San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 118, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 28, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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SATURDAY. MAY 28 1898.
There is little disposition on the part
of the silverites in the Senate to per-
mit revenue legislation. .
o
The United States needs a Republi-
can Senate now as badly as it ever
needed anything in this world.
o
Uncle Sam seems a little undecided
whether to take Cuba or Porto Rico
first. Both are in sight
o
The admiral of the fleet is debating
whether to draw the badger (Cervera
or smoke him out of his hole.
Secretary Day put a nice gag in the
mouths of the British French and Ger-
mans as to blockade efficiency.
o
Merritt will not lose a moment now
that he is upon the Pacific coast in
getting off for Manila.
~ -o ■
The Spanish fleets are giving the ad-
ministration no more trouble than
Congress Itself is .doing.
France thinks that possibly her time
may come and she is preparing de-
fenses for some of her possessions.
o
The war dtouds thicken all around
the horizon and there is nothing in
sijtftt to indicate the end.
o
The old ship of state has some very
mutinous men board but Uncle
Sam will run it all right.
Now that Cervera is bottled up in
Santiago the problem is what to do
with him. More is known than is told.
■o
That <?adls fleet will not move tew-
ards the Philippines until it is ascer-
tained what has become of Cervera.
o
The American tourist will do more
of his sightseeing at home this year
than has been usual with him.
It is not unfitting that the legend" R-
emember the Maine” should be stamp-
ed on the bread and tents of the army
for it is indelibly engraved upon the
hearts of the people. Had that act of
treachery not been perpetrated there
would have been no war. Spain
would have been forced out of Cuba
it is true and the United States would
have guaranteed the stable govern-
ment of that island but that would
have been done without any war with
Spain and by the peaceful process of
pressure Spain receiving in return
one or two hundred millions for her
surrender of claim. As it is she has
a war on her hands is booked to lose
the Philippines Cuba and Porto Rico
the Caroline islands and perhaps more
and such other indAnity or if not that
such loss as the conduct of the war
entails the loss of her Manila fleet
and that of the others probably. There
will be a little hesitation before any
other nation blows up an American
ship in time of peace.
There is a disposition to give the
government credit for not only the
best intentions but also for splendid
executive ability but the pressure of
favoritism at Washington is tremen-
dous. Only-those who have witnessed
how every department is literally be-
seiged from the opening of the doors
until the closing thereof by those
with axes to grind soliciting positions
for themselves or friends only these
know that every day is deprived of
half of its working value by the in-
terruptions that these applications
cause. If a wall could be built around
Washington to keep out these swarms
of applicants for military and political
position it would save the officers of
the government half their time and
the service great incompetency.
The determination of the government
to break down the spy system that
Polo inaugurated cannot be question-
ed. There is no such thing as hand-
ling a .matter of this kind gently. It
is a war measure and should be pushed
to the limit. Better hang a few sus-
pects who are possibly innocent than
allow one to escape who may cause
us the loss of a thousand brave men.
This is hard but self preservation is
the first law of nations and in time
of war there should be no chances ta-
ken.
Congress it is to be hoped will wise-
ly draw the distinction between a cor-
poration enjoying special privileges
and clothed with vested rights and
those business associations which are
incorporated for the conduct of private
business and which in their nature are
at best limited partnerships. To tax
these last to the extent demanded in
the bill before Congress would be to
tax thousands of them out of exist-
ence and throw hundreds of thousands
out of employment.
There is a steady strain upon the
nerves of the people at present.watch-
ing and waiting for a demonstration
of the wisdom of the policy that ob-
tains at Washington. There is a. sus-
picion of incompetency in the direction
of affairs and until this is removed
there will be nervousness. Not that
there is a question of the result but
there is a question if double the time
and money and lives are not liable to
be lost by delay that are really neces-
sary to assure success.
The earnestness of the American peo-
ple has passed beyond the experiment-
al stage. American feeling lies deep
and is not easily aroused but when it
dominates action that action is going
to be radical in the extreme. The his-
tory of every war in which the nation
has engaged has shown this strange
unwillingness to enter the conflictand
the same hard hitting once the ball
has opened. There will come a time
when the European nations will hesi-
tate about provoking us.
Political pull is the curse of the
American nation in times of peace.and
it looks just now as though it was
having an equally detrimental effect
upon the progress of the war with
Spain.
