PEN TERSUS SWORD.
TO Tfll BDITOB Of TUB PUSS. Sir,—You "knighls of the pen" are very load of glorifying yoonefoes at the expense of us "rufflaii ot the sword," and blowing that the day of tte sword is gone and the day of the jbo now ragni. Yon see, sir, you "knight* ef tfae pea" are all very well when the tafcig is confined to talk. Bat kindly tell *s Oaw n—ny bundles Of quill pens and beam of steel pens it will take to bring the Beef* to their bearings, now they have refused to listen to aH the diplomatic twaddle and gooey-goody claptrap they have been ktely treated to? We are hearing a lot about "onr brave soidiers" just now! Wh*t wm written on the walls of Delhi by some unknown hand, after its fall, in the Mutiny of 1867, is trae to-day, and will stand tone fer ever. It wm.— When war* lib rife and danger's nigh, God sad the vteWs «U the cry! When wan we o'er, and things are righted, God's f«*gott»,*nd the soldier's slighted. etc. f AN OLD SOLDIEB.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10483, 23 October 1899, Page 2
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