Show WAR WITH SPAIN the wires bring us startling news apa I 1 and the information 1 does not e from a newspaper special where features might in r me sensational creep jams Jc mS emanates from the associated so bureau as coming from assistant y arival di secretary roosevelt it Is a to we fae effect that we are on the verge of k war with spain and unless things V matic take on a more roseate hue once that very consummation is it is also stated that a be looked for P J e various s commanders are in consul to on n with the na navy vy department and 10 ige ments are being pushed ford not perhaps with impetuous 5 a d 1 but as rapidly as circumstances titre ira and will admit of it is shown R at t more than enough available seann axe are on hand to man all the craft id d make mak e ivery every needed improvement that things generally are in aboud about iford od shape as they could be at such maxime tavie V t has all along been understood that e terms of th the e ultimatum presented the spanish cabinet by minister mlford ford were unequivocal and taht to the point that as such they d be regarded as drastic and meet th little favor and that out of such d i tion complications must of feces arise meantime the united states been subjected to a variety of apts ts ranging all the way from news yer r braggadocio to the fulminations those ose high in spanish circles and ai now a dispatch is received an in a grave and sententious mer that we are on the verge of a jk with spain it need not be received h so BO many grains of salt as it rid 4 if matters had not practically shed ea the crisis stage already pa maln in must be reckoning either yut t the host or with one that the t the world knows not of to per herself here elf to be drawn into actual killies ties with this country she Is kropt t broken down already aready with greater burdens to than she can carry it would be juetter better to protest against as fumed wrongs on our part and appeal to the powers tor for a judgment regarding them the united states justn just now owis is in a position to fight any nation on the earth or several of them if necessary and for this reason among others would not care to be forced to attack a cripple it will though it if it cannot escape the ordeal honorably and then woe to spain and spanish prestige forever it will be a case of the gods first making mad those whom they would destroy |