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THE BULLETIN
Fix this textVoL 2. —No. 103.—New Seriee.
Fix this textSATURDAY, MAY 2, 1885.
Fix this textMm-M.
Fix this textThe Bulletin.
Fix this text' - SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1885.
Fix this textThe Dailies’ Dilemma
Fix this textThe woe-begone condition to which our
Fix this textdaily contemporaries are reduced on realiz.
Fix this texting the sad fate of the New South Wales
Fix this textContingent, is food for the laughter of the
Fix this textgods. Had every man in the force been
Fix this textslaughtered, or had every man returned
Fix this texteach with his rifle-stock corrugated with
Fix this textnotches representing the number of foes he
Fix this texthad slain, the dailies would have been in the
Fix this texthighest state of Jingoistic exaltation. But
Fix this textwhen it became evident that “our boys”
Fix this textwere to be sent back to us uninjured, and
Fix this textwithout having wrought injury upon any-
Fix this textthing more formidable than tinned beef,
Fix this textthe “Patriotic” journals are quite crest-
Fix this textfallen. Nobody having been massacred on
Fix this textone side or the other, the bloodthirsty S.M.
Fix this textHerald becomes positively lugubrious, the
Fix this textEvening News disconsolately strives to dis-
Fix this textcount, by anticipation, the ridicule which it
Fix this textperceives to be its inevitable portion, and
Fix this textthe Daily Telegraph gees metaphorically
Fix this textupon its marrowbones and whines pitifully
Fix this textthat it never said that the Contingent would
Fix this textbe of any service. In this humble excuse
Fix this textthe S. M. Herald itself joins, and the con-
Fix this texttortions of the trio of papers, but yesterday
Fix this textbursting with the inflation of spurious
Fix this textpatriotism and militant exaggeration, are
Fix this textof a character to bring tears of laughter to
Fix this textevery eje. We had estimated that nothing
Fix this textcould exceed the feverish anxiety which
Fix this text■was displayed to magnify the importance of
Fix this textthe succour to England, and the desperate
Fix this textnecessity that there was for rendering that
Fix this texthelp without a moment’s delay. So urgent
Fix this textwas the case, and so extreme the emergency,
Fix this textthat it justified, we were told, a disregard of
Fix this textall constitutional procedure. The Ministry,
Fix this textthe public was bouncibly requested to ob-
Fix this textserve was fully warranted by the extremity
Fix this textand urgency of the peril to the mother
Fix this textcountry, in acting without the concurrence
Fix this textof the Parliament and in breaking down the
Fix this textlimitations on their power of action which
Fix this textwere provided in the Constitution as a safe-
Fix this textguard for the people of the colony against
Fix this textiust such precipitation as then occurred.
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Fix this textNow, however, the v<ry organs which
Fix this textinsisted on that urgency, and exaggerated
Fix this textthat extremity of need as a justification for
Fix this textthe unconstitutional deed of Dalley, are
Fix this textexplaining with embarrassed fervour that
Fix this textthey never said that England required help,
Fix this textor that there was any extremity whatever.
Fix this textThey nevertheless, feel themselves in so dip.
