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Show THE SPRIM3ILLE INDEPENDENT Sam. M. LeRov. Editor and Maneger. ?ritrud Kt the post otllce at Sprlnsivllle t'tnh. for truusiiiisloti through th mails oft 'joiid-eliiss marter Issued every Friday, OF SUBSCRIPTION. One vear. .... 2.oo Six months, .... 1.00 """hrcc months. "" Association Ejr)'pt refuses to supply the Spanish fli-et now on im way to Manila, with coal. A Jorge fleet of warships will lp sent against Vpuiu to attack the const citiii of that country, 'fhev leave our shores on July 4lli. Notwithstanding all dilatory Mclics put forward hy the oiposiiio:i, the ll.iw.iiian'ilslaiiils will lr Htiuexd before congress tnljot rut. Mrs William A. Low of Atlanta, Georgia, was on Monday Mon-day elected president, of the National Federation of Wome.i' clubs ut Denver The Salt Like ministerial association inn cordially ap proved the utterances of Joseph F. Smith in th ureal tabernacle last Sunday against Sabbath desecration. liy the way, would it a proper inquiry , to ask General Blanco how many mules he has lost since the "Veuvius" has been carelessly dropping dynamite around Santiago? A peaceful blockade of Havana seems to be. having its effect at last. Already the Spiuiiiirils there are divided uinong themselvH.v. When the time comes to knock on their door, even sotrio of the dons will think the hymn "America" the sweetest hymn they ever heard. The Spaniards roll over in their beds and shiver erery time the "Vesuvius" sends a wad of guncottoii into their barracks Those dynamite shells are dreaded as are earthquakes, and verv one of them causes the asousius of the '206 to remember re-member the "Maine." There is every indication that the next greut national political issue will be on the question of absorption and colonization of territory acquired by this Spanish war. From the present indications it will in a measure draw atrength from all parties. Democrats and Republicans of national recognition are on both sides of the proposition. The late Spanish minister. Snor de Lome, unwittingly paid a compliment to American women when his idea was to depreciate them. IIo said that they were the only women who had not yet succumbed to the facinatiou of the cigarette. Spanish, Portuguese and Italian women use the Havana article; Greek, Turkish, Russian nnd Austriau the famous Turkish tobacco; French women revel in the caporal, and many English women have tak'Mi up the practice; prac-tice; but in this country the habit is as rare among the sex an it was a hundred years ago. Brown City (Michigan) Stand-url. Stand-url. A syndicate, undoubtebly composed com-posed ofcigarette manufactures, are endeavoring to popularize the habit of smoking thai article and to that end are circulating a scientific report from an eminent emi-nent Boston chemist, published and circulated in pamphlet form. The argument advanced is that there is nothing dangerous to health in their use, and that the instances occasionally mentioned in the press stating that young men have died or gone insane through smoking cigarettes are, by this chemist, alleged to have resulted from other causes. The book will not seriously retard re-tard the work of those ladies and gentlemen now combatting the me of cigarettes. The strong healthy sentiment already aroused against them will only iucreuao in its intensity by tins defense of the artiilo in qnes tion, and its use hyyoting men and women will find more moral mor-al soldiers uniting their olfort with the missionary work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. The Boston chemist may have served well his patrons, pat-rons, but in lining -no the coin, binaiion tO"k no account of the whirlwind which even now is arising. TIim women have spoken. spok-en. They want purer and better hoin-s. Among other noxious habit-, they want cigarettes kept from their ch Uivn and from the associates of thnr children, ami in this, as in all other thing on earth, the women will have their Way. The cigaret le will go. Governor Wells has violently offended companies A, l and ) of the Utah national guar I, and the companies are now threatening threaten-ing to resign. The governor should muster thorn out of service ser-vice promptly, and ever iudivid-tinl iudivid-tinl among t hm should in; permanently per-manently retired to private life. When it. comes to this that the militia must, needs be consulted upon any mutter touching their organization, equipment, movements, move-ments, or anything pertaining to their use fulness as militia, then it. is lime to a-k them to quit. It is a soldiei 's duty to dey bin commander's orders and not stop to argue about it either. These Salt. Lake a in a teur soldiers are all right in a parade, perhaps, but in a brush with the members of the Robbers' Rob-bers' Roost gang they might stop and quit la-fur they not in action just because some fool sheriff wanted tbem to charge the eneinv. CUBA IN' HISTORY. I'AI'lIK I. The hi-tory of the island of Cuba is one long tale of oppression oppres-sion and bloodshed, extending over a period of morn than four hundred years. Spanish rule, whether exercised upon the aborigines, ab-origines, the blacks brought from Africa, or the whites who drove out the original