San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 97, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 28, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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THURSDAY APRIL 28 1898.
Blanco fires more blank cartridges
with his mouth than any man outside
of Spain possibly can.
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If Blanco thinks that he needs no
fleet to keep the Americans out of Ha-
vana he can keep on thinking.
Spain will be mistaken if she sup-
poses that the American soldiers are
going into Cuba to be slaughtered by
the climate as those of Spain have
been.
United States will teach Spain how
to fight climate as well as a hostile
army and Chen whip both.
There is hardly a doubt that some
of the early prizes will be relinquished
but that does not count.
Uncle Sam is going to feed starving
Cuba and drive Spain out of the is-
land. That is the program.
Texas will grow the greatest crop of
cereals and patriotism this season that
she has ever harvested.
Secretary Day was not under civil
service rules but he was in the line
of promotion all the same.
No news at all l‘s good news in the
present condition of our affairs. Bad
news will travel fast.
The politicians are making way for
the soldiers. Patriotism blots out the
distinctions of party.
Clearance papers have been denied
all this week for any vessels bound
for Cuban ports. The blockade is a
fact.
A dream If it is a pleasant one is a
delight until the waking comes. Spain
is dreaming now but there is danger
of her having the nightmare before
she is really awake.
Blessing the cannon of the Spanish
fleet will not enable them to do as
good execution as aiming them
straight.
Insurance will rule high for ocean
freights for a while but the risks are
going to be considerable.
Foreign army and naval officers are
making application by the score for
places In the American army and fleet.
They know they will see hot work.
The whaleback is likely to come Into
service as a ram and armored cruiser
combined. These vessels are strong
powerful have little out of water to
shoot at. good speed and are hard to
sink.
The poet says that in the spring time
a young man’s fancy lightly turns to
thoughts of love. It Is not so this
time of spring for the young man's
fancy tame ts thoughts of war.
UNCLE SAM IS ALL RIGHT.
Events are moving more rapidly than
the people of the United States at
* present understand. The governtnent
is firmly impressed with the need of
making all the advance that is safe
in the shortest possible time and the
wisdom of the directing minds takes
in every phase of the situation. There
will be nothing left undone that human
wisdom and forethought can provide
. and not an hour lost in the preparation
for any movement decided upon.
President McKinley has had his hand
forced by the precipitate action of the
United States Senate and is not as
fully prepared as he expected to be be-
fore decisive measures were ordered
but now that the movement is begun
for the occupation of Cuba there will be
no time lost. The situation within the
island is well understood and there is
no time to be lost if the concentradoes
are to be saved from actual starvation.
The food supplies in several of the
cities are short and what is there will
be seized for the use of the soldiers.
Spain will not hesitate a moment to
take all the provisions that are in
sight and the consequences to her own
loyal citizens will not be considered.
There is a strong undercurrent of feel-
ing that is favorable to the occupa-
tion of this island by the United Sta-
tes and this sentiment will manifest
itself once the American occupation is
completed. What is true of Cuba is
also true of Porto Rico and there is
the feeling against the Spanish gov-
ernment and her soldiery is bitter.
The fleet before Cuba is blockading the
island most effectually. Nothing is
allowed within the six mile limit not
even the press boat of the Associat-
ed Press Asosciation and it got itself
into a tight box the other night by
wandering out of Its course and coming
into contact with the fleet. The patrol
is perfect and nothing goes in or out
of Havana that is not known and ov-
erhauled. The landing of troops on the
Island to hold one or two open ports
of comunication with the fleet may be
effected before the country is aware
as there is a growing impression that a
large b6dy of troops is not needed
there at present. Admiral Sampson
would like tp bombard Havana at an
early day and would have opened Are
three days ago but the orders from
Washington were preemptory. All is
going well. The volunteers are com-
ing into existence rapidly and no time
will be lost in driling them for service 1
and properly equipping them for the
field. To work and wait and have im-
plicit confidence alike in the wisdom of
the government and in the final out-
come is what is now required.
The Rothschilds really own Spain.
What they would sell her for is an-
other question. Her debts would
swamp her w’ere any attempts made
to collect fifty cents on the dollar for
What she owes. A debt of over $2000-
000000 with her meager resources
means repudiation sooner or later. A
large part of the wealth of the Roths-
childs was made out of the necessities
of Spain and out of moneys entrusted
to them by her rulers so that if the
loss fats heavily on them it would not
be as severe as if it fell on other par-
ties. The end must come when this
present war is over.
Spain is as poor as she is insolent.
