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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUN AY, JULY 10, 189 THE ANNEXATION OF HAWAIL ’ E have opposed the annexation of Hawaii, and Wour reasons, as published in these columns, have never been answered neither in the Sen- ate nor in the annexation press. 5 When annexation was attempted by treaty, it failed. By the method provided by the constitution, and the only method so provided, it was impossible of ac- | complishment. Its opponents, having beaten it on the only field provided by the constitution, had a right to | expect that its proponents would submit to the law | of the land. Instead of such submission they have chosen to override that law and to win outside of it, by methods which have no sanction in the constitution |:and which were not even defended on-constitutional grounds by those who used them. Naturally a proceeding so begun and a policy ac- complished by such means must go on in the line | of its projection. Our taxpayers are at once com- pelled to pay the debts of the Dole government and to put up $100,000 to pay the salaries of a commission which is to provide and recommend to Congress such | form of government as the Commissioners think | proper. The appointment and payment of such a com- | mission has no sanction in the constitution, and that | instrument provides the only form of government and | forms of authority and jurisdiction which the United States can exercise. As the report of a commission is to supersede the constitution, the form of government it may provide is problematical at present. What it is likely to be may bg surmised by the ac- tion of the Senate. Flushed by their successful breach of the fundamental law, the annexation Senators gave JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. _ Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager BUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. Fo Telephone Main 1565 EDITORIAL ROOMS...... ...217 to 22! 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NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open ntil 9 o'clock. | Columbta. 3 : x . Californla— Tom's Cabin." us a glimpse of what is to be on their amendments Alcazar—-Frederick the G SHOA DS fis ey which were offered to safeguard the rights of the peo- Morosco's. = = 3 3 Tivoll—*The Mik:do. ple of Hawaii and protect white labor and its wages. Orpheum -V le. The: i e o leville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man, | 21ese¢ Senators refused the ballot to the native-born Hn\\auanc and to naturalized aliens. They refused also | to repeal the contract labor laws now in force in the slands. Panoplied in these sinister shadows our sov- ercignty was extended over Hawaii, but not our con- stitution and our system of equal laws created by it. Our flag was by law unfurled to the eyes of a people, for the first time in its glorious history, to signify their disfranchisement and degradation and to take | their birthright. Its folds flutter in the tropic gales Y the proclamation of the President calling upon g 5 5 5 TS z .~ | over contract labor laws, which, with their penal the people “when they next assemble for public | 12 2 tRlavory b vorship” to give thanks to God for the marvel- Clalises, SEt up a'syStem ofslavery miore Spen s orobs o an g s S 5 3 | jection than that which the Civil War destroyed. ous victories achieved over the fleets of Spain without | B g b 4 But power without respect for the constitution of loss to ourselves, this Sunday has been set 3 4 £ 2 2 the country or regard for the consistency of its policy day for solemn patriotic observances. hectial £ Ea s % reat SR T S has taken autonomy away from Hawaii, against the s o A 5 protest of 98 per cent of the people, while at the same moment Americans are dying of wounds and fever to punish Spain for denying to Cubans the rights we have taken away from Hawaiians. As we stood for those rights while the constitution barred the way to their destruction, we accept what is in the expectation and for the purpose of aiding in securing for the peo- ple of the islands as good a form of government as can be had, albeit outside of the constitution. / \ pervisors is one requesting that in the next | tax levy provision be made for an appropria- tion of $200,000 to construct a commodious building for the Lowell High School. The petition was first submitted to the Board of Education and has received the indorsement of that body. It has also received the approval of a large number of citizens and tax- payers and merits that of the public generally. French [hursday, July 14. ireets, Speclalties. oating, fishing. every Sunday. d Folsom strects, th's afternoon. | evall this afiernoon. A SUNDAY OF THANKSGIVING de as a As under our en church dent is bind- and al- y the day Sabbath in every and state, the proclamation of the Pre ing upon none, most universally observed. will be cons ed as a patriotic church in the land. There can be no question of the appropriateness of the President’s suggestion. The success of our arms has been of a character to rouse something more than feelings of mere pride and exultation. The heart of the nation is assured that the justice of its cause is founded upon divine law, and that Providence has made strong our arms in order that the cause may before the eyes of the nevertheless it will be widel; v It is safe to THE LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL. \IO'\G the