| Show MUST KERP WHAT WB HAVE A special dispatch in this mornings tribune announces that there will bes no hurry exercised in the matter of getting the utah batteries home that they may remain in manila till after the united states senate has ratified the treaty of peace As this cannot in the absence of a special session oc cur earlier than december next it will be understood that the boys will not be hurried away without having had an opportunity to look around see the sights and get acquainted perhaps the time may be extended beyond the period indicated since it is understood that the senate can only conclude a treaty with spain the insurgents of the philippines having as yet no national existence but a very active physical one and this must be taken into the reckoning 1 perhaps all will not care to come back the few who have had nostalgia in a pronounced form will be getting over it in some measure if not altogether by that time and under the away of the united states they may discover attractions in that faraway far away land that will be sufficiently potent to hold them for a good while longer anyway if any ot of them should conclude to remain as long as the stars and stripes continue the emblem of authority there no doubt they will pass away from this sphere of action upon philippine soil for a feeling is growing that the islands must be kept and since the government is but a servant of the people it may be compelled to ta yield to the sovereigns wishes in that respect the press east and west is also taking up the subject vigorously A recent issue of the new york sun looks at it in this way the withdrawal of the united states from the philippines would necessarily result in a certain loss of the prestige which has come to us from thet the victory of admiral dewey there can be no doubt that germany would if not directly at least indirectly represent such a step as having been taken through a desire not to incur her displeasure such a theory might be absurd on the face of it but there are those to whom it would appeal others again might imagine that while we did not care a snap map of our fingers for what the kaiser thought yet we were unwilling to have any trouble with russia and france there would be some excuse for such sucha a conclusion for fop when 9 a great trading country with large interests in a certain neighborhood apparently throws away the profits of a great victory it to is necessary to find a reason tor for such a strange stev step somewhere it is claimed that the only way the united states can make mak e itself felt in the china seas is to be on the spot the truthfulness of this has already been shown in the fortunate contiguity ot of deweys deleys ships to the philippines by means of which the backbone ot of the spanish cause was broken at one fell swoop and the end ot of the struggle foreshadowed foreshadower fore shadowed at the beginning |
