 | Indians of North America - 1908 - 1178 pages
...laden air of Hawaii that whispers the old-time taunt of the braggart nation — "that we don't want to fight but, by jingo! if we do, we've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." The fortification of these one-time inconspicuous islands has brought them into a position of singular... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Fiction - 1908 - 678 pages
...name given to the war-party in England in 1878, from a popular music-hall song: " We don't want to fight; but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too." Hence the boastful cry for war and conquest is called Jingoism. JJ, in Thackeray's The Newcomes, was... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1908 - 438 pages
...Beaconsfield had displayed, was shouting its approval of Lord Beaconsfield's language. We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too, 1 Par/. Papert, 1877, Turkey (No. 1), p. 695. was the popular way in which the music-halls echoed CHAP.... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - Eastern question (Balkan) - 1909 - 680 pages
...perished in oblivion ; the chorus is enshrined in history like a fly in amber : — " We don't want to fight, But by Jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money too. We've fought the Bear before, And if we're Britons true, The Russians shall not have Constantinople."... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Literary curiosa - 1909 - 1116 pages
...song became very popular in the English music-halls, the refrain of which was, — We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. "Jingo" was derisively cast as a nickname at the warlike party, and was proudly accepted by them. The... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1909 - 998 pages
...present condition." From Punch (London). COPYRIGHT EXPIRES. GERMAN- TAR : " • We don't want to flght, but, by Jingo, if we do. We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too. " JOHN Iti'Li. : " I s.iy. that's mil old song." GERMAN- TAII : " Well, It's mine now." Prom Punch... | |
 | Sir Herbert Maxwell - Great Britain - 1911 - 450 pages
...derisively quoting in the House a music-hall ditty very popular at the time — " We don't want to fight, but, by jingo ! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." On 8th February six British ironclads were moved up again to Constantinople, whereupon Prince Gortschakoff... | |
 | Robert Farquharson - Great Briatin - 1911 - 388 pages
...policy of the country by his famous couplet, which is as applicable now as then : — We don't want to fight ; but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. Can the present situation be better summed up ? After this digression, let me get to Paris, where I... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 898 pages
...sung in music halls by McDermott and very popular at the time. The chorus ran thus : We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too. Jinrikisha, jin-rik'i-sha ("man-power vehicle"), a two-wheeled carriage, resembling a gig, and drawn... | |
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money, too; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople. 