petitions now before the Board of ion have a glorious vi world. Only by giving and rel and as a nation adequately express the profound emo- tions with which we have been stirred since the be- ginning of this conflict, which has summoned our loyalty and our faith to the drcad arbitrament of war. In the observances of the da sponsibilities and the dangers of the war rest will be worthily remembered. Not the Presid and the generals only and officers of distinction whose names are household words will be recalled in' the praise sole: form of thanks- the most ious observanc n we as a people y all on whom the re- = the kind in San Francisco. It has performed a useful work in our educational development, and among its graduates are some of the most prominent and in- fluential men in the city. The building it now occu- pies on Sutter street, between Gough and Octavia, was erected in 1875, and is no longer adequate to the needs of the institution. The school has outgrown the edifice, and its future progress-and expansion will 1 be to a large extent hampered and halted unless a more spacious and better arranged and equipped home is provided for it. The construction of a new building for the Lowell ]schm)l would not imply the abandonment or the | tearing down of the present structure. It is proposed that the new edifice shall stand on a site now owned by the city on Sacramento street, between Gough and Octavia. When the new structure is completed the present building could be assigned to the use of the Redding Primary School, which is now housed on the | corner of Pine and Larkin in a building by no means fitted for the purpose, and in some respects unworthy | of the School Department. given to those who are now upholding the cause of the country, of humanity The commem- oration of this patriotic Sunday will include the mem- ory of every patriot in Moreover, it will ap- peal to all citizens, confirm them in their faith their loyalty and remind them of the saying of Ho! Writ: Blessed is the nation whose God is the and the people whom he hath chosen for his own in- heritance.” Th suspension from the Mint possesses many points of interest. The fact is evident that the gentleman will be restored to his position if any such fight as he may, by legal assistance, be able to make can have such effect. Certainly an explanation is due from somebody. Mr. Mead says that there was an effort made to bribe Th ) | 4t him to resign. This method of getting rid of a Gov- | £] AEEIRRENtS. (R e Droppare SUbEencn: are ernment employe does not present a pleasing aspect. | many. The present High School h?u]dmg, while well Under the rules an employe has a right to his position | fitted for use as a i sc}mo!. -+ 4n°t it until it become forfeit through some breach of dis- ficmam.is o e h‘.gh il I size,n dusgpgement, cipline or some overt act or amactual- crime: ~Then'| il equipment, or in the possibility of cn];\rgsme.nt. there is no occasion for a bribe, and a question arises The .classraoms are not large c.nough for the high whether an official offering the bribe would not be | SChool classes, the halls and staircases are not suffi- S ensblelia condizn Chrrection. | ciently spacious for a school \_A‘hcrcl the classes have to However, as the affair will be made public in afl-| P35S one anather frequently in going from one room its details, there is no utility in discussing it at ta another; it lacks space for Iaborn?orlei {md i length now. A squabble among the executive offi- { library; the hat :.md cloak rooms are insufficient for cers of an institution so large as the Mint and so di- the pupils; and it has no asscmhly hall op any room rectly under political control is apt to bring many large enough for a general gathering of the students facts to light. As'to the precise nature of these facts | for lectures or other DYoL 2 we cani afford to wait, and for the present judgment | Each and all of these deficiencies, which have been must be withheld. }tcrscly stated, could be elaborated, and by full de- | tails shown to be a conclusive argument for the con- That the Scnatc found there had been no bribery struction of a new edifice. The sum asked for is not in connection with the payment to the Methodist | excessive. ‘No portion of the appropriation is to be Book Concern of a claim so vast that the lobbyists | used for the purchase of a site. The city already has got a fee of $100,800 is a great comfort. If the that, and the 'gmund is unoc'cuplcd: The improve- churches were to go into the bribery business they Ment would give the community a high school build- would find their usefulness along lines of reform se- ing worthy of the school itself, an{l at the same time riously curtailed, and the reflection upon the morals | Provide a better .home for the Redding School. From of the community would not be pleasing. { every point of view, therefore, the petition for an ap- ——— | propriation for the proposed building in the next tax levy commends itself to all who are interested in our educational system. and of God. arms, Lor SOME MINT SAUCE HE story told by M. H. \TCad in accounting for It was hardly a fair deal to discharge twenty women employed at the Mint and hire them over again in order to save their wages during a brief vacation. It is understood that the salaries of the men working there went right on without a break. The rumor that the United States may secure full control of Samoa probably has no basis. ' The prin- cipal interest