Fix this texttresBing a quandary that they cannot help
Fix this textshewing the agitation which afflicts them;
Fix this textand are unable to conceal that at the present
Fix this texttime they wish the Contingent were at
Fix this textJericho-or at least in Afghanistan. They
Fix this textshew themselves extremely sore and irritated
Fix this textbecause the men have the perversity not to
Fix this textwish to go to Jericho, and with theexception
Fix this textof a handful, are so weary and sick of the
Fix this textwhole fiasco and farce, that they are deter-
Fix this textmined to have done with this military busi-
Fix this textness and come back to their homes. The
Fix this texttemper of the New South Wales Contingent
Fix this textin this particular seems to have been par-
Fix this textticularly galling to the Imperial authorities
Fix this text—who had, doubtless, believed all that Dal-
Fix this textley and the dailies stuffed them with re-
Fix this textspecting the intensity and unanimity of the
Fix this textpopular feeling, and the heroic determma-
Fix this texttion of everybody to share every war of
Fix this textEngland, good or bad, at any sacriflce what-
Fix this textever The flow of honied phrases has been
Fix this textsuddenly shut off. The slobber of over-
Fix this textripe compliments — compliments which,
Fix this textf lavished upon any particular regiment in
Fix this textthe regular service, would have astonished
Fix this textthe British public and convulsed the rest of
Fix this textthe army—has sharply changed to some-
Fix this textthing very like insult. The colonials
Fix this texthave, according to the terms of a cabled
Fix this textmessage, been curtly told that if they refuse
Fix this textto voluvtt°er for service in India they will
Fix this textbe disbanded. We don’t see how our
Fix this textbrethren have merited this affront. Nobody
Fix this textimagines that they had any responsibility
Fix this textfor the foolish vapourings of the Ministry
Fix this textand the daily Press. They were men who
Fix this textwanted a change and a bit of excitement,
Fix this textand the chance of getting it In the shape of
Fix this texta fight, with pay, and praise, and glory
Fix this textthrown in, was too grand a “ throw in” to
Fix this textbe neglected. Nobody supposes that they
Fix this textwere philosophers who had pondered over
Fix this texttheir obligations and their duty to the
Fix this textmother country or to this colony. As a
Fix this textmatter of fact, all the philosophers and
Fix this texthigh patriotic moralisers, from Mr. Dalley
Fix this textand tho Editor of the Herald, down to
Fix this textNinny Melville and “ the Little Boy at
Fix this textManly,” stayed at home with extraordinary
Fix this textunanimity.
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Fix this textThe adventurous fellows who enlisted had
Fix this textno voice in all the splendid things which were
Fix this textsaid in theirhehalf. They were spoiling for a
Fix this textfight, and, had they been favoured by a
Fix this textbountiful Providence with the chance, they
Fix this textwould have comported themselves with al 1
Fix this textthe Han and resolution which is ordinarily
Fix this textexhibited by raw troops under fire for the
Fix this textllrst time—probably with rather more spirit
Fix this textthan with rather less. But they had not
Fix this textthought the matter out very exhaustively.
Fix this textWith their eyes fixed on Glory, and with
Fix this textevery assurance from Dallev and the
Fix this textdallies that they were assured no less a slice
Fix this textof that commodity than to save the British
Fix this textEmpire in her hour of peril, they did not
Fix this textpermit their minds to dwell upon such possi-
Fix this textble eventualities as their not being required
Fix this textat all, and having to march and counter-
Fix this textmarch and guard navvies engaged in the
Fix this textenspiriting occupation of railway-making,
Fix this textwith water bad and scanty, under a blazing
Fix this textsun. They could have stood the thirst and
Fix this textthe marching, provided the glory had been
Fix this textthrown in in handsome lumps. But all
Fix this textbotheration and no glory 1 Their experience
Fix this textlasted long enough to teach them the differ-
Fix this textence between romance and reality, and to
Fix this textappreciate the fact that no matter how
Fix this textfluently editors may write, the soldier's lot
Fix this textis, like that of the operatic policeman, ‘‘not
Fix this texta happy one.” But they have by no means
Fix this textdeserved the sudden contumely from the
Fix this textWar Office. Much allowance may be made
Fix this textfor the military officials. They had been so
Fix this textgulled by Dalley and the dailies that they
Fix this texthad really believed that all Australians were
Fix this textborn fools, and really ready to sacrifice uot
Fix this textonly the Constitution under which they
Fix this textlived, but all their peaceful progress and
Fix this textpersonal comfort in order to have the honour
Fix this textof providing a fresh recruiting ground for
Fix this textfeeding the maw of Moloch, whenever the
Fix this text1 ruling classes of the old country thought it
Fix this textsuited them to engage in a bloody war. It
Fix this textwas, doubtless, an irritating thing to dis-
Fix this textcover that even the thoughtless and reck-
Fix this textless, who rushed to enlist at the first impulse
Fix this texthad a lot of solid oommonsense under their
Fix this textsuperficial levity, and were quite capable of
Fix this textrealizing that the career of even a luckless
Fix this textman in a peaceful and prosperous colony is
Fix this textinfinitely preferable to the best luck which
Fix this texta common soldier may hope for.
