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T EE MAGAZINE PAGE ThE OMAHA SUNDAY of Any Reg| (s Use to a Country® His Grace the Duke of Manchester Cites England’s Titled War Heroes to Prove That ““a Breed Chosen Originally for Outstanding Ability’’ Must Inherit That Ability find out whom they will ehoose to be led by, The Duke of Manchester in Uniform. E 3 By the Duke of Manchester Written Especially for This Newspsper, [ HAVE bsen neked ‘' Are dukes and lords of any use ( ! to & country?”’ A perfeetly fair question, To my mind they are invalusble sssets—the Great But in these latter years we have beard aceusations The Il(*auti/ul Viscountess Mas- Britain st least, 1t would sound slmost s self evident that the aristocracy was degenerate and effete, outworn sereene, Now Wl)fkill” as proposition that a class brought up for generation after and soft fibred through generations of luxury, 1if ever « War Nurse. generastion with an sssured position, s tradition of in a nice eatch word was ruthlesssly swept away, if ever a The Duke of Manchester Declases tense patriotism and loyalty, s habit of ecommand and class was triumphantly vindicated, it has been in these the instinetive respect of their fellow countrymen, is a dark and terrible months since August, 1914, when our That very tangible sseet for u Btate to draw on for its publis country has been at death grips with the most wonder- Every service ful war machine the world has ever seen, ? Z Member The whole history of the eountry proves it from There was mo need for recruiting campaigns; there 1 Magna Charta to the present war, Look where you will was no need for conscription to bring the aristoeracy of a . in our history, in the annals of onr stateeraft, our diplo forward to defend England from the first, When many a Noble ” maey, our srmy, our navy, our Coloniasl Administration, workman’s house knew only through higher pay and the Famil our eolonization itself, and history will give the justifica press of the war, hundreds of homes of the nobility were ey tion of the aristoeraey, mourning the loss of wons, brothers, cousins—dead, in England, I don’t say thers have beem no black sheep among wounded, blinded, maimed, Bik o them, but many of the black sheep have held up their 1 don’t believe the most rigid form of conscription ~ end not ingloriously st the last and died on the frontier would find one single member of the English aristocracy Woman, of Empire to take at this minute, 1 don’t believe there is a single Is Now ‘““Becanss on the bones of the English, male member of the British aristocracy able to drag him o the The English flag is stayed.” self about, over eighteen and under sixty (and indeed il " 1 do not say that they produce more genius than any many over) who is not in Government employ or working Service other class; genius is an exotle growth, but 1 do say 101]' 1:115 f:"[:“"‘“""":"' in fiv;"":': "“I’”;“:".V" S of the [ 0 K nan o, e ETACY who that for s high level of administrative ability, for striet s ’w)::'rk'm: "‘z ’:”,”l‘;-:'“v‘ "m, el e Conntry sense "', ""'yj for intense, if often silent, patriotism; the country, I don’t know of an aristocratic home in any the British aristocracy s, in the words of the hunting way guitable that has not been offered to the Govern If Physically 4 song went for nursing home, convalescent home, hospital or Able to V “A good "un to follow, other useful objeet, A bad 'un to best.”’ They talk about the privileges of the aristocracy, the Serve right of peers—six hundred and forty-one of them, I be T conld go on for pages citing name after name, each " § ' ¢ lieve—to sit in the House of Lords as hereditary legisla of which speaks loudly of the great dexds of the past and show how generation after generation has carried on the traditions of the founder of the house; not always in a speetacular way, but leaving their offering of solid stone, built in the edifice of the British Empire. Re member the facade and embellishments are not the only fine parts of a building; the foundations, each separate stone in the walls and piers, are as important and as in tegral a part of the whole as the most ornate pilaster. It seems to me that if you set apart a breed, chosen originally for outstanding ability of its ancestors, and generation by generation add to them mueh of what is best, most forceful and strongest and most suceessful in the particular line they are needed for, you must predispose that breed to ability in that line, It is so in every other branch of the animal and vegetable kingdom ; it in so in Kastern countries where trades and profes. sions are hereditary, and why not in England? The lines the aristocracy are reared for are govern. ment, diplomaey and fighting—in short, command-—-and you don't have to do more than ask the subordinates of most of them their opinion of ,whether they can do it, to From Thelr Casles to the Trenches Marquis of Tullibardine Viscount Powerscourt at in the Trenches the Dardanelles TIRR S SR tors, for such peers to be arrested only for indictable offences, to be tried, if accused of felony or treason, by their peers in the House of Lords, and, if condemned 1o death, to be hanged by a silken rope, But there is one privilege which they have always nad and which now, as in the past, they have availed them- Hervoic Death of Captain the Hon, Lyon Mayfair, Heir of Lord Mlayfair, One of the Forty. five Heirs to Peevages Who, According to the Duke, heir Country Have Given selves of greedily, and that is the right to lead the way fn offering themselves and all they have and are for the defence of the country, This list liew before me in a newspaper as T write forty-five heirato the British peerage who have either been killed or died of wounds or illness contracted while in active service since the war began—and this list is not & completo one; ' e Taer alr Corpa AAlv! Tare, Lor Truce, on ” wa womeom mher nay, L Cocll, Capt, W, A (irona « Aylenford, Karl of { Guernse y Capt, Lord I‘YI:;: ‘A:“l’ M Aalfoir of Burleigh Lord Burleigh, Capt, Master of, |A, and 8. ¥11 Math, Marguess of | Waymouin, Wnt, L Vinco't [ And Desgoant iridport, Viscount . | Hood, L, fton, M. 1. N Hood B, LN, D Cuntlontewart, Burl of Btuart, Lt Viscount,, 6th N Heots Fus Clifden, Lord Agar-Robartes, Capt. " Gl1st Coldntreamcids TCOCR MY do Blnquiers, Lordde Wagulere, 1t Hon. 7. |2na Camerontans. Ada Hamne Lord. | Ve wen, Capt, Hon, C, € Int Life Guards. renfell, Capt Won J.DHO | Ist(Royal) Drag'n nrell W Kth Hifle Hrigade apt.Hon A K Irinh Guards, W oJ th Huffa 1 Lo d'HL|Coldstrenm Qda. Ha hKge, Mo Lt Hon M nd Rifle Wyl n e Lt Mon, ¥ i » O 16th Musaars thiin, Boe. Lt Hon COF M 0 Moot Uda Marrl 1 Col. 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