there is held by England, the second in Surely the patriotic contractors who have been | importance by Germany, with America a bad third. hiring Chinese to make uniforms for the soldiers | This country has never showed the least desire to could haye. afforded to furnish decent cloth. Some tcare even for such interest as it possesses, and of the coats now in service could béat those of Joseph | neither of the other countries has a reputation for for variety of hue. letting go. —_— pE e Butcher Weyler is reported in trouble with his Government. How serious it may be there is no in- formation, but unless serious enough to cause him to be hanged it will be a distinct disappointment to this country. As to Sagasta's plan for ending the war, he prob- ably could not devise a better one than to instruct the Spanish in Cuba to run up a show of white flags and get out. We commend this to his distinguished con- sideration. The official register of the navy now makes ‘the respectable showing of 295 vessels. This does not include several which experts say can be taken from the spots where the Spanish left them. There is beginning to be fear that Truthful Jeems Creelman, instead of being hit by a Spanish bullet, has been laid up with chagrin over the discovery that his employer could lie faster than Truthful Jeems. There seems to be no certainty that the Alphonse XITI has been sunk, but there is a reasonable assur- ance that something serious has happened to some Spanish ship thereabouts. While the Spanish are securing an armistice they are also getting a chance to strengthen their posi- tion. A St. Louis paper which came to hand yesterday has in trlumphanl type the announcement, “Santiago | P Is Ours.” For once St. Louis seems to have scooped the earth. A Of course the privateer yarn was a fake. It was al- most foolish enough to have come from Cuba with the solemn indorsement of Hearst. % 3 i3 | kins on the subject: The Lowell High School is the oldest institution of | | products, and the proposed treaty is A FITTING CONCLUSION. SSOCIATED PRESS dispatches sum up the fl proceedings of the closing day of the session of the Senate in these words: dozen objections had preventéd the consideration of the bill permitting volunteers at the front to cast their votes for members of Congress, Thurston secured the adoption of a resolution for the appointment of a committee of fifteen Senators to attend the Trans- Mississippi Exposition at Omaha on a statéd day. Then, at 1:05 p. m., on motion of Allison, the Senate went into executive session. At one minute of 2 o’'clock the executive session ended and the doors were opened for the closing legislative session.” It will be seen that the incidents of the day were | small. None the less, they were significant. = The | Senators were unable to find time to pass the bill authorizing volunteers at the-front, or in muster camps, to vote at the coming elections, but they did | find time to authorize a junketing expedition of fif- teen of their members to the Omaha exposition, where they will be neither useful nor ornamental, and where they might as well have gone on their own money as at Uncle Sam’s expense. The junketing expedition is a trifling matter. In the general run of Congressional rake-offs from the treasury it is almost too small to be noted. The re- | fusal to pass the volunteer suffrage bill is, on the other hand, a gross wrong. The men who have vol- unteered to go to the front will take as earnest an interest as any other class of citizens in the issues of the coming campaign, for these are likely to be closely related to the conduct of the war, and it is therefore a grave injustice to deprive them of the right and | privilege of casting a vote for the election of Con- gressmen. During the Civil War the troops at the front were permitted to vote; and the precedent should have been followed in this war. Had the Senators been in sym- pathy with the measure and willing to arrange for the soldier vote it would have taken but little time to do so. The bill was already before them. It had been duly passed by the House. It could have been | adopted in less time than was required to adopt the junketing bill. The only possible conclusion from the facts, therefore, is that the Senators for some reason desire to disfranchise the volunteers, and determined to carry out the desire by indirection. It was a fitting close for a session of the Senate | marked by few incidents which can be recalled with | satisfaction, and by many of the opposite character. s little as possible for the soldiers the people and | the country, but as much as possible for the Senators and their friends, seems to have been the policy of the session throughout. We have been called upon by the President to give thanks to-day for our victories in war. Let us also give some that the Senate has adjourned. RECIPROCITY WITH PERU. ALIFORNIAN protests against the reciprocity C treaty with France have had at least one good result. They have had the effect of inducing Commissioner Kasson to consult with Californians | before negotiating further treaties. The gain is an | important one, and the chances are we shall derive many benefits irom it in the way of protecting Cali- fornian interests ffom further sacrifice. An illustration is at hand. Mr. Kasson is now considering a reciprocity treaty with Peru, and this time, instead of going blindly ahead as he did in the French case, he has communicated with Senator