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Fix this textWe shall be glad to see our 700 adult males
Fix this textback again among our population, and es-
Fix this textpecially glad that they will return with
Fix this texthands free from the indelible stain of the
Fix this textblood of patriots. According to present ap-
Fix this textpearances, their luck may, perhaps; change
Fix this textonce they get buck to their own litnd, and it
Fix this textmay be their fortune to be to Australia what
Fix this textthe Arabs are to the Soudan, the devoted
Fix this textand patriotic defenders of their country
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Fix this textIt is useless for the Jingo journals tC
Fix this textattempt to writhe out of their mortifying
Fix this textsituation. It is useless for theiti to proclaim
Fix this textnow that they never pretended thitt Etlg-
Fix this textland needed the help which has proved sd
Fix this textuncalled for. They will thus merely shift
Fix this texton to the other horn of the dilemma which
Fix this texttortures them. If there was no desperate
Fix this textnecessity, then there was no justifloatioh
Fix this textfor the unconstitutional proceedings of Mr.
Fix this textDallby and his abettors. Of course therd
Fix this textwas no extreme need, and the old country
Fix this textwas in no stress. But the Government and
Fix this textthe Press apologists affirmed both positions.
Fix this text• • •
Fix this textIn the very first paragraph published by
Fix this textthe S. M. Herald accompanying Mr.
Fix this textley's minute to the Executive Council; it
Fix this textwas particularly stated that—
Fix this text“The Government, In making this (.ffertothd
Fix this textImperial Government, desires to testify to thh
Fix this textreadiness of the Australian colonies to give instant
Fix this textand practical help to the Empire in its emergency.”
Fix this textAnd in the first leading article in which the
Fix this textsame journal dealt with the project, it de-
Fix this textclared that—
Fix this text“ The making of the offer implied the belief that
Fix this textsomething in the nature of an emergency had
Fix this textarisen; and that the prompt appearance at Suakim
Fix this textof even so small a force as we could afford to
Fix this textsend, would be of great value at a critical mo-
Fix this textment. In that belief . and the probable around fot
Fix this textit, lie the justification of the action of the Ooverri •
Fix this textment ; and that is substantially the answer to Sif
Fix this textHenry Pahkes’ letter in Saturday’s Herald.”
Fix this textJust so. And that being the case, what has
Fix this textnow become of the justification 7 Strug- 1
Fix this textgling now in vain. It will always be easy to
Fix this textpin the three Jingo papers to the wall as rt
Fix this textgamekeeper pins up vermin, by transfixing
Fix this textthem with what they wrote in the first heat
Fix this textof their frenzy
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Fix this textAnd the same is true of the so-called
Fix this textPatriotic Fund. Of late—thatis to say, since
Fix this textqualms have arisen in the minds of the
Fix this textpromotors of this collection—it has beea
Fix this textcustomary to refer to it as a purely charit-
Fix this textable affair, not pledging its subscribers to
Fix this textany endorsement of the acts of the Govern-
Fix this textment or to any acquiescence in the thirst
Fix this textfor blood and revenge and war. It is denied
Fix this textthat it ever was justly susceptable of being
Fix this textso construed, and—well, we proceed to quote
Fix this textfrom the invaluable columns of the S.M»
Fix this textHerald of February last:—
Fix this text“It seems likely that the requisite funds for the ex-
Fix this textpedition will be pr ovided by public subscription
Fix this textwithout the necessity for the imposition of fresh
Fix this texttaxation. In addition to the offers already re-
Fix this textceived and announced by us, the Acting-Colonial
Fix this textSecretary yesterday morning received a note
Fix this textfrom Mr. Daniel Cooper, eldest son of Sit
Fix this textDaniel Cooper, enclosing a cheque for £1000
Fix this textand written in the following terms:—’Dear Mr.
Fix this textDalley,— Will the enclosed cheque for £1000 be
Fix this textof any assistance In defraying the expenses of out
Fix this textNew South Wales forces in Egypt f If so, I give it
Fix this textwith much pleasure, and must congratulate you
Fix this texton your brilliant idea of offering our help to the
Fix this texti old country, and on the enthusiasm it has pro*
Fix this textGENERAL KOMAROFF,
Fix this textCommander of the Russian Troops on the Afghan Frontier.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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