| Show I 1 1 it to la probable that talt the spanish forces lot bt guantanamo are ape at liberty libert r to re ri tune fuse to surrender nince gen toral j could only morally bind them but the tha matter their case to 19 I 1 hope pe iless less and there la Is no point in their rei fasal unless they object to being taken back to spain I 1 I 1 salt gait lak lah city july jul y 20 10 ISM im I 1 editor tribune dear sir VIII yam ytm ou please explain how bar many lot feet if 14 it a A on sra son compared with a nulo mile on ian liina 1 clearo rive give explanation in your mm pa ar i and oblige A mile dille Is act feet a knot Is GOUT I 1 feet the latter measurement cornea comes 1 from the knots on tho the vessels lot loe line I 1 which la Is so BO arranged that as the knots arun I 1 run oft ob from roni the reel each halt half minute I 1 shows hows a the rate in knots that tho the ship Is ioina coins per hour I 1 it if garcia Is dead the chances are I 1 that his death la is due to overeating over eating A great many of his starved followers have died from that cause anti and tho the chances are that he was as much debilitated as an wore vare they surely president mckenley was right m when hen he declared that a condition existed in cuba had become intolerable says bays the americans americana treat him better than his own country cervera says hta his career Is ended meaning that spain will never forgive him for or not turning back the inevitable a now I 1 dianco says he never consented to tho the capitulation of santiago and a court martial Is in for gen toral surely spain has not advanced a step in three hundred deaia scandinavia evidently 3 determined to bo be courteous court courteous eoys regardless of expense the story Is 3 told told byr eastern papers 1 that st ft teacher of holyoke mass who Is studying manual training in sweden at a point where tho the cars run only twice it a week recently received a letter irom homo in a flag envelope which the authorities thought to be a communication from the united states government on account of 0 the flag immediately a special train was mile made up and took that letter forty miles for or the benefit banc att of 0 the recipient it if the united states were n ore to demand indemnity of spain in the same proportion that victorious european nations do it would about confiscate old spain herself an eastern paper has looked up somo some of the indemnities exacted in recent years as follows As to war indemnities russia demanded i of turkey in but accepted some territory and still unpaid prussia gained territory and from austria in 1806 1866 germany took territory and 1000 00 00 from france in 1871 japan secured from china in 1891 turkey obtained territory and from greece in 1891 it Is perfectly safe to say bay th that at there Is 1 nothing in the story that commodore I 1 schley has been talking about changing frontiers front tera in europe it I 1 there Is any class of people in the world N v ho attend to their own business that class Is in the worlds ua vies they have not the temptation to I 1 talk tails politics that army have and they even do not mix inix in ili politics with them all they hold bold their duty to bo be the serving 0 of the united states tho the president 1 Is their commander ln in chief and they know no difference between a democratic or republican president the great sailor has made no lie such break as that ascribed to schley W we praise the officers who mho dir direct alft elft our lb battles allies we us praise tile the Y heroes who in field and on shipboard chipboard light fight the battles we have praise for tho the living and tears tor for the dead but what of the devotion ot of the men and women who nho under the sacred sae cred red lied cress era icle enlisted and mho bho now are sick fick and dying ot of a scourge more total than the bullets ot of the battlefield there ire are no fags to cheer them no martial music no anthems of tile the guns to thrill thrift them on and make them forget their danger their duties in III health are ar most exacting ing in it sickness there la Is no comfort for or j them pave that they marchais mar chail to where the guidon 0 of duty hail had been met act and tharo t h made a d e battle bounds arid and 1111 dl I 1 a until 1 I 1 they too wele prostrated they are heroes without note they are arc veterans that no pensions can reward i the buffalo 11 T Y courier believes that the only way to keep the parti colored citizens of 0 hawaii away fron rom the polls seems to be to resort desoi t to the louisiana system of 0 prescribing inge inee dibua tests leaf to keep people from rom voting ballots are not wanted will the republican party in hawaii employ expedients for suppressing tire vote vole ot of the natives which it has condemned tor for thirty years in the case 0 of the negroes 0 of the south there win will he be no trouble in hawaii on that store score the people are educated they are real equable and hearted when khe debango its Is mass made it will be b perfectly safe ila 1 to bruot the them with the th ballot anil and to permit them to make their local lame lam under tho the restrictions which are OT placed on all territories Ter the only dantrer Is that they will be b beguiled for or thoy they are ar a coull dIng race by tho the sharp harp politicians that will find their way vay to tho the islands from rom tho the eastern states |
