San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 80, Ed. 1 Monday, April 11, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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MONDAY APRIL 11 1898.
Every war that this country has wag-
<ed has begun in April and she has made
a fool of herself in none of them.
This is the week that will bring the
Spanish boil to a head and Uncle Sam
will lance it unless the powers do it for
him.
Spain has it all her own way now
there is nothing to hinder. She must
get out of Cuba or fight.
It is not possession of Cuba nor rec-
ognition of Cuba that is needed so
much as order and peace in Cuba.
Congress can now take up the “mes-
sage” and debate it and conclude what
course to adopt.
If any Americans are left behind in
Cuba to reap the afterward of matters
it is purely their own fault.
Uncle Sam is piling in the ammuni-
tion and piling up the funds for the con-
tingencies of war.
There is nothing serene for Grant in
those resolution of the Fort Worth Re-
publicans. Not much.
Burt is costing Travis county more
than his head is worth. Ten of his
peers wanted to hang him. Two
thought him insane.
Boston Peace society is death on ar-
bitration. but there is nothing in the
loss of the Maine to arbitrate.
The Spanish cabinet 'is divided as to
the course to be pursued. The powers
are ready to advise them.
Sagasta and the queen regent are
ready to quit Cuba and let it go but
tile ministers of war and marine are not.
The Cuban junta will be powerfully
busy now trying to induce Congress to
recognize their independence.
Congress has its choice of the two
courses in Cuba intervention with or
intervention without recognition of the
Insurgent government. The message
says nothing about recognition one way
or the other.
The bill of particulars presented Spain
is to the effect that She cannot preserve
order in Cuba.
Spain is not condemned for not pre-
serving order among the Insurgents
but among her own people and soldiers.
Madrid shouted herself hoarse over
her bull fights yesterday but that will
not restore Cuba to her.
The United States has not lost a
ment or a move in the game since
Maine was blown up.
President McKinley tells Spain
naked truth over that damnable
struction of the Maine.
Ineutt has been freely piled upon
jury by Spain in al that relates to
destruction of the Maine.
The armstice granted by Spain evi-
dently to gain time and fool the Uni-
ted States is not offered on the only
terms that it is known the Insurgents
will accept and it is very doubtful if
the United States Will consent to any
delay in consequence. It is probable
however that there will be a little de-
bate over the new condition and that
it will be not definitely known as ear-
ly as inticipated just what the course
to be pursued by the United States
will be for a day or two. The mess-
age will go in to Congress with this
additional element of the diplomatic
correspondence appended and Congress
left to take its own course which will
probably to be authorize the president
to immediately intervene for the pre-
vention of farther prosecution of the
war in Cuba Con. Gen. Lee being in
Washington may be one more element
in fixing the immediate action of the
country as his representations will
have weight. There is something due
to the powers which have coerced Spain
into granting an armstice. and some
respect may be paid ito them in Wash-
ington but even that is now doubtful.
The time for decisive action is at hand
and it is war or the evacuation of Cu-
ba by Spain. That is all there is in
the situation.
The commission that 'has been ex-
amining into the conditions of the
work at Panama have completed their
work and the future action of the
company Will depend largely on their
report. Nicaragua canal is tempor-
arily shelved on account of the Imme-
diate pressure of Spanish affairs but
when these are attended to the Uni-
ted States will look out for a shorter
route for her ships to the Pacific
ccear„
Uncle Sam has a fairly good sized
flee; in the waters of the orient wait-
ing to see if it necessary to make a
descent upon the Phillipine islands.
These ships are the Olympia Boston
Raleign Concord and Petrel. They
are too far away to do any good in a
descent upon Havana but they may
serve a purpose in giving a turn to
affairs in the Spanish possessions off
the coast of China. Spain would un-
derstand in that case that all of the
United States navy was not needed to
clean her out.
For the good of Spain just now it
would be well for her to heed the rep-
resentations of the powers. For the
good of Spain later on it would be well
for her to disregard the admonition of
the powers and plunge into a war with
the United States. It would prove a
means of grace to her highmightiness
and teach her not to sink the friendly
ships of a neighboring nation so
treacherously. What is to be will be
and if it is foreordained that Uncle
Sam is to teach Spain decency then
he will do it.
The sound of war preparations is
heard everywhere. Even the old vet-
erans whose heads are frosted with
the snows of three score winters are
feeling the war spirit revive in them
and are ready to don the uniform once
more and proceed to the front if duty
calls. Duty does call but it is to stay
at home and spend the residue of their
days in well earned peace and comfort.
United States can muster men enough
between the ages of 21 and 30 to wipe
Spain off the face of Cuba in three
months.
The United States has no better
scouts than some of her Indian war-
riors and there are some good fighters
among them too. The Semlnoles down
in Florida are pining for war as badly
as the Navajoes for the trail as scouts.
Turn these fellows loose on the trail
of the Spanish Hidalgoes and there
will be music in the air. The Indian
and the Negro make splendid fighters
when properly disciplined.
All the men and all the money and
all the ships and all the munitions of
war that are needed for service in
Cuba to close matters out there in the
shortest possible time will be forth-
coming.
Birmingham. Alabama is finding her
opportunity in this rusn for iron and
steel work in the American navy.
Heretofore all such work has come
from Pennsylvania. Alabama will no
doubt make the most of her opportu-
nity now and later on may come in
for a regular share of such supplies.
She ought to.
Minister Polo at Washington hears
the echo of public sentiment in every
warlike breath that blows around the
national capital and he informs his
goverment that United States is bent
on war. That depends on the celer-
ity with which Spain yields to the in-
evitable and leaves the theater of her
disgraceful misrule. Intervention by
arms for the sake of preserving order
is the role of the U. S.
