The morning times., 1896-06-28

out of the bottomless pit of Ananias.
Among other things we expect to see the
boss builies of both parties strutting around
this country with chips on their shoulders
daring the daisy Queen OF Spain TO fight,
while Fitzhugh Lee and Weyler are play
ing pool for the drinks in the palace Of
the captain general.
THINGS THAT MAY HAPPEN.
We expect to see Free Trade Tiiiman
advocating a protective tariff on his gold
bug ointment; and We expect to hear of
Mr.. Whitney resuming his postponed trip
to Europe. In truth, Mr. Whitney, Mr.
Hill, Mr.. German and even Mr.. Cleveland
have apparently concluded that they have
not been invited either to the fireworks
Or the ensuing torchlight procession. 1t
has been very maiiciousiy observed how
ever that they have organized funeral
procession in order that they might as
sumo the high places in that function, al
though they viii in no way be related to
the corpse.
Our own function is merely to sit on
the fence in the interim and lake notes Of
the variegated tableaUx. The crisis Is to
be expected at Chicago. 1t trnay occur TO
some of the cowboy delegates or other in
formed majority to declare specifically
in the platform that there is i war of any
kind in Cuba This would be suicide for
this country, which cannot afford ts engage
in that kind OF spectacular pyrotechnics, 9s
it is easy to learn at the State Department
that there is 30 belligereBt war In Cuha.v
They are merely fighting Unofficialy-
1t is within the probabilities, neyerthe-
less, that the Chica go lubilaticn will result
in another Insult to Spain. and then 1t would
be We'll to send at least the Fort Myer
cavalry down TO Giesboro Point. This
may be unnecessary, as even the yellow
fever innocuiated Spanish Dons will not
attempt to pass the garbage scow fleet
daily cruising in those waArs-
For the present, perhaps. an umbrella
is all the equipment necessary to face
the war clouds, present and future, always
excepting the local insurrection OF the
Fourth of July. There is every indica-
tion that the sons of the fathers will in
sist on observing the Declaration of In
dependence in the good old fashioned way,
and that any attempt to pipe them off
into the parks will be dangerous even to
the magnificent body of the city's constab-
ulary.
There is. as already maintained, no
precedent for the restriction OF juvenile
jubilation in the Constitution or hy-Ia .s
of the United States nor In any of
..TAiS the works of Washington, Monroe,
II Adams or Jefferson-certaiuly not
X IN in any of their fireworks that We
nkOEG ever saw. AS there are 40. 900
w ~ children in the district of the fire.
.,,IiS crackers age and cult, it is estimated
~ that as each is from two 10 four feet
~ high and from several inches TO a foot
thick after dinner, the aggregate man Will
not have standing room in the few RESERVED
par ks This estimate does not include unch
baskets, nurses. dogs. baby carriages, milk
bottles and ether impendimenta.
Compromising the whole mass II will reach
to the first branches of the highest trees
in. the parks. and only the top stratum will
have chance to fire it's guns.
1t toughtte commenditselfto the Judgment
of the new governmental Fourth-of-July-
in-spots regime that the young fireaters
OF this country have always stood for
the great principles enunciated by Patrick
Henry. Give US firecrackers or death.