natives, hat been despotic and harbor-ous. harbor-ous. One by one the vast possessions pos-sessions of Spain in the new world have been swept from her, till at last, Cuba, the "ever faithful isle," is the one of importance im-portance which remains, and this now seems likely to join the others. It has been truly said that history repeats itself, and a brief review of alfairs in the island from the time of Columbus to the present-shows present-shows the repetition to be frequent. fre-quent. The barbarities prac ticed today are only a shade loss inhuman than those inflicted upon the natives shortly after the conquest of the island by the Span birds. Hatuey, a native na-tive chief, burned to death by the orders of Velasquez, one of the earlier governors, because be had taken up arms to preserve pre-serve the integrity of his little territory, said, in his agony: "I prefer hell tolleaven. if there ara Spaniards in Heaven." Under such treatment the native na-tive population rapidly disap peared, but those who took their daces continued to suffer from the barbarities of the rulers. Spain, once the first maritime power in the world, lu9 fallen to the position of the weakest. Bit by bit her vast possessions in the old and new worlds have been lost to her, till now s-he is threatened with the loss of the list of her colonies in the west. What has led to this decadence of power ami of territory? In one, word the the question can bo answered: Oppression. From the earliest limes till now Spain has practiced prac-ticed the most refined cruelties and now tho end is near. What she has trcquired by the sword she has lost by the sword. Look at the fate of her ogenta in her scheme of territorial aggrandisement. Corlezdied in obscurity, Pizzurro was assassinated assas-sinated in his palace. Spain's power bus dwindled to nothing. The loss of the Spanish armada began the story of her overthrow. Since then, the hand of veil- gence has been active. Edward Everett, one of tho brightest men of uny age, said years ago: 'The horrid atrocities practiced prac-ticed at home and abroad, not only in Jho Netherlands, but in eyery city of the northern coun'ry, cried to Heaven for veil-gence veil-gence upon Spain; nor could she escape, it. She intrenched her-selt her-selt behind the eternal Cordil- leros; she took to herself lliej rf t t i wings ot the morning, ano dwell, in the utteimost pur's of the sea; but even the arm of retribution ret-ribution laid hold of her, and the wrongs of both hemispheres were avenged bv her degeneracy and fall." ' " j Th loss of Cuba will be th" last stroke, and then humanity will h ive been avenged. j The island of (Julia, j istlv i called the "gem of the Antilles,"; is tho largest and most western of the West, Indies, and com- i i t i pared to the osiers, lias nearlv double the superficial area. From east to west it, is over seven hundred miles in length, and is twenty-two miles wide at its narrowest, part. Its resources me greut, its ciiuiate mostsalu brious, and its geographical position has made it the lichert ofail the Spanish possessions Its area is variously estimated as lioin thirty-two to forty-eight thousand square miles. Humboldt Hum-boldt put it at forty-three thousand. Its climate makes it not only a favored resort for invalids, in-valids, but renders it a most charming home for those in health. There is no mist, tho atmosphere is very clear, the sun is seldom obscured, and the siars at night are so brilliant t hat Frederika Bremer, the German writer, says in one of her letterr: "The nights are very dark, but the darkness is as if transparent, the air is not felt. There could not be more beautiful nights in Paradise." Although somewhat mountainous moun-tainous in the interior, much of the coast line is low and fiat and difficult of approach on account of the numerous reefs and small islands; notwithstanding this feature of the coast, it is said that no other island in the world has so many excellent-harbors excellent-harbors in comparison to its size. Of these Havana, Matanzas, labia Honda, Mariel, Nuevilas, Mi pa and Cardenas, on the north side, and Snntingo de Cuba, Trinidad, Guantumao andCien-fuegos andCien-fuegos on the south side are the principal and best known. Ilistoi ical Studies. How to Fay for the War. Some of the leaders in congress assert as-sert tli.it the present war with Spain is likely to cost, the United States between be-tween $700,000,01)0 anil 800,()o0,0i 0, ami ii .war revenue bill, that will increase in-crease the receipts of tin; government., govern-ment., it is believed, fully $200,000,000 annually, besides an authorized bond issue of $400,000,000 has been provided to tide the nation over until congress meets again in December. ow that congress has made provision for the money that the government needs, there are other equally pressing matters mat-ters deserving of consideration, and having a bearing upon the war. The people of this country are paying out more than $:i00,OoO,(H)0 to foreign ship owners every year for doing our foreign for-eign carrying. This money is taken out of the United States an encr- mous drain which no other nation cuuld stand and it enriches foreign nations and alien people at the ex pense of our own. If congress