Per- Tite Senator referred the letter to the Chamber of Commerce, by which body it was | in turn referred to the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association. The Peruvians, it seems, desire a 20 per cent reduction of the present dutics on wines, brandies and sugar. All of these are Californian therefore one which affects us much more nearly than any other State in the Union. In replying to the communication from Senator | Perkins, President Sbarboro of the Manufacturers’ | and Producers’ Association points out that the opinion of all parties is strongly against granting any concessions to foreign countries against the interests of the products of California without receiving any commensurate benefit for our own products. He argues that if the duty on wines from Peru to the United States is to ‘be reduced, there should be a corresponding reduction in the Peruvian impost upon our wines. The same plan, he says, should have been followed in the French treaty. He concludes by saying: “I understand that some similar treaty is being negotiated with Germany and Italy. If so, it is to be hoped that their tariff on our wines and brandies will be so reduced as to make it possible to supply those countries with our own wines and brandies. As brandy can be produced in Peru from molasses at a nominal cost, it would come in competition with our pure grape brandies of California, to the great detri- ment of the trade. When we add to this the facility with which Peru could make sophisticated wines from its cheap brandies, yourwill readily see the dan- gerous grounds upon which we are treading.” What effect these representations will have upon Commissioner Kasson remains to be seen. It is something, however, to have won a hearing from California in such matters. It is becoming more and more cvident that we are to have a hard fight to pro- tect our interests in the various reciprocity treaties that are to be arranged under the tariff, but it is not | likely we will ever have another so unfair to us as that arranged with France. o e e @ CHANCE FOR THE SISTER. fl marry his deceased wife’s sister. The strangest feature of the regulation is that it should not have T last the House of Lords seems inclined been abolished long ago. Provided the sister of a deceased wife be of such character and personality that if the sister of some- body else she would be desirable in marriage, there is no reason appealing to common sense why there should be restrictions. the decease of the wife had not been encouraged for the sake of establishing the new relation. Yet, ab- surd as the law scems, there is behind it in England a strong sentimental support, which, rallying at the | last moment, may yet serve to defeat the attack | upon it. If a man having married into a family indicate a wish to do so at a second opportunity, he distinctly- compliments the family, demonstrating that his first wife had traits such as naturally coloring the character of those of her blood fit a sur- viving sister more than any other to take the vacant place. There might be property interests making such a union desirable from a sordidly practical point of view. It could be imagined that a widower having become accustomed to one mother-in-law hesitated to try an experiment supposed to be fraught with peril. In fact, whatever reasons might once have existed to for keeping the law on the statute books appear to have utterly disappeared. e e —— Admiral Dewey, we are just as proud of you as ever, but are glad to add there are othefs. > “After a half- | abolish the regulation forbidding a man to Provided of course, also, that | T L PR E L EEE R R R R WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. !39835&82828255&3838288!53288&8 gRRRRRLURIRRUIRREN ‘ ‘Over the door of that Home of Peace | and Veracity, where a white dove with | a roll of the “long green” in its claws |and the Goddess of Truth wearing a crown of thorns would be fit emblems of the reigning regime; the lair of the Lawrence, the haunt of intellect, the offlce of the Examiner, there is a pic- of General Shafter. The nobility [cha cteristic of Lawrence, who, through association with Hearst, has learned to be truly good, is shown by | the circumstance that the picture is |allowed to remain. A vindictive man 'would tear it down. If venomous as well as vindictive he would place the marks of a heel upon it. Shafter is the official who during a lull of the battls found time to send back word to this Government that, a story wired by | Hearst was a lie. Everybody knew this, and that for malign stupidity no recorded act since Judas kissed his Master had been more dispicable than the sending of a message which tended to bring our arms into disrepute, to ex- pose our men to the danger of assas- sination, and to disgrace newspapers by demonstrating that among them were sheets so low and vile as tq print the drivel of a disloyal and dangerous citi- zen who even in exile could not resist the impulse to do his troubled country an ill. Shafter but emphasized the brand which common judgment had put on Hearst. Yet Lawrence does not take the picture down. Such forgive- ness Is little less than grand. I do not see how it could be carried further un- less there be rainted and attached to the picture a legend something like this: “This is the patriot-soldier who says we are 1 rs, and we guct; he is right.” . Almost every day a report comes that there is peace talk in remi-official cir- cles. I