The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-24
WHAT SHALL SILT LIKE :;
Do FOR CUBA! ;

AHSie nave Deen plenty OF SugSeStlOn
made concerning the final disposal o
the Cuban matter, but none of then
have been pregnant with that practica
bllity which warrants the achievement
of great ends; in other words, thus fal
no one has offered anything of a tangi
bic nature. There have been resolu
lions without end offered in congress:
and plenty of talk has been INDUCED in
but all this has been of a nature cal
culated to make man weep.
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Now there are plenty of warriors in
this city who have not expressed them
selves, so The Herald yesterday sent a
man out with view to collecting then
opinions and putting them before the
public, so that congress and the presi-
dent will have something to guide
themselves with and not go off half
cooked, as it were.
Colonel James B. Bloor, who at one
time commanded battalion of Texas
rangers in the struggle with Mexico, is
or the opinion that to properly dispose
of the matter, the United States should
arm and equip go or 20 regiments of
Texans and send them down there.
We all have sort of eternal grudge
against the Spanish said the colonel.
blood which was pitted against us at
the Alamo, and we recall, pleasantly,
too. the manner in which we did the
dons up at San Jacinto, of which my
old friend Roger Q. Mills so feelingly
speaks. in his remark in the Record.
My plan would be to fill the island with
Texans; serd ten times as many there
as there are units in Weyler's army.
Arm them to the teeth and file the
tInorN OF No
time and let them strike till the last
armed foe expires
Major Wilkes wants to raise a regi-
ment of 1000 men and one battery and
one troop of cavalry and go down and
turn Weyler's left flank. He believes
with Weyler's left flank turned, the
balance of the job would be compare
lively easy.
Northumberland James Dixon,
grand marshal of the Eagle Eye Gun
club, declares the best way to annihil-
ate the forces of Spain is to use
dynamite. There is no use, in his
opinion, of fighting those men with
guns and machetes. He would form a
chain of giant powder boxes from Ha-
vana to Pinar del Rio and touch off the
entire mess with electricity. He offers
the service of the Eagle Eye Gun club
for this purpose just as soon as the
holidays are ended and Manca can get
man to stand one shift for him.
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Surgeon-General Gus King of the Ac-
cumulated Slashers, a cavalry organ
lzation, wants to go to the place with
several thousand mounted troops and
five or six jackass batteries. He thinks
mounted men could do more in Cuba
90 a
be able to cover more ground. He be-
lieves in the use of explosive bullets
and chain-shot and agrees to dispose
of the wounded to the satisfaction of
the regular undertakers of the island.
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Sergeant-M Major Daveler of the Six
teenth and Twentyfourth infantries,
United States army, does not care to
speak on the subject. He would pre-
fer TO have any declarations come from
the regimental. or brigade commanders.
He believes, however, with Patrick
Henry, in giving the Cubans liberty or
death, just as they prefer.
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Colonel E. M. LeProhon has not sur
thinks of starting his partner, Shelton,
out in a few days, but he believes the
plans of Weyler's works should be
exposed to view and the trocha busted
Up by running an underground tunnel
to it and exploding keg or so of pow
der under the most pregnable position
Then. after surveying the same, he
would run line through the center
and hew to it for three miles, or posi-
bly, three and a half. Once the 'trocha
is smashed all will be plain sailing
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Commodore Harry Edwards of the
frigate Sea Gull, which recently made
a voyage to Antelope island, laughs at
all maneuvres save those of a naval
character He says if they will send
him and his ship to the harbor of
he will guarantee to leave
nothing whatever of Moro castle inside
of tomoro.
General Rippeto believes Weyler and
Gomez should engage in a game of
slough" for the possession of the
island. The loser could claim the
other side had worked in a cold deck
and hostilities could be resumed, or a
new deck ordered
Captain Josh Davis believes the
Cubans should put up the funds for
initiating the Spaniards into the Blue
Church, the understanding being they
are to take the final degree, which as
yet has been given to no man. and
would end the trouble.
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Chaplain George Rodford. don't you
know, thinks the bloomin Spaniards
bought to be druv hoff the bloody
island and knows hoff no better way
than to horganize ha large harmy hane
oompard hall the seaport towns hand
hoverrun the hinside places.
COLLECTING CoRALs.