Show UNWORTHY COMPARISONS I Jt is I good to see comparisons made movements of armies now between tht movcmen C Im I and in former times The Herald tries I It hard I says The movements of the American troops under Scot and Taylor In the Mexican war were lIght I nlngIIUw compared with llu > progress that Oils has made Let us see Gen Taylor moved out from Corpus Christ March 8 ISlp He fought four hat tes between that time and February 22 1817 and penctraied the enemys country coun-try 200 miles Sootts army could not begot be-got ready until March 3847 On March 2Cth he took Vera Cruz advanced ought Cerro Gordo and took Jalapa April IDth He then stopped and dried his troops and walled for reinforcements I reinforce-ments until August 7th and then advanced of Mexico vanced and captured the City September 14th eighteen months after Gen Taylor began operations I Gen Otis began n war In Manila February Feb-ruary 10 1S99 He swept that country but It was discovered that each point I would have to be garrisoned to hold It The terms of enlistment of most of his iiKn expired and they had to be sent home and a new army raised to till their I places This was done and the power of Agulnaldo has been broken and he Is supposed to be IL fugitive in a foreign country This Is March 1 1000 As for Napoleon the Hirald tells of those wonderful one hundred days Ills work was wonderful He escaped from exile landed In France the officers and men sent out to capture him threw down their arms to embrace him then picked them up to enlist under his banner ban-ner As he approached Paris more and more of his old soldiers joined him until un-til the new King fled and he entered Paris In triumph He called his army around him rushed to the Belgian frontier and fought his last fight I was most splendid but It was but callIng call-Ing the closing act In the mighty tragedy lhat Europe had been a stage for during twenty bloody years And I then had he found on the frontier 20000 men Intrenched I and armed with Mau sers they would have destroyed half his army and driven the rest back In won rout than the remnant of the grand army presented on Its return from Russia j Then In criticising Gen Otis our contemporary con-temporary seems to forget that It Is casting relleclions u Jon Gens JlacAr tutu French Young Schwan and the dead Lawton who were the active agents to hunt down through tho jungles Jun-gles and lie swamps the treacherous foe and subdue It The editor who discounts tho work which our armies have performed lurIng lur-Ing tho past two years makes a sad mistake |