would pass a bill giving such a preference to American vessels in the carrying of our imports and exports ex-ports as would drive that carrying into in-to such vessels, the earnings of our own bhips, when they became numerous numer-ous euough to do our carrying, say in two or three years, would bethecqual to the probable cost of our war with Spain. More than that, more than providing the money at the expense of the foreigners who now enjoy our trad.1, but contribute nothing toward the support of our government, the passage of such a bill, properly safeguarded, safe-guarded, would have tho effect of placing at of the disposal of the. government la time- of emergency all of the seamen and all of the ships needed for any kind of auxiliary naval service. This is not possible to-day. The nation is actually ac-tually suffering for then cd of seamen and sltfps that are not available because be-cause of the blindness and indifference indiffer-ence of congress, and because of t he foreign ship owners at the seat of government. gov-ernment. It Is strange that this enormous annual an-nual leak of more than $:i00,000,0O0, which goes to enrich foreign shipowners shipown-ers at the c pense of the American people, should be permitted to continue con-tinue by congress, or should be toler-iintlr toler-iintlr borne tv the American people. American Eviniiuist. f , C.T.U.Ceiai1ffleni! Kdilnl '" tliC Sjiritiijriik Vitkm. The No;i-Partiau Nat ioual W. C. T. has i-sued an address to the presidents ynd faculties of American coliepes, asking that they become more active and positive in thcirj teachings, and in the guardianship of the young men intrusted to their care; especially that they use t heir j influence, and, if needful, their authority, au-thority, to banish intoxicating J liquors from class, fraternity ban- quels and college receptions. There! seems to be, m some quarters, special : need of this admonition and exhorta- j lion. It is easy for college laciiUie an 1 president:; to forget that they are : responsible for til.; habits formed by j young men while under their care. It, may he impossible for them to entirely prevent the use of liquors i by students, but they can do mniv j l ban sonic of them have been doing durin;; the past two decades. It 1st lime that- attention was called to J this thing, and that, the managers of our colleges learn that the eyes of j their patrons and would-be patrons i are upon I hem. It, is safe to say that very few, if any, parents are willing j that their sons should indulge in drink while in colli gc. Nearly nil ; colleges now make intemperance a cause of sending away the young man who indulges in it,. Hut more can be, done in the direction of preventing the funning of the habit. An International Temperance Congress Con-gress is to be held at I'ndiihit ion Park, Stateu lsl.ind, New York. July 1-0. tha object being to procure an exchange of views, so that the dilfei"iit classes of temperance workers work-ers may become better acquainted with the work and purposes of on another, and to discuss plans for united effort along certain lines. A cordial invitation is extended toevery national and general organization and every local o;ganb.ation, including includ-ing the churches, that are opposed to the liquor liatllc aud the drink habit. The man w ho says, "1 can carry more liquor than any other drinker in the town and yet keep a level head" gives by that claim an inventory inven-tory of goods already badly damaged. For since alcohol is pre-eminently a brain poison, men of the most brain grow diz y first, and Hottentots stand steady longest, while genius shrivels under drink like a snow wreath in the sun. Good Health. A United States Senator has calculated calcu-lated the expense of saloons to the nation at $15 per capita, and the revenue from them at $l.6; per capita, more than $13 clear loss. Herald and Presbytery. At the last meeting of the W. C T. U. the ladies voted to extend their hearty thanks to Mr. Le Roy for the little book entitled "The Truth about Cigarettes" which he presented to them. They also extend to Mr. tJibson a hearty vote of thanks for his kindness in the past in grant ing them the use of a column in the paper for the YV. C. T. U. work. Dr. iUaachard's Journey. Ogden Standard: Dr. A. M. P.laneh-ard, P.laneh-ard, for twenty years a practical dentist in Utah, has just returned to Ogden, after a two years' tour of the east and south. Dr. Blanehard left Ogden May 'JO. ISM. traveling east over the route of the Latter-day Saints. He has visited all the prominent, promi-nent, battlefield, south and north, and even went up into Canada. During his trip he has t raveled over 10,000 miles, and on an old sold t ired bicycle. His purpose Is to write a book, "Ballads or Our Battletlelds." and it was to secure material for the same that the long trip was made. The doctor arrived in Ogden y ester -day and will remain here some time. His expenses on the trip were paid by the practice of his profession. What l)r. A. E. Salter Says. IU'fkalo, N. Y. (rents: j From my personal knowledge, gained in observing ob-serving the effect of your Shiloh's cure in cases of advanced consumption. consump-tion. 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