Show SPANISH discipline it is announced and not denied that gen toral on reaching madrid Is to be court tor for having surrendered santiago and his army without orders or permission from one blanco of havana the spaniards haive ideas and method emch compared with those nations which have their being in the afternoon of the nineteenth eiith oen tury seem very much out of alace to state it mildly any amy other country would be mote more likely to praise than to censure one of its commanders who atter after having given to the world an exhibition hibi tion of valor and skill rarely excelled and finding that the tide was swelling rapidly and was already irresistible sis tible had made discretion the better part of warfare by yielding to the inevitable especially would this be the case if in doing so the lives of many thousands of men that spain will need some day when she regains her senses were saved and such favorable terms otherwise secured as no other commander ever received before instead of endeavoring to punish or humiliate toral spain would occupy a much more favorable position before the nations if she made a fitting recognition olf of his services he Is worth very much more to her even in defeat than a dozen blancos blancas or any number of wellers Wey lers could possibly be it seems that toral had pez permission assion from madrid to capi capitulate and it if this be so what right has the captain general of cuba to be so officious in the matter besides obedience to his orders has been shown in more than one instance to be about the worst thing that could possibly be done look at cervera bowed to the dust in sorrow with a career ended and a reputation dissipated in an hour with seven of his count rys ships which he commanded destroyed and all because he acted against his own best judgment and obeyed the mandate sent him from the conscienceless despot of the cuban me isle perhaps these things are am not taken into consideration because the determination mi seems to be to push the war to the bitter end and leave nothing whatever for the tottering monarchy to stand upon it if this be the case sdale has done properly in eving blanco free rein and putting weyler at the head bead of the ministry under their sway it Is in likely to come to pam that every general or admiral who falls fails to win a fight that h hf was vms engaged in will rye be court and shot or otherwise severely punished while those who maintain a hopeless defense only to have men slaughtered like swint in the abattoir and be slain themselves with ruin rain visited upon everything within reach way may hope to escape with no severer penalty than severe censure truly spain Is a peculiarity among the nations |