Those Morgan line steamers recent-
ly purchased for the United States na-
vy. have been baptized given Christian
names instead of the old Moorish ones
and are now in Brooklyn getting on
their armor. The music they will make
before Havana or in chasing some of
the Spanish ships will be national
harmony.
If war follows the attempt of the
United States to bring order out of
chaos in Cuba there will be two Amer-
ican armies in the field the army of
fighters and the army of producers.
The country will fight and grow fat.
She will grown enough for her own
armies in the field and export to Eu-
rope as usual.
The power of the United States navy
its actual effectiveness has fully
doubled since the prowling devil of
Spanish treachery applied the spark
to the mine in Havana harbor and de-
stroyed the Maine. Europe will be as-
tonished at the naval force that the
United States will bring into action
now.
Several of the regular regiments of
the United States army are ready to
move at ten minute’s notice.
Italy sells three torpedo boats to the
United States and a cruiser that the
United States refused is sold to Spain.
Uncle Sam is buying more to keep
these ships out of the hands of Spain
than because he needs them.
There is no present need of the St.
Paul and the St. Louis being conver-
ted into armored cruisers so these
fleet liners continue on their regular
voyage.
Los Angeles will turn her fiesta fund
into a fund for equipping a brigade of
National guards for a war with Spain.
Just before the battle mother! seems
to be the pervailing feeling in this
country. There is one source of com-
fort on the eve of possible hostilities
and that is that there is no doubt of
the issue.
It is marvelous the progress that the
United States has ’ made in defence
since the Maine was so treacherously
sunk. This fact alone shows the vast
resources of the country and its po-
tentiality.
Prices are too high not to sell. This
is the declaration of some of the
shrewdest cattle and sheep men of
west Texas. There is good business
in selling when you can get prices that
are out of sight.
Young cattle and calves will not go
begging in Texas for a purchaser this
spring. All that increases the herd
is at a premium. Cattlemen are in
the highest spirits and there are good
times ahead.
The south had the hot end of the
poker to hold during the late war and
does not realize that times were better
in the north during those five years of
conflict than they had ever been before.
This war with* Spain if it comes will
raise prices and quicken all the avenues
of production. It sure will.
Uncle Sam has made up his mind
deliberately and positively that there
must be peace in Cuba even if Spain
has to be fired out of that island at
s.u-BuianuaS p;o oqt jo so; oq;
boot.
These late frosts in the southern
states have knocked out .considerable
fruit and early vegetables. In Geor-
gia the complaint is that the vegeta-
bles have been caught worse than the
fruit on the trees.
Anarchy is not tolerated in the Unit-
ed States and the United States will not
have it tolerated so near home as in
Cuba. It kills peace destroys com-
merce unfixes values renders life un-
safe. >
President McKinley has no annexa-
tion-of-Cuba bee in his bonnet. The
message abundantly shows that.
Havana will be a sweet place for an
American to be caught in now that Lee
is not 'there to keep order.
That flying squadron under Schley is
all ready to move on the Spanish fleet
and slay it in style.
Uncle Sam now has a fleet that is not
only a credit to her but one every way
superior to that of Spain.
President McKinley is as little of a
jingo as any man who ever sat in the
presidential chair.
There is nothing in the presidential
message that the powers of Europe can
successfully cavil at.
All of the harbors on our Atlantic
coast and some on the gulf are being
protected by torpedoes.
There is more danger on that Dyea
trail than in a battle with the Insurg-
ents in Cuba. Retreat from an ava-
lanche is imposseble.
Porto Rico is given over to the devil
of Wey’ rism. and American life is more
insecui there than in Havana.
Crane will gain nothing in his canvas
by abusing the newspapers that do not
support his standard.
Atlanta will have a second experience
in the congregation of armed hosts
around her walls if this threatened war
with Spain materializes. This time
there will be no blood to flow down her
streets.
The blue and the gray when they
meet at Atlanta this time will have on-
ly one thought between them.
There will be no surprise in store for
that fleet at Key West. She is patroll-
ed for all that is out.
The war revenues will be provided for
by war measures of taxation from the
first. There will be no bond neces-
sary.
There are fool Spaniards who still
think that Spain could secure aid in
Texas and other southern states.
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THE EASTER EGG
(By Henry Ryder-Taylor.)
’Twas Easter morn and fond papa.
His darling daughter took
Along the garden path to where
There flowed a little brook;
And there among the growing weeds
A pretty nest he found
In which were eggs of motley hue
Quite safe upon the ground.
“Ha! ha!” cried pa in mock surprise
“Just see what rabbit’s laid.
Some Easter eggs and they are for
My little loving maid.”
The girl delighted took the nest
And looked it o’er with glee.
And then she said "My rabbit’s kind
To lay these eggs for me.”
And as she lookeu them o’er and o’er
Her face much troubled grew.
She thought and said “Oh papa dear.
Now are you telling true?
It seems to me there’s something
strange.
That I can’t see aright.
These eggs are colored that you know
And oh! my rabbit’s white.”
“And then you know my papa dear”
As she an answer begs
"In all my books they never say
That rabbits lay the eggs.”
Poor papa blushed he was found out
And yet. with cheek sublime.
He said “That’s true they only lay
These eggs at Easter time.”
Though older grown and now we know
In childhood we were fooled.
Are we the gladder than when we
Were in such Actions schooled?
'Twas nice to think of Santa Claus
And take of his good cheer.
And wait for eggs that rabbits laid
At Easter in each year.
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