Spain is at last tranquil but whether
it is the trahqufllty of despair or the
quietude that is enforced'.by military
oppression and the presence of arm-
ed bodies in force is not so certain.
There is no doubt that the end is ap-
proaching. but it is so stoutly contend-
ed against and such a show of internal
strength is maintained that when the
collapse comes it will be like that of
the wonderful one-horse shay “All to
once and nothing first just like bub-
bles do when they burst.”
This present war has knocked out
Klondike rush and the baseball
leagues. It is a big attraction than
can stack up against both of these and
win out. It shows that this war has
enlisted the full interest of the Amer-
ican people and that the shot which
fired the Maine was heard in every
hamlet in the nation. Spain made
the mistake of her lifetime when she
murdered the Maine.
If the present Senate or the obstruct-
ing section of it could be sent to Manila
for four years to rule that island it
would be a relief to the United States.
That is the country for them as the
Mexican dollar buys more there than
the dollar of the United States. Free
silver sure.
If the Baltimore has been sent out on
a cruise by Dewey as reported how is
it that she Is also reported blown up
by an internal explosion in Manila bay.
Both reports cannot be correct and the
one reporting the loss of the cruiser is
evidently untrue.
The producers of cotton are no longer
at the mercy of Europe and it may be
added of the north as well. The home
market is taking more and more of the
raw material and working it in the
mills of the south.
Cervera is trusting to the devil and
darkness to help him out of Santiago.
He will meet light and an American
fleet in the attempt and that will beat
the Spanish and the devil and darkness.
The Crane people are loyal to their
old leader but this does not hinder
then! from hustling into the Sayers
camp.
When hesitation over the annexation
of Hawaii mixes the United States up
with Europe there is going to be some
reckoning with the leaders in Con-
gress and Republicans at that who
prevented annexation.
The United States government should
give Holland a chance to enter the har-
bor of Santiago. He volunteers to
take In his submarine boat and cut
those mines out and perhaps blow up
Cervera.
There is no doubt that time is need-
ed to put raw troops in condition to
meet trained soldiers but those Span-
iards who disgrace uniforms in Cuba
are not many of them soldiers in the
true sense.
Madrid has nothing to enliven her but
her bull fights. These are the only re-
creation that she finds heart for in the
present distressing situations ' Could
some live Americans be thrown to An-
dalusian bulls in the arena that would
stimulate feeling but this is now past
praying for.
Spain can conduct this war in her
own way no objections but that will
not prevent the United States knocking
the stuffing out of her on any and all
occasions when they line up together.
It may yet be that before the close of
this rnwsy month of May there
will be a goodly host of American sol-
diers on the sacred soil of Cuba. That
embarkation is coming to its day and
date.
Polo thinks that Cervera did not come
over here to fight but to ravage our
coasts and’ ffre our cities. Somehow
his eccentric has slipped a cog and the
ravaging has not yet materialized.
That Anglo-American alliance that
has thrown its arms around Jamaica
will keep the little island all secure.
Neutrality with a great big N is being
maintained in all English harbors.
Hawaii comes out splendidly in the
trial to which she has been subjected
by the littleness of some of our pessi-
mistic congressmen. She is true blue
American and stands by the flag as we
do.
While the defences of the Atlantic
seaboard have received particular at-
tention those on the Pacific coast have
not been neglected and from Santiago
to Vancouver island all have been put
in order.
The tornado of a week ago has proved
very destructive to the wheat crop in
the northern part of the state. Reports
as they are corrected show that almost
half the crop has been lost.
The opponents of Hawaiian annexa-
tion in the Senate threaten to Mock fin-
ancial legislation it any attempt is made
to bring the annexation matter before
Congress. This is Dem-Pop patriot-
ism.
If the Senate would only adjourn and
appoint some j>airlotic business man
manager until the close of the war it
would be an immense improvement up-
on the mongrel measures- now advocat-
ed.
As Lincoln had his hands and his feet
shackled by Congress again and again
during the four years of his adminis-
tration so now is McKinley receiving
similar treatment at the hands of the
politicians in Congress. It is strange
that patriotism is so scarce an article.
' No members of either House or Senate
who oppose the building of the Nicara-
canal or the annexation of Ha-
waii or the possession of any territory
taken from the enemy should ever be
returned to Congress. There is a limit
to national patience and it is almost
reached now.
