its review of
the Fall River situation says that "the
union seem to recognize little but a
blind passion for strife when things
don't go to suit them." That is one
view to take of the matter, and It may
be the correct one, yet it does seem a
bit human for men who have wives and
children to shelter, feed and clothe to
get angry, even blindly so, when it Is
demanded of them that they shall work
for an average wage too low to sup
port not only the "American standard
of living," but to supply the actual
necessaries of life.
It Is true that there has now and
again appeared a lady or a gantleman
of more or less distinction who has
presented irrefutable testimony to the
fact that 3he or he has uvea quite
sumptuously on ten, or even five, cents
a JSr. Far be it from us to doubc the
veracity of such authorities, of so much
as to suggest that they might be the
living skeletons of some freak show;
but, all things considered, including
rent, food, light, fuel and clothing, it
does seem rather hard to realize in
these days of soaring prices a state of
comfortable living on a wage of a dol
lar a day. The prodigal son, it will be
remembered, lived on the husks of the
onrn that the swine rejected, but It
will also be recalled that he did not
like that kind of diet and hied him to
where the fatted calf awaited him. A
fair presumption is that a man can
jib more support himself and lamily
properly on six dollars a week and
enjoy it than the prodigal son could
live upon and enjoy permanently a
menu composed exclusively of corn
husks.
The Fall River mill owners contend
that the proposed reduction was neces
sary because of the high price of cot
ton and the low price of cloth, but un
til they closed their plants they still
continued to declare generous divi
dends, and we have not heard of any of
them going intp bankruptcy or living
on a dollar, much less ten or five cents,
a day.
It may be true that the members of
the unions of the Fall River mills rec
ognized "little but a blind passion for
strife" when from an already too small
wage it was demanded by tbeir em
ployers that they should accept a 12
per cent reduction; but even nonun
ionlsts might be reasonably excused if
they got mad about such a thing as
that and declined to accept a reduction
so drastic -Philadelphia Ledger.
Unlucky TbfrtMsi
A gentleman who had been dining at
a restaurant, and who often ordered a
dozen oysters, counted them one day,
and found but eleven.
Still another day he counted then,
with the same result. Then he said
to the waiter:
"Why do you only give me eleven
oysters when I order a dozen?"
"Oh, sir," answered the waiter, "l
didn't think ou'd 'want to bes!tt!n'
thirteen at table, sir.'" Spare Mo
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