| Show TilE STRATEGY HAD AGAIN Some Additional I Comments Regarding It From One on Ire Outside r my catch KrpIlM In rllldmo ant Taka Ooralou I Ik u ry Of 111 P nl Ito e SuBBCsllo I s Tie News editorially Is I evidently not altogether In line with the utterances utter-ances reeenUy emanating min the undersigned un-dersigned and wllch apiiareil In Its columns a few days ago Well It must be admitted that the nper I Is I often right than wrong while the converse of tit I t lion rmy fill to the lot of the wilter at those lines In nil of which < 61 N he 1 la willing to us sit right with a ecifulnves iualtd only hy I Cer I era when ho contemplate tie dexterity with which ho keeps aloof from our Ships ndjctascrlcsotcir cumtanos having a common undCl1 nth e tendency In a cerUiln direction are ntt to make a thoughtful person conclude that they evolve their own logic as they to along Parallel lines never meet aid two lied which keti n certain amount 01 Apace between themselves art In exactly the sam sUentlllc position It would be utterly futile for the ml scrutinizing age In or out of cxlstiiCL to ttttemit a sue ctssful denial of this which prol > ibly accounts for the fact that the state merit Is out > original as relates to the last Part 01 It There wall Cry little Justice und no foielloUBlt at all shown In trltlcNmi of the President because of mnlfeat dilatory proceedings causing a lost tonement of the declaration of war or becaise of the dellbirntlon which followed fol-lowed for slime little time Great nrmloa cannot be ralswl equipped and Prepared Pre-pared I for actual service In a day Hut arm Ie have no reference hatevr to naval proceedlni to prosecute which the condition of the country was as good at the beginning as now Dewey had not ne ship equal III erreoUen to any orulser lie now hav i In the Atlantic but flat an elTc five blow has yet hen struck In the latter Is not this omebolly fault und who believes It Is that 01 the com malldor7 Im It was recently given out by tho Hoard of Strategy with the consent 01 course of Its I assistants and advlseri that the criticism of their course regar < 1 Ing Uo disposition of Sampson am Kct ley s fleet was unjust that the com man era were not being restrained as much as the public evidently believed This brought to mind the old adage whoever excuses accuses Up to thai time there had been no general crltl clam There would be none now It they woiia only quit giving out Information Informa-tion one hour and denying It the next refusing to take the people Into their confidence and keeping everybody In a Plate ot certitude vililch at times In I Ialnlul I to experience No one expect them to give away strategic designs or proposed moment In advance but 01 thy not tell US whllt has heen done and stick to It long enough for that enlighten 1 feeling to take possession of one7 Borne seven times has that Hpnnlxh fleet been destroyed and each time the enthlllam engendered thereby there-by I evaporate while waiting for confer matlon which like the letter In the I Pong never came On the contrary wo have been subjected to disheartening I denials eery time The extent to which I1mlmatlon and negaUons for ow each other In regular order bents I ny thing on ncord excepting perhaps the trial ot a big mining suit and It the Hoard of Strategy Is I not responsible for It li I It not the case that they are not keeping as well posted tin men en Iht I1it1 ur aged In that particular business I should bi 7 biOh Oh oh ohl Why doe the Hoard at Strategy practlci only on the Amerl an People and spire the unspeakable Spanish Why does It give out or per lost to be glen out statements straight from the fleet and several Injs old receded with the statement delayed In trni smisplon As long ni It was delayed there must have been lime enough In which U verity tho news but that woul 1 be the means ot ihortcnlt the bulletin rrop by sendIng send-Ing out a ponlcky sensational or en ouiMglng dispatch nt for Instance 10 am nnd Rt 11 giving out another say Ing > that the preceding one Is I it farmers Deal mall two bulletins where other Iso there would he I none Between the bulletin Industry and the Strategy performances per-formances this war Is I rapidly appearIng appear-Ing to some people as though It were of the I fake fake It Is soothing to the system and therefore 1 beneficial to the digestive apparatus aratus of the patriotic American to Mil that CVrvera Is I bellied I up at San logo that the cork Is I In the bottlo ant Cull directions are on the wrapper Hut constant reiteration 01 It aeollm Pooled by 11 corresponding accomi denial have had a hIIInoy to mak the ooIIoor l some of tbmakeptlcal From < latest adltcs It seems tolerable certain that such Is I even the case Hut surely bchlcy Is too judicious to run the gauntlet which yawn before him like n devouring drawn and risk the loss of his fore i at J hlti self before even having a gl In e 01 Cervora Lt us be auMiril that CM lie Is I lot to I e till UI leatell that the American fhlpi will be wntrltl und If they attempt an entrance tl nntlal go harloor a hun Ired puns at Is time will rain Iron upon the Ships iNhIle the lines beneath them will i at thn Panic time le attending strictly to business Assuming that 110 such effort vvill be mae It seems that we will hale to walt till the hot tie I tarantula tries to force the cork or the town la carried from the rea hi I or forces anti Insurgents endlnn whi h wl ere are we aIT The Insect ix for the Present In a much more secure position than It would be tiny where else on this side of the North tlontle ocean tind donUo has sense enough to know It So long an the mule i lent and hald lark of the vintage 01 41 hold 1 nit the Si nnlsh I can holdout 1 1 hold-out at least they are not time to be extracted for some little time Where all this time Is I Fami wi HIS name In menUone1 only now still thn Bone days ago tie hoard of strategy let It pass this way that he was headed head-ed for Porto Itlco to take possession nil Would be followed I Instu l1t tfr hI 80000 troops In transports to hold the smethe t elon not the tn ports The next time ill ndmlrsl Patronymic wall pecraitted to percolate through I the mysterious Infiltration 01 the Board 01 5tntCI he wa between Iey Wet I lIavnnoa little too fat tram Xt to gt All P plies and much too for tom the it I her to nahle a him to tart UI a pyroteohnl concert In the vicinity at Nicer castle utille Porto Hlco I Is I not mentioned at nil This Is I dlullolnUng not to say confusing Whele la General Miles I read for the aZnd consecutive time i that he has I gone to Tampa and now n dollv blow is I only n matter ot das Perhaps hours Cnn It not le no arranged that Ihro will lie less blowing nl jut tha blow and lot It fall good and hard imewhere where oatllc I Spaniards do contriegate We cant go heaI much loner on the capital acquire lor u b that fighting oldlohloned fellow lIeey and ought wlthlll IL month or 00 more to ill it > the stock It we cant add to It we A III have to do as the Wall Street supporters 01 the Board ot Strategy dWlller It Yours hopefully > s A KI vhrn 1 SIt Is quietly Intimated that th Spanish are about to sue for peace II so they must le awfully hard to nails fj How Ill uch more peace do the want than they arc gettIng S A K I I I I I e3M r M |
