San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 166, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 16, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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SATURDAY JULY 16 1898.
Yellow fever is likely to spread in
arithmetical progression at Siboney
until our troops are removed to the
higher lands behind the city.
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For every hour that Spain
delays the removal 'of our
sick to the healthy high-
lands behind Santiago by refusing to
perform her contract in the surrender
she should be made to pay dearly.
Toral is putting more valuable lives
than his own in pawn by his delay
and he should be shot.
Santiago has not yet surrendered.
Toral is making difficulties and delay-
ing settlement. Immediate and un-
conditional surrender on the basis of
transportation of troops to Spain is
the demand.
If Toral compels - the army before
Santiago to open on the city his army
will be annihilated before any atten-
tion is paid to another flag of truce.
Toral has kept Shafter waiting for
a week while our boys are being at-
tacked by fevers. The armistice
should close at once and the guns open
on the town.
Spain is as treacherous In arranging
terms of peace as she was in destroy-
ing the Maine.
There is no honesty nor truthfulness
in Spain nor in her army officers.
They all deserve death.
Watson is about ready for his
straight away voyage to the Cana-
ries where he will coal his fleet to at-
tack Cadiz.
Spain is fencing for an advantageous
position. She will not get it by any
monkey work.
The nation bitterly resents the un-
necessary delay which Spain is causing
at Santiago and it will be included in
our bill for damages.
Great Britain is recognizing that
present events are pushing us to the
front as leaders in international poli-
tics.
Great Britain said a great many true
and graceful things about us as a na-
tion on the Fourth of July.
One of the most interesting of all
opinions evoked in Great Britain dur-
ing this present war is the acknowl-
edgement of the effect of our Amer-
ican institutions upon the government-
al policies of England.
Germany is simply annoying the
United States. She does not mean to
fight
Sagasta admits that Spain has been
trying to feel the peace pulse of the
United States.
No fool proposals for peace such as
have been suggested by Correa are
worth cabling across the water.
Germany has clearly defined her
position to the United States and
there is nothing in it Inimical to our
work in the Philippines. Germany
has represented through the proper
channels to the government at Wash-
ington that whatever government is
substituted for that at Manila by the
Spaniards it must be sufficiently sta-
ble to secure the German interests at
Manila. Beyond this Germany has not
yet gone nor have there been any
threats. The implication however is
. that if a stable government is not es-
tablished that Germany will assart
her right to look out .for her own in-
terests. Germany need not fret. The
government established will not only
be stable but it will have a genuine
thoroughbred American trotter in it
and a Missouri mule. That ought to
be stable enough to satisfy the pe-
culiar ideas of even the Emperor of
Germany himself.
The La Porte and Houston railway
will have to be sold over again. The
Beaumont Lumber company and other
Intervenors have applied to set aside
the sale for $400000 as totally inade-
quate in price for the road not suf-
ficient to cover the indebtedness by a
large margin and that tne existence
of the war and other causes have pre-
vented the persons who would have bid
a more adequate price from appearing
at the sale asking that another time
for the sale be set some sixty days
hence. The judge of the district court
at Galveston has granted the petition.
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There will be a determined effort of
the Republicans of the state when
they meet in convention to secure the
harmonious working of all the fric-
tional elements of the party in Texas.
That they will succeed is not certain
for there are some small try Republi-
cans in the state who imagine that
they weigh a ton. The effort at har-
mony will be at least creditable and
ought to succeed. The only way it
can is for the best elements of the par-
ty to form a combination against the
kickers and the splits and relegate
them to the rear. Until it is done
there will be neither harmony in the
convention nor success to the efforts
of the party. It is a lasting disgrace
to the Republicans of the state that
the party is so down at the heels
fairly run out.
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Side by side with the invincible cour-
age of the naval commanders off San-
tiago their deep sense of the humanities
is seen to appear in box car letters.
When a naval captain in the hour of
such victory as was there won calls to
his men in the hour of triumph “Don’t
cheer men. the poor devils are dying
there is nothing more to be said. There
is not another nation on top of earth of
whom such a thing could be said. Tex-
as is wild and woolly but the man who
sails her is a perfect gentleman and son-
of-a-gun when it comes to fight his ship.
All honor to Philips.
An Englishman of high social posi-
tion is arrested in Cadiz under suspi-
cion of giving information to the Am-
ericans as to the defences of the city.
Plans are said to have been found on
his person and maps that are exceed-
ingly accurate and he will be tried by
court martial. Being an Englishman
is almost as much to his disadvantage
as being American in the eyes of the
Spanish.
When Roosevelt had his horse killed
under him. as he led his men to that
bloody fight outside of Santiago he
landed on his feet in a double sense.
He landed on terra firma and he landed
himself straight in the lap of fame. It
will help him to the nomination for gov-
ernor of New York.
United States is not building monu-
ments to the post but some of these
days when Philadelphia is in a reminis-
cent mood it might be well to think of
erecting a monument to Benjamin
Franklin.
There is no doubt that some of those
so-called anti-Imperialists think that
Miss Columbia is still using the bottle
and has not put off her swaddling
clothes but they do not know her.
The Spaniards found out that if we
were a nation of pigs that we were of
the true razor-back breed and that a
barbed wire fence did not stop us worth
a cent. The simple fact is that the
Americans always carry their brains
under their hat. and are prepared for
everything that comes along even to
the nippers for cutting a barbed wire
fence in front of the skirmish line.
Some one remarks that there will be
corn to throw to the hogs in Texas this
year. Yes and it would be well for
Texas if she had a million more hogs to
throw corn to this year. It would
pay.
