Show 1 A rat when cornered will fight and fight fiercely and so it is with the spaniards a national rodents backing the life blood of the child cuba and displaying alt the cowardly in of the base and craven when driven to the last ditch and into the garbed wired defenses of santiago they turned upon the american forces and fought with snapping teeth and desperate ferocity while the shells from cerveria veraa fleet crushed the life out of whole companies ot our noble heroic boys who pushed the defenders out of almost impregnable strongholds strong holds spain must pay the penalty whatever the cost and the greater the fatalities now the greater will be her pangs of sorrow and regret on the day of accounting and atonement |