The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-18
INDIANA PRESS OPINION.

If Spain wants this cruel war to end, all
she has to do is to get down on her knees
and say so-South Bend Tribune.
If the Kings mother is driven out of
spain, Don Carlos thinks he would make a
good queen regent.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
What Spanish honor is loaded on the
transports with returning prisoners will not
crowd the Observation-Disclosures Courier.
The bitter end to which BIanco threatens
to fight promises to be quite bitter enough
TO satisfy all Spanish demands.-Evansville
Journal.
her colonial possessions and have the
United States pay her an indemnity for de-
stroying her fieets.-Marion News.
The President should spare no pains to get
General Toral's troops back to Spain. They
are needed there to keep the government
from going to pieceS.-Anderson Herald.
Camara's fleet sails bravely out from Spain
Hears or Cervera's fate and hustles back
again.
-Mishawaka Enterprise.
Spain ought to thank the United States
for relieving her of her colonial possessions
She has all the trouble she wants in trying
70 govern her people at home.-Peru Repub-
lican.
Yes, the Yankees are pigs. They are salts
fled with nothing less than whole armies
and entire fleets. They are mercenary, too
They will send the Spaniards back to Snain
rather than board them.-Elkhart Review
The wisdom and firmness of President
Mckinley III refusing to recognize the So
called government of the Cuban Republic
as an independent and sovereign power is
IOW universally STANDARDIZATION
Throwing the disarmed Spanish soldiers
on the coast of Spain is wise move 1t
will not cost much more to ship them there
than to transport them to prisons in this
country, and nobody wants them here.-Ko-
komO Tribune
Captain General Blanco pirates about Cuba
being in the possession of Spain for almost
four hundred years. Don't he know that it
is for that reason the present war for the
sake OF humanity has been undertaken?
w arSaW Times.
If Spanish honor continues obstinate.
but one thing remains, and that is to keep
on with the fight-keep plugging away-un-
til Spanish pride is smothered by the over
whelming weight of conditions that shall
leave no doubt as to the decision. If Spain
wishes to preserve one spark of her ma
tlonal life she should end the war now
-Muncie Times.
With over twenty thousand of her SOL
diers forced out of the island as one of the
terms of suspension of hostilities at San
uago, and her navy at the bottom of the
sea, 1t is difficult to see how Spain can look
upon any further concessions to the de-
mands of the United States as especially
Herald.
No shrewder move could have been made
towards stamping out the spirit of anarchy
via 16-to-1 free silverism than the placing
of popular loan among the common people
OF the country. Not one of all those sue
cessful bidders for bonds will countenance
anything but a sound currency, of which a
dollar will be as good as any other dollar
in any part of the Notwithstanding Led
ger.
Every holder of bond will want his prin-
cipal and interest in good money, and they
will not be in favor of fiating the Ma
TONS currency to accommodate the silver
mine owners who have the Democratic par
ty by the throat. The loan will connect the
people more directly with the government
and, as every creditor is always interes
in the financial condition of his debtor, %
will the holders of the governments obliga-
tons be interested in the financial condi-
ton of the overnment.-Columbus Repub-
Hcan.