We have- dealt with panic patriotism elsewhere. Here we may
say that we are perfectly certain that the mass of English- men, instead of howling about the negligence of the Government in the matter of Zeppelins, making selfish appeals for special protection, and so forth, look at the question very differently. They are perfectly willing to endure the risks from which the two women and a child unhappily suffered on Wednesday in Kent. Without any braggadocio, they feel, indeed, a very real pride, and almost satisfaction, in knowing that they too are called upon to show steadfastness and valour in the nation's evil day; and can in a sense take a tiny share, of the perils endured by the gallant men who are fighting our battles in the trenches. Instead of following the Daily Mall and similar latter-day lamentera, the country will take its punishment as English boxers have always taken theirs -- without funking, or, what is quite as bad, getting into a blind rage and hitting out wildly at anything and anybody, or, what is worst of all, turning round and scolding and screaming, and trying to find somebody to put the blame on rather than concentrating upon beating the enemy. The man who -calls people names when he is in the thick of it is not the man for the ring, or a man to have with one on a rope in the Alps er at a tiger-hunt.