Times have changes since last the
United States was at war and the ap-
pliances of war change also. It will
not be so easy for Cervera to sneak out
of Santiago under a powerful search-
tight.
There is no more need of a board
of strategy at Washington that there is
for a third wheel in a bicycle. There
Is so much red tape at Washington that
it ties business in a hard knot.
The injunction is given United States
by her foreign friends and advisors to
remember the peacemakers and the
blessing thas is theirs. We are re-
membt ring the Maine and the blessing
that is due Spain just now. Our best
peacemakers have a thlrteen-inch bore
and talk very loudly.
If Congress only would'adjourn and
authorize the president to run the war
by and with the advice of his cabinet
then there would be a head to matters
and not a dozen cooks to spoil the
broth.
The American flag is more numerous
A True Home Industry
' All the Stock Owned By San Antonib Citizens ;
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sJEWIEb
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Largest Brewery In the South
Last Year’s Output 150000 g Kegs
——' — - . *
More Than Any Other Brewery South ot St. Louis
The cause of this is the Excellent quality' of the Beer produced
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Attention Given to Family ir
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than it has ever been in any former
period of our national history. More
than ten millions have been sold since
the Maine was sunk in Havana har-
bor. •
If the owner of the Holland nonde-
script has faith enough in her to em-
bark wish a chosen crow and enter the
channel at Santiago the government
should have faith eaough in him to
let him< try.
There is no room to poke fun at the
millionaire riders in Col. Teddy’s com-
mand. These so-called dudes are
trainud athletes and ready to stand all
the hardship that the real cowboys do.
Tile atmosphere is clearing around
our European relations and it is found
that the strongest feeling there is jeal-
ousy lest Uncle Sam should be a little
sweeter on one than on another.
Texas is a great big state and if not
as big as all outdoors still large enough
to grow men large enough to have
broad ideas and flt into the places as-
signed them anywhere without restric-
tion.
Joe Sayers is not losing a point in the
game by remaining at Washington do-
ing his duly.
When the Confederate flags now held
by Grand Army posjts are returned
south where will we be at?
The tree silver obstructionists in
Congress are the most pestifferous
crowd that ever blocked the wheels of
national legislation at a critical time
when the nation was Involved In a for-
eign war.
It looks as though the Dem.-Pops in
the Senate had forced the administra-
tion into war that under the pressure of
war necessities theyjnlght compel Con-
gress to adopt their silver schemes.
One says don’t count your chickens
before they are hatched and another
not then wait until they are in the
frying pan. for only that chicken is a
cinch. Not even then if the cook is
careless.
There is a cry that the army at Tam-
pa is troubled with too many rattlers.
Better load them on transports and take
them over the strait to kill the Spanish
viper. That is what they came for.
Notwithstanding an army of 250000
is Hein# created in the United States
there is going to be very little real
fighting by the land forces. The-
heavy guns of the fleet and land bat-
teries will do the work.
o —-
If there is so much sickness at
Camp Mabry on account of water bet-
ter change the location of the camp.
—o
The new battleships will have simpler
armor than the present ones but fully
as effective.
The heavy siege guns for the re-
duction ot Havana are already at Key
West but tkey would look better on
Cuban soil with their black muzzles
pointing at the works that Blanco has
erected.
There will be time enough to forget
much that is promised by way of re-
taliation upon France by the time that
exposition opens its doors. Uncle
Sam Is altogether too forgiving in his
way.
Cervera had to make a run for some-
where to' get coal for his squadronand
he did the best he could.
-o
Havana was the destination for
which Cervera was pointing but he '
did not reckon on being headed.
—o
Having successfully headed Cervera
it is now in order to do the
and do it quickly.
—' ■ o
The reports of the trade reviews for
another week are upon us. and they
show business going right along aa
usual. There Is not a thing to grow
discouraged or despondent over not 1
on this side of the water.
o
There must be a whole lot of sugar
money distributed in Congress to de-
feat annexation now.
— ' o
The atmosphere at Tampa is worse
than in Cuba. Better take the troops
over there or to Porto Rico.
There will not be another time when
the United States will be caught wit’s
so few regular troops.
o
Uncle Sam can put a hundred thou-
sand-soldiers in the field every month
until he has two million there.
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