would like to know what a semi-official circle is. Bioyi® An Eastern paper laments that there is no rhyme for Cuba. What'. the mat- ter with Yuba? And in every orchestra of full strength some musician blows rugged chunks of melody from a tuba. Evidently the mourning poet never heard of the rhythmic process known as patting Juba. The chap may have a faculy for construction of jingles, but he seems to lack information. & 2 s . | It is meet that the humble citizen bow to the Supreme Court. Far be it from me to say that it does not on all occasions know its business. Not long ago an attorney exacted a confession from a murderer whom he had engaged to defend, and while in the murderer’s pay tried to sell the confession to the | haggling noisily about the | papers, price. Haymond is the attorney’s | name, and the effort made to disbar him received general sanction until it | had progressed as far as the Supreme | Court. While there Is n. paucity of | contemptible people in the world and a fair proportion of these are admitted to the bar, it had never been my for- tune to learn of a trick more shabby than that attempted-by Haymond, and I have known a tramp to steal crape from the door of the house of mourn- ing. The Supreme Sourt declares, how- ever, that Haymond has been guilty of no crime, and is free from the shadow of moral turpitude. Had the ruling come from a source less august some degree of doubt might have marked its reception. I congratulate Haymond. He must have been surprised. Possi- bly there would be no crime and no turpitude in his sending a basket of wine to the distinguished gentlemen who have given him a certificate of character. s e No, “Patron,” I will not answer your questions. In the first place I couldn’t, and in the second place this paper maintains at great cost a query editor who knows everything. . . It is a matter of regret to me that Hubbard T. Smith, v ‘e consul to Kobe, should have sailed so soon, as the re- marks about to follow are designed for his instruction and spiritual uplifting. Smith follows vice-consuling as a reg- ular business, but makes excursions into literature as a -ide issue. Perhaps it might be more fitting to term these “foraging expeditions,” as I note with pain that one of the songs he modestly ascribes to his own rhyme factory had the honor of being the product of a greater than a Smith. It is the familiar story of the green peach, Little John and his Sister Sue, the combination and the melancholy result. Smith took the jingle, added to each verse the re- frain ‘“‘Listen to my tale of woe” and asserts authorship of the whole thing. He could as vell add an exclamation point to the Scngs of Solomon and en- hance his reputation by posing as the writer of them in their entirety. The poem does not represent much of an | achievement in letters, but such as it |is the credit for it must be given to Eugene Field. I do not like to see a dead friend -obbed. ‘“The Peach,” | which is the real name of the ditty, first appeared in a Missouri paper, whether at St. Joseph or Kansas City I am not now certain. Field told me the only reason he gave it a place ramong his poems published in book | form was that so many jays had ac- quired the habit of saying they had written it. He did not think it worth quarreling about, but put it into his volume so as to quietly project these | sinners out of the paths of error into | the sun-kissed open of reform. Smith does not seem to have been projected. * s - On a recent da‘e there appeared in this paper a letter signed “Publicola.” | T do not know the author, but have no doubt of his sincerity. Neither have I the least doubt that he is wholly wrong in his views. He fears that this great republic is following in the footsteps | of the Roman republic. The expression of this fear on the part of the conserva- tive is so common as to be painful. The government under which we live is not following footsteps. It is blazing its way. As well assert that the loco- motive of to-day is trying to rival the ox cart, or accuse the arc light of imi- tation of the tallow dip. We live in a different world from that th old Ro- mans knew. There is no reason why the precedents they set should be re- spected, nor for supposing that an effort which would have resulted in failure then would lead to similar results now. As new conditions arise it becomes a duty to meet them, not to shrink from | afraid also that we would have to build | responsibilities. ‘“Publicola” does not seem to understand that the stride of . | BRRYRY civilization is rather to be encouraged than otherwise. and that it is the natural part of this people not only to move with it, but to set the pace. We have resources of Intelligence, inven- tion, letters, patriotism of which the Roman in the zenith of his barbaric splendor never dreamed. He knew | nothing of telegraphy, the warship, the | 13-inch gun. Because he had no Frank- lin and no Edison do we err that we | employ electricity for power and light? What the Romans may have done mat- ters nothing to us. We live in the pres- | ent and the future. When “Publicola” | asks: “Are American institutions to be | permanently changed? Do the new conditions of modern times demand a | political revolution?” I answer freely and gladly: They are and they do. The | babe outgrows his swaddling clothes. The nation born in the stress of con- flict, nurtured tenderly, becomes great and strong. For it to stand till is to perish. For it to attempt