Her poverty is only known to herself
and the money lenders who virtually
hold a mortgage upon all the revenues
and resources of the nation. Her inso-
lence is known only to her dependen-
cies and the nation that has befriend-
ed and fed those whom her damnable
cruelty and greed has first impoverish-
ed and then starved. It -will be no loss
to Europe or her civilization when her
name is blotted out of the book of the
nations. The blotting is seriously
threatened or at least that part of her
that lies outside of Spain proper.
The Spanish minister of war noti-
fied Woodford when he handed him his
passports and summarily dismissed
him from Spain that a state of war
actualy existed between Spain and
the United States. In this view of the
case can Spain take advantage of the
baby act and plead that the United
States had no right to seize Spanish
vessels upon the high seas? Wait for
the courts to decide.
John Sherman is not an old man.
measured by his years that is not old
compared with such men as Senator
Morrill Bismarck. Pope Leo and men
of that stamp but he has been a long
time in public service and the cares of
great responsible office have prematur-
ely broken him down. For the servi-
ces that he has rendered the country
thanks and only thanks follow him to
his retirement.
That torpedo flotilla that is huddled
in the waters of the Cape Verde is-
lands would stand little chance of sur-
viving such a gale as that which met
the vessels of the flying squadron that
were detached from the fleet on Sunday
and sent southward from Hampton
roads. It is this fear of foundering in
a storm that prevents the Spanish fleet
in part at least from crossing over
to West Indies. Crow it must howev-
er. and that before long or the Amer-
ican army will be safely landed in Cu-
ba and the Spanish forces made pris-
oners of war. Spain is in a tight
spot.
Uncle Sam does not do things like
anyone else and this idea of fighting
Spa'n for the privilege of feeding Cu-
ba is such as to puzzle the whole world.
But it cannot be helped. The grocery
attachment of the fleet is one of the
most essential parts of Its equipment.
Bakeries and bread as well as batter-
ies and bombs form the stock in trade
of Uncle Sam in his dicker for Cuba.
The Rothschilds are unfortunate in
having no one whom they could put
upon the throne of Spain just now to
attempt to save a remnant of the
kingdom and its revenues for them.
The Carlists have been tried and found
wanting and there is not a ruler in Spain
equal to the task of snatohing from
the ruins of that old kingdom enough
to pay the interest on its enormous
debt.
The Houston Post is out of
its lattitude and longtitude in
attempting to advise the gov-
ernment at Washington as to the best
means of procedure. The Post is not
the friend of the administration and
the present government is not taking
counsel of its enemies albeit it is rea-
dy to profit by their mitakes. The
Post had better turn its attention to its
own tin god Bryan and atempt to
dissuade him from sowing dissension
In the National House of Representa-
tives.
There is as much real sense In spec-
ulating upon the probable or prospec-
ive movements of the armies and
fleets of the United States as in any
other speculation where it is imposs-
ible to arive at any conclusion but as
such a speculation only unsettles the av-
erage mind it would be as well to let
Uncle Sam and his military and naval
commanders settle the details of these
movements thoroughly asured that
the result will be all that the country
could desire.
No one envies the task that has de-
volved upon the young officer who
was landed in Cuba for the purpose of
seeking an interview with Gen. Gar-
cia and establishing communications
with the Insurgents.
Call comes from the east for great
caution in naval enlistments as rene-
gade Spaniards all over the country
are ready to enlist for the purpose of
treacherously betraying the ships on
which they take service.
Spain has not advanced one percep-
tible inch in her humanitarian feeling
in three hundred years. Her civiliza-
tion is not of this present and her
presence on this western soil is not
needed.
Spain is not the only nation that has
lived after she was practically dead.
There is no good Use in keeping such
decomposing monarchies above ground
to taint the atmosphere of civilization.
Whom the gods would destroy they
first made mad. The Spanish have be-
come actually rabid against the Unit-
ed States and the Don Quixote mon-
archy is on its last legs.
You can sink one of olir lake whale-
backs after you have shot it as full
of holes as a sieve but not before. It
has more than a dozen watertight
compartments and will float with half
of them pierced.
New York will raise over 10000 troops
for the war under the call but all of
:hem from the National Guards.
New Jersey is fully in the union and
her regiments of the National Guard
are ready for service at any hour the
call is made for them to proceed from
the state camp. New Jersey is all
right.
All news that is wired is always from
a reliable source even if the sender
knows that it is a lie when he sends it.
The most satisfactory way is to tend
to business and wait results.
It is exceedingly doubtful if the con-
duct of the war culd be in better hands.
The president and his advisers are men
to be relide upon and the Republicans
in the House will hold things down.
There is one effect that will follow
the breaking out of hostilities with
Spain that is much to be commended
and that is the prevention of so much
American travel abroad. It will save
us millions.