The Cristobal Colon was not much in-
jured by the shells of our vessels and if
the surf doeg pound the life out pt
her she will the P u ‘ * nto commis-
sion again. man . s ba ue that the board
of examiner; Captain nounced a « ainBt
her being ra[ ting out a b( jpson is of an-
other mind. the captain u
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It may be true that Spain will never
accept any other than a monarchlal
form of government but it is also true
that she does not know who Is to stand
sponsor for the monarchy. Chaos is
threatening to rise up as king and
usurp the control of affairs over there.
It will do them little good to swear by
the monarchy so long as the head of
that monarchy is in danger of de-
thronement.
There has been nothing seen of that
Austrian warship that was lying close
to the mouth of the bay of Santiago
the morning that Cervera’s fleet came
out. She has not been seen since. She
must have been scared out of her wits
at the American style of fighting and
run home. The reception that Cer-
vera met that morning is enough to
scare the daylights out of most any-
thing.
Europe has not only opened her
eyes to our good marksmanship but
her mouth as well and is doing no end
of chinning over our efficiency. She
criticises our maneuvers but praises
our results.
Blanco seems to be spoiling for a
fight. He will be accommodated if peace
is not made before the close of the yel-
low fever season. When his time
comes he will wish it had not.
It is not impossible that the second
military expedition to the Philippines
now on its way out will capture the
Carolines as the first expedition did
the Ladrones in which case we would
have quite a respectable empire in the
Pacific. The Philippines the Caro-
lines the Ladrones and the Hawaii
islands are enough to give us at least
a title to the Republic in the sea.
The peace talk is growing on the
other side of the Atlantic and the war
preparations are growing on this and
the first is no doubt in great measure
the result of the last. There is noth-
ing that so induces a rival nation to
peace as a formidable armament in
sight on the other side.
The blowers of all kinds ecclesiastic
and editorial and legal and financial
and agricultural and industrial have
had their innings and now come the
glass blowers with theirs. The pro-
ceeding of this association should be
a very transparent affair but it is not
likely to be.
Cervera might have done better than
run into the jaws of the western end
of Sampson’s fleet but the probabili-
ties are that ’he would not. He would
have found Sampson in his way with
the New York and the Oregon and the
lowa would have been just as well
situated one way as the other. There
is no use of calculating on what
might have been the one thing that
counts is what is.
Blanco should be in Toral’s place a
while and then he would not be so anx-
ious to fight the Americans. He is
not going to be attacked by weak
forces In his strong entrenchments of
that he can take due notibe and govern
himself accordingly. He will have to
fight an American army.
The Russian government and the
better classes sympathize with the
Americans but the masses are for
Spain sp says the American consul at
St. Petersburg. That is all right.
Sympathy fires no guns. All that
United States asks of Russia is hands
off. Our army and navy will do the
rest.
In'their receipts of orders for animal
pets the Humane Alliance of New York
received some curious letters. An or-
der lately sent in for a pet Angora cat
specifies that it must not be too vicious
nor too gentle nor to old nor too young
and any color but Spanish. Nothing
Spanish goes.
Robledo is of the opinion that nothing
can be done with the present govern-
ment of Spai.n. and as there is no one
ouside of Sagasta who will assume of-
fice as head of the ministry what Is
Spain going to do. She seems destined to
annihilation because there Is no one to
cry enough!
General Fitzhugh Lee Is of the opin-
ion that Torrey’s Rough Riders are as
fine a body of cavalry as he ever saw
and he knows something about cavalry.
Wheeler thinks the same of Roosevelt’s
Rough Riders and the whole army
seems to be of that opinion judging
from the comments that are made. Eu-
rope does not withhold the highest praise
from these new army men. and Torrey
will have to stack up big real big when
he meets the enemy to be in it with
Roosevelt’s command.
If the smoking powder confuses your
aim and prevents your seeing the ene-
my it also prevents the enemy from see-
ing you. There is some compensation
in this and matters are not so unequal.
Some of the most experienced of the
army officers are of the opinion that alt
things considered there are as many
good points about a Springfield rifles as
any other can lay claim to.
The Spanish prisoners who returned
to their lines under a flag of truce and
told how kindly they were treated have
dispelled the desire of the Spanish sol-
dier to die in the last ditch. Desertions
are becoming more frequent and this
is but the beginning of that kind of an
exodus.
It is said that in Texas Schley has the
call on Sampson more than two to one
in the naming of babies. This ought
to settle it. That baby naming Is
the infallible touchstone of popularity.
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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 producer
France is feeling the pulse of the Un-
ited States as to Spain and the condi-
tions under which this country is will-
ing to conclude a peace. No need to
beat around the bush. Uncle Sam will
tell Spain just what he intends to do as
soon as he is asked. There is nothing
secret about it.
Already there is a disposition on the
part of the government to take steps for
the reduction of the war tax. The con-
clusion of the whole matter is so plain-
ly in sight that it is evident there is no
need of so heavy a tax as has been im-
posed. The government at Washing-
ton is as wise as it is careful and as
careful as it is patriotic. The interests
of the people are safe.
The woman who took her husband’s
razor to sharpen a lead pencil not only
got him into a bad srcape when he went
to shave but she got into a bad scrape
herself when he raised cain about his
shaving apparatus. Most men draw
the line at that and the women should
not cross it.
The old superstition that comets are
sure harbingers of war is revived in the
presence of no less than six of the irre-
sponsible visitants according to the re-
ports of the star gazers.
Queen Lil is now an American citizen.
It is in order for Cleveland to cable his
congratulations.
The firing of our navy and the
marksmanship of our land forces have
opened the eyes of Europe.
Spanish is a new color of itself. It
must be a very vivid green or a thor-
oughly "done brown.”
The calamity howler has not had a
chance to get in a howl anywhere this
sumimer. He is a bad lot.
It is possible that another Sunday
fight must precede the fall of Santiago.
In that case Shafter and Sampson will
make it decisive.
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