The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-20

| tiles Tor supplying most OF INC particular
merchandise that will be required In Cuba,
will. or ought to. derive the chief benefit
from this stimulated commerce. Texas
ought TO furnish the meat that will be de-
mandod. The Pacific coast viii reap the
chief harvest In the Philippines.
1t will be seen, therefore. that there Ii
every cause at present for the business anu
Industrial world 10 congratulate themselves
on their outlook. War Is terrible. but few
wars are wholly unmixed evils. They arc
generally, Oh the other hand distinct steps
forward and this one Is not likely 10 prove
an exception TO the general rule.
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Tho New York Hcrald'B Madrid cable OF the
lIth instant, containing the substance OF n
Californian nllocutlou calling for Immediate
peace on ting part Of Spain, appeared In the
| Galveston Dallas News OF yesterday morning.
| Simultaneous publication With the New York
Herald. Galveston News.
While The Post has been disposed to pass by
this and similar statements without comment.
fully content with the valuable advertising
that the News is giving to the greatly supe-
rlor war service which Tho Post alone tn
Texas receives. the last two Issues OF that
| paper, together with claims being made to the
| public In other ways, furnish occasion for u
few words OF explanation The only Herald
dispatches received by the Galveston and
| Dallas News are few now and then stolen
| from early editions of the New York paper
and telegraphed to Texas by a news syndl-
| cate. 1t will have been noted by Texas read
| ers that where the News calls attention to
| ono unimportant dispatch thus stolen from
| the Herald and appropriated to its own col
umns, The Post OF the same date contains
( many important dispatches received under It's
| contract with the New York contemporary
| Tho News pliers from tho World and the sun
| in the same way and In Boosting OF the fact
| brazeny admits itself TO be thief in ap-
| proprating other peoples goods without their
| consent, and at the same time confcsses to
| criminalty in that /, is In many Instances
violating the copyright laws OF the govern
ment, but not content with this, 1T goes
further and ndds fasehood to theft, at least
by implication, since in these publications,
such as that quoted above 1t attempts to de-
coivc the people OF Texas by making them
believe that It is receiving che New York
Herald service, and actually It's strikers and
| toadles are setting up that claim over the
State. Tho Post has respect for II
common every day liar than one who guards
his responsibility with deception The News
does not receive u line from the New York
| Herald It simply steals an unimportant dis
patch occasionally from an early edition OF
that paper and uses 1t to advertise Itself
But what does all this teach? Simply that
the New York Herald service Is far and away
the best going. and that the News In its In =
bored Efforts In the connection noted gives
overwhelming testimony to that fact.
We can't help feeling double sympathy for
the boys at tho front as the Texas water
melon season gradually develops.
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A gentleman at Meridian. Texas. In a letter
to The Post suggess that the editorial as
sault by tho Gal-pal News upon Mr. Bryan
for declaring against war Of conquest would
Mt Mckinley as well MS Bryan. At the com
mcncement OF hostilties the president an
nounced that "thls rs not u war for conquest
or annexation, but for humanity" Aye, but
the News ia not In the business OF attacking
Mckinley, Aud then Mckinley appears to
have switched his purpose aud with the News
is now for an imperial policy OF conquest.
There are times when Frances oversupply
OF cabinet crises liz calculated to make us sick
with envy, But none resign In America!
When IL comes to war the simple fact Ia
apparent that we are amateurish In every
thing except the actual fighting capacity of
our people when the opportunity is given
them to display their courage. However.
there arc thousands In tho country who could
. have improved on tho present admin,stra-
; ITEMS grocn methods Even Dan Lamont
would have thrown business energy and
Intelligence into the war department that
would have cut the red tape and shaken up
tho dry bones.
: Tho Syracuse, n. y. Post generously re-
marks that the South has furnished moro
than Its share of heroes during the present
war.
Major Daniel McGary's Walilsvirle Age see,
clearly Mckinley's opportunity. The Age re.
marks:
7 Mckinley has now an opportunity to got rid
o. rival suSh MS no man has had before since
me days OF King David aud urlah. the nlttits
l Wiliiam Jennings Bryan has Joined the army
anu Mehinloy 10 commander In chief and has
only TO write to General Miles TO gut BRYAN
IN the forefront of the hottest battle that no
may be smitten and die.
Uncle Sam now believes he will have none,
enough in the treasury TO play out the sen
son There Is some doubt, however, Of spain,s
ability TO put up the guarantees for the Wis
itors.
, The celebration OF the Wisconsin, semi-cen-
tennioi appears to have bcsn ON scale be-
hitting the wonderful growth of that State in
the past half century. 1t takes American
states to furnish semi-ccntenniais typifymr
Grand results. We have a way Of crowdinr
the years In tho new world that astonishes
! other portions of the globe.
This week the senate will indulse In an old
fashioned long talk on Hawaii The rush OF
events recently has deprived tho senate Of its
accustomed lung exercise. but the bellows are
! all supposed to be in good believing order.
The Hanna crowd were downed the other day
at local republican convention In Ohio
Some of these days the stick OF that Ohio
! rocket that went up so brilliantly IN 'aG Is
goins to sSeavatc large hole in Ohio soil
by the rapidly of It's descent The most Gilt,
terng frauds are the shortest lived.