Spain has finished nearly everything
that she 'has had a hand in and now
her time has come to be finished.
There is nothing in her complete an-
nihilation as a nation that is to be re-
gretted.
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TO CURE COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine. Tab
lets. AH'druggists refund the money
if it falls to cure. 25 cents. The gen-
uine has L. D. Q. on each tablet.
A TEXAS WONDER.
HALL’S GREAT DISCOVERY
One small bottle of Hall's Great Dis-
covery cures all kidney and bladder
troubles removes gravel cures diabe-
tes seminal emission weak and lame
back -rheumatism and all irregulari-
ties of the kidneys and bladder In both
men and women. Regulates bladder
trouble In children. If not sold by
your druggist will be rent by mall on
receipt of $l. One small bottle is two
months' treatment and will oare any
case above mentioned. E. W. HALL
Sole Manufacturer P. O. Box $lB. Wa-
co. Texas.
For sale by all druggists in Texas.
Floresville. Tex. Jan. 718 H —This U
to certify that after suffering period-
ically for nine years with severe kid-
ney trouble I feel now. after the use
of about two-thirds of one bottle of
Hall's Great Discovery that I am
cured. J. A. w ASS® NTvH.
For sale by San Antonio Drug Co.
$-W-ly.
JUST RECEIVED
Carload of screen doors both Fancy
and plain also -window screens at Ed.
Steves A Sona S-sl-tf
A True Home Industry
All the Stock Owned By San Antonio Citizens !
. -ir 11.. K - r
At
Largest Brewery In the South
Last Year’s Output 150000 Kegs
More Than Any Other Brewery South of St. Louis
The cause of this is the Excellent quality of the Beer produced
SELITE HOTEL.
{] For Gentlemen Only. European Planall Modern Conveniences.
nJ. LOUSTRUNHU & CO- PROPS.
n Main Plaza and Soledad St.
3 Sample Rooms for Traveling Men. Electric Cars from all De-
spots ’Pass in Front.
3 Special Attention Given to Family
u and Wedding Suppers.
DISCOVERD BY ACCIDENT.
Manager Monserrate of the S. A. P.
Railway some days ago learned quite
by accident that there are some soap
factories in San Antonio and as his
road uses large quantities of soap he
decided to give the home product a
trial. The samples and prices sub-
mitted by one of the local factories i
were satisfactory and a trial order has
been placed.” •
Moral: If these Home Industries
would advertise in the daily news-
papers some other people who use
soap might discover them.
KEEP COOL
The Dubinski Electric company has
placed the largest order for electric
fans with a northern firm that has ever
been sent out of San Antonio and the
shipment is expected to arrive in the
first part of April. These fans will be
put on the market at a lower rate than
fans have ever been sold before and a
guarantee goes with them. Anybody
wanting a celling or desk fan will do
well to call on the Dubinsky Electric
company No. 233 East Houston street
and inspect their already well selected
stock. 3-16-tf
MAKING A BAGGAGE CAR.
Mr. W. E. Tietze is at work in the
Gulf Shore yards on caboose No. 100
converting it into a baggage and ex-
press car for use on the road. It will
be repainted black on the outside and
the Interior will be comfortably fitted
up. He has placed a partition in the
new coach dividing the whites from
the negroes.
FOR SALE OR RENT.
A beautiful home corner Oakland and
Ninth streets containing one acre of
ground fine yard and shrubbery. Good
orchard; twenty fine pecan trees. Ten
room house; good barn. Apply to F. F.
Collins. 3-27-tf
KILLED IN A WRECK.
There was a rear-end collision of
west-bound freight trains on the
Southern Pacific near Spofford yes-
terday afternoon which resulted In the
death of Fireman M. Powers. He was
underneath his engine cleaning the
ash pan. when a train from the east
ran into his train. His legs were cut
off and Dr. Graves left on the wrecker
last evening but Powers died on the
way to Houston his home at mid-
night.
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—Keep cool by using a new or second
hand electric ceiling or desk fan for
sale by Shafer A Braden. The largest
•tock in the oity. 4-2«-lm-ds
—Keep cool by using a new or second
hand electric ceiling or desk fan for
Bale by Shafer A Braden. The largest
•tock in the oity. 4-2«-lm-ds
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loss of blood; polypus fistula fissure
and ulcerated bowels.
Diseases of bladder and kidneys;
milky chalk and brick dust deposits in
the urine; a swelling of the limbs pain
in back above point of hips and uncer-
tain vision are symptoms of diseased
kidneys.
Diseases of liver: Chronic constipa-
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