to stand still is to be unutterably selfish and invite destruction. Never mind Rome. It passed away because of the process of evolution by which-all things pass. To ask if new conditions demand a politi- cal revolution is merely to ask if any new condition requires recognition of the fact that it is not like the old. A man in the Arctic wears furs. Trans- port him to the tropics and he strips the furs off or suffers discomfort. He | is in new conditions. Our forefatherql devised laws of profound and impres- | sive character, their basis in Justice. | But could they have thought out the | precise development of the centuries | and made laws to fit them they would | have been more than statesmen and patriots. They would have been mnrei than human. In case of the extension | of our holdings to embrace the present insular possessions of Spain we can provide for down-trc< “en people an en- lightened government, give them free- dom, schools, manual training, uplift | them morally. We can enlarge our trade, our influence, and take among the nations of the earth the place to which by reason of numbers, strength and harmonious growth we have the right. By declining to accept this place we check not alone our own progress, but that of millions in whose welfare we ought to feel an interest. ‘“Publi- cola” is fearful that a large army would be necessary. I would rather maintain that than an army of tramps, | a legion of the unemployed. He is } the second greatest navy in the world. ‘We ought to do this and begin now. | But the whole subject is too vast to be more than mentioned here. I hope in | a general way to have made my mean- | ing clear. Hawali is ours. I think that | we will take the Philippines, Cuba, | Porto Rico and the other Spanish is- lands, and the Stars and Stripes once ! raised above them ought to remain on | | high. We have lived to ourselves and | | for ourselves. It has been the policy of | wisdom. Let us not pursue it when it | has become the policy of folly. I have only the privilege of writing here as an individual American, but I declare the belief that the necessity for entering | upon a colonial career is now as press: ing as was once the necessity for re- fraining from it. . . Not long ago the Boston Transeript | brought to the defense of a shipping: company depending on Americans for support, which had sold vessels to Spain knowing them to be for use against this country, all the weight of its edi- torial respectability. It really argued well, considering the fact that it had no case, and seemed to convince itself that the act of the company had been \ . | the critic. | no supporters but in response to an emotion of pa- triotism. Now it is trying to do ‘as much in behalf of Professor Charles Eliot Norton, but with indifferent suc- | cess. W1 _n a citizen of this land stands: on his hind legs while he bellows dis- approval of a war In which the nation is engaged and counsels the young men not to respond to the call to arms he may get the Transcript or any other ‘sheet to announce his patriotism until | all its biggest type are ink-black in the face and the patriotism won’t be there. « o+ Many pretty incidents growing out of the war have been related, and one of them seems worth repeating here. It was of a Spanish woman at Manila who was in great distress of mind over the approach of the Americans. She had been taught to believe that they were coming to inaugurate a season of murder and rapine. Seeking tha British Consul she threw herself upon his protection. “Madame,” he said gently, “honor and virtue are safer in Manila to-day than they have been in three hundred years.” It was a trib- ute which the people of this nation will | appreciate, and shows one Anglo-Saxon trait which makes the English speak- ing people a class, apart. s ile e Senator Wellington of Maryland is a disgrace to his State. Proud old Mary- land feels the humiliation keenly. Wel- lington says openly that if he had his way the army would be withdrawn from Cuba and Dewey ordered to capitulate. This is the talk of a traitor. . There are many criticisms passed | upon the conduct of the war which have only the effect of producing irrf tion and demonstrating the nerve of Even some of the observers on the field of action show their ignor- |ance, and from this distance the im- possibility of telling generals and ad- s ® | mirals how to deport themselves in the face of the enemy is apparent. The men before Santiago have undergone hardships, but the theory that war can be so managed as to be a picnic has among military men. There is a healthy tendency to resent | the imputations cast upon the ability and patriotism of American officers. | Not long ago I heard a man declare that General Merritt was a coward, |and while I sought by peaceful argu- ment to convince him of his error an- other citizen, of muscular build, came into the game and gave the first a thumping. I see that another fellow has been licked for having charged | Shafter with mismanagement of the campaign. It served him right. We don’t know whether Shafter has done as well as he might have done, and, anyhow, those of us who never smelled smoke and haven’'t enlisted for the chance of doing so are in a position to sing small. John Lathrop, well known here as a newspaper man, but latterly in New York, has enlisted as a private there. Lathrop was a club man, particular as to dress and the niceties of living. 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