The  "unfortunate  companionship,"
to  borrow  a  phrase  of  Col.  Watter-
Bon,  with  Russia  cost  Great  Britain
two  of  her  ablest  cabinet  members
and  I  presume  the  less  said  about
It  the  better  pleased  the  British  Gov-
ernment is.  Servia,  too,  is  a  silent
partner.  With  all  their  faults  Eng-
lishmen do  not  like  to  mix  with  regi-
cides, unless  they  have  something  to
gain  by  It,  and  then  they  prefer  not
to  have  too  much  publicity  given  to
the  fact.  The  Russians  and  Servians
and  Japanese  are  good  enough  to
flght  England's  battles  for  her  but
for  little  else.  When  John  Morley
and  John  Burns  resigned  from  the
British  Government  as  a  protest
against  the  alliance  with  Russia  to
crush  Germany  the  fact  was  probably
deleted  from  the  despatches  to  St.
Petersburg.  The  Indian  immigrant
to  South  Africa  can  be  treated  with
impunity  and  even  the  Japanese,  told
by  Canada  and  Australia  they  are
not  wanted  there,  are  mollified  by
their  British  ally.  But  it  is  scarcely
to  be  expected  that  England  would
attempt  the  same  patronizing  tactics
with  Russia.  It  speaks  more  than
volumes  for  the  hopeless  inconsist-
ency of  Great  Britain  in  this  "war  of


freedom  against  militarism,"  that
among  the  allies  which  she  has  sum-
moned to  her  colors  to  serve  her  ends
are  some  of  whom  she  blushes  to
speak.  No  nation  has  been  subject  of
British  vilification  in  the  past  to  a
greater  extent  than  Russia,  no  nation
more  deserving  of  the  just  castiga-
tion  of  true  Englishmen.  And,  yet,
today  we  find  this  same  Russia  and
this  same  England  fighting  shoulder
to  shoulder  and  sharing  each  